Last weekend was my best friends dads birthday and I was asked to bake a cake for him. He is a huge Manchester United fan, so it had to be a bright red cake! I’m definitely still al learner when it comes to cake decorations but I’ve been watching some online tutorials and blogs with great tips for teaching yourself – one of my favourites is Sweetapolita, beautiful cakes for inspiration and helpful tutorials.
The cake was to be as plain as possible, taste wise, so I stuck to my tried and tested vanilla cake recipe with vanilla buttercream, Then added a lot….and I mean a lot of food colouring to the buttercream for the outside of the cake. It felp wrong adding that much colouring I have to say, but luckily you couldn’t taste it. I use Wilton gel food dye which is really good and I haven’t ever needed to use too much of it before. However I’ve never made such a vibrantly coloured cake before!