Though I'm working on expanding my knowledge of baking to start creating my own confections, I have dabbled a bit with experimentation.
The first successful experimentation occurred with my boyfriend's birthday cake. He had requested a carrot cake, which I had never made before so, naturally, I was intrigued. I started by looking up several recipes online to see what they entailed and after finding 2 that I thought might work well, I started to modify.
Recipe #1: Carrot Cake with Maple-Cream Cheese Icing
Recipe #2: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese-Lemon Zest Frosting
I used Recipe #1 as my base recipe but cut about 3/4 cup of sugar and 1 egg from the recipe. Then I added the nutmeg and vanilla from Recipe #2.
I didn't use either recipe's frosting recipe. Actually, I tried to make the icing from this recipe but hated it. So, I went back to an old standby icing recipe used for a friend's birthday cupcakes a few months ago.
And so my own little monster was created (thanks, Dr. Frankenstein for the inspiration).
I forgot to mention it was a Dinosaur/Mexican themed birthday party. So, I used green food coloring to make the icing green and baked star shaped sugar cookies (with orange icing from store-bought tubes) to create the spikes for the stegosaurus cake.
ROWR!
Icing: Siouxsie and the Banshees - 92 Degrees
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