{"id":116,"date":"2008-04-09T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/my-latest-cake-creation.html"},"modified":"2008-04-09T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:03:00","slug":"my-latest-cake-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/my-latest-cake-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"My Latest Cake Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is my latest cake creation. Duff Goldman<\/a>, I’m not.<\/p>\n

This was made in honor of my reserve flight’s outgoing commander, Lt Col Chuck Buckler. He drinks 6-8 cans of Diet Coke daily, and we would watch him accumulate a pile of empty cans on his desk every drill weekend. Sort of horrifying, if you ask me…all those chemicals.<\/p>\n

Anyway, making the Diet Coke shaped cake was Paul’s idea. Paul will be my commander after Lt Col Buckler leaves. I guess starting in mid-May, you’ll be seeing me call him Major Gifford. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I offered making a Diet Coke cake<\/a>, but it seemed to gross everyone out.<\/p>\n

I really wanted the gray-colored icing to be more silvery, but I was limited in my resources. I ordered some silver food coloring from a British retailer (only 5 Pounds! Which comes to about $11 U.S.!) Someone more professional might have been able to hook up her food-quality airbrush and spray it on, but I wasn’t that lucky. I mixed in the coloring into some white buttercream and ended up with a white sparkley icing…not gray at all! Hence the addition of a little black coloring to make the gray tone. The picture doesn’t show the subtle sparkle that well.<\/p>\n

Underneath? One layer of white cake, one layer of devil’s food, the cake was trimmed to look like a half-cylinder on its side.<\/p>\n

More cake pics here: http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/CokeCake<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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