A piano cake for "big sis"

Inspired by Betty Crocker, I made this cake a while to my musical older sister María, who plays the piano.  You can see her beautiful piano that inspired me here.

Mine, as you can see above, didnt quite turn out that way, but hey! I tried..

1. I did not make the cake either, because I was so busy around that time of year....so I cheated and used a mix, a Betty Crocker one as well, Devil's Food cake...yes please. 

2. So good, so easy..okay and now off to cutting the pattern of the piano. 

3. I had to do some thinking here...and look at many "patterns". Then I picked up a piece of paper, drew and cut off the shape of my favorite piano. 

4. Pick your bread knife, and carefully follow the pattern...

5. Now time to spread the icing. 

Again, I used Betty Crocker Devil's Food chocolate icing...it's so good...so as I was spreading the icing, the whole cake was falling apart, because the cake was sticking up to the icing, lifting it up and just coming undone! 

FRUSTRATION!

My american roommate Angela came to my rescue. She explained to me that the right way to spread icing is to just drop a big amount of icing onto the cake and then with a butter knife move it around and spread it around.

 So kinda like in the photo, be generous and follow this trick that will prevent you from ruining your cake.



 6. Okay, so once I spread the icing, easier said that done for sure, I did the "seat" which was the left over  part of the cake that I cut off.

Not very even this piano of mine...but it was hard...

The next step....and how do I carry this guy now to the birthday place?? 

I thought it would be fun to have a "partitura", music sheets, to make my piano more fun and musical. So I what I did was to pick up my oven tray for cookies and wrapped it with "Happy Birthday" music sheets that I printed at work....

 Then I picked up this big box to carry the box and leave the pretty tray intact till the serving moment.

So this is the way I decorated the cake, at the house where I served the cake, I used 2 Kit-Kats, and one white chocolate bar. With my edible markers I drew some notes to make a little music sheet. I held it with toothpicks. Also, I bought velas magicas, sparklers that keep sparkling.



It was a fun cake to make it....I recommend it for anyone you love that is musical.

try it!

mexican three layer dip appetizer

This is a VERY AMERICAN recipe that my very american roommates have showed me! and it is awesome blossom!!!!!!!! perfect for a lazy night when you dont want to cook but are hungry. 

Hey, not very healthy but it's not too bad either. 

Super easy:

1. Philadelphia cheese (250 grams).

2. One can of chili con carne beans, or just refriend beans.

3. Grated cheese. 

4. Nachos to eat it with. 

Steps: 1. Spread the cheese in a glass tray.

2. Spread the chilli beans.

3. Top it off with the grated cheese. 

4. Stick it in the microwave for about 5 minutes, until it all melts....

5. That's it...okay I wish I had a photo of the cheese melted but I forgot to take it...but basically you eat with nacho chips. So good! and so easy! perfect for a movie night. Enjoy! (I told you it was super american!)