A couple of weeks ago, my brother asked me to make the cake for my niece's birthday party.  I immediately panicked.  I mean, it's one thing to make a cake for myself but a whole other thing to make one for someone else.  For their birthday.  Eep.  I almost said no but this is my brother and, equally importantly, my niece we're talking about. 

His request was for a white cake (the quest for the perfect recipe continues!) with not-too-sweet white and red frosting flowers.  I ordered the best red food coloring I could find (red is such a hard color to create in frosting), bought some bakery whipped cream frosting and baked up a vanilla cake based on a much raved vanilla cupcake recipe.  I didn't get a chance to make a test cake but I will keep my fingers crossed all the way to the party that it will be delicious!

Here's the end product...

It's sort of a hot mess.  Oops.  But, hopefully that can be overlooked. 

Happy birthday, Quinn!