One of my friends became an American recently. I haven’t even gotten my green card yet, but becoming a proud American is a big question. When I become old, and need to collect $2 from my social security, maybe I will.

Anyway, he hosted a party at Virgil’s in Times Square. An “I became an American” party at a historical BBQ joint is pretty appropriate. Food was very American, not worth blogging about for me. As a gift though, I decided to bake an American cake. All the pictures I saw on the web as reference were pretty generic, with blueberry stars and strawberry stripes. I had to come up with something more fun and exciting.

So I baked red and blue velvet cakes. There isn’t blue velvet cake, but instead of using red food coloring, I used blue for half the batter. Layered them, and coated with fondant. Fondant is such a bitch to work with. I watch “Ace of Cakes” on the Food Network all the time, and it doesn’t look too hard, but, it was very difficult. I should have made a round cake, but instead, I decided to make a perfect square cake, which was a mistake.

On top of that, this was done a couple of days after my thumb injury, so I was crippled as well. Yet, I pulled off an interesting cake. My problem when baking is, I lose my patience. In the beginning I have a lot of fun, but by the end, I get so sick of decorating, and get frustrated by the creams not cooperating with me. Overall, I think it was ok.

Don’t you love the “Damn it!” part? Don’t pay too much attention on the weird design on the other side. That’s when I lost patience and became, like “whatever…”

It was, after all, blue, red and white everywhere. Cake tasted good, but fondant tasted pretty crappy. I should have just used regular cream.

I like baking, but exacting is not my forte, and real cake baking is all about precise measurements, especially when it comes to decoration. Lazy Susan is also a very nice item to have, but I am not allowed to buy any more gadgets!

Soon, I will blog about all the cakes I baked for one of my friend’s son. Elephant shape for his 1st, Thomas the Tank Engine for 2nd, and polka dots for 3rd. I missed his 4th, so his 5th has to be an extra special one. Let’s see.