I chose to make a vanilla cake collage, and the cake had buttercream vanilla frosting, with blue frosting on the top and side. I chose to make this because I love baking (and eating!) and I really like making cakes look nice and designing the looks. I used flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, eggs, milk, and powdered sugar. I definitely had some difficulties with making my cake. One, I forgot to wait for the cake to cool to put on the frosting. That made my frosting warm and wet, instead of cool and somewhat hard. To fix this, I had to put my cake in the fridge to wait for it to cool. Second, I didn’t have enough eggs to make the cake, so I substituted applesauce. I also didn’t have enough powdered sugar, so I had to half the frosting.
Also, I think that I chose this assignment because I love baking. I really like designing the toppings, and seeing how color affects the way I want to eat it. Like, for example, if I had a brown cake, and I wanted to add a light blue to it, I wouldn’t want to eat it, because I think that would look a bit bad. Also, sometimes I like seeing how the different ingredients react with each other. I really observed through taste in this assignment because I observed how different items made the cake taste differently. I liked the collage because I could show how the cake looked without drawing it, and show work on the way.
Ainsley 5th Grade