Marine Corps birthday cake

Wow, I am waaaaay behind on blogging! Back in November, I made a birthday cake for the Marine Corps for a local Marine veteran's group. The cake is a basic genoise, brushed with a citrus syrup, filled with raspberry buttercream, and frosted with a French buttercream.

I made the Marine Corps seal using a frozen buttercream transfer technique. Basically, the buttercream is piped onto glass with the pattern underneath. Then you freeze the buttercream until it is firm enough to flip it onto the cake. You can get some pretty good details this way.

This is the biggest cake I have ever made. I'm really proud of it.


Here is the whole cake:

And a detail of the seal: