When you sit next to someone every day for seven months, you start to get a pretty good idea of their favorite things. So making the observation that Maiden’s favorite Art Director loves Audi was a pretty simple one. Now I don’t know much about cars – in fact, I don’t know anything about cars – but I certainly know how to make an Audi-inspired cake (or at least I can wing it).
What was originally going to be a round cake adorned with the rims and tire of an Audi eventually transformed into a more simple style as an ode to Dhruv’s love for modern design. While I was drawing up my idea, there was a silver Audi parked right outside the office windows. Now that’s what I call inspiration.
So here it is – funfetti cake and my standard icing recipe. In case you were wondering, making silver food color is basically impossible – no matter what those baking website color wheels may say. So it ended up looking bronze/brown/greenish? Hopefully the grossness of that color is muted by the vibrant red which, might I add, is also very difficult to create without appearing pink. All in all, the cake was fit for an Audi lover for sure.
Happy Birthday, Dhruv!