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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a special cake – my cousin’s golden birthday cake. She was turning 10 on the 10th. I started thinking about this theme and came up with a design that was whimsical, bright and perhaps a bit impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

This past weekend I needed to “quickly” make some cupcakes…when I say need I actually mean wanted to as I was bringing them to a birthday party we were crashing…now, how old was the birthday girl? 1!

I needed to make cupcakes that would be whimsical and that didn’t use red food coloring (a common allergy color). So I came up with chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with a vanilla buttercream icing.

First, I iced all the cupcakes with the vanilla buttercream icing that I mixed in a pale teal color. This is a cartoon-y yellow flower that I made.

I made a bunch of white daisies. I cut out teal and white circles to act as a base for all the flowers.

The flowers took about an hour and a half  to make which is definitely quicker than I used to be. The circles were really quick and the icing took maybe 15-20 minutes. So I think the decorating took about 2 hours give or a take a few minutes which I think was pretty good.

I was very pleased with how these cupcakes turned out and was happy that I’m getting more efficient and quick at making different fondant flowers and shapes. I loved the look of the cupcakes and think these are the kind of cupcakes that I would be tempted to re-do in different colors for different events. I think everyone really enjoyed them and that’s always what’s most important.

…and not corn, beans and squash! A cake I made with 2 of my sisters!

For months I’ve been promising my 2 youngest sisters that I would show them how to do a fondant cake and yesterday was the day! Sunday afternoon they came out with a pre-made chocolate cake. I had mixed some different fondant colors and made some extra vanilla buttercream icing for underneath. Read the rest of this entry »

This week has been filled with cake! Friday I had the great pleasure of doing a second cake with GSL and yesterday I did a solo cake for my friends’ joint birthday. I wanted this cake to be interesting and reflect the farm. I called it a “homestyle cake” because I did the icing very natural. So it was a vanilla bean pound cake with a fruit jelly filling and then a vanilla bean icing. I loved seeing the little flecks of vanilla in the icing.  Read the rest of this entry »

This week my friend and I had the exciting task of creating a cake for our friend’s birthday – the catch – we needed to decorate it in a tight timeframe at work.

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For my nieces 2nd birthday I was asked to make a cake – she is really into peep, chirp and quack – I don’t know much about them but she really likes ducks, chicks and birds. I took that idea and decided to do a pond top designed cake.

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So tomorrow we are having a baby shower at work and I was approached to make the cake. I started thinking about a cake that would be a challenge and allow me to use some of the skills that I learned at the fondant and gum paste course. I came up with the “cow jumps over the moon” theme because I liked that story from when I was a child and I wanted to incorporate a little sleeping baby on the top. Read the rest of this entry »

So this weekend I will be working on a cake for a baby shower potluck at my day job on Monday. I was trying to think of something new that I haven’t done before that would be fun and creative. So I started to think about children’s stories and songs.

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