August 24th, 2009
…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 »
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August 23rd, 2009

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 »
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