My friend asked me to make some cupcakes for her 6 year old's garden-themed birthday party. She pretty much said do whatever, but make it pink. I made tons of pretty pink flowers out of royal icing a few days before the party to let them dry. Then I made vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and rimmed them with pretty pink sugar crystals and put the flowers on top. Didn't they turn out so cute! The birthday girl refused to eat the flowers, she said they were too pretty! How sweet :)
Top tier is red velvet with cream cheese frosting, bottom tier is devil's food cake with vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache filling. The whole cake is covered in white fondant and topped off with black velvet ribbon and beautiful red roses! (Flowers done by Allyson Didlake)
I finished another cake class last night. This was my finale cake. Buttercream basketweave and royal icing flowers. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.
Last night I had my final class for fondant and gum paste. This was my finale cake made with two colors of fondant, I made a little leaf border. The cake inside is banana with vanilla buttercream.
Today I made some cute little mini cakes for practice for a wedding cake I'm going to be doing this summer. The bride is debating between buttercream/cream cheese frosting and fondant. The cake will be red velvet, so the choice is really between cream cheese frosting piped like in the second cake or fondant like the first cake. The top is going to be covered with fresh flowers not my teeny little flowers. She's leaning towards the fondant, mostly because it just looks so much cleaner and smooth. The classic debate...beauty or taste?
Tonight I finished my first Wilton cake decorating class. I'm certainly not perfect, but I made a good start. The roses were quite daunting, but we've been learning them all along and I've been practicing. The other srudents in my class "gave" me an A+. Come over if you want some cake!! This one's chocolate with vanilla buttercream.
Just a simple vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. Yummy! Especially with some vanilla ice cream!!
The first cake we've made that doesn't have fondant covering the entire thing. Elmo has fondant eyes, nose and mouth and the rest is buttercream! It was a little painstaking, but it should be really yummy!!
My little sister Shelby just turned 18! We made this adorable pink iPod to celebrate. Fondant icing on the outside with a vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream underneath.
For Owen's 5th birtday party we made this swashbuckling pirate. He was made with fondant icing on top of a chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream icing and filling.
Our first ever decorated cake using fondant icing. We think it turned out pretty darn cute. Fondant icing is AWESOME for cake decorating, but doesn't taste all that great. So after we admired the beautiful cake, we peeled off the fondant and dug into the yummy vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. Mmmmm.
