Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Little pots of Gold!!
Just a little fun I had . Green dyed cupcakes, with mint flavor and chocolate icing. Pots of gold are just made out of fondant!

Happy Baking!!

The Beer Can Cake

This is a cake I made for my uncle! He was so surprised, he loved it. The cake is just a simple white ( boxed...shhh don't tell ) cake. I baked 3 6 inch circle cakes, cut into 3 layers with butter cream in between the layers. Then, with it all stacked up, I cut about a 1/4 of the cake off so it would lay flat. The fondant was put on then panted silver with luster dust and vodka. I simply printed off the Coors Light logo and cut it out then placed it on top of the red fondant ( colored with food coloring ) and then cut it out! HOWEVER, use  lots of icing sugar when doing this, the paper DOES stick to the fondant!! Then I just placed it on and added some white and then black icing around it so it looked 3D!

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A Purse you can EAT!

 

My very first molded cake! I was so proud of myself after I finished this. Not going to lie I wasn't too sure if I was going to succeed. The cake is my red velvet recipe (pls see Vegas cake for the link to the recipe) I had so much fun doing this cake!

However I did have to do some research on how to actually mold the cake, and that is where YouTube came in handy, and than I just embellished a little after a kind of got the hang of it. The client actually thought her daughter had bought her a red purse for her birthday, and kept asking " is it real?". She found out when she took a bite! :D

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Drunken Cupcakes

 Guinness and Baileys cupcakes I made for New Years Eve! These where awesome, my friends and I couldn't get enough of them! They are very simple to make, however the cupcake does require some stove top usage. You can find the recipe here:http://www.nibbledish.com/people/j6tran/recipes/guinness-cupcakes-with-baileys-buttercream.

BTW this is a very good site for recipes.

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Awesome Mistake Cake

So, I had every intention on putting a replica of my cousin's skull tattoo on top of the cake,but it broke because it was too fragile. So then I decided to free hand it on top if the cake, and it looked like a 4 yr old did it. So I got mad and then festered for a little, and then my mother said drizzle chocolate on top, and poof this is what happened. OK so, this the red velvet cake recipe with butter cream filling. The chocolate is is just semi sweet Chip-Its with about 1/2 cup of shortening for shine and setting purposes. Than I just drizzled chocolate on top of Maraschino cherries. 

Star Cake

I made this cake for a family friend's daughter (14 yrs old). The topper is my butter cookie recipe, the cake is my mom's one bowl of chocolate cake recipe ( give me a shout if you would like it), and butter cream filling. I actually used chocolate fondant and dyed it black, because you use less black coloring.

Las Vegas Bridal Shower Cake

OK, so I cheated a little bit on this one! I used store bought fondant, but it was Duff's Fondant! So we all know that fondant is gross and tastes like a bag or two of icing sugar. But not this stuff, it is amazing!! It comes in white, black (i think), yellow and I want to say blue. It is expensive, it is $30 for 2 lbs or $28 for 3.5 lbs ( don't ask), but i use coupons for Micheal's when ever I can. I found that one container covered a 2 tiered cake, bottom at 8 inches and top at 6 inches, with very little left over. I rolled out the fondant 1/8 inch thick. The Vegas sign is a butter cookie, and it is all hand piped, the cake is a red velvet recipe, found here:http://www.recipegirl.com/2008/08/13/red-velvet-cupcakes/
And is by far the best one ever! HOWEVER, only used concentrated coloring, otherwise it will be spotted when you cut it. This is what I found out anyways. This cake was not red but purple, I just substituted purple for red. The filling was raspberry butter cream, very tasty!