Panambi Cakes

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Garden Cupcakes

These are some of the cupcakes that we are going to sell on etsy. Gabby and I made them for her daughters preschool graduation. She said they were gone in under 5 minutes. We made the cupcake liners out of scrapbooking paper. The flowers, ladybugs and bees are made out of gumpaste.

Graduation

This was for my sister-in-law Heather's graduation. It has gumpaste cap and shoes and flowers with ribbon.

Birthday/Graduation Braces

This was for a birthday/graduation for a new dentist in our ward. We loved the way it turned out. We used a garlic press for the tassel and real wire for the braces with fondant brackets. We used chocolate fondant under the teeth. It was heavier than normal fondant so it made the cake slouch a little. It is a three layer 4 inch personal cake.

wedding cake

Here's a wedding cake I did this weekend. There are too many things to nit-pick about it, so I won't bore you. Just a word about florists...make sure they are long gone before you start putting the flowers on the cake....psycho!!! Anyway, it is what it is and here it is.

Castle Cake

This is the castle cake that we did for a boy in the ward. He likes castles and the color orange. It tuned out nice. We absolutly hate doing castles now. This was one of those cakes that you just have to push through. Definatly not one of our favorites. The stupid towers just took FOR_EV_VER! Good luck to anyone wanting to cover the wilton towers with fondant. The top level is foam board covered in fondant and pushed into the cake. We did figure out whe my fondant turned out so bad last time. You need to use the Walmart brand of sugar to make it work. The C&H brand just made it so dry. If you are going to make your own fondant use walmart brand marshmellows and sugar. Keep extra corn syrup and maybe some glycerin on hand just in case.

Calla Lilly Tutorial

This is for Shelley.

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Buttercream Recipie

Here you go Michelle :-)

Basic Buttercream:
4 cups powdered sugar (1 lb or half bag)
1 T Meringe powder
2 T water
1 cup shortning (or all butter or half butter and half crisco)
1 tsp flavoring (vanilla or butter)

Cream shortning, flavoring and water with mixer till creamy. Add meringe powder and powdered sugar and mix till creamy. If it is too stiff add 1 tsp liquid at a time till the desired consistancy. The longer you mix the more whipped it gets.

Lime Cream Chese Frosting:
4 cups powdered sugar (1 lb)
1 T meringe powder
1 8 oz package of cream cheese
2 T lime juice (fresh squeezed or Real Lime brand is best)
1 tsp vanilla

Cream cream cheese, lime juice and vanilla till smooth. Mix in powder sugar and meringe powder till creamy.

Coco Frosting:
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 T meringe powder
1 cup butter
2 T milk
1 tsp vanilla

Sift the powdered sugar and cocoa together with meringe powder. Cream butter, milk and vanilla together and add cocoa and sugar and mix till creamy. I bet if you wanted to substitute 1/4 c peanut butter and 3/4 c butter for the butter that would be yummy too.


** You dont have to use meringe powder for non decorating purposes.

Rothko Cake

This is a surprize birthday cake for one of our visiting teaching girls. Her husband wanted a special cake just for her. She loves the artist Rothko and calla lillies. It is a chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut icing with toffe crumbs. We made gumpaste canvases and painted them with full strength wilton coloring gels. Each canvas was a different Rothko painting. We made the calla lillies out of gumpaste. Edna's videos were the best tutorials on how to make them. We would have put more flowers on but we were planning on using a smaller cake when we made the flowers. This is our first for profit cake. It went really smothly and the painting was so much fun.

ladybug cake

Here a quick cake I made for Laura for her birthday. If I had time I would have done the face better. I didn't even get a chance to clean it up like I like. As it was we ended up singing to her at 9:00pm. Oh well!

Super Hero Cake

Our little customer couldnt decide who he liked best: Batman, Superman or Spiderman. So we put them all into one cake. This cake started out as a huge disaster (due to my newbie fondant making skills) but as always Gabby pulled out another miracle (with the help of corn syrup) and we saved the day. The finished product was worth it. The fondant just kept ripping and crumbling and it was just horrible. It definatly will take a little practice to get it right. Grant it is not perfect but Im sure our little 5 year old didnt see all the "mistakes"

Brownies

I thought it would be fun to decorate some brownies for a nieghbor who is going through a rough time. I just frosted them with chocolate frosting and layed fondant over them. I had fun with the brushing.

Twinkle, Twinkle...

When we were making the Super Hero cake I had extra cake, so we made this for one of Daves co-workers who just had a baby.

Cupcake Mania!

If I had it to do over, I wouldn't have put the folds in the "cupcake liner". I would have only done the lines with my mini pizza-cutter tool thingy.

Just for fun...

I was trying a new lemon cake recipie the other day and I was feeling a bit..."inventive" that day so this is what I came up with. It is a lemon cake with a blueberry filling (hence the fondant lemon and blueberries on top). I iced it by taking a 1M tip and just doing a shell border all the way around. I thought it was kind of cute and super fast and easy. I'll post the "Sour Lemon" cake recipie once I perfect the recipie.