First Fondant

So I had some problems with the icing that I chose to use instead of buttercream. It was too heavy and slippery. But with the mir

ical of refrigeration I got it to work for me. This is a 6 in topper cake and cupcakes. It is for out Activity Day recognition night tomorrow. I used ribbon fondant roses for the cupcakes. I think it turned out really good for my first try. Ill take pictures of the setup tomorrow at the activity. I definatly learned a lot about the fondant. It dries A LOT faster than I thought it would. And I need to use a little shortning when starting to make it last a little longer and not crack. Oh and you can really reuse scraps after the second or third time without a lot of cracking and tearing. Putting the white layer of fondant on the cake was easier than I thought. There is one fold in the back but its covered by the green ribbon. I would definatly be a little bolder with the green color but oh well. I am pleased with the turnout.

Custom Cupcake Stand

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I thought this cupcake stand was really cute. The above link will give you directions on how to do it. It looks so easy. Beth and I were talking about this the other day and I thought that I would post it.

Don't Forget this One!

Shelley made this cake for my Birthday! Isn't it sooo cool! It looked and tasted just like the real thing! She knows me well (and my obsession with hostess cupcakes). I loved it! Thank you Shelley!

Birthday Cakes

Here is 2 birthday cakes I did for Crystal. Can you guess which one was for Tysen?

Cakes, cakes, cakes!

Here are the cakes, Shell. I don't have one of the pink square hores cake with brown and pink flowers and brown piping and I don't have one of the Thanksgiving cupcakes either. Sorry. Here's the skateboard cake and Steven's....and my own birthday cake. I didn't make it. Jacob did. I just threw some store-bought frosting on it and threw some extra fondant flowers on top. The skateboard cake was kinda sloppy. The blue on top is not the right shape. The "O" in the name "Owie" is actually a popular skateboard brand logo from Element Skateboards. It looked a lot better in person. Jacob make the cake board out of MDF so that you could see underneath it. The wheels are fondant.

The "Terrible Twos" Cake...

So I had a hard time deciding what kind of cake to make for Trevor. I asked myself: "What does Trevor like??" Of course the first thought in my head was "Making messes." ..and then it hit me..."THE TERRIBLE TWOS!! It was so obvious that I'm surprised it didn't hit me earlier. I call Trevor my Beautiful Monster. Everyday he thinks up some way to make the biggest mess possible in the shortest window of time possible so I thought this cake was pretty appropriate.

As you can see, the scene is of Trevor making one of his disasters. He's apparently put his stuffed animal in the sink and turned it on and now it's overflowing, put some keys and a phone in the toilet, unrolled the toilet paper and spilled paint everywhere. Trevor thought it was pretty hilarious. If I had all the time in the world, I would have make some royal icing for the water and had that spilling out of the sink and put it in the toilet but I was lazy so I just painted it blue. The little handles on the paint cans are the only non-edible part and were made out of a really thin wire.

Little girl's b-day

This was a cake for Lizzy's best friend, Clare. These two are inseperable. They had a purse party. Lizzy loved it. 1 hour before I had to deliver this cake (a couple houses down the street) Trevor decided that he now knew how to open the fridge and yanked the handle off the purse. That's why teh handle is a little crooked. The shoe is gumpaste/fondant mix. The pearl necklace is made up of fondant balls rolled in luster dust then strun on a thick thred using a quilting needle. The purse is cake covered in fondant. It was a white rasberry swirl cake with a creme broquet swiss meringe buttercream. Very yummy. The shoe and purse are kinda sloppy. So is the fondant covering the cake so don't look too closely. Also, the color of the flowers and the ball border did not turn out how I was expecting it to. It was supposed to be more of a bright pinkish burgandy but I just couldn't get the color right. It kept turning greyish purple. Oh well.