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.