Mickey Cake

This is the cake I made for my son's 4th birthday this year.  I took the clubhouse template from Disney's website, then made my characters out of fondant.  We found out that the colors will change if left in the sun, so next time we'll not bring the cake out until the last minute.  The kids all loved it.  As did my Mickey Mouse crazy boy.  The main cake is butter cream, then the clubhouse is color flow icing.  I was not entirely happy with how the color flow turned out, it was still sticky and cracked when we tried to transfer it.  I may experiment next time with putting the color flow directly on the cake.  It turned out that we had to invert the image to get it onto the cake, then i had to touch up a few sections, but it turned out good.  All the color leeched out of the pinks and purples when in the sun, and the blues got darker.  It was interesting.

Cake Pops!

This is my newest cake project. I bought myself the Cake Pops book by Bakerella for Christmas and I have really enjoyed this project. Here are the basic steps to making cake pops:

1. Bake a cake (Got it)
2. After cooled completely, crumble into small crumbs.
3. Mix 3/4 tin of normal, store bought icing into the cake crumbs.
4. Roll into balls and either freeze for 20 min or refrigerate a few hours. I like the freezer because I'm impatient.
5. Melt candy melts of any color in microwave.
6. Dip your lollipop stick 1/2 inch in candy then no more than 1/2 through your ball
7. Dip your cake ball into the candy melt.
8. Decorate!

Decorations can include small candies, sprinkles, drawing with edible markers, all kinds of things! Here are some pictures of ones that I made with a few girlfriends. The owls are my favorites!

Rainbow Cake

I made a cake for a family party and I didn't really want to go all out, but I decided I wanted to try this new technique that I had seen online somewhere. You split your cake batter into a few bowls and dye it different colors. Then you spoon the batter into your cake pan stacking each color on top of the previous one, creating this rainbow effect that I really love! I had done this once before with my easter cake, but I didn't stack the colors, I just dropped them in by the spoonful randomly and I liked that look as well. I iced the outside just very simply. I had a bunch of leftover colors, so I did my favorite dots.

Extra Frosting

What do you do when you have a fridge full of extra frosting in a bunch of random colors? This was a great way to use it all up!






This was just a fun cake I made for my coworker's birthday.

More and more

This cute sailboat cake was made for my good friend's baby shower! I just love the colors and simplicity. This was the first cake I made where I cut the cake to the shape I wanted.





This was just a fun cake night I had with some friends. I taught her how to make icing and just a few simple techniques. As you can see, the one I made has a lot of speckles because I didn't try very hard to keep the cake out of the icing. I probably didn't make the icing thin enough.




This cake was for our office Christmas party.