Monster High

I recently had a birthday party for my beautiful 7 year old.

She wanted a Monster High theme.  So, off to create I went.

I was going to make a fondant overlay of Draculaura, but that didn't turn out quite so well.  My fondant was old, and when I tried to put in color and roll it out all the fondant did was get crumbly.

So, I ended up just doing skullette on the cake.  The cake was all buttercream.  I smoothed out my icing, and then sprayed it pink with my air brush.  After that, I traced skullete on the top.  I smoothed out skullette using a viva papertowel.

I will add more pictures as soon as I download them from the camera.

Baby Shower Cake

 

Recently I made a cute little cake for a baby shower.  It was my first time using my new airbrush that I received for Christmas. 

Would any of you like a tutorial on how I did the clouds?  It's really simple.  The next time I do a cake, I will take step by step shots.

I also made these cute cupcakes with onesie toppers.

 

 

The onesies, socks and butterflies are fondant.


A Modern Birthday

I recently did a Call of Duty MW3 cake for my nephew. 

I used the cover of the video game case as my staring point.  I rolled out dark gray fondant, and cut out a silhouette of the army guy.  Then, I rolled out white and green fondant and cut out the letters.  I used the Snow White Buttercream recipe from one of the Wilton Cake Decorating Yearbooks. 

I didn't do a crumb coat, but for normal customers I definitely would.  The flavor of the cake is Orange Creamsicle.  If you would like to have the recipe please let me know.

Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

Hello There!

I worked on a cake last week for my sweet niece Rayann.  Mommy said that she requested Simba and Nala.  So, I found out whether or not it was baby Simba and Nala or adult Simba and Nala and went to town.  The first thing I did was print out a picture of Simba and Nala.  I then laid a piece of wax paper over the top and traced the image with a permanent marker.  I put the original print out under another piece of wax paper.  I then just took my traced image and placed it over rolled fondant, and cut out each section.  I took the sections and placed them on top of my printed image so that I knew I had the placement right.  I started with the small things like the eyes and ears.  Then, I place the body over those in sections.  I place the complete fondant image in the fridge to harden.



I had my cake in the freezer.  So, I got that out and did a crumb coat and a regular coat.  After it had the icing on, I placed the image directly from the fridge onto my cake.  I then drew in the details with a food color/vanilla mixture.

 

It's a Bieber Fest

This past week, I made another Bieber cake for the same girl I did last year's cake for.  I jokingly told her mom that next year's cake had to be something different because I was running out of ideas for Bieber. 

I used the Frozen Butter Cream Transfer technique for the first time.  It turned out ok, but I definitely need some practice on it.

What you need for the FBCT is wax paper or freezer paper, a print out of what you want your transfer to look like and of course butter cream icing. 

I printed out a Justin Bieber coloring sheet off the internet...yes there are coloring sheets of the boy.  I really don't want to know what other things your can get Bieberized.

I taped the sheet under my freezer paper, and I outlined the picture with black butter cream.  After this I covered the whole image in pink butter cream because my fondant was going to be pink per the birthday girl's request.  I could have also colored each part of the picture a different color, like brown for hair and peach for skin.

Then, place another piece of freezer paper on top of your image and pop it in the freezer.

I made my cake and then brought out the transfer.  Definitely do this right when you need it because if you bring it out too soon the transfer will start to become soft and you might not be able to transfer it to your cake successfully.  I learned this because I had made cute flower and heart shapes, but when I got around to trying to put them on the cake they melted and didn't hold their shape well.  Lesson learned for next time.

Here is a pic of last year's Bieber cake just in case some of you weren't around back then.

Pulling Into The Station - Cake Decorating Stop

For our first stop, please enjoy the tweeting and cakes.  Stop by Bird On A Cake.

Take a look at these cute rapunzel cupcakes.  I think just about anybody could make these.

Please take a look around at this next stop.  It's not just cakes, it's jessicakes.  Please visit Jessicakes.

Isn't this cake she created simple yet breathtaking?

If you're looking for something handmade and sweet, look no further than our next stop.  Please visit Sweet Handmade Cakes.

Take a look at this pink cake.  Aren't the edges just perfect?

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed how the sweet cakes and treats today.

Here a Chick, There a Chick!

I found inspiration for some cute little cupcakes on Pinterest from the site Bird On A Cake.  Aren't her cupcakes just so cute? 

I did mine just a little different.  When you're trying to get a whole bunch done and you have lots of help from little hands, you tend to take shortcuts.

You will need a cake mix, yellow sugar, something to use for the beaks (I used sprinkles that were shaped like Tigger), chocolate chips, (icing and food color not shown).  My picture shows white cake mix, but I actually used yellow for my cupcakes.  Use whatever mix you like, or if you're ambicious make cupcakes from scratch.

I made mini cupcakes because I figured the kids from daycare really didn't need that much sugar.

I took my canned icing, and colored it yellow.  Then, I dipped each cupcake in the icing.  After that, each cupcake was dipped in the yellow sugar.

Bird On a Cake used orange icing for her beaks, but to save time I just used something I had on hand.  Also, this made is easier for little hands to help.  We had an assembly line going, and the cupcakes were finished fairly quickly.