It was also fun to come up with the different styles of decorations for each cake pop.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
And now for Christmas
I had a lot of fun doing these Christmas tree cake pops. One of the biggest challenges is to get the candy coating nice and smooth - which is part of why these were so fun to do! Christmas trees are not supposed to be smooth at all!
It was also fun to come up with the different styles of decorations for each cake pop.
It was also fun to come up with the different styles of decorations for each cake pop.
Going all the way back to Thanksgiving!
Time for some serious updating!
Augh, I am 7 months behind on this! Seven! Months!
I will be using my lunch break today to post some much-needed updates... Stay tuned!
I will be using my lunch break today to post some much-needed updates... Stay tuned!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A Carolina-themed wedding rehearsal
My friends Tristan and Miranda gave me the ultimate compliment back in the Spring of 2009 by asking me to make the cake for their wedding rehearsal. They were actually the first folks to ever ask me to do a project for them!
Tristan and Miranda first met their freshman year at UNC back in 2000. They became very close friends, and ultimately started dating in 2006. Tristan proposed to Miranda on November 14, 2008, and they set their wedding date for exactly a year later, on November 14, 2009. I was so excited to be invited to the wedding to begin with, and then, when they asked me to do the cake for their rehearsal dinner, I became even more excited!
We decided that since they met at UNC, a Carolina-themed cake would be both fun and totally appropriate. The cake needed to feed 50-60, so we decided on an 8-inch square 2-layer cake, topped with a 6-inch square 2-layer cake. Each tier was to have a Carolina-blue and navy-blue argyle pattern on the sides. We then decided to include the Old Well on the top of the top tier, with the wedding date printed on the "apron" of the well.
So, I started with the argyle pattern. I thought a frozen buttercream transfer would be the best approach - I could make it a few days ahead of time, and the diamonds would be smoother than if I piped them onto the cake directly. So, I printed out the argyle pattern, taped it to a cookie sheet, then covered the pattern with wax paper. I then used white and tinted buttercream icing to pipe the argyle pattern:
Then, it was time to make the Old Well. I wish I had taken a picture right after I piped the date, but I forgot. Anyway, here's the Old Well:
And, here are the pictures of the final product:
And, the happy couple! They got to practice cutting their cake before the wedding day.
A big, big thank you to Tristan and Miranda for inviting me to be a part of their celebration. Also, CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes!
Tristan and Miranda first met their freshman year at UNC back in 2000. They became very close friends, and ultimately started dating in 2006. Tristan proposed to Miranda on November 14, 2008, and they set their wedding date for exactly a year later, on November 14, 2009. I was so excited to be invited to the wedding to begin with, and then, when they asked me to do the cake for their rehearsal dinner, I became even more excited!
We decided that since they met at UNC, a Carolina-themed cake would be both fun and totally appropriate. The cake needed to feed 50-60, so we decided on an 8-inch square 2-layer cake, topped with a 6-inch square 2-layer cake. Each tier was to have a Carolina-blue and navy-blue argyle pattern on the sides. We then decided to include the Old Well on the top of the top tier, with the wedding date printed on the "apron" of the well.
So, I started with the argyle pattern. I thought a frozen buttercream transfer would be the best approach - I could make it a few days ahead of time, and the diamonds would be smoother than if I piped them onto the cake directly. So, I printed out the argyle pattern, taped it to a cookie sheet, then covered the pattern with wax paper. I then used white and tinted buttercream icing to pipe the argyle pattern:
Then, it was time to make the Old Well. I wish I had taken a picture right after I piped the date, but I forgot. Anyway, here's the Old Well:
And, here are the pictures of the final product:
And, the happy couple! They got to practice cutting their cake before the wedding day.
A big, big thank you to Tristan and Miranda for inviting me to be a part of their celebration. Also, CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes!Monday, October 26, 2009
It's a ladybug picnic
I grew up watching Sesame Street and have fond memories of the Ladybug Picnic counting spot. Please click here to watch the video.
I was asked to make a birthday cake for a 4-year-old's birthday party following the Ladybug Picnic theme. This was so much fun!!!
I was asked to make a birthday cake for a 4-year-old's birthday party following the Ladybug Picnic theme. This was so much fun!!!
My first LOLcake!
For those of you unfamiliar with the "lolcat" phenom, below is a nifty definition stolen from Wikipedia:
A lolcat (pronounced LOLL-kat, with the "lol" not being an initialism), is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin" and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang. The name "lolcat" is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation "LOL" and the word "cat". (src)
For my friend Harris' birthday, I wanted to make him a "lolcat" cake, since I knew he would appreciate the joke. So, I found the perfect cake:
(src)
I wanted to have the "cannibal cake" eyeing some little cupcakes:
Don't they look scared?
And here's the birthday boy!
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wedding #1!
I was fortunate enough to be able to do the baking for a wedding in August, thanks to Andrew and Kelly! We decided on a variety of cupcakes in 3 flavors, with a top tier cutting cake. For a more traditional look and some consistency between the cupcakes and the cutting cake, I decorated each cupcake as a rose, then used royal icing roses to decorate the cutting cake. It turned out wonderfully! And was so fun to do!
The three cupcake flavors were chocolate, vanilla, and hummingbird. Hummingbird cake is a traditional southern cake with bananas and pineapple - very similar to a banana bread, but much "cake-ier."
Sea of cupcakes
Yum...
Cutting cake with royal icing roses
The full set up
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