Candy Corn Cupcakes

I ran across this cute little cupcake as I was browsing the internet for something new and fun to bake. Thanks to "Our Best Bites" for the wonderful recipe! http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/10/tutorial-how-to-frost-cupcakes-plus.html

These are how mine turned out! YUM!!!

And I also found a new recipe for frosting from this same website. It is SO GOOD! First batch I made was a disaster. I cooked the flour and milk way too long and it ended up a huge blob. So I dumped it and started over. My second batch was H-E-A-V-E-N. This frosting is so light and silky. Simply perfect.

Heres the link to the recipe and tutorial. In my opinion - WAY better than buttercream.

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2008/09/perfect-cupcake-frosting-and-filling.html

Cupcake + poured fondant

Final Fondant Cake

I "graduated" from my fondant class last night! :) This was a really fun cake to make. Since we are so close to Halloween, I went for a spooky theme. I made all the accents out of a mixture of gumpaste and fondant, used sparkly gel for the spider web and covered the cake board in pure fondant. The filling in this cake is raspberry.

Since I had extra cake batter and green fondant left over, I decided to make a few Halloween cupcakes too. I melted the fondant in the microwave and did a technique I learned on You Tube. This frosting technique is called "Poured Fondant".

Fondant & Gum Paste Class #2

Birthday Cakes

I had the opportunity to create 2 birthday cakes over this past weekend. One for Marian and one for Eric. Eric requested a white cake with lemon filling. I made Marians a white cake with raspberry filling.
Here's a tip: You can buy pie and cake fillings that dont soak thru at Cash and Carry for a great price. They also sell them at the Decorette Shop.
Marians cake was covered in fondant and decorated with the sugar (gumpaste) cherry blossoms I made. Erics was covered in a vanilla buttercream frosting. YUM. :)


Oh - one more thing. I made the guitar by using the "Frozen Buttercream Transfer" technique. You can search for free coloring pages on the internet and find some really cute designs to trace. Really fun. :) i just wish I would have smoothed out the sides of the cake a bit more. Oh well....live and learn. :)

Stamps and Fondant??

How to deco a mini cake: painting and flowers

Gum Paste Cherry Blossoms

My first class isn't until this coming Thursday for the Fondant and Gum Paste but I just couldn't wait. Impatient? Me? Yes. I just had to dig in.

I'm making 2 cakes for this coming weekend and one of them will hopefully look something like this.....but a MUCH smaller version. The cake Im going to make will not have butterflys and will only be one round. This picture gives you a general idea.

So last night I decided to make the cherry blossoms out of gum paste ahead of time. Which, I will say, I'm glad I did. Very time consuming. I tinted white gum paste with pink gel food coloring. Formed the flowers then dusted them with white pearl petal dust and added the centers. I think they turned out pretty cute. I cant wait to incorporate them on the cake this weekend.

Cake Pops by Bakerella

I did it! :)

I finished the 1st course! Yippy! Here's dorky me with my certificate of completion and my final cake. I LOVED making the buttercream roses. So fun and pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

The cake was French Vanilla with a chocolate pudding filling. I sent it to work with Adam and it was snarfed up in less than an hour by his co-workers. Nice!