New Silpat!

So for Valentine's Day, Joseph got me a new Silpat. A Silpat is a silcone mat that you can roll fondant out on. They are lovely since they are easy to clean, non stick but they are expensive. I have another Silpat, I bought it myself when I started making cake and I ruined it probably about 2 months later.

Apparently Silpats are not exacto blade safe? Who knew? I was making my friend Ben a cake, the Horde symbol cake. I printing the Horde symbol off and traced it onto fondant to make the symbol accurate. Well then I used an exacto blade to cut out the image...... Yeah it cut through my mat and so now it has a permants Horde symbol cut through it. It is still usable but if I were to use it to roll out fondant to cover a whole cake it is very likely the symbol would make an apperance on it. But now I have a new one! I will not use an exacto blade on this one, I promise!

Kiss Cake!

Today is Joe's dad's birthday :) Happy Birthday Bob! He is a huge Kiss(the band) fan so it was easy to pick out a design for his cake.

The cake is a Yellow Vanilla Sour Cream Cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Joe was enjoying eating the scraps!

It is not seeming that I am getting better at buttercream cakes. I used the wrong kind of buttercream to get it nice and smooth like how I would like. I did get to pipe stars though and that was my first time. Very easy to do!

We made kiss faces to go on the cake but I think it looked very nice without them so we left them off for now. I am bringing them with the birthday celebration though just in case we feel they are necessary at that point.



Bears Cake

So, as usual, my work had a luncheon. I hadn't made a cake in awhile and it happened to be 2 days before the big Bears Vs. Packers game. So being the good Chicagoan I am I made a Bears cake. Did it real fast like since no one is paying me :)

I tried a new recipes on this one caled "White" Velvet. It basically had White chocolate pudding mix, white chocolate mocha coffee creamer and white chocolate chips in it.

The symbol was made with fondant and I was unhappy with the shade of colors I got so I painted them with food coloring.

Spiderman, Spiderman

This cake was made for my mom's friends grandson Ethan. The little guy loves Spiderman so this was quite appropriate :)

The straight lines are fondant and web parts are royal icing.

The fondant work on this cake was the best I have done so far I believe. A little patience pays off. I don't usually have much but I did for the fondant part of this cake :)

Happy New Year!

I hadn't made a cake in awhile and I was really itching to so I decided to make one for when I went to visit my family in Oshkosh.

I posted picture of it on Facebook when I was done and my cousins saw it. When I pulled up to the house my cousins daughter, Grace, was peeking out the window, checking to see if I had the cake. I was greeted at the doors by my cousins being all excited because the cake actually cake with me. They werent sure if I was bringing it with me or if I had made it for a different occasion.

It was a big hit, even baby Stella loved it!

Grace loved eating the fondant pieces, apparently she is a sugar addict like me!

There was a lot left over but Grace and her brother Sam were more than happy to take a bunch home with them!

This was the first cake I took pictures of with my new camera. I am still terrible at taking pictures but they seem a little better than they did with the camera I bought in college. :)

Hello Kitty

I made this cake for a young lady turning 6. She is very girly and loves Hello Kitty and pink. This was my first time doing a Buttercream cake without covering it in fondant. It was more time consuming but well worth it! The cake is half chocolate half vanilla. Just baked 2 13x9's and cut them in half and stacked on each other.

Hello Kitty in her pretty pink party dress!

Flavors!

To date I can make the following

Cake Flavors :

White Almond Sour Cream Cake (WASC) - Basically a moist white cake with a little pizazz

Chocolate Almond Sour Cream Cake - A moist chocolate cake with a little pizazz as well

Red Velvet Cake - Super moist cake

Vanilla Sugar Cookie Cake - A thicker cake with a taste very similar to a traditional sugar cookie

Marble Cake: A mixture of White and Chocolate cake for those who can't decide


Frosting Flavors:

Vanilla buttercream - A sweet very basic icing that goes good on most cakes

Chocolate buttercream - Ideal for those chocolate lovers out there

Cream Cheese Frosting - A super sweet frosting, goes very good on the Red Velvet Cake

Oreo Cream Cheese Frosting - A sweet indulgence loved by everyone that adores sweets and cookies

White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting - A sweet frosting with a hint of white chocolate

Fondant - A dough like covering that can be place over frosting to give the cake a smooth apperance.

Fillings:

Raspberry Sauce Filling - Homemade raspberry sauce filling perfect for a fruit lover

Miscellaneous Fruit - Love fruit in your cake, let me know which kind!


I am always looking for new flavors and recipes to try out. If you have a request just let me know and I will do my best to accomodate your needs!