Fondant Rose Cupcakes - March 2015

My mom asked me if I could make some fondant rose cupcakes for a party she was having for the ladies that attend her stamping/card making events each month.

I really loved the way the cupcakes turned out, and my mom and the other ladies loved them as well!

More pictures and details to come... :)

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Flower Cupcakes - September 2014

I was asked by the church that my sister and her husband attend to make some cupcakes for an event that they were having.

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Golden Anniversary Cake - August 2014

We surprised my husband's parents with this cake when we went to visit them.  They were going to be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in a couple weeks.

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Shabby Chic Baby Shower Pink Rose Cake and Teabag Cookies - September 2013

A friend asked me to make this pink rose cake and these teabag cookies for a shabby chic themed baby shower she was throwing for her sister.

 

Once I gave her the cookies she was going to put string through the hole with a tag attached to it to finish them.

My mom went to the shower and snapped a few pictures of the cookies (below) after my friend had added the strings and tags to them.  The tags had the baby's name and the due date written on them.

 

Below is a picture of the table with the cake and cookies on it (along with pretty decorations and other yummy goodies) that my mom took at the shower.

 

Amanda, from i am baker, created these rose cakes and makes them so beautifully.  She has lots of great variations, not to mention tons of other great things to check out on her site.  One of the best things is that she has a step by step tutorial AND a video tutorial for this technique, which is great to be able to actually see it being done.  This technique is easy but it has beautiful and elegant results!

 

More details to come... :)

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Petal Cake with Blue Swirl Roses

We had a special Rite of Passage type of ceremony for my daughter, Cara, after she turned 13, and this is the cake that I made for her.

I made the roses out of royal icing ahead of time (this was the first time I had used royal icing). I followed the tutorial [pictures and even a video :)] on The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle for piping the royal icing roses. Her roses look SO good and beautiful, while mine, well, they need some work. :) I don't think I mixed the royal icing enough at first and it was not wanting to hold the shape and definition of the roses. Then I think I mixed the royal icing too much and so the roses ended up with tiny holes in them and wanted to crumble easily. But they worked for the cake and (if you didn't get too close) they looked good. :)

 

I baked four 8 inch chocolate cakes.  I let them cool completely, then leveled, stacked, and crumb coated them.

 

When the crumb coat was set I iced the top of the cake with buttercream icing.  Then I placed the roses on top of the cake.  

I used the petal technique on the sides of the cake.  I saw this technique on Bird on a Cake (and there is a quick step by step tutorial of how to do it).  :)  I thought it was really pretty and that it would look nice for this cake.  You may not think it from the finished product, but it's a pretty simple technique.

 

I liked how the cake turned out, and Cara liked it too, which was the important part.  :)

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Rose Cake - September 2012

I made this rose cake for my mom for her birthday.  She loves roses, and I thought this type of cake was just beautiful when I saw it.

I usually don't end up using pictures of cakes that I've taken with the flash, but I thought it gave this rose cake a different pretty look, so I decided to include this one above.  :)

 

 

'What!' you say.  'Did she make another cake with blue roses?'

 

No, I did not... but this is what I woke up to the day of the party.

 

I noticed it when I brought the cake out to the car to go to the party.  At first I thought it was just the difference in the lighting (we have flourescent lights in the kitchen), but it seemed so different.  But we got to their house and... nope, still blue.

 

I had used my new airbrush food coloring to mix into the icing this time, so I thought maybe it had something to do with that.  Deep inside the rose petals you could see some purple if the light hit it right.  It was puzzling.

 

I showed my mom some pictures I had taken of the cake previously so she could see what the color was originally.  :)

 

Maybe it was a cake like 'the horse of a different color' in The Wizard of Oz; maybe everyday it would be a new color!  :)

 

I made the inside of the cake have an ombre effect, but with the now blue icing it didn't have quite the same effect.  Still  nice, just not the same matching look.  :)

After we cut the cake you could see that the icing that was exposed to the air had changed colors, but the icing that was underneath and next to the cake, was still the original color.  Weird.  I mean I know that colors sometimes deepen or darken as they dry and stuff, but to change colors so completely was unexpected.  Oh well, my mom still liked the blue roses, and it made a fun conversation piece.  :)  And, well, now you get to see how this cake would look in purple and in blue, all in the same post.  :)

I originally saw a rose cake made with this technique on Domestic Sugar, and she said that she saw it on i am baker.  Amanda, from i am baker, created these rose cakes and makes them so beautifully.  She has lots of great variations, not to mention tons of other great things to check out on her site.  One of the best things is she has a step by step tutorial AND a video tutorial for this technique, which is great to actually see it being done.  This technique is easy but it has beautiful and elegant results!

More details to come... :)

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