Are You Seeing Spots? - June 2009

I made this polka dot cake for my sister, Valerie's, birthday.  We were also celebrating my brother-in-law, Josh's, birthday, so I added a little something on the cake for him too (see further down in the post).

Below is the 'little something' I added for Josh.  He is a Denver Broncos fan,

so I made a watermark of a football with the word BRONCOS on it on one of the orange spots.  :)

I had to refrigerate the cake because of the ganache I used in between the layers.  So, the moisture on the icing and fondant made the cake look shinier (below) when I brought it to the party, which wasn't a big deal.  Unfortunately though, it also 'erased' my Broncos watermark, so I just had to show Josh the picture I took of it beforehand.  :(

More details to come.  :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

Funky Flower Cupcakes - June 2009

I made these flower cupcakes for my daughter, Cara, to celebrate her birthday at school with her 4th grade class.

Below is a variation I did with an extra mini cake I made

with leftover batter for us to share at home.  :)

More details to come.  :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about these cupcakes, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about these cupcakes by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

Cake Assist: Bowling Ball Cake - May 2009

This is a bowling ball cake that my mom made, she just asked me to help her with part of it, hence the cake assist :) .  It was a birthday cake for a good friend of hers.  She thought of the idea and baked the cake in my ball pan.  Then she asked me to help her cover the ball with fondant... not such as easy thing to do we found out.  :)

More details to come, and there will be more pictures once I get them from my mom showing how the finished product looked after she added some special touches to it.

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

Are You Ready for Some Football Cake! - May 2009

I made this Cowboys football cake for my nephew, Monty's, 13th birthday.

More details to come... :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

Taste the Skittle Cake - May 2009

I made this Skittle cake for my daughter, Cara's, 4th grade homeroom teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week.  One of her favorite things are Skittles, so we thought this would be nice for her.

Below is how the Skittle cake looked by itself before I poured the Skittles in the pan.

I used a ball pan to bake this cake.  I filled the pan up with less batter than I normally would though because I didn't want a really round ball shape.  I wanted it to be flatter, not like a sphere, you know more the shape of a Skittle.  :)  After I baked and cooled the cake completely, I leveled the two halves of the cake.  Then I stacked the halves together with buttercream icing in between them.  I crumb coated the cake and let the icing set.  Once the crumb coat was set I tinted some vanilla buttercream with red food coloring and iced the cake with it.  Using a piping bag and some white icing I piped the outline of the 'S' on top of the cake then filled it in.  My last step was to pour real Skittles in the pan around the cake.  Yum.  :)

Cara's teacher really liked the cake, and she especially liked the Skittles that came along with it [which I heard got nibbled on little by little throughout the rest of that day. :) ]

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Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book... Literally! - May 2009

I made this stack of books cake for my daughter, Cara's, 4th grade Language Arts teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week.

More details to come... :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]