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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Pink and Black Daisy Cake - September 2014

I made this cake for my mom's 60th birthday celebration.

More details and pictures coming soon... :)

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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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Miche Purse Cake - August 2011

I made this 3D Miche purse cake for my mom's birthday.  My mom and my brother-in-law, Joe, were celebrating their birthdays at the same time this year, so I made this cake for the same party that I made Joe's Motocross themed cake for (see post Motocross Themed Cake).

Here is the Miche purse cake next to my mom's real Miche purse.

[The change in the look of the handles is due to the fact that they started falling apart.  :(   But that's a story for later.]

More pictures and details to come... :)

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Miche Purse Cupcake Topper - August 2010

I made this little Miche purse cupcake topper for my mom's birthday.

My sister, Casandra, made these cute little tea flavored cupcakes with a honey glaze.

More pictures and details to come... :)

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Pretty Pansies - August 2009

I made this cake with pansy flowers on top for my mom's birthday.  I made the pansies out of fondant.

More details to come!  :)

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A Rose Cake by any Other Name Would Still Taste YUMMY! - August 2008

I made this rose cake for my mom for her birthday.  This was the original idea I had for her cake the year before when I decided to make her Scrabble cake instead (see the Triple Word Score for 'CAKE' post); so I was very excited to finally get to make this for her.  She loves roses, and is very good at growing and taking care of them.

  

I started this cake by baking it in a ball pan.  I put a layer of buttercream icing over the whole cake (thicker than a crumb coat, but not as thick as a regular coat).

I rolled out some fondant I had tinted a color pink like one of her favorite roses and put it flat on the very top part of the cake.  This would give my fondant petals something stable to stick to at the beginning of constructing the rose.  I rolled out another thin piece of fondant and started with the middle curled petal of the rose.  I continued to layer my thin pieces of fondant around it to form the petals of the rose curling out the tops of the petals to give them that 'frilly' rose look.

I had intended on putting the green sepal 'leaves' at the base of the rose, but when I was running out of time I decided it looked fine without them.  Although I really like the way it turned out, looking back at it I wish I would've made the time to put them on as I think it would've just completed the look of the rose better [oh well, next time :) ].

My mom really loved the cake and thought it was just beautiful.  :)  I think my favorite view of the cake is looking down from the top.  It looks the most like a real rose that way.  :)

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Triple Word Score for 'CAKE' - August 2007

I made this Scrabble board cake for my mom's birthday.  I had a different idea in mind, but then I saw a Scrabble cake on Ace of Cakes, and I thought that would be perfect for my mom because she loves Scrabble (and other word games). So, I decided to put my other idea on hold because I had to make a Scrabble board for her.  :)  I had to sneak a look at her Scrabble game when I was at her house to see which edition she had and how it looked and everything. :)

I made the cake in a 15x15 square pan.  I tinted some vanilla buttercream icing maroon and iced the sides of the cake.  I rolled out a large piece of fondant to cover the top (with some help from Ronnie at the end :) ) and cut it to a square the size of the top of the cake.  I placed the fondant on the cake, smoothed it out, and cut the corners to match the rounded shape of the cake.

I figured out the dimensions for the board grid.  I wanted the size of everything to be the same as the actual game, and if it wasn't I wanted it to be as close as possible.  :)  I used an L-square ruler and a knife to lightly mark off the grid on the fondant.  I tinted fondant to make the appropriate colors for the bonus squares on the board and cut those out of the fondant; then I placed the bonus squares in their appropriate places on the grid.  Next, I took white buttercream icing and piped the lines of the grid.

I used fondant to make the white Scrabble title going down the side of the board and painted the letters and numbers on with black food coloring.  I also used black food coloring to paint 'Scrabble' (and the 4 dots) on the board around the grid.  The score sheet, pencil, letter tiles, and letter racks are all made with fondant and the details are painted on with black food coloring where necessary.  On the letter racks I placed the letters tiles to spell out 'WE LOVE' 'YOU LOTS'.  When we play Scrabble (or other games where we keep score on a score sheet) whoever wins gets a star in their column.  So, since it was my mom's birthday, she got the star (besides the fact that she usually wins Scrabble anyway :) ).

I made the same number of letter tiles that a regular Scrabble game has, so we could actually play a game of Scrabble with the cake.  So, my mom, two sisters, and I played a few rounds of Scrabble on the cake :) (see pictures below).  We put it on my cake turntable so the cake could turn just like my Mom's Scrabble board turns.  :)  It was fun.  My mom and Valerie tied.  :)  (I was going to make a little pouch out of fondant to put with the cake for the letters to go in, but I ran out of time. :) )



This is what our board looked like after a few rounds.  :)



Below are some pictures of the Scrabble cake next to my mom's Scrabble board.  :)