Cake Crazy

busy busy

2010-07-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

So I have been busy making cakes, here are the ones I have done, well most of them. I have a bridal shower and a wedding next week that I will post after they are done.

update

2010-05-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

So it has been forever since I have been on sorry to everyone so here is some pictures of the cakes I have done over last few months. I am missing the one of the Baby shower because it was on a different camera that broke so I lost that picture. well here you go, one is a wedding cake a couple birthdays, mothers day and just some for fun. Hope you all like them.

Babyshower cake this weekend

2010-03-11T09:24:00.000-08:00

so excited the cake is going to be so cute.It is a chocolate with Oreo filling and chocolate frosting. The top tier I am a little worried about because I don't have a cutout of the shape for the design for it I still need to make one, which wont be to hard. I hope everyone will like it.

cupcake flowers

2010-02-11T19:45:00.000-08:00

so I was watching Studio 5 the other day and they had a lady on making a flower boutique with cupcakes and I thought it was cute and fun so, I decide to try it but instead of using fake flowers most with a few cupcakes I did it with all cupcakes. The flavor is Funfetti with vanilla frosting.

Sisters B-day cake

2010-01-19T14:45:00.000-08:00

So I made this cake back in December for my sisters birthday and just haven't gotten around to putting up and talking about it. So my sister loves owls so I decided to make her a cake with owls on it and she loved it I also made her a fleece blanket with owls on it so her birthday was owl themed which she loved. Anyway about the cake It is a chocolate cake with a whipped Oreo cream filling, and chocolate fudge frosting. The tree, owls, and flowers are fondant but the rest is frosting. It was a huge hit, and very delicious. I can't get the picture off my phone right now so sorry I have to come back and see if I have got it off yet.

First wedding Cake Done

2009-12-16T20:13:00.000-08:00

So I did my first wedding cake yesterday. It turned out great, well I think so. I didn't think it was going to here is why:
1. The red fondant I bought ended up being to dry. So it cracked everywhere and made the middle tier look like crap, really bad and so I was freaking out and my sister came and helped me figure out how to save it.
2. The silver little balls on it I order online 2 weeks ago and it was suppose to take 2-5 days shipping and they arrived Monday afternoon, and they were not the ones I ordered. so that ticked me off, and I called and yelled at them and got my money back.
but those were the only things that went wrong with it, and it ended up coming out better than I even imagined it would. The flavor of all the tiers is Swiss chocolate with a white chocolate cream cheese filling and it was soooo good. The bride and groom LOVED IT!! This was so much fun, stressful but way fun and made me feel so good seeing everyone reaction.

Wedding cake this weekend

2009-12-12T09:36:00.000-08:00

So I have my friends wedding cake to do this weekend and I am so nervous and scared about the "what if" happens. I am really worried about making the fondant look nice and not have bumps and wrinkles that is really only thing I am scared about because the rest is easy but that not so much. Wish me luck and I will post pics of it when I am done.

Final cake

2009-12-04T17:46:00.000-08:00

So on Monday I had my final cake class until January and we made a small wedding cake. Mine is a yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting and caramel filling. The whole thing is covered in fondant and has fondant roses and leafs. So on the roses I was suppose to have about 40 of them and I only had time to make 20 but I think it still looks Good so I hope you all like it and let me know what you think.

Cake class course 3 week 2 cake

2009-11-17T20:48:00.000-08:00

So Monday I had my second class of course 3 it was way fun we learned how to make bows and ribbon and fun little decorations out of fondant. We also learned how to make roses out of fondant and they are pretty easy very time consuming but very pretty and I need to make 40 of them for my final class in 2 weeks. But this cake was fun and really easy it took maybe an hour to decorate. It is a confetti cake with peanut butter filling. Hope you guys like it.

Practice fake wedding cake

2009-11-17T20:43:00.000-08:00

So this weekend I did a practice wedding cake for my friends wedding that is in a few weeks, and I am doing their cake. Well after doing this I decided to call and talk to them about changing it from a Topsy Turvy to just a normal round cake and they said ok that is fine, Thankfully because the Topsy Turvy is hard well not way hard but very time consuming and I don't have that much time with taking care of my little boy and plus with this being my first wedding cake, I want it to look really good and I was just very unhappy with how it was looking. Well this cake is not the decorations that will be on their wedding cake I mostly did this one to practice the shape and to find out how much stuff it would take to make it. Well let me know what you think of it.

Birthday/ & finale course 2 cake

2009-11-02T21:23:00.000-08:00

Nightmare Before Christmas

So for my husbands birthday cake I made him a Nightmare Before Christmas cake out of fondant and butter cream frosting. Jack, Zero and the well are made of rice krispy treats covered in fondant. Zero was the hardest one to make I could not get the body right so it looked like he was a floating ghost but I think he ended up tunring out alright. This was a chocolate cake with chocolate moose filling. The funny thing is no one would eat it they all thought it was to cool to cut so my sister did cut and eat a piece then more of it got eaten but half got thrown away because it was left out and the filling went bad.

Course 2 final cake,

So this cake was fun as well, but the flowers took forever to do. You have to make royal Icing Flowers in advance so that they are hard and can just be put on the cake which makes decorating the cake faster that way. This cake was a chocolate with a butterscotch filling. For methis tasted lots better than Bryce's birthday cake.

My first tiered/fondant/wonka cake

2009-10-19T06:11:00.000-07:00

So this cake was a first of everything. I decided to try this cake because our friends wedding cake that I will be doing is a wonky cake with fondant, so I need to practice and get it looking really good for the wedding. So on this cake I watched bunch of U-tube videos on how to make the cake wonky and how to make the marshmallow fondant because that kind of fondant is way better than the other kind. This cake took from start to finish about 7-8 hours, the longest part was cooking all the cake the top tier is 4 layers and the bottom tier is 3. It took about 4 or so hours to cook all the cakes because I only have 1 -8" pan and it takes 45min. per cake to cook. that was for the bottom layer the top layer I had 2-6" pans so that one didn't take as long. I then put the cakes in the freezer over night and then I stacked and carved them into shape then we butter creamed them and put the fondant on after church and decorated them. This cake was a little easier than I thought it would be and it was really fun. oh by the way the flavor is Swiss chocolate with chocolate chunks and Carmel filling. So Delicious

Spider cake

2009-10-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

so after I got home from class and had dinner I decorated a cake I made earlier. The cake is a Swiss chocolate with a vanilla pudding filling, Delicious!!! I took my buttercream frosting made some orange and black then I covered the hole cake in orange using my spatula. when doing this start at the top of your cake and frost from center to edge of your cake then around the size make sure you don't touch your cake with the spatula because then you end up with crumbs in your frosting. I then took a tip 3 fill a decorating bag with black frosting and I just went around trying to make it look like a spider web. for the spider a just put a blob of frosting on with my spatula then shaped and used my tip 3 to make the legs and eyes. I think it turned out pretty nice.

First class of course 2

2009-10-12T21:17:00.000-07:00

So tonight was my first class of course 2 and it was fun. It was a small class, in my course 1 there was 16 of us and in this one there is 5 so a lot of people dropped. anyway we learned 2 new boarders and 2 flowers, the one flower is hard for me its called "Chrysanthemum" not as easy as a rose well for me. So this flower is kinda hard but I think it might have to do with that we use buttercream frosting and your suppose to use royal frosting. So for the flower you need a flower nail with mum template and tip 5 for the center of the flower and a tip81 for the pedals. you make a dot in the center of your nail about the size of a junior mint then with tip 81 you squeeze pull out let off and lift up you do about 6 layers the same way but get smaller each layer. I had a real hard with it. So one of the boarders we learned is a reverse shell where you take a tip 21 and you keep the tip of it off the surface just a little and squeeze till it fans out then lift up and make a number nine and let off and pull then you do one facing the opposite way they are pretty easy. The other one we learned is called a "Rosette" which kinda looks like a flower. this one you use a tip 16 and you make a dot "pretty good size one, make sure it looks like the star" and with out lifting up on your bag you go to 9, 12, 3, and 6 then stop squeezing and pull back to 9 so basically you make a circle and I found it a little harder than the shell but still not to hard. the other flower we did was a Rosebud and I found this one pretty easy and my teacher thought that was kinda funny because I have a hard time with the easy and easy time with the hard stuff. But The class was fun!

First Wedding cake!! Scary

2009-10-08T11:04:00.000-07:00

So last night our friend called me and asked me to do their wedding cake. I told him I would. So the wedding isn't till December so I have a little while to practice which I am so glad about. their theme is Christmas so I thought about a 3 tierd cake with red frosting or fondant with a white overlay that looks like snow, then have snow flakes that are sparkly drawn on the top and bottom tier, then on the middle tier a monogram in gold and white because their colors are red, silver, and gold. With flowers on it, the silver will be on the snowflakes. But they are coming over next week to come up with a design, I am really excited about doing the cake but also way nervous I am going to have to practice a lot, before I do their cake.

Last class for course 1.

2009-10-05T22:34:00.001-07:00

So I had my last class for course 1 tonight and it was way fun. We finished learning roses and learned how to make leaves and bows. I didn't use any bows on my cake but it was cool to learn. I had so much fun decorating my cake it was the first time we took a cake to class to decorate. For the last three weeks I have been learning stuff in class then coming home and practicing on a cake so I have pictures of 3 more cakes but I can't seem to get them off my phone which really sucks because there are lots of pictures of my little baby on it, but non of the pictures will come off and I really want to put the pics. of my cakes up here. Well next week I start course 2 and there are tons of really cool stuff in that course so stay reading on cake crazy.

Cake classes

2009-10-05T12:52:00.000-07:00

Hey so I have been taking cake decorating for the last month and I am loving it! I have learned how to bake a cake properly and get frosted evenly. Which is harder than you would think. You want to know how to get a cake to have the smooth look the secret is using a paper towel and rubbing the cake down with it. pretty cool huh. well here are some of the cakes I have done.