Baptism Cake

I have never enjoyed making a cake as much as I did this one. Oh, if only I had had more than one little girl! This was for a baby girl’s baptism last weekend–and I was pretty much given a license to do just about anything I wanted to with it, just make it girly…add roses and a cross and the inscription.

I was a little worried about the cross. I don’t know “Cross Etiquette”…is there one particular cross that is for one particular church? You know, I didn’t want to put a Lutheran cross on a Methodist cake!! But when I looked online for cross ideas, I found this one. It’s kind of Celtic with it’s swirls–but have you ever seen anything so girly? It looked like a piece of ribbon–and I had to use that one!

It was my first attempt at making sugar roses–those things are super fun…a bit on the time consuming part and holy cow…are they delicate. I always laugh on the cake shows when they say they only need 20 sugar flowers, but they are making 50. I just thought they weren’t very careful….no—these babies shatter at the slightest pressure. But they were so cool!

I’m not the best photographer in the world…and I wish the pictures were better–but to date, this is my favorite cake!

Dawson’s Princess Cake

This cake was made using my “quickie” Costco sheet cake method.  It’s really the only thing I’ve ever used when I’ve had to use a shape pan from Wilton. This carriage cake was made using a mixture of strawberry cake and pound cake.  It was frosted underneath the piping with white chocolate buttercream–and simple buttercream for the piping.  It matched the picture that it came with exactly.

This would be a case where good lighting is needed when decorating.  As I was piping the pinks the night before I was tempted to pull the dark pink off.  The picture called for hot pink–and all I could see was salmon pink.  But since I was nearly finished with the piping—it would have caused more damage than it was worth–so I left it.  It wasn’t until we were in the sunlight, delivering the cake that I realized that it was, in fact, hot pink.

Methinks it’s time to change the light bulbs!!

Elmo Redux

Princess Cakes

What made these cakes fun…they were the complete opposite of each other–other than the pink!  One wanted a blond princess with yellow cake and white chocolate buttercream, the other a brunette princess with chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream.

Where The Wild Things Are…Moishe

This week is my daughter’s last week of Kindergarten–and what book better epitomizes Kindergarten than Where The Wild Things Are.  So in her honor—we recreated Moishe!!