Art

I am so excited about this cake. My friend (same friend as the wedding cake) had a graduation/house warming party and I got to make the cake. She is an art major so I wanted to make the cake look as artsy as I could. So, I got a small canvas and glued one of her art pieces to it and used that as the main part of the cake.



The caramel looking stuff on top of the cake is spun sugar. It is water, sugar, and corn syrup. After boiling it to the proper temperature, I stretched it out to desired thickness.




The cake itself is a hazelnut cake with a raspberry/lemon buttercream frosting middle and the best tasting dark chocolate frosting. I also dipped hazelnuts in the sugar concoction and placed them on cupcakes as a side decoration.










This was so fun to make. And I was so excited for my friend to see it. Following the cake and eating was lots of singing. Thank you to singstar for making it possible for me to sing karaoke with sounding too much like a dying cat.

Chatty

I'm not posting a picture today. I just felt like chatting. I love this kind of stuff. I realize blogging is difficult for me though. I may need to be more consistent with it to actually get anywhere. I didn't bake this week and feel a little empty. Hmm...but I did eat at the Corner Bakery and found a dessert I want to try. Of course I will have to implement it into cakes somehow, but I don't think that will be difficult for me. I have a talent for seeing how anything can be used for cakes. So, I will do something this week and try to be better about blogging. Maybe then I will get some people following, even though that makes me nervous.

Lyrics

So, it was my friend's birthday. He is a big music fan. It's his passion/obsession. So for his birthday, I made a cake with lyrics from good songs I know he loves. It's the same cake as my mom's except I used regular buttercream frosting. Maybe you can zoom and guess the artists of the lyrics.

Mom's Birthday

I made this cake for my mom's surprise birthday party. She turned 60 and we thought that would be the perfect time to throw her first surprise party.






I picked wild flowers...from her garden. I'm not sure if they are technically wild if they are from a garden. But they were beautiful and she loved it.












I had my mom tasting it throughout the week as I made it. I told her it was for a friend and she gave her enthusiastic approval for it's taste. It is a yellow cake, yummy lemon buttercream frosting, with a raspberry/lemon frosting/lemon curd filling. I loved it. I took leftovers to school and got good reviews there as well.

Random cakes

The following are cakes I have done in the last 4 years.





I did this cake because I loved the Kissable candies and wanted to use them. Perfect. Blue is my favorite color which is why it is winning.











This cake was for mine and my mom's birthday. Our birthdays are close so we celebrate them together.


I had dinner with some friends and offered to bring dessert.

This was for my friend's birthday. They are all words that represent her.











This is a zombie cake for my brother-in-laws birthday. He loved it. I used toffee bits for the vomit. It was my first zombie cake.






















I was walking down the candy isle, saw the sixlets candies and was inspired.













My friend is a big sports fan. Perfect birthday cake. But clearly has room to be improved.













More later.

First Wedding Cake

This was a year ago for my best friend's wedding. It was the first wedding cake I made and I got a little help from my mom. Thanks Mom, you are the best.

Cakes

I have a mini obsession with cakes, cupcakes, baking, eating anything with sugar in it, baking blogs, cake shows and basically anything along those lines. So I started a blog to share what I do and hopefully it will push me to get better and skill my obsession.