Ladybug Cake

I went home this past weekend to make a cake for a 1st birthday party. The theme was ladybugs and everything turned out really cute! I made the shaped cake and also LOTS of ladybug cupcakes. Luckily, my mom was able to help me out since I also needed to get out of town for a Christmas party the same evening.
The mom posted pictures online, and it was so nice to see how much the birthday girl enjoyed her cake!
I've got at least one more cake planned in the next few days, so there will be more pictures coming soon.

I've been absent pretty much all semester, but the good news is I have officially finished my last class ever...a clinical is all that stands between me and a much anticipated graduation in May. I'm hoping that now I will have a little more free time to get back to my baking. I've got plans to make a cake and some cupcakes for a 1st birthday party this weekend, and a cake for Dusty's mom for Christmas. I'll make sure to get pictures up as soon as I finish these projects! Stay tuned...

Mom's Birthday Celebration

Mom's birthday was this past weekend so I made her a birthday cake. I wasn't really feeling well on Friday night while I was baking it, or on Saturday when we went out to eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Atlanta to celebrate her birthday. It still came out pretty I think. I went to the doctor yesterday, and apparently I have this flu bug going around....by Sunday I could barely get out of bed for more than 5 minutes at a time. I was so upset because we were supposed to enjoy the
Braves game on Sunday and I couldn't go. Anyways...its finally back to classes for me today...hopefully I last all day.
The cake was a chocolate cake like the birthday "girl" wanted with buttercream icing.

Quick Update

I just wanted to post a quick update with few of the cakes I've done lately. The first one was a cake for my Wilton Course 3. It was my first fondant cake and I think it turned out pretty cute. Unfortunately, the bow ended up drooping before I could snap a picture because of the crazy humidity.

That same week I had to make a birthday cake for Dusty. I used my oval pans to help shape a football and then added the UGA symbol in fondant. The outline on the symbol got messed up slightly, but it still turned out pretty good and he was very happy with it.

Last night I finished my Wilton Course 3 and made the final cake...a 2 tier wedding cake. I spent about 8-9 hours making fondant roses in 3 shades of pink to cascade down the side. I also hand-painted the roses to make them look more realistic. I wanted to cover the cake in marshmallow fondant, but it was my first time making it and I didn't like the way it turned out. I ended up just using buttercream icing and making a pearl strand border using the marshmallow fondant. The bottom layer of the cake is a fudge marbled cake and the top layer is a Devil's food cake. Both layers have fudge sauce in the middle. I was very pleased with the way it turned out. I think if I had had a little more time during my class I could have made it looked even better, but I was rushing to get out of there and finished with the cake in time. Hope you enjoy!

Course 2 Final Cake

I have been taking the 2nd Wilton course for the past month, and last night we finished up with our final cake. I spent several hours making daisies and apple blossoms to cover it in, but unfortunately my white royal icing must have been exposed to some moisture because most of the daisies didn't harden enough for me to get them off the wax paper without them breaking. I did have better luck with the pink apple blossoms and I love the way they turned out. The sides of the cake are covered using the basket weave technique we learned in class last night, and I did the rope border around the top of the cake. The blue jay is made using the Colorflow technique and turned out really cute. The cake is a cream cheese pound cake, and it tastes great!


I am starting the Wilton Course 3 next week, and should be learning how to make fondant and tiered cakes. I'm very excited....this is the reason I've been taking all the other courses. I think fondant cakes are so pretty! There is a fourth course...but I've never seen it offered anywhere. I'm hoping I can find somewhere to take it once I move back up to North Georgia in September. The fourth course is fondant and gumpaste. Anyways...enough rambling...have a great week!

Tye-Dye Cake

Finally....A NEW POST AND PICS! I did a cake just for fun for my sister this past weekend. She has been really wanting a cake, and was jealous of my friends at school who were getting to eat all my creations. She's a little bit of a hippie I guess, so she got a tye-dye "peace, love, and music" cake. I didn't spend as much time on this one, so I'm not really pleased with the way it turned out. She loved it though.

The inside is a funfetti boxed cake mix (to match the tye-dye of course). The icing is just a buttercream. I used a large star border around the outside and simply drew on all the symbols. The tye-dye was created using colored piping gels and then dragging them out using a toothpick. Next time I think I will buy more than just one tube of piping gel in each color so that I can make the design larger. It took a lot of gel to make the thick concentric circles.

I was initially going to make something for the 4th of July this weekend (I like the firework cupcakes on Wilton), but I think we decided to just do some homemade icecream instead. I may try the cupcakes later though because they really are adorable.

Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!

Haven't had the opportunity to bake a cake lately...and I'm absolutely missing it! Hopefully once I finish finals and get packed up (and unpacked) for my clinical I will be able to make time for another cake. I know my sister is dying to have one, so maybe I will make the one she is wanting next ☮.
I called Hobby Lobby the other day and I'm going to take the 3rd and possibly the 2nd course in July...it will be a nice break during my clinical. So keep your eyes open for more posts soon....I promise I will get them up here whenever I finally find the time to make a cake.