Long time!

Again it's been awhile since I was posting, Oiy life gets away from me! IN the interim my baby had her first birthday, and her nursery was decorated with all things owl, so I thought a cute lil owl cake would be the way to go, the first picture shows the colour the best. but the next two show the detail way more.
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Professional Photos!!

So I always take the standard photo, on the kitchen table or living room table with my point and shoot canon. And the pictures always look that way. HOWEVER I had a bride post some of the professional photos of the cake and cupcakes that I did for her wedding, and let me just say....WOW! It really makes a huge difference!

So Pretty! The Butterflies were white chocolate

The Stand was custom made by the brides mother

The Hydrangeas were gumpaste all hand made and painted to match the brides decor!

baby cupcakes

ok so today's post I"m going to walk you through the stuffed cupcake from start to finish.

I took my favorite white cupcake recipe and made a couple dozen.

Then I took a large tip, flipped it over and cored out the centers of the cupcakes.

It's summer time!!! And that means I have fresh raspberries! I whipped up some whip cream

Added some crushed raspberries a little sugar and Voila!!! raspberry cream filling!

Now I took the tip I used above to core out the centers, put it in a bag

filled the bag with the raspberry cream filling, and piped it into the holes.

Then I made a soft blue vanilla buttercream, and swirled the top of the cupcakes.

Added a few fondant stars. Cut out cupcake wrappers from some star paper I had.

(I got the wrapper stencil from skiptomylou.org, http://www.skiptomylou.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CupcakeWrapper.pdf  )

Then I made a little gumpaste boy, gave him a snuggly blanket!

Everyone loved them! And they tasted amazing!!

It's wedding season!!!

I had two wedding cakes this past week. Both wedding cakes had enormous amounts of cupcakes involved! The first cake was a white cake with vanilla filling, with green hydrangeas and 150 white and chocolate cupcakes. The Bride LOVED it! I can't wait to see pictures of it from the day of, when they had it all set up!
The second cake was for an old friend, she had 300 mini cupcakes. The top cake was chocolate with chocolate gnache and strawberry shortcake. All the mini cupcakes had strawberry kiwi flavoring too! It was delish!

Toooo long!

Alrighty so this post is coming way to long since the last one. I've been so crazy busy with all sorts of things, not the least of them being cake making.

So I'm going to start with a few of my favorites. I was asked to create a T-Rex cake for a little boy. They wanted a character cake for the family dinner and then a 3D cake for the party. After much debating, a few moments of sheer terror, and at least one panic attack this is what I came up with.

The cake was white cake with grasshopper filling, I had so much fun airbrushing this cake! I gotta say I just love my airbrush. All in all I think it was definetly worth the effort!

It's a Bird.. no it's a plane!

I was asked to make a replica of a piper cub airplane for a 90th birthday. So I decided to take some pictures as I went through the process so you guys could see what it looks like :)

First I had to make a base for the cake. So we cut the shape of the plane 25inches long and 8 inches at the widest part.

Then I put on 6 cakes each were a 9x13, cut and shaped them to fit the base

when I was finished I covered the cake with Fondant, and airbrushed it to match the original plane.

And this is the finished piece!