It's La la Loopsy :o)

Loopsy is fun! Loopsy is BRIGHT and has little details. I love all the cakes I make and love doing them for everyone but this one was EXTRA special. This little girl has been very sick this last year, she has fought an uphill battle with all her might. Even with everything she has gone through, she is bright and cheery and loving but most of all appreciative!!!

This project also marked a first for me. Everything to date has gone very smoothly. I made cakes, cupcakes and themed cakepops. I was LOVING myself and my work, I couldn't wait to see the smile on her face. I package it all up and head to bed, ready for my delivery the next day.......

I get up, I walk into the kitchen and there it sits.....ALL MY POPS WERE LOST!!! The temperature in the house rose to close to 80 overnight and all the chocolate softened and melted. GONE, ALL GONE. Days worth of hard work. I WAS DEVASTATED. My client was so kind and so understanding but I was mad at myself. I had a lot of take away from this and learned things about chocolate that I never knew.

Here are pictures of the cakes and what the pops should have been.

From others come great ideas

This past weekend my grandmother watched my kids while I went to my final cake class and she showed me a super cool new treat I could make, hamburger cookies. Well I immediately said “that could be a Krabby Pattie, I have to make a SpongeBob cake now”

Guess who has a birthday coming up, THE HUBS, guess who is getting a SpongeBob cake! He hates SpongeBob but that’s Ok, he likes to oblige me :o) He said as long as it is chocolate cake inside he doesn’t care what the outside looks like.

I decided that the design of the cake would be the ocean with the small island, SpongeBob, Patrick and the palm trees.

I purchased the SpongeBob toys rather then making them. I did watch some you tube videos on how to make them but making figures scare me. I tried it once and came out horrible, I will stick to animals for now :o) I did however see them make striped towels and that’s where I got the idea to make the towels that went with them from fondant.

The Palm Trees……Oh boy! No I know full well that for any that has to ‘suspend’ or hold a rigid shape you need to mix/make it with gum paste. I tried to just make them with fondant…..FAIL! I couldn’t get them to hold together let alone attach to the ‘trunk’ (pretzel). In theory they were a super cute project if I had done it the way I know it should have been done.

I personally don’t think that gum paste tastes all that good and that’s why I try to avoid using it. For some reason I have this hang up that all things need to be edible on a cake and while gum paste is (it’s VERY hard depending on the ratio to fondant) to me it tastes like dish soap.

Here's the cake.....

Practice makes perfect....

I love playing in the kitchen, as we have determined, more so then that I want my client to get a product that makes them go 'WOW'. For the Eagle cake I decided that I wanted the feathers to be '3D' so I will be using fondant and lilly petal cutters and flower veiners to make them. You can't really see the detail in the picture so I will need to find a way to accentuate that but here's my first feather.

For the Minnie party we had been going back and forth about a cupcake topper and this is a prototype I came up with.

The last set of pictures is just a party of the party, cakepops! I love things on a stick....I truly do! All edible, it's chocolate and fondant!

Today was a fantastic day!

Accomplished

Today I completed the last class of course 4 of Wilton Method decorating classes and their Tall Cakes classes. I felt that take the classes and having some formal training would help me along the way. I have learned quite a bit along the way and added to my network, I met 2 phenomenal talent ladies along the way.

Here's to continued learning!

I love giving back

So I have taken all the Wilton Cake courses. These last 2 were fondant flower classes so I was eager to test out my new skills. I won't just bake and keep it around the house because, well I will eat it, and no good will come from that!

My neighbors daughter is walking to fight cancer and they are having a benefit dinner to raise money for her. We all know what that means, RAFFLES! What better then to get my name and product on a raffle table. This is what I came up with. I can't wait to hear how they went over. I hope they were a hit and made people want to buy extra tickets :o)

Hmmm....Well, that was simpler then I thought...

Like most of the posts you've read around this time frame this concept was a first for me!

I was asked to do something Toy story, in googling to get ideas I found examples of Andy's bed. I HAVE TO MAKE THAT CAKE. I bought a small buzz and woody to 'decorate' the room with, but the bed was all edible. 

For this project I got to trim a cake down to a shape that I want. I have to make and dry the head board and foot board in less time then you would normally use so they were a little thinner then I would have liked to see them. I also wrapped 'cakepop' in fondant to form a pillow and draped/ shaped fondant to make the sheet and blanket. 

To compliment the cake, little green men cupcakes. 

A wild one!

So this week brought in a new client and 2 SUPER fun cakes!!!!

After bringing in my Hello Kiitty cake a co-worker contacted me about doing her sons party in May. She also mentioned that the next day was one of her other sons birthdays but that was short notice. Being that I love CAKING and had the night free I said I wasn't closed to the idea of making a cake with less then a 24hr turn around depending on what we were talking about.....We decided on a simple Spiderman cake. I bought a hexagon pan to make his web and a Spiderman action figure to decorate the cake. This was the end result....

Then we started talking about his party that coming weekend. It was a quiet week for me after the craziness that was Easter so I was up for the challenge of a bigger themed cake in 2 days time. She threw out there that her son LOVES Toy Story. Perfect I have never done anything with that theme so the sky is the limit!!!!! I decided Andy's bed would be FUN (and it was). I used a square pan and trimmed it down to make a rectangle. I used a mix of fondant and gum paste to make the headboard and footboard. The cake was crumb coated with buttercream and covered with marshmallow fondant. I also made the pillows out of fondant. The figurines were purchased at a local toy store. Draping and shaping the blanket was fun. I had never worked with fondant in that capacity before. It took a couple tried to get it right, so i guess it's true practice makes perfect! The top sheet is just an accent, it's just a small piece tucked under the top of the blanket. Little green men cupcakes to round out the cake table and it's picture perfect!!!