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Flower power

{ August 27, 2008 @ 6:31 am } · { 2-Dimensional }
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The week after the 4th of July (yes, I’m behind on posting), I made a flower cake for a friend’s 2 (and a half) year birthday party. She, like me, postponed her daughter’s winter birthday for a glorious summer party.

Her daughter’s specific cake instructions were: “I want a pink cake, brown on the inside, with strawberries on top, and a flower”. So, I went with a five petaled pink flower with a circle of strawberries in the middle. The flower itself was made using six 6in. diameter pans, five cake circles around a center circle.

For the “brown” inside, I made 2 chocolate cakes. For the rest of the petals, I made 4 jello cakes with lime, blueberry, tropical fusion, and strawberry flavors. The jello cakes were a hit because they were quite light and refreshing. They were expecting 70 or so guests, so the size of the flower cake was more than enough to feed everyone and then some.

Last minute, I baked and decorated little lady bugs and honeybees to add some color contrast to the flower. Plus, it never hurts to add cute little bugs as they are always a nice treat for the kids.

Summer beach cake

{ July 27, 2008 @ 10:05 pm } · { 2-Dimensional }
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I made a cake with a beach scene for a friend’s daughter’s 6th birthday party using a full sheet cake pan. I made a chocolate cake with buttercream icing, half tinted with aqua food coloring. This was also in June, probably my most busiest cake month!

I used crushed graham crackers for the sand, pirolines for the palm tree trunks, teddy grahams (piped w/ bathing suits on), pretzels for the pier, lifesavers, and paper drink umbrellas for the beach umbrella. The palm leaves and various sea creatures were made out of royal icing. I also used royal icing as “glue” for the pretzel pier and this worked out much better than using chocolate as I had done with the pretzel fence for the farm cake. I also made some cool surfboards using royal icing (the night before), but somehow it didn’t set fast enough so I couldn’t use them the next morning. I was planning on putting a teddy or two on the surfboards on top of huge waves…bummer…

The birthday girl loved it nonetheless and even helped decorate her cake by placing the sea creatures where she wanted them to be.

Old MacDonald had a farm…

{ January 6, 2008 @ 6:19 pm } · { 2-Dimensional }
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I decided to make a farm cake for a friend’s daughter’s 5th birthday, who wanted a horse themed party. I was considering making a 3D horse cake, but since my 4 month old daughter was only sleeping 1-2 hours per night, I decided it would be best to tackle that another time…

I used a 9×13 cake for the base and a 6×6x3 cake to make the barn, which I made out of 1 square block and 2 triangular pieces. I used chocolate buttercream icing for the base (with a strawberry vanilla curd filling) and red tinted vanilla buttercream icing for the barn. I glued pretzel sticks together with melted chocolate to form fences (very fragile – need to figure out a better way to glue them together…perhaps royal icing would work better…) and used rice chex cereal as shingles for the barn roof. I piped vegetables (carrots, eggplants, swiss chard) using royal icing and crushed chocolate cookies to make the dirt for the mini-garden.

I had bought little plastic horses and farm animals to put in the fences, but decided to wait until we arrived at the party to assemble. As it turned out, my daughter got sick, so I stayed home with her. My husband brought the cake and animals, but didn’t get a chance to photograph it…

farm cake 1

Strollin’ along

{ November 21, 2007 @ 8:34 am } · { 2-Dimensional }
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Now that my husband was advertising for me at his work, I was asked to make a cake for two baby showers. Excited about using my new skills, I decided to make a baby carriage and decorate it in basket weave. I was afraid to try using different colors for the basket weave, so I just did it in one color and used a different color to accent it. Both of the pregnant ladies were going to have boys, hence blue…

They requested chocolate cake, so I made a chocolate cake with chocolate-hazelnut frosting. Never mess with pregnant ladies…

Baby Carriage

Enchanted garden

{ November 21, 2007 @ 8:14 am } · { 2-Dimensional }
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My next cake was for a friend’s daughter’s 1st birthday party. The theme was Garden Fairy, so I decorated a sheet cake with flowers, mushrooms, rocks, etc. I made the flowers, leaves and lily pads ahead of time using royal icing. I made the mushrooms the day of by baking meringue and then dusting with cocoa powder. I couldn’t believe how realistic they turned out! I baked a cupcake and 1/2 of a ball pan to make a larger mushroom which I then decorated with more flowers.

Garden Fairy

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