New designs

I’ve been learning a few tricks to different decorating techniques. Such as printing templates for cake pictures like the taekwondo cakes below. This cupcake is also a template but decorated with a different tip.

A fun cake to have anytime. This one happens to be one layer of chocolate cake with white chocolate filling and vanilla icing. The cupcake design and border are vanilla icing just tinted to give the cake some “pop”.

Special Birthday

Some of you may know that I do taekwondo with my two daughters. We enjoy the time together, working out and having fun. Today students in our taekwondo center tested for their black belts. I was asked to make a special birthday cake for one of the masters of the center. His birthday will be this week but since most of the students were at the event today, we celebrated him at the test.

I got a copy of the U.S. Taekwondo Center logo to use on the half-sheet cakes. I was pretty happy with how they turned out.

It was my honor to make these cakes for Lee Sabumnim. Happy Birthday!

Purple Purse

My daughter turned 6 recently and ordered up a purple purse cake. Her birthday cake of choice is chocolate. She wanted peanut butter icing but only if it could be purple. So I went to work.

Tinting peanut butter icing is easier than I thought it would be. I used chocolate icing for the writing. Chocolate twizzlers for the handles. I also made some chocolate roses for goodie bags. I used one for the clasp.

She was definitely happy with the outcome. I was pretty pleased as well.

Open House details

Here are the goodies that I made for the open house. I made the stacking strawberries.

 I also made some chocolate cake…

There were chocolate peanut butter mini cupcakes with peanut butter icing…

Cherry, Banana, and Spearmint hard candy (shaped into little stars, of course)…
And the cake that made me the happiest to make. The Car Cruiser. Turns out I just need to use a lighter cake recipe, such as my classic white cake, in the pan to have the cruiser turn out.
I used oreo cookies for the wheels.
 
M & M candies for the lights and vanilla icing tinted black and red. I used white sparkle gel icing for the windows.
I was happy with the outcome. My son, however, was disappointed that I did not make it green! Maybe next time.

Peter Cottontail

Have you met Peter Cottontail? He is white and fluffy and perfect for Easter. My kids had fun with this cake. White cake with white icing both with a hint of almond.

I accented Peter’s tie with green and some M & M candies. I used purple in his ears and for his mouth and whiskers with more M & M candies for his eyes and nose.

 Happy Easter!

Low Rider

My son turned 3 recently. His cake request was to have a green car cake. So I got to work with the Wilton 3D cruiser pan. While it worked with my peanut butter chocolate marble cake, it didn’t quite turn out with my heavy chocolate cake (which is my son’s favorite). So I had to improvise and carve one from scratch. With two quarter sheet cakes and my husband’s input, I got to work.

The green icing is peanut butter tinted green. The blue, red, black, and yellow colors are tinted white icing. The wheels are chocolate cupcake tops.

My son was happy with the finished product and so was I. I may have to try to redeem the Wilton cruiser pan with a lighter cake recipe just to show it is a really cute cake as well.

St. Patrick’s Day

Who doesn’t enjoy seeing a rainbow? Not me. I love them. In fact, we see a lot of them in the Spring and Summer times around Colorado Springs.

This is a 1/4 sheet cake (any flavor-this one was butter cake) with vanilla icing tinted blue. The cloud is vanilla icing without the tint. Colorful M & M candies make up the flowers, rainbow, pot of gold, and sun and the green “grass” is tinted coconut flakes.

While this was made for St. Patrick’s day, this cake could be enjoyed any time you feel like seeing a rainbow.