My daughter turned 12 this month. She ordered her very favorite strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream. If you haven’t been around here before, you may not know how pink this cake really is. It’s definitely a girly cake. This year she wanted to have a layer of strawberry cake with a layer of chocolate cake. Continue reading “Pink Cake”
Category Archives: basic cakes
Fourth of July
We are settled here in Utah now. Not sure what we are doing about the business at this point but I’ll keep you posted. It’s similar to living in Colorado to this point. We are a little lower in elevation but still have to make the adjustments so things don’t bake out of the ovenContinue reading “Fourth of July”
Purple Star
My middle child turn 9 today. She ordered up a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. The icing needed to be purple. Oh and she wanted it to be a star. So I made her a simple star cake. I piped stars around the sides of the cake and tinted a little purple icing a littleContinue reading “Purple Star”
Angry Birds
My son turned 6 in March. He ordered up an Angry Birds cake complete with “a king pig, a mustache pig, and a few birds”. He also wanted chocolate cake with chocolate icing and a special chocolate surprise in the middle. So I went to work on the fondant birds and pigs…I used an edibleContinue reading “Angry Birds”
Baking
Here’s what’s been going on at Stahrs Cakes. December: There were lots of goodies made. Peppermint bark, peanut butter fudge, cornflake wreaths, lots of cookies. I attempted a cookie I saw on Pinterest. Chocolate Melted Snowman. I used my own triple chocolate cookie recipe and white royal icing for the snowman but I used the sameContinue reading “Baking”
Green Things
March is a fun month in this house. While we aren’t Irish, we do celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. My son loves all things green and it kind of represents the Spring is right around the corner for us. So more green things appear, like the grass and the buds, etc. So I decided to tryContinue reading “Green Things”
Class Cakes
I ended up with such a large class for my Decorating Basics course at Hobby Lobby that I had to split the class and have two! The students were awesome and they had lots of fun. I have to say that I did too. It wonderful for me to see students get excited when theyContinue reading “Class Cakes”
Polka Dots
Last weekend I had an order for a baby shower cake. The lady who ordered the cake had an idea in her head with pink, brown, green, and blue colors but wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. I used tip 12 to pipe large dots onto the cake and, when the icing dried a bit,Continue reading “Polka Dots”
Birthdays
We have two birthdays in January in our house. My husband loves red velvet cake with peanut butter buttercream and I make it for him every year…He is my clown! And I love him. And this cake lasted for two days. My oldest turned ten this year. She had ideas for her cake since SeptemberContinue reading “Birthdays”
End of the year wrap up…
Wow! It’s been pretty quiet around here. My New Year’s Resolution is to not let that happen anymore. I plan to keep this place hopping from now on. But in the meantime, here are a few things I’ve work on over the last few months… Baby shower…mom was decorating the room in pink and greenContinue reading “End of the year wrap up…”
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