I wanted to give a shout out to one of my MOST USED cake decorating supplies, that would be my Wilton Cake Caddy! This was awesome while I was taking classes because I brought the cakes I was working with to and from the class site, but the other awesome thing is that if I don't have access to cake boxes or I'm just bringing a cake to an event...then this comes through every time! (And it super easy to clean). Because the sides clamp, it can hold alot of weight...and cakes with alot of fondant and/or frosting are actually REALLY heavy. Who knew?
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Louis Vuitton Speedy Bag Cake
I figured I'd share the second speedy cake I made (see the earlier purse cake I posted to learn exactly how I constructed the cake). This cake was a different design, and I used Wilton's chocolate fondant to cover the cake. I mixed a lighter brown color and then kept the original brown chocolate color to cut squares creating the checkered pattern. Sidenote, I actually really like working with the chocolate fondant because it smells sooo good the whole time you're working with it and it actually tastes like chocolate...its tastes GOOD! That's a little hard to come by with fondant. Check out the cake...
Published in Cake Central Magazine!
Woo hoo!! Was just randomly checking my emails, and realized that lost way down there in between all that junk mail was an email from CakeCentral.com, telling me that my scariest cake moment was featured in the magazine's "Cake Scares" article. Awesome! And it's official...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Showing Off My Artistic Abilities
Hmm...when was the last time I painted a picture...high school maybe? Well this next cake called for me to whip out the paintbrush and brush up on my techniques...copying a drawing from a sorority's promotional material. But I must say it was fun, and edible! As I painted the whole Cleopatra using food coloring and made it easy for myself by drawing a light stencil into the fondant before drawing. Note: If you make a mistake and paint outside of the lines with food coloring...it's not so easy to remove it, so TREAD CAREFULLY. I also watched a few more youtube videos on covering square shaped fondant cakes before starting this project because I was tired of coping with wrinkles and ripped corners and boy did those help! Check it out...
Traumatic Tiered Cake Experience
As a pseudo beginner cake decorator (I've been at it for about a year now), I had to at some point take on the challenge of a tiered cake. And I must say...this cake was a challenge. I created this spiderman cake for a kid's birthday party and unfortunately, kids and fondant don't mix...they just dont really like it and I can't say I blame them. Sooo frosting it was, and so I was already out of my "just cover it up with some fondant" comfort zone. I made some big time rookie mistakes with this cake, but I guess you've got to start somewhere. I did a good deal of research on how best to create tiered cakes so I knew enough to put dowels in the bottom layer in order to hold the weight BUT my bottom cake was not as level as it should have been. And, to make things easier during the party, I had the top tier on a cake circle but because the second layer was uneven...the top layer was tittering on top and I had about a half centimeter gap of space between the two cakes...YIKES! So I created a night yellow band to cover up this unsightly space and drew some frosting spiders on it. Lesson learned, make sure your bottom cake is level, you can imagine how frightening that car ride was for me. But I must say, the cake was delivered to a very excited Spiderman fan birthday boy.
Doing Big Things
So, a girlfriend of mine wanted a cool cake for her boyfriend's birthday and I figured I was up for the challenge. Had I ever made a cake shaped like a liquor bottle before? Nope. But with the basic techniques down I tapped into my creativity and took the plunge..check it out..
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