Yellow Quilted Cake with Flowers

This is the first cake that I've made since we've been in Texas.  The climate here made the fondant stickier and the chocolate ganache that I attempted to put into the first layer became soup inside the cake.  I ended up having to scrape most of the ganache out of the cake and put in cherry filling.  The first tier is french vanilla cake and so it is now filled with a thin layer of ganache and cherries.  The second tier is white almond with raspberry filling and that came out great in this climate.  I had to cover the first tier twice because of my melting ganache filling mess. Even now the fondant on the first tier is not perfect.   Even with central air the house was just too warm for chocolate.  I guess if I want to make any more chocolate fillings I will have to wait until January, which the locals say gets cold enough to wear a coat.  Also, because we just moved here and I don't have all my cake supplies I didn't have any food coloring on hand so I mixed lemon Kool-aid powder with the frosting to make the yellow to pipe happy birthday.  It looks pretty good but the Kool-aid made the frosting so sour it is like an atomic war head candy.  The kids, who love super sour, enjoyed the leftover yellow frosting.  Tim said that the sour frosting may ruin the cake, but I think that there is really not enough on the cake to make a big difference.

All Covered in Roses Cake

 Emma turns 9 tomorrow.  For her birthday she asked me to make a red velvet cake with pink roses all over it.  Here is the end result.  It's really simple but I like it!  Happy 9th birthday sweet Emma!

Chinese Dragon Cake

 I am told that 2012 is the year of the dragon.  I made these dragons with gumpaste.  They came out pretty cute I think.

This is a grocery store cake.  I just decorated it!

Hello Kitty Cake Pops

Tonight I made a bunch of these cute little cake pops for my little Emma to take to school tomorrow to celebrate her birthday.  Emma helped me to make them up until she had to go to bed.  She is a good little helper.  We found the idea for these from Bakerella- she has lots of cute cake pop ideas.  We copied hers the best we could.  I think that they came out pretty darn cute!

5 Cupcakes

Our Princess Aubrey turned 5 on Friday! It's hard to believe that she is 5 already. Aubrey got a bit shafted on the cake end of her birthday because I spent the entire day making the cupcakes for Sesame Street as well as Baby Rattles so Aubreys cake is a creation from the extra cupcakes. She was happy with it though.

Sesame Street Cupcakes

These Sesame Street cupcakes were fun to make. Each cupcake flavor went along with the characters color. Elmo was strawberry, Big Bird was lemon with raspberry filling, Cookie Monster was white almond with blueberry filling and Oscar was Key Lime with Key Lime filling. A fun idea to have the flavor the same color as the character. I did forget to get a picture of the cupcakes before I boxed them up so I just snapped a quick one through the plastic cupcake boxes- which you can get for free if you just ask the walmart bakery, a nice thing to know for any of you who wonder how to transport cupcakes! I also made a little smash cake of Elmo for the birthday boy and alas I forgot to get a picture (this was just not a good day for remembering to take pictures!) It looked almost identical to the Elmo cake that I made for Jacob when he was little. That cake is on this blog somewhere. Fun, fun cupcakes to make!

Baby Rattle Cupcakes

Today was so hot my frosting was melting as I was frosting the cupcakes. I really hope they are cute enough! The handle is a lollipop stick with a life saver attached to the end by white chocolate. I successfully delivered the cupcakes and everyone seemed pleased with them so I guess they were a hit.