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Along with the coconut on the beach. Covid decision to make individual cupcakes instead of a big cake. I also did the entire dinner with a ton of canapes on purpose to avoid as much contact as possible. Ive done cupcakes on a few gigs and actually prefer them I think. Bottom platter are pina colada milkshake. Top are macadamia nut white choco with mac nut w choc cookies crumbled and mixed into the batter. The base for both cake recipes were found elsewhere online with my own major tweaks lol. I made a big batch of crusting cream cheese buttercream from cc and then i split it in half. To the mac nut cupcakes i added white choc ganache (and then thickened with more icing sugar). White molding choc flowers on top. More amateur hour paint job lol. And to the pina colada batch of icing i added a pint of softened Haagen Dazs pineapple coconut ice cream plus a pouch of vanilla milkshake powder and coconut extract (and thickened with icing sugar). I had mini paper umbrellas to add next to straw but noticed it was huge anyway amd covered most of the cupcake so plan b straw only lol.
So many gorgeous aspects of Hawaii to want to include on an anniversary cake. In the end settled on a giant coconut drink on top of sand and surf. My sis was loves black forest cake and her hubby loves anything choc so i tweeked an 8 layer truffle cake by filling layers with ganache mixed with cherries. Covered in choco molding. Tried writing in sand like you do but it didn't show up so I had to use icing lol.2 types of cupcakes for the guests in next pic upload. Was more of a Covid decision to make cupcakes instead of having guests all over a cake knife.
Series of cakes I made, flavours reflecting different parts of world our hotel staff come from. Apple pie. Rum cake. Tres leches. Rosewater pistachio. Medovik. Anzac. Mango royale. 8th cake with Fbct of local lake/hotel view triple choc w nutella filling.
Daughter of one of our hostesses at work turned 2. SUPER into the movie racing stripes and horses in general. Mudcake with fudge filling/frosting. Horses and Stripes are melted chocolate. Sadly, I wasn't thinking about summer heat, and so even the 10 minute drive to drop it off, proved to soften the chocolate horses heads such that they would tilt over slightly. Lucky for me I got the picture beforehand :)) Well, she insisted on paying me after I told her not to. Another one chalked up to experience lol. TFL
That's exactly what she asked for as 6th bday cake. Pot of gold with rainbow coming out of it and fairies on it lol. I think it was raspberry cake, at the very least the filling was fresh raspberries- I have my cake notes at home and I'm out of country at the moment on holiday lol. TG fondant everything except chocolate coins of course and the very obvious cardboard under the rainbow for support. If the party has been in town I'd have chanced and maybe used gumpaste instead, but had to drive 1 hour at risk of breakage. TFL
Son of one of my servers turned 7. Was wanting Wall-E theme for bday but I wanted to also personalize- and since he started golfing lessons this summer I figured I'd throw him on the 7th hole. Mudcake with nutella BC and fondant. (I had made the mudcake the week before while doing niece's wedding cake, as the bday was the day after I got back into town from the wedding lol. TFL
Colours were lime green so had 3 paint swatches to try and emulate- not easy lol. She wanted strips to just go up and down, not curve over, but I had to during assembly because they kept sliding down. Hot humid- ugh need to practice or research other ideas. 4 cake flavours- mudcake, vanilla bean, carrot and rhubarb special request for top tier. Each layer diff fillings, so that's 14 fillers? LOL 5 hour Road trip 3 tiers frozen, fondant strips etc done at someone's house. Monkey and frog were also personal requests for cake toppers. Oh and the flowers are real. wanted to make fondant ones but couldnt rationalize transporting in car for 6 hours high summer heat and not having to redo any on site. TFL
I traced (with choc/wax paper) over pics of variety of horses in a few library books (snooped on birthday girl's computer for pics of her own horses but couldn't find so.... Then draped while soft on pans to dry. Maple cake with maple BC frosting/filling. So kept it simple and did silhouettes instead of multi-coloured horses. I work FT in a busy 5 star resort /spa kitchen - I am finding it really hard to drum up energy to go crazy on cakes lately :(( sad but true. But it was a big hit, so no worries.TFL
CC IMBC recipe w/ grand marnier, orange zest cake (improv of Woolley lemon zest cake) w/ rasp. mousse filling (improv of CC blackberry mousse filling + one from work). Was a hit for 2 bdays last wk so repeated recipe. TG fondant shoes and AWFUL:I work out of town. Had fondant premade but had about 1/2 hr to cut out/shape shoes before party-btw 10 hr days and other stuff, where DO you fit in time? lol I need my sleep working in a kitchen. Picnic party,bright sun=poor quality photo lol
My bro got married in Dec. but we didnt have reception. In april, my twin came out - we combined reception w/her engagement party.Did her cake tasting during visit. 1/2 carrot cake/orange curd filling/Grand Marnier cr. cheese icing -1 of tasting options. Other 1/2 Dbl chocolate cake/rasp. ganache icing/ rasp. cream filling -1 of tasting options. Not happy w/ squiggly writing, & ganache was rock hard (any advice?)-good thing SIL is karate master lol. One 'tied' knot, other 'not yet tied'
Last time my nephew wanted SB, I did Krabby patties-This time he wanted actual SB. Lemon meringue cake, w/ SMBC recipe from CC instead of icing called for/ Toba's fondant for lower body. Boy was I choked I realized I had no more lemon yellow for the body so I was freaked my golden yellow would turn out too orangey, so he turned out rather pale, to be on the safe side lol. In hindsight, shoulda used fondant or piped eyes/etc-stupid me 'dabbed' on SMBC instead. 8 layers doweled to board.
For some reason I had FBCT stuck in my head for the label (what was I smokin, sheesh lol). Some time at 6AM I clued in to use fondant lol. I wanted to get fancier with the label but got the order last minute. Bday 'boy' loves lemon meringue so I made a cake (Scott Bieber, foodandwine.com). TG fondant (I just love that stuff!). Bottle: foil mold around real wine bottle, poured in batter (easy process). Gold dust/vodka sheen, writing done with black food colour. Everyone loved the cake (yummy recipe too)
Another door prize for the school banquet. Since the Wilton tree cake pan is out of commish and I didnt trust trying to order off eBay in time, I did triple tier Dede Wilson's essential cake, and carved it. Peach cream filling. Green BC. Star/balls/garland Wilton Fondant with gold dust(blech@ fondant in a box- someone at school asked if it was all edible- I said that depends what you call edible. The fondant is but tastes gross lol). (we dont make fondant at school because we dont use it enough).
gosh not enough space to go into what went wrong-suffice to say, winging it never works. This I found out doing the roof and chimney without a plan. (The original roof/chimney). I redid these, This was a door prize for our school Christmas banquet. Snow white Icing from CC, evergreens are homemade tuiles with green BC. Front yard trees are actual branches dipped in chocolate. Windows are isomalt.
My bro got married today (tax reasons)-just 2 of them/kids-big party is April. So I surprised them w/ this. GLAD I made a zillion RI letters-kept breaking his.(thx to someone on CC for mentioning to include kids). Both tiers Dede Wilson essential choc/yellow, strawb/cr. cheese filling, white/dark choc ganache (shoulda done BC coat under white ganache, oh well. We 'cut' the bottom tier yesterday, they took top tier to wedding ceremony today.
oh gosh it's been too long since I did anything-too busy-so boy this was fun! A small selection of some cupcakes I did for my class (culinary arts). Pumpkin spice cake (cept for 2 big ones-wheat allergy recipe) w/ cr.cheese icing. Cant see well w/ wood backdrop, sorry. Made trick or treat bag to go with, but no pic, cause I have to add licorice handles and candy 'on top' on my way to class tonight. Happy Halloween all!
Best friend's birthday cake. She graduated from prof. chef program that I'm enrolled in next month and works in a big hospital kitchen now (dishes piling up are an inside joke on top of the 'not all washed up yet' - left lemon cake in loaf pan to look like commercial sink. Blue lemon jello on top for water. Dishes are Toba Garrett fondant. 'not all washed up' etc black BC. Thanks for looking!
my niece missed out on her birthday party this year for various reasons, where she was supposed to get a big fairytale ballerina princses cake. We had a private party just the 2 of us so I made this for her. Lemon cake/lemon icing. Book with 'once upon a time' bit, ballerina sitting down. Took pic with webcam (thus the quality). Will upload better one when photos get developped. Thanks for looking.
Anything that could go wrong, did, incl. noticing 30min b4 due that Beaver motto was on wrong cake. UGH, almost in tears when dropped off. 1st non friends/family cake. All lisa Yockelson recipes: French vanilla/lemon/mudcake/strawberry + matching filling/frosting recipes. Was impossible to make icing smooth (no more time/patience and lack of experience). Campfire/tent Toba Garrett's fondant, 2 bridges RI. At least the 4 cakes tasted good :)) (those recipes will be used over and over again.)
9 kids at daycare I work at 'graduated' to middle school this year. Weeks ago boss asked if I could do cake, said yes, had visions of diplomas etc. Party got pushed back a week (one day after big scouts cake-in photos) , almost had breakdown lol. So nothing fancy, I doubled mudcake recipe for scouts cake, then used up strawberry/choco cream frosting from day b4 for borders/names. Really having hard time with smoothing BC, though this was especially hard since frosting recipe called for crushed strawberries
Sloppy job on my first stack of books, but I was really looking forward to doing this and had fun-definitely will not be my last books. The 12 yr old friend had a fave in the author's series- sadly I couldnt get a copy of it, so I did a generic front cover (instead of the finely detailed artwork lol. The swirly colours were close. Banana spice cake/choco cream frosting recipes from Lisa Yockelson's book (GREAT big thumbs up). Toba Garret's fondant (I'm likin that way more than the MMF now for some reason).
Nephew wanted Monster truck but I kept changing subject cause I planned on doing him a Gravedigger. And gravedigger is what he got lol. Tried orange cake recipe from Dede Wilson's wedding book. Yum!! The whole truck was going to be fondant on top of a sheetcake, but for various reasons (working 3 jobs) decided last minute to do this instead. Windows were icky-tried melting clear candy for them but forgot about it and burnt and had no more left to redo lol. Wheels are MMF covered rice krispie treats.
didnt get the pics done until last week-just not finding the time lately to upload pics let alone get onto CC lol. Was a triple layer carrot cake (carrots-easyer bunny lol), cream cheese icing. Not sure how to make that less shiny lol. so long ago i forgot what happened now lol. Butchered the handle-cause I couldnt find anything else last minute to use to make it lol. Thanks for looking.
Ok I had come up dry for ideas when I wanted to do this. My friend's bday last month-makes docu movies, builds houses, is enviro 'friendly' also. so for the funny twist I made him taking a break against his big tree. And on the clapboard I wrote his name as the movie and his age as the take/scene. Not happy with white MMF job-it slumped a lot. Not sure how to avoid that :(( Tree stump was MMF covered cake as was cake part. Tools/wood/clapboard/guy all MMF.
Ok so I kinda cheated on the roses (obviously, they look crappy lol). We didnt actually learn how to do more than just the base of the rose and the first level of petals. But I didnt want to go home with a cake with no flowers so I bungled my own way thru- ah well, lots of practice will hopefully change that. I have to say I find parts of the course extremely useful. Definitely going to take level 2 and 3 also! (Lemon cake with lemon curd filling - had to use BC recipe in Wilton book for course purposes. )
Nothing fancy- I had leftover penny's cookie dough after making the 2 dozen easter egg cookies, so I decided to use this bunny cookie cutter I found garage saling, and give these to a friend, and since I was all 'spent' from decorating 24 eggs different designs, I decided to be lazy and make all the bunnies white and plain lol. They looked pretty though in their little easter basket with multicoloured ribbon on top :) Thanks for looking
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