When you purchase a digital subscription to Cake Central Magazine, you will get an instant and automatic download of the most recent issue.
16th Birthday cake. I searched for Piano cakes and pulled together 4 cakes I really liked and then put this together. I melted a chocolate bar and used the chocolate to pipe the 16. Sherry Wine cake with buttercream. The sparkly decorations are from balloon weights from Dollar Tree that I took apart with wire cutters.
This was my first attempt at petit fours. I used a petit fore cake recipe on mahalo.com, torted and brushed on an almond simple syrup and apricot jam. I really didn't like the taste of the petit four icing recipes I found and I was running out of time so I bought a tub of Wilton Decorator Icing (didn't know if buttercream would hold up) and melted it over a metal bowl of boiling water (as suggested on Wilton.com) and poured it on. Royal icing decorations and Wilton pearl flower centers.
Cupcakes decorated with buttercream frosting. These little things took A LOT of frosting. I think I used nearly a triple batch for the 24 cupcakes. I added in pumpkin candies and wooden scarecrows from the craft store. The kids loved them!
I fell in love with feverfixer's baptism pillow cake and was so excited to have a chance to make one. I used Satin Ice fondant but had NO experience with fondant. I really need to practice more! The figures on top are all out of Wilton gumpaste. The family was very happy with it.
A friend of the family is a descendant of the owners of this castle in Scotland. I replicated it for his birthday using Rice Crispy Treats for the castle. I used wafer cookies for the roof, chimneys and drawbridge and ice cream cone tips for the tops of the turrets. The base cake is covered in buttercream.
We have many August birthdays in our family. I made each person an individual 4" cake; trying to reflect each ones interests/ personalities. All sherry wine cake and covered with Satin Ice Fondant. I am still really struggling with fondant. I made the flowers using Wilton gumpaste.
I used wakeandbake's Bomb Bomb cake as a guide. It is a sherry wine cake covered and decorated with buttercream.
I made this for my husband. It is chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream filling and a chocolate ganache under the MMF. This was my first time making and using MMF. It was very stiff but was much easier to work with and tasted better than other fondants I have used.
I made this cake shortly after we moved. My cake decorating tools, tips and colors were packed away. Chocolate cake with Chocolate Almond Buttercream, Pirouhette cookies for rails, a Peppermint Patty helm, Whopper cannons in the side and Rolos for barrels. The beach is cake scraps frosted with packaged cookie icing (only green I could find at the store) and raw sugar sand. The water was a tube of pre-made also from the store. I was pleased under the circumstances and thought it might might inspire some to improve on the idea.
Sherry Wine cake (pound cake texture) with vanilla buttercream. The yellow visor is made of styrofoam wrapped in plastic and covered with yellow tinted buttercream and held on with toothpicks. My son was ecstatic! He doesn't like fondant (which I wanted to use) and requested "regular frosting" instead.
Each Pokemon is in its "native element". The trees are Pirohette Cookies with meringue cookie tops. The volcano is stacked cake with melted chocolate frosting poured over it and melted red frosting poured over that.
Once in place at the shower I added a lid to make it look like the baby was popping out of a present/ I found this idea in a Wilton 1995 yearbook and changed the colors to match the shower.
I made this cake for my neighbor's daughter. It was my first time working with fondant.
(if this is a private computer)
Yes please, register now!
