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Scratch yellow cake with Madagascar Vanilla SMBC, RI flowers and pastel dragees.
DeDe Wilson's recipe for pound cake cupcakes baked in a 6x3 pan (also had enough batter for 12 cupcakes). Added a Madagascar vanilla bean to the batter. Also made a syrup and steeped vanilla bean hull in it then brushed entire cake with the syrup. Frosting is Buttercream Dream in vanilla and root beer.
Yellow cake with buttercream frosting and Easter egg sprinkles. Very happy with how these came out.
I am a fondant novice and my first two tries at fondant covered cakes were disasters -third time's a charm. Duff's fondant is easy to use (no cornstarch, powdered sugar or shortening needed - just wax paper)! WASC chocolate top layer, WASC yellow bottom layer - both filled with Sugarshack chocolate frosting. Same frosting is under the fondant and it worked wonderfully. Cake topper is from Have2HaveIt on Etsy. Used Wilton square cutter and #3 tip for argyle and hand cut the stitches for the top layer. Ribbon is my first try at a fondant bow.
For my 6yo to take to school for her birthday - she's into Monster High so I used Bakerella's Cake Pop book recipe for skull pops and modified them. WASC cake with (yikes!) canned frosting. Came out tasting like a really good glazed donut!
PTO had a bake sale at the Halloween Spooktacular. Used leftover WASC cake batter and unused fall decorations from a previous cake project. Streusel topped cinnamon cake filled with apple pie filling. Vanilla frosting and marzipan decorations. Used boxes and stickers from Michaels for packaging and made the label on the computer.
A phoenix is a mythical bird that burns when it dies and is reborn from it's ashes. Plastic phoenix from Michael's mythical animals line as the topper. Spice cupcakes with pecan pumpkin filling and cream cheese frosting.
Wanted to do spice cake but most of the relatives don't like it. *sigh* So it's a 10"x3" yellow cake with apple filling and very vanilla buttercream. First time trying marzipan decorations and was happy with the result. Found it easier to work with than fondant and found my relatives prefer the flavor of marzipan over fondant.
My daughter Alexandra's birthday cake. She already had the kid's party, the cupcakes for school and now this was for my inlaws birthday visit! 6" round doctored funfetti cake with whipped ganache filling. Buttercream Dream frosting and MMF. My first time covering a cake in fondant.
Cupcakes for my daughter's birthday at Kindergarten. WASC recipe cake and Buttercream Dream frosting. Used the Wilton icing decorations and nonpareils. First time using the frilly cups and I really like the feminine touch to the final product.
Hershey's recipe chocolate cake with coffee subbed for water. Buttercream frosting. Half of the cupcakes are filled with chocolate pudding. Kids were impressed but it wasn't nearly the amount of work as a cake!
Playing with gourmet flavors again: banana sour cream cake, top of cupcake brushed with many layers of cinnamon rum simple syrup, caramel frosting. Syrup: simple syrup with rum extract and Saigon cinnamon mixed in. Frosting: homemade caramel with hi-ratio and powdered sugar beaten in.
Co-worker challenged me to make pistachio cupcakes with strawberry frosting. Cake was no prob but the fresh strawberries in the frosting released a lot of juice. Frosting and I fought for a while but I won and the co-worker loved the flavors.
Ladyfinger cupcake (yes, ground ladyfingers in the batter), brushed with coffee simple syrup, topped with mascarpone cheese frosting.
WASC chocolate variation, Strawberry frosting. Chocolate letters.
White chocolate scratch cake, peach curd filling, MMF and Sugarshack buttercream. My aunt gave me an old apple corer and it worked great to make the holes for the filling. Filled them all with a squeeze bottle - done and done!
DH wanted 1 layer banana, 1 layer spice with root beer buttercream icing. Fondant circles with buttercream trim. Modified the WASC recipe to adapt for the flavors.
Yellow variation of WASC with Buttercream Dream icing. I decorated them in the lobby of the assisted living home on Easter so the residents could watch me. I had as much fun as the residents did! They brought pics of cakes they had made and I showed some of the staff how to do the basketweave. Then I served the cake in the dining room at dinner so they got to eat the cake they watched me decorate.
Client asked for brownies at an upscale function so I googled until I found a great pic for ideas. No name on the pic so I can't give credit. Used Ateco cutters in round, oval and football to cut the shapes from a pan of brownies, frosted with chocolate buttercream and decorated with Wilton brownie stencils. Colored the powdered sugar in food processor with violet, sunflower and moss petal dusts.
White chocolate eggnog cheesecake with semi sweet ganache topping and buttercream decorations. Uses 1:1 ratio for ganache and was happy with results.
WASC with white chocolate variation and peppermint filling with buttercream decorations. Tried to melt shortening buttercream cause I heard of pourable buttercream but it really didn't set up well. Smoothed as best I could and decorated. My hubby saw the ugly frosting before I smoothed it and didn't see the cake again until after it was done claimed I really pulled a hail mary on it. Hence the name.
Day crew ate the top 2 tiers during a pot luck and the bottom tier was untouched. Pulled off the tier plate, ruining the icing on top of the cake. So I smoothed the top, piped another ring of holly and wrote Seasons Greeting on it quick before the night crew came in. Looked OK and the PM shift had a nice treat. WASC white chocolate variation, peppermint buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream icing. White chocolate snowflakes with luster dust/peppermint for shine.
My kitchen crew has a pot luck for the holidays and asked me to bring a cake. 10", 8" and 6" WASC white chocolate variation and peppermint filling. Snowflakes are white chocolate with luster dust/peppermint extract to give them some shine. Vanilla buttercream using Sugarshack's recipe.
Made for Phoenix group's anniversary. Red velvet cake, lemon curd filling and swiss/italian meringue buttercreams (had both in the freezer). Used large and small birdbeak tips for flames. Topper was bought at Michael's.
My soon to be 4 yr old asked for chocolate cake with marshmallow so I took that as a cue to try making/using MMF for the first time. RI flowers with gold dragee centers - board decorated with RI and ribbon.
For my daughter's 4th birthday I made these for her to take to preschool. She asked for strawberry cupcakes with banana frosting. I made the butterflies out of candy melts a la "Hello Cupcake."
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