Christmas cupcakes

I almost forgot about these, which is why I'm posting them quite a bit after Christmas.

 I wanted these cupcakes to be simple and delicious. Red Velvet cake, with my white chocolate cream cheese frosting.

 And I just added some simple little gingerbread men, and candy canes. Simple but yummy!

Ombre Fly Fisherman Cake

I have to say I love this cake. I have done a similar version of this cake last march. But I had airbrushed the Ombre waves instead. 

 I feel like the the effect is much more distinct with each fondant layer being its own color. It makes for a cleaner, crisper effect.

 This little guy is to represent my (used to be neighbor) Shawn.

 The cake was chocolate cake, with a new recipe I've been playing with of chocolate buttercream, that is super chocolatey.

 I know I've had a few ombre cakes before, and I can tell you that this one is not going to be the last. I love the look of the varying shades from light to dark.

Happy fly fishing!

Missionary Shirt Cake

My second cake I ever made was a version of this cake. I got a call from a nice lady who's son was about to receive his mission call. So we thought this would be perfect for when they opened up the call with their friends and family.

 I have to say this one looks a lot better than the first one I did.

 This one was chocolate cake, with peanut butter buttercream, and marshmallow fondant.

I hope that his call opening party was fun, and that he gets to go where he wants to. I think this cake helped the party.

Steelers Cake

I told my husband that I was doing a Steelers cake, and he said, "Oh are you doing it black?" And I said, "Why do I have to?" Clearly I do not know a lot about sports.

 I didn't want to make the whole cake black if I didn't have to, because when you eat an entire black cake, your entire mouth turns black as well. My husband said as long as I made it yellow it should be fine. I did put a stripe of black around the bottom just to have some black in there.

 My brother in law was surprising his friend and neighbor with this cake for his birthday. And as you guessed the Steelers are his fav team. This cake was chocolate, with vanilla almond cream cheese frosting.  Go Steelers!

Cute Snowman Cake

I didn't realize that the lighting in this picture is not very good, so sorry for that. But I think this cake turned out so cute. 

If you're wondering what the arms are made of it's pocky again. Ever since Halloween of 2011, when I used it to make spider legs I had wanted to try using it for snowman arms. And I finally got my chance. I love the way this little guy turned out.

 I had thought about making a snowman that stood up, but I thought this would be so much easier for people to cut into and serve. Happy Winter Everybody!

Christmas Cupcakes

Well you know how it is this time of year, you've got parties, and pot lucks, teachers and neighbors treats to give out. So I needed something to cover all of those. So I whipped up these cute little cupcake toppers. 75 of them to be exact. 

 I wanted to have plenty of variety, and keep them all red, white, and green. I think they turned out super cute and fun.

 These cupcakes were all moist chocolate cupcakes, with vanilla buttercream, and of course topped with a mmf topper.

Hope all your holidays were wonderful!

Winter trees and snowmen cake

I love this cake, for a few different reasons but mostly because it was so so good. I have finally perfected my red velvet recipe, and a fellow "caker" / family member gave me a recipe for white chocolate cream cheese frosting. The frosting was so good, you could eat it without any cake at all, by the spoonful, and believe me, I was tempted.

 Also, sometimes I get sick of fondant, so it was nice to have a cake just covered in frosting.
 The trees in the back are made of chocolate. and the green trees are straight fondant. I wanted to show three different techniques of making trees. (There are many more, but I didn't want to have too many, so I went with three.) Also the snowman in this pic looks like he's lost an eye, or that it's glowing, it must just be my camera. Ok, tree number one.

 Tree number two.

 And tree number three. Personally, I like tree number three the most. But it was definitely more of a pain.

In the end, I thought this was a fun cake, and super yummy, I have already made this recipe of frosting a couple more times, yummmm. Happy winter everybody!