Cute textured cake

This is one of those cakes that I had been wanting to try for awhile. It's a simple technique with buttercream, but I love the finished look.

It was a perfect day to try this cake, because I had only a couple hours to make the whole thing, from start to finish.

I made a quick ruffled fondant flower to add some fun color. The cake is yummy moist white cake, with vanilla almond buttercream. Sometimes I just love doing something simple like this. The up side to this cake is it looks so much prettier than just frosting a cake. I love the cute texture this technique give the cake.

Firetruck themed cupcakes

I was doing a cake and cupcakes for a firetruck themed party. So I will post these, and then post the cake in another post. We wanted to have a variety of different things on the cupcakes. So here are some with cute little fireman hats. (The number 4 because that's how old the birthday boy was turning.)

I hand cut these little fire hydrants

Of course you have to have some little fire trucks.

And the fire man's best friend, the firehouse dalmatian.

I loved the way these turned out, it was fun. The cupcakes were my from scratch chocolate recipe, with vanilla almond cream cheese frosting. The decorations were all mmf.

Brave themed Cake

This cake is themed after Disney's Brave. Which features Merida. (She's the one with all the curly red hair.)

 In the movie, Merida gives her mom a magic cake which changes her into a bear. They frequent this area with the stones quite a bit, and in the end she is able to turn her mom back into a human. My Reese  thinks it's very funny that the mom is naked, and it was her request that the mom be naked, (with the blanket covering her.) So I left out a little shoulder and a tiny bit of knee.

 Merida is very talented at archery, and so that is why we have the bullseye's with the arrows. Just thought I'd give you a close up of those.

 Here's a top view, it was a fun cake to make.

 By request, this cake was strawberry, with strawberry frosting, which was not so much because of the flavor, but that it would make the inside pink. Because I think it was just killing her that nothing on the outside was pink.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

For a bridal shower, I whipped up 48 of these little cuties. She didn't care about the colors or what was on them, so I chose turquoise and coral, because I think that is such a pretty combination.

Some of the flowers had edible pearls in the center, just for a cute touch.

 These cupcakes were Red Velvet, with White Cream Cheese frosting.

 And the other half was moist white cake, with orange creamcicle frosting.

I think they turned out great!

Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake

Have you ever read the children's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. It is such a cute book. 

 In the book, the warm sun comes up and the little caterpillar pops out of his egg, and he is very hungry.

 So the cute little caterpillar starts to look for some food.

 He eats his way through quite a bit of food. ( I did not get all the food on here.)

 In the book all the illustrations have a very hand painted look to them, and that is what I love about them. So to capture that I hand painted everything. I have to say I love the way it turned out.

 (If you're wondering why all the food has holes in them, it's because the caterpillar eats his way through them.)

 After the caterpillar eats his way through all that food, he has a stomach ache!

 Then he eats through one nice green leaf. And he (after being in a cocoon,) turns into a butterfly. Which I actually had, but felt there was already so much going on that there was just no more room to put on a big hand painted butterfly.

 This cake was chocolate cake, with vanilla almond buttercream. And I have to say, it is one of my new favorites!

Tinkerbell, and Perriwinkle Cake

I have to say, that I surprisingly enough have still not seen this movie.

 But apparently in the movie, we find out that Tinkerbell has a sister, who is a snow fairy, or winter fairy, something like that. :)

 So I did one side with snowflakes, and handpainted icicles. And the other side with grass and flowers.

The girls who wanted this cake, are of course, twins. And they love that Tinkerbell has a sister now, like they do.

 I was told by one of these girls that next year she wants the same thing, but she wants the fairies to move, and then for their wings to glow. I told her that probably isn't going to happen.

Mini Cheesecake Conversation Hearts

I thought I'd better post these before it gets too far away from Valentine's Day. I always love to make holiday themed treats, and I actually saw this idea on pinterest, and had to do it. It's a cheesecake recipe, and I just divided the cheesecake mixture into 6 bowl and tinted them with food coloring. (I use gel food color.) Each cake was made using a silicone heart shaped mold, baked in a water bath.

To release them from the mold I let them cool for about an hour, then place them in the freezer for about two more. They came right out. While frozen I painted the words on them using red gel food color. Aren't they so cute? I love the way they turned out, and I have to tell you they were very tasty as well. Happy Valentine's Day.