Creepy and Silly Halloween Cupcakes

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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Last Halloween, everyone in my kids’ classes got one of these for a treat during their party at school. The creepier the better for the older kids!

The cupcakes were an mix of chocolate and vanilla with vanilla buttercream icing and assorted decorations….The gummy spiders were the favorite!

For the kindergartener’s in my daughter’s class, things were a little bit more tame :0)

I think this year I’ll do cookies!

Baby Boy Baptism Cake

15 Wednesday Oct 2014

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baptism cake, cross, homemade marshmallow fondant, pumpkin spice cake, vanilla mousse filling, vanilla-bean frosting

This cake I did last week for a darling boy’s baptism. His mother wanted a clean, simple design with a cross on top and “God Bless Owen” on a banner. I’d made her other son Carter’s barnyard cake a few months ago, and she liked the banner idea, so we did it again on this cake.

It’s a 3-layer pumpkin spice cake with vanilla mousse filling and vanilla-bean buttercream. All of the details are homemade marshmallow fondant.

I cut the cross from fondant with a special cutter and the letters using my Tappit letter cutters. God bless you, little Owen! It was an honor to make your baptism cake!

TMNT Cake

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

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birthday cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, peanut butter mousse filling, TMNT cake, Vanilla-bean cake, vanilla-bean frosting

This cake I did for a dear friend a couple of weeks ago for her brother’s 30th birthday. Yes, I did say “30.” My husband saw the cake and thought I’d made a mistake…”isn’t it supposed to be 3?'” Nope. Davy was turning 30…And his sweet sis decided to surprise him with a blast from his past: the beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

The cake is a 10-inch 2-layer vanilla bean cake with peanut butter mousse filling and frosted with creamy vanilla-bean butter cream. I used a large star tip to do the ombre green “puffs” around the outside of the cake, which I thought gave it a kind of “reptilian” feel.

The TMNT topper is made from homemade marshmallow fondant. The manhole cover was made by covering a 5″ cardboard round with fondant and pressing on the brick imprints. The TMNT logo I hand-cut from green and black fondant. The figures are also supported on a cardboard round in order for the topper to be lifted off in one piece before serving. The hardest part was getting the somewhat heavy manhole cover to stand up and survive transport without ripping out of the cake. This took some engineering and lots of trial and error, but I think it was successful in the end. It was a fun cake to make for a good friend! Hope you had a great birthday, Davy!!