Minecraft Lives!!

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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chocolate buttercream frosting, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, Minecraft, Sour cream vanilla cake

Revisiting an old favorite this week….MINECRAFT LIVES!! This is the cake that started it all 4-plus years ago when I made it for a cakewalk at my kids’ school. It was fun revisiting my buddies Steve, Creeper, and Pig…

I’ve gotten better at making the fondant figures and the cake has gotten a bit bigger, but the basics are the same.

This is a 10″ 2-layer cake (chocolate/vanilla) with cookies and cream filling and chocolate buttercream icing. The “dirt” on the sides is made from crushed Oreo cookies pressed onto fresh buttercream and the grass is piped vanilla buttercream tinted green.

The figures are handmade from homemade marshmallow fondant. Believe it or not, I’ve had requests for this cake from as far away as New Zealand! Although I don’t ship the cake, I have sent the fondant figures all over the globe! Apparently the Mincraft craze is alive and well!

Hope you had a terrific birthday, RJ!! I really enjoyed making your Minecraft cake!

Movie-Themed Birthday Cake

08 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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homemade marshmallow fondant, Rice Krispie treats, vanilla buttercream

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this cake I did for the 13th birthday of a lovely and talented girl! She was having a move-themed birthday and wanted a fitting cake to celebrate.

I’m not sure why I didn’t get a good shot of the entire cake (without my clutter in the background), but this one will give you a good idea of the details.

The cake itself was a 10″ 3-layer vanilla sour cream cake with buttercream icing and buttercream between the layers. The popcorn bag was made of Rice Krispie treats, molded together into the shape of a bag, and covered with homemade marshmallow fondant.

I used the same rice cereal treat to make the center of the reels, then attached dried fondant discs to each side and added a ribbon of black fondant to look like the film strip going around and coming out. The red carpet, ticket, stars, and clacker are all made from fondant which I allowed to dry for a few days to stiffen.

The popcorn was made from different colored marshmallows cut in a few places and squished a bit to look like popped corn–really ingenious idea I found on Pinterest and very realistic!

It was a really fun cake to make…hope you enjoyed your 13th birthday party, Ava! You really are a sweet and oh-so-talented young lady!!

Batman Superhero Birthday Cake!

08 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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Batman cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, superhero cake, vanilla-bean frosting, White chocolate raspberry mouse filling, White velvet cake

I got an email from a mom looking for a fitting birthday cake for her SUPERHERO son who was turning 5. She had in mind what she wanted…a 2-tiered Batman cake with the city scape around the bottom tier and the Batman iconic belt and logo around the top tier.

The cake has an 8″ bottom tier and 6″ top tier of white velvet cake and white chocolate raspberry mousse filling, iced with vanilla-bean buttercream tinted blue. The details are made from homemade marshmallow fondant.

I hand-cut the buildings, belt and logo from black and yellow fondant; the letters are cut using Wilton small letter cutters. I also had some little cute punch star cutters I used for the white stars.

The big “5” is cut with a larger cookie cutter from yellow fondant. I laid it on top of the black fondant and hand-cut around it to give a 3-D look. Then I used piping gel to *glue* them together with a wire between to stick into the top of the cake.

I did something similar with the name letters by cutting black ones and flattening them a bit with a fondant smoother to make them slightly larger than the yellow letters, then glued them together with piping gel.

I made all of the fondant pieces a few days ahead of time to allow them to dry and stiffen up a bit (except the belt, which needed to be able to bend around the side of the cake). After doing the final icing, I used a little bit of buttercream to stick the fondant panels, letters and logo to the side of the cake.