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“Finding Dory” Nemo Cake

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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banana cake, Disney Nemo, Dory, homemade marshmallow fondant, Sour cream vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream

I created this cake for a 3rd birthday for little Michael earlier this month. It was so fun to do that I kept adding details once I got started decorating.

Perhaps I went overboard….ya think?

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The cake is a 2-tier (8″-6″) with banana cake w/ cream cheese filling for the 6″ tier and vanilla sour cream cake with strawberry filling for the 8″ tier.  It’s smooth-iced with blue vanilla buttercream with an ombre effect to make it look ocean-y (if that’s a word…?).  The details and figures are made from homemake marshmallow fondant.

I handmade Nemo, Hank, and Dory from fondant mixed with some tylose powder to stiffen it up and I let them dry for a few days before adding them to the finished cake. It’s hard to see, but Nemo is suspended above the surface of the cake on green straws to give the illusion that he’s swimming though the plants on the sea floor.

 

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The “Michael” was hand-cut from fondant using my KopyKake projector and a sharp Exact-o blade.

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It was fun adding all the details to the characters to make them recognizable…I especially liked doing Hank the octopus, he has so much going on.

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I loved doing your cake, Michael…Hope you had a fantastic birthday!!

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“Miss to Mrs.” Bridal Shower Celebration Cake

25 Sunday Jun 2017

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banana cake, chocolate mousse, fondant

I haven’t shared a cake creation for awhile, so thought I’d post this cute one I did a few months ago for a bridal shower….

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The bride’s aunt ordered it for her niece and showed me a picture of a cake with a simple bride’s silhouette all in buttercream.

I embellished my design to make it a bit more dramatic with the silhouette hand-cut from black fondant and overlaid with buttercream swirls and flowers.

 

The cake was a half sheet double layer banana cake with chocolate mousse filling, smooth-iced with vanilla-bean buttercream.

The inscription is cut from fondant using letter cutters with 2 different font types.

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Congrats to the Bride-to-Be, I hope you liked your cake!!

 

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Sports-Themed Graduation Cakes

06 Thursday Aug 2015

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banana cake, bavarian cream filling, double chocolate cake, football, graduation cake, graduation cap, homemade marshmallow fondant, hummingbird cake, jersey, raspberry mousse filling, vanilla buttercream

I have a wonderful client who’s ordered many cakes, cupcakes and cookies from me in the past few years.  This last spring, she came to me with an order for her son’s graduation party…3 cakes with a football theme.  She sent me a picture of a cake display of 3 cakes showing a graduation cap, a jersey and a football. sports-football-graduation-cakes-2 So I got to work… The football I made from chocolate cake with raspberry filling baked in a Wilton football-shaped pan.  I smooth iced it with chocolate buttercream…then when it had crusted a bit, pressed a textured paper towel over it to give it that “pigskin-like” look. The letters, stripes and seams are homemade marshmallow fondant.  The letters I cut with cutters I had from a cookie making kit, the stripes with this neat-o Sugarcraft ribbon cutter like this one, and the stitching I made with a  Walnut Hollow clay extruder I got just for this order (but have used a bunch since). sports-football-graduation-cakes-3 sports-football-graduation-cakes-6 The graduation cap was a 6″ banana cake filled with bavarian cream filling.  I cut an 8″ square out of stiff cardboard and covered it with homemade fondant colored blue, added tassels made from blue fondant (again, extruded with my neat-o extruder) and a button on top. The cake is iced with blue vanilla buttercream colored to match the fondant.  The letters and numbers are cut from white fondant with these easy-to-use Wilton letter cutters. sports-football-graduation-cakes-9 sports-football-graduation-cakes-7 sports-football-graduation-cakes-4The jersey is made from a half-sheet pineapple mandarin cake (sometimes referred to as Hummingbird cake) with a pineapple cream filling.  I cut it to resemble a jersey with a template I made from cardboard.  It’s iced with the same blue buttercream as the cap and the letters are cut with the same cutters as on the football.  The “22” I hand cut using a template with a “collegiate font” to look more like sports numbers.

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I put the cakes on separate boards for ease of handling and transport.  The larger board is a foam-core board I covered with blue poster board. The congrats message on the board I cut using Tappit Funky Letter cutters, glued down with a little piping gel. That’s about it!  Hope you had a great party, Nicke, I sure had fun making your cakes! sports-football-graduation-cakes-1

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Sports-Themed Baby Shower Cupcakes

02 Sunday Aug 2015

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banana cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, sports balls, sports themed shower, vanilla-bean frosting

A darling friend asked me to make sports-themed cupcakes for her baby shower brunch this past spring. Her husband was a sports star in high school, so this was an appropriate theme for their first baby, a boy due sometime this month :0)

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These cupcakes were banana cake with vanilla-bean buttercream. I cut sports balls out of homemade marshmallow fondant and piped details on with royal icing.  They were packaged for the shower in clear plastic cups and glassine bags tied with silk ribbons.

I added the second “It’s a Boy!” cupcake liner after they were baked to make sure the image and blue stripes stayed clear.boys-sports-cupcakes-baby-reveal-6

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These were sure fun to make and it was great to practice with a few of my new sports fondant cutters.

Good luck with the new baby, Carolyn! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day!

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About Me

Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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