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Poland Bulldogs Baseball Cake

14 Monday Aug 2017

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baseball cake, baseball cookies, chocolate mousse, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, hummingbird cake

Loved making this custom Poland Bulldogs cake for my favorite little Bulldog baseball player, Aiden!

His mother has ordered almost a dozen cakes from me over the years (here’s the last one I did for her older son), each one more fun than the last to create, and this one was no exception!

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This 2-tiered, 6″-8″ cake is chocolate filled with chocolate mousse on the bottom (with chopped Hershey bars mixed into the mousse…YUM!) and hummingbird cake on the top.  Both tiers are covered with homemade marshmallow fondant.

The bulldog is hand-cut from fondant using my Kopy Kake projector (love that thing!).  Using a layering technique I learned about in a Craftsy class by Corrie’s Cakes, I was able to make the 2-D image look more 3-D.

Love this technique as it makes the image really POP out from the cake…putting it together is almost like creating a puzzle.  Once I figured out the layering, details were drawn on using a food-safe marker and the pieces were “glued” together with watered down piping gel.

All of the other details and lettering are cut using cutters from fondant.

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I also made a few baseball cookies to go along with the cake…

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Happy Birthday, Aiden….hope you had a great one!!

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NY Yankee Jersey Cake and Cookies

01 Monday Aug 2016

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baseball cookies, Baseball jersey cake, cookies and cream, homemade marshmallow fondant, vanilla-bean frosting

I’ve made a birthday cake for this darling boy in my son’s class for the past few years.  The 13-yr-old is really amazing at baseball and basketball (to name only 2 of the sports at which he excels…he is really very talented) and a few years ago I did this Cavaliers basketball cake for his birthday. This past year he was really into the NY Yankees, so his mom ordered a personalised jersey cake and cookies.

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The cake is a half-sheet cookies and cream cake cut to look like a jersey with a pattern similar to this jersey cake.  I frosted it in vanilla buttercream and added stripes cut from blue homemade fondant. I used letter cutters to cut out the name and birthday wish; the number 3 and the NY Yankees logo were hand-cut from blue fondant.

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The baseball cookies were iced with white Royal icing with red lacing piped on for detail.

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Happy 13th birthday, Anthony….I really enjoyed making your birthday treats again this year!

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Magic of Michael Foundation Baseball-Themed Cookies

19 Tuesday Jul 2016

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baseball cookies, Magic of Michael Foundation, sugar cookies

I was so honored when a friend asked me to make baseball-themed cookies for the Magic of Michael Foundation event… 

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The foundation was formed in memory of Michael Hirschbeck, son of major league baseball umpire John and Denise Hirschbeck, who lost his battle with Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) on April 8, 2014. The mission of the Magic of Michael Foundation is to inspire, empower and provide hope to families enduring the “curve balls” of life.  I made these cookies for their 2nd annual dinner and golf outing, a fundraiser for various causes important to the Hirschbeck family.

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Thanks so much, Michelle, for asking me to be a part of this wonderful event!

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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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