A Burrito Cake….really?

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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caramel turtle filling, chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, realistic burrito cake

Ok, just have to do a quick post on this cake as it was SO fun to do. Maria (she’s the greatest!) ordered it for her godson’s birthday, and I was so excited to do it for her…Realistic food cakes fascinate me (I’m a detail person), so this one was super cool!

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I wish I would have taken more shots of the construction and detail steps (just so I can do it again if needed), but I didn’t, sorry :(.

I started with a 12×12 square chocolate cake, cut in half and stacked (with caramel turtle filling) and carved it into a burrito shape.

After rough-icing the carved cake with vanilla buttercream, I chilled it for an hour or so and then covered it with ivory-colored fondant fashioned to look like a tortilla. Diluted brown food color painted on the outside made it look toasted. Wrapping the bottom half with foil made it look even more realistic.

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The food details (rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, chips) are made from homemade marshmallow fondant (check out this video from the Artisan Cake Company to see how it’s done) and the guac and sour cream are green and white buttercream.

Hope you were surprised with your burrito cake, Antoni, it was sure fun to make!

15th Birthday Watercolor Cake

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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birthday cake, chocolate cake, fondant, marshmallow cream filling, watercolor cake

Ok, so I love these water color cakes and am excited whenever someone orders one because they are so fun to do. The other neat thing is that they are so unique…just like the person I’m making them for. No 2 cakes are the same.

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I’ve had the privilege of making beautiful Audrey’s birthday cakes for a few years now and it seems that she always has a specific design in mind. Colors, look, style, everything….which is fantastic for someone so young.

She knows exactly what she wants and it always looks great.

This one is a 5″ and 7″ 2-tiered cake with chocolate cake and marshmallow cream filling. The water color icing is turquoise, silver and white. And she wanted a silver fondant “15” on top. The silver and black plaque and name are also made from fondant.

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I loved the way it turned out, classic and unique–just like Audrey.

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Hope you had a very special 15th birthday, Audrey, I loved making your cake!

Red and Blue Grad Cake

06 Monday Aug 2018

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chocolate cake, confetti cake, graduation cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, vanilla buttercream

I had the privilege of creating this cake for a nice young man who had recently graduated from a local high school.

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This 2-tiered cake has an 9″ chocolate tier and a 6″ confetti tier iced with vanilla buttercream. I used homemade marshmallow fondant for the name plates and a topped it with plastic grad cap and paper “scroll” I bought online.

It’s always so nice to see the cakes with their intended recipients.

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Hope you had a great party, Hayden…

Congrats on your graduation!

Sesame Street Birthday Cake

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

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chocolate cake, cinnamon buttercream, cookies and cream, sesame street, snickerdoodle cake

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Loved doing this cute Sesame Street birthday cake for Reid! It started out as a 3-tiered cake, but Reid’s mom decided that 2-tier was large enough and I added the sign on top to give it that extra needed height.

sesame_st_cake_4 The bottom 10″-tier is chocolate with cookies and cream filling and the 8″-tier is snickerdoodle cake with cinnamon buttercream between the layers. The cake was smooth iced with buttercream and the details and images were all hand-cut from homemade marshmallow fondant.

Reid’s mom specifically wanted Elmo and the Cookie Monster to adorn his cake. I loved the little details of the stars on wires, the tiny letters cut from fondant, and the multi-colored stripes….so festive and happy. The cake just screams “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” don’t ya think?

I debated on adding homemade chocolate chip cookies around the bottom, but I had some extra tan fondant from another project, so I rolled it out thick, used a round cutter, pushed in some mini chocolate chips, and dusted the edges with cocoa powder to make them look “baked.”

I was really pleased with how they turned out.

This was SUCH a fun cake with so many cute details. Hope you had a great 2nd birthday, Reid (and thanks for asking me to make it for him, Candee :0)!

My Favorite Birthday Cakes….

16 Thursday Mar 2017

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birthday cake, chocolate cake, ganache frosting, raspberry almond cake, raspberry mousse filling

I’ve made quite a few non-character, non-themed birthday cakes over the past few weeks. Just simple, happy, feel good celebrations cakes.

These cakes aren’t fancy or flashy or dripping with a theme. They’re just classy, understated, and say to the recipient “you’re special, so we got you a special cake.”

They are decadent, delicious, and not ones you’d typically make for yourself…or get at a bakery or grocery store. They’re one-of-a-kind unique and made just for that special birthday person.

I love doing these cakes, because it kind of lets me create what I’d like brought to the table on my own birthday.

Here are a couple of my favorites…

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This one is a version of the raspberry almond cake I posted a few weeks ago, only I added colored sequins on top for some color. It’s an 8″ sour cream almond cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream.

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I made the plaques and stars from homemade marshmallow fondant; the plaques are painted gold with edible paint. I added the chocolate hearts kind of as an afterthought as I was making them for this drip cake I was doing at the same time…

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I love the look of these drip cakes, especially black on white. So dramatic. The cake was a 10″, 2-layer (one chocolate and one sour cream vanilla). There was a raspberry mousse filling between the layers, so I used raspberries on top. I used chocolate ganache for the drip and melted chocolate for the hearts. This one was for a father and daughter who celebrated their birthdays together ;0)

For this one, the birthday girl wanted rustic icing and fall-colored buttercream flowers.

I used a special petal tip and variegated icing to pipe the mums on pieces of parchment paper, then popped them into the freezer to firm up before adding them to the cake. Then I filled in with a star tip for the yellow flowers and leaves.