Blue Watercolor Wedding Cake

09 Wednesday May 2018

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blue wedding cake, Red velvet cake, tiered cake, watercolor cake, white chocolate buttercream

I just love the watercolor buttercream trend…I did this cake last year for a lovely couple who placed it at the bride’s table at their reception. The dessert table included an abundance of cookies and gourmet cupcakes, but this beauty was reserved just for the wedding party…neat idea.

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The 2-tiered cake is 8″-6″, all red velvet confetti (groom’s choice) with cream cheese buttercream between the layers and white chocolate buttercream. To get the watercolor effect, I first iced the cake in a neutral gray buttercream. I then tinted more buttercream varying hues of blues and grays (with a touch of violet) and piped random thick horizontal stripes of it all around the cake. With a smoothing tool (I used a bench scraper), I slowly turned the cake as I smoothed the icing out, blending the colors together.

Really quite a simple technique…the key is not to *mess* with it too much, or you lose the random look.

The bride asked me to include the small bride and groom topper (top pic), which was used by the groom’s grandmother on her wedding cake. Cool throwback touch with the modern cake design.

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Congrats on your nuptials, Erika and Sean!! It was an honor to make your special cake!

Fall Flower Cupcake Bouquet

20 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Laurie in Cupcakes

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cupcake bouquet, double chocolate cake, fall flowers, Red velvet cake, Sour cream vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream

I made this fall flower cupcake bouquet as a special gift for a friend to take to her grandmother’s 80th birthday.

I loved working with these fall colors. The cupcakes were an assortment of chocolate, vanilla, and red velvet flavors, all with vanilla buttercream.

I variegated the icing colors in the piping bags to make the flowers look more realistic and used 3 different Wilton piping tips to pipe the petals: #18 for the green hydrangeas; 1M for the red roses; and #81 for the yellow mums.

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Once the cupcakes were piped, I popped them into the fridge for a bit to firm up. I used wooden skewers and foam blocks to arrange them in the basket, then added green and orange tissue, silk leaves, and a few fronds to add height and interest (I made sure nothing “foreign” touched the icing…:0).

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Hope you had a great 80th birthday, Louise’s grandma!

I really enjoyed making your cupcake arrangement!

Red Velvet with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

18 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by Laurie in Cupcakes

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Baking and Confections, Cake, Chocolate, chocolate mousse filling, Classic Red Velvet Cupcake, cream cheese, Red velvet cake, White chocolate, white chocolate frosting

The most disappointing thing to me about the ever-popular red velvet cake is that it sorely lacks in chocolate flavor. So these red velvet cuppies I filled with a rich, creamy chocolate mousse and topped with a swirl of tangy white chocolate cream cheese icing. Just enough to take this velvety red cupcake over the top!