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NY Yankee Jersey Cake and Cookies

01 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes, Cookies

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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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Pittsburgh Tri-Sport Birthday Cake

15 Friday Jul 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, pittsburgh sports cake, vanilla-bean frosting

Made this sports-themed cake for a sweet young boy who was turning 9 and loves all things sport in Pittsburgh!

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I used a neat trick I found here on Cake Central to imprint the tri-sport logo onto fondant and then cut it out with an exact-o knife (watch the tutorial, it shows how to use royal icing to make a transfer).  This is such a cool technique to transfer about any image you have to fondant and it’s pretty easy and quick.

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I used my clay extruder to make the yellow border around the “P” and the black border around the white disc. The letters, stars, jersey and other sports images are cut from homemade marshmallow fondant using this cutter set from Cake Boss.  I hand cut the hockey stick as I had no cutter for that (can’t you tell…).

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The cake was a 10″ round double-chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and iced with vanilla buttercream.  All of the details were cut from homemade marshmallow fondant.

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Happy birthday, Carson!   I really enjoyed making your cake!

 

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Cinderella Cake and Cookies

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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Cinderella, double chocolate cake, fondant tiara, homemade marshmallow fondant, royal icing, vanilla-bean frosting

Finally got to make a tiara out of fondant for this adorable Cinderella cake!  I found a great tutorial by Rose Bakes awhile back and have been wanting to use it…

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This is a 9″ and 6″ tiered cake with a double chocolate cake on the bottom tier and sour cream almond cake on the top tier and vanilla-bean buttercream filling between the layers.  Both cakes are iced with vanilla-bean buttercream tinted blue.

The tiara and name plaque are made from homemade marshmallow fondant. The gold on the tiara and letters is painted on using a mixture of gold luster dust and lemon extract…a somewhat tedious task, but one that gives a WOW pop of gold.

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The blue rosettes piped on the bottom tier are so pretty and feminine. Abby’s mom provided the adorable glass slipper I taped onto the cake board with double stick tape.

She also ordered a mix of Cinderella-themed cookies.

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I love the “Have Courage, Be Kind…” quote she asked to have piped on one of the plaque cookies.

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While it can be done, I really hate to pipe detailed designs directly onto iced cookies (too much opportunity to mess up a perfectly good cookie).   To avoid doing this, I used stiff royal icing to pipe a bunch of slippers and tiaras onto waxed paper, let them dry, painted the tiaras and added some detail, and then transferred them to the cookie while the base coat was still a bit wet.

Hope you had a terrific 5th birthday, Abby…it was sure fun making your cake and cookies!!

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Romantic Wedding Cake with Rustic Buttercream Flowers

02 Saturday Jul 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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buttercream flowers, cupcake bouquet, double chocolate cake, rustic wedding cake, vanilla-bean frosting, White velvet cake

It really was an honor to make this wedding cake for such a sweet couple…I’ve been lucky as I haven’t had any “bridezillas” to work with as wedding clients yet!

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Since buttercream flowers aren’t my forte, I was happy when the bride told me initially that she was going to use fresh flowers.

However, after I made her bridal shower cupcake bouquets, she called to ask if I’d do the flowers on her wedding cake as she hadn’t had any luck finding the flowers she wanted.  I agreed, hoping the wedding day wouldn’t be too hot for my buttercream flowers to hold their shape. Now the pressure was REALLY on!

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As luck would have it, the wedding day was the hottest and most humid in a streak of nice, cool and low-humidity days.  But, luckily, the flowers (and cake) held their shape and we got it delivered without mishap!

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This was a 4-tiered cake with alternating square and round cakes (12″ square, 9″ round, 6″ square, and 4″ round anniversary cake for the top).  The flavors were alternating double-chocolate and white velvet layers, filled with vanilla bean buttercream.

The flowers were more “rustic” than “realistic,” but that’s just my style.  I made them in advance and had them in the freezer until I was ready to decorate.  I also made some of the leaves in advance so they’d be “puffy” and easier to place where I wanted them than those piped on.  I got this idea (and some of the flower designs) from this great tutorial by Cake Style.

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In the end, I was really happy with the way the cake turned out.  Rustic, but with a bit of traditional sophistication.  I also had one of the guests message me to say it was “the best tasting wedding cake she’d ever had…”  What more could I ask for a happy ending?

Congrats again to you, David and Stacey!  It was such a joy to work with you on your special day …Here’s to your happily-ever-after!

 

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Pink Ballet Pointe Shoes Birthday Cake

24 Sunday Apr 2016

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double chocolate cake, Fondant Ballet pointe shoes, homemade marshmallow fondant, Pink rose buttercream swirls, Pink Velvet Cake, vanilla-bean frosting

Ok, so I’ve done so many boy-masculine-themed birthday cakes lately that it was really fun to get the call from Chloe’s mom asking for a pink ballet pointe shoes cake for Chloe’s 13th birthday.

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I’ve made fondant shoes before, but never ballet slippers, so this was a new one for me.  I actually found a really terrific and detailed tutorial on Etsy that made them incredibly easy and surprisingly realistic-looking.  The only change I made was putting the support sticks through the bottom of pointe of the shoe rather than glued to the sole so the cake could be displayed from all sides. I even wrote the birthday girl’s name on the insole, kind of like the Danskin logo on really ballet slippers..

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The cake was a chocolate and pink velvet alternating layers with vanila buttercream between the layers and covered with pink rosettes.  Wish I had a picture of it cut…

 

I loved doing the cake and the slippers were so feminine and delicate.

 

Happy Birthday, Chloe!  Hope you loved your cake as much as I loved making it for you!

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