Gerber Daisy Delight!

One of my new favorite cakes!!  Check out more pics and details at The Frosted Cake Shop.

Celebration Weekend

Busy, busy weekend!!  Here are pics of the first two out of four orders.  Graduations and Baby Showers- no better way to celebrate than with cake, right??  Take a look!

Yellow sheet cake with fudge frosting.

Bumble bee accents made of fondant- inspired by the graduate's school mascot

Welcome Baby!!

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Lemon Curd and Lemon Mousse Filling

w/ Gumpaste Accents

Cake is Great!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This past weekend, I got to go crazy with girly-ness for Kayla's birthday.  The colors were inspired by the "Hannah Montana" theme.  I had a lot of fun with the design- very festive!  I love the frilly boarder. As requested by the birthday girl, I created a pink and white "striped" cake- with layers of vanilla cake with strawberry cream cheese filling.  

Strawberry Cream Cheese Filling:

4 oz cream cheese

8 tablespoons butter, softened

2-3 tablespoons strawberry puree

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

about 2 cups powdered sugar

Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth.  Combine with remaining ingredients until thick, yet fluffy.

Cherry Blossom Citrus Bliss

Get well, Grandma!!

Lemon Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Filling.

Lemon has always been my grandmother's favorite flavor.  Lemon meringue to lemon mousse, she has always had a sweet tooth, especially for the yellow citrus.  I created this cake specifically  for her.  Four layers of lemon cake, three layers of lemon cream cheese filling with vanilla butter cream.  I also designed the decor with hand-made gum paste blossoms in variegating shades of pink.

 

Lemon Cream Cheese Filling:

8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 stick ( 8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 pound or 3 and ¾ cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Shower Flower Cakes

One of my best friend's sister is getting married this June.  She asked if I could create a couple cakes for the bridal shower she was throwing.  Per request, one was chocolate and one vanilla.  The cake design was inspired by the invitation.  All decorations were created by me- flowers were hand-crafted out of fondant.

Stacking the cake...

Vanilla cake with strawberry preserves and strawberry mousse.

Swirlies to compliment the invitation and shower decor.

Devil's Food cake with chocolate ganache and raspberry preserve filling

Crumb coatin'

Looks like Mint Chip!  Idea for next cake?  Maybe so...

CHOCOLATE GANCHE

- 8 oz. semi-sweet or milk chocolate

- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Over a double boiler, melt chopped chocolate.  Heat cream in a saucepan and gradually whisk into melted chocolate.  Refrigerate until slightly firm.

Engagement Extravaganza!!

Congratulations Naomi and Shawn!  

This week's cake, engagement cake!  My good friend asked me to create a cake for her sister's engagement dinner.  Vanilla cake, raspberry buttercream filling, with vanilla buttercream icing.  All of the decorations are made of fondant and were hand-crafted by me =)  Hope they enjoyed it! 

TWD: Carrot Cake

Tuesdays with Dorie: Bill's Big Carrot Cake

This week, I killed 2 birds with one stone- blog group (check!), birthday order (check!).  Although I made a few alterations to Dorie's recipe, this cake is amazing.  Now, I missed the taste test, the best part- boo, but the smell and moistness was incredible!  In my version, I ditched the nuts, raisins, and coconut.  However, I added an 8 oz. can of crushed pineapple, mmm delicious.  This cake was incredibly easy to set up and the cream cheese icing adds the perfect touch.

Cinnamon, pineapple, carrot???

yea that's right- delicious!  Well, in the cake at least =)

Crumb-coatin'

On its way to gorgeous =)

Perfection!

Time to decorate... my favorite part.

Birthday Cake Pics!

Some pics from this morning's creation- more info to come!!

Celebration Carrot Cake

Sunday was my good friend Jesse's birthday.  At her request, I baked her a delicious carrot cake.  To be honest, this was my first carrot cake from scratch.  I was a little nervous, but the mini cake I baked off with the extra batter tasted fabulous.  I decided to leave out the nuts but throw in a can of crushed pineapple to keep it fresh and moist.  The cake is iced in vanilla bean cream cheese frosting and decorated with hand-made flowers and leaves of fondant.

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Spring Fondant Flowers

What's a girl to do at 11pm after a full shift at the bakery?  Well, decorate more cake of course!

Posted are some vibrant photos of a fondant covered cake I decorated a couple weeks ago.  There are a few cracks where the fondant dried out and a couple ripples where the buttercream layers softened (should have popped it in the freezer for a bit,) but I am still extremely satisfied with the results.  I do not cover cakes with fondant often, but I definitely had fun with this experiment.  Practice makes perfect, right?