Halloween Cake

Happy Halloween!!!

Andy and I were invited to a Halloween party. They was a culinary contest, so I decided to decorate a cake. I knew it wouldn't win most delicious (because let's face it, I don't even like cake), but I knew I would have a good chance at most creative. Well, we did win most creative dessert and I won a big bag of yummy chocolates - much better than cake! :)

Here is the finished design

The fence is made from royal icing. It was very fragile and kept braking when I would try and set it up. But, in the end, I think the broken fence gives it more of an eerie feel.

Golfing

I made this cake just for fun. My hand hurt after piping all of that grass, but it was a really fun cake to make.

If you can't tell from the picture, there are hills on both sides of the cake that I added using another cake and blending it together.

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BYU FOOTBALL!!!

I made this cake to celebrate the first BYU game of the 2011 season. It was my first carved cake. The kids were "helping" a lot with this cake, so there are some things that could have been prettier and better, but they were so happy helping that it is okay.

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Wedding Dinner Cake

My brother-in-law got married this past weekend!!! :) I was asked to make a cake for the dinner they had the night before the wedding. It was an extremely stressful cake, but it turned out decent.

I once again did the topsy turvy design, but it turned out a little better this time. In the end, I was glad I made this cake.

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Independence Day

I made this cake for the 4th of July/my nephew's birthday while I was in Utah.

I was attempting the topsy turvy style and it didn't work so well. The filling I used for the cake was a custard which I had never tried before either. The custard was too soft and the cake was sliding all over the place.
This cake was however one of the best tasting cakes I have ever had. It was a coconut cake with ginger-lime curd filling. So, despite being ugly, it tasted amazing.

It is also very hard to make a cake not at home. I had to cut the stars out by hand so they are pretty rough (thanks Nicole for doing those) and everything else needed a little improvising as well. Oh well, it was fun and well devoured.


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Mother's Day Gift

For my mother-in-law and my sister-in-laws for Mother's day, I dipped oreos in chocolate and made some frosting flowers to put on top. I then put them in a tin to make it cute. My sister made the labels for the tins.

These are what the oreos looked like. These aren't the ones I made because I forgot to get a picture, but these are the ones I got the idea from.

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Rapunzel Cake

I just realized I never posted this cake.

I made a Rapunzel cake for a friend's daughter's birthday. The figurine of Rapunzel is just that, a figurine. The border on the bottom of the cake is rock candy. The bottom layer of cake is chocolate with strawberry filling and the top layer of cake is strawberry with strawberry filling.

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Princess Party

My daughter had her 4th birthday party and requested a princess party.

Princess cupcakes in two flavors: Chocolate and Coconut. Both had Coconut Cream Cheese icing on top.

This cake was very frustrating. It was small and should have been super simple, but it was just frustrating. I now know to put my thermostat at like 50 degrees if I am decorating a cake! Despite being lopsided due to melting, this cake tasted superb!

This is a coconut cake with coconut cream cheese icing with a raspberry filling. I seriously loved how this cake tasted.

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Mother's Day 2011

I could not get a good picture of this cake for some reason. Most of them turned out very blurry.
Anyways, this cake was fun to make.

I made a dark chocolate cake from scratch with Dark Chocolate Ganache and Raspberry filling with Vanilla Buttercream icing. Delicious!
This cake is covered in fondant but all the decorations are buttercream icing. I had a lot of icing issues with this cake, so the lines are pretty rough, but oh well. I now know to turn my AC on to freezing cold when decorating a cake! :)

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Olivia's B-day

My niece turned 8 on January 1st. I happened to be around for her birthday so I made her this birthday cake.

The birthday girl

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Winter Wonderland Cake

I made this cake for Sp's 2nd birthday. The cake is vanilla with candy pieces in the mix. The filling is chocolate chip vanilla buttercream. The frosting is chocolate buttercream.
I really enjoyed making this cake. It was really fun trying to make the snowman and the tree. Sp loved the cake, so I guess that is all that counts!

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