Purple!!

Tonight, I made cupcakes to take to work tomorrow. It was Leanne's (from Laura Secord's) birthday yesterday and she requested purple cupcakes. Not just purple icing, but purple CUPCAKES. So I went all out and made the cupcakes AND the icing purple. Throw in some hcocolate mousse in the middle of the cupcakes and some sprinkles and Voila!! Purple Monster cupcakes! (I totally just made that up!)

The cupcakes before adding the mousse and icing


The finished upcakes. Chocolate mousse inside, buttercream icing and sprinkels on top

Last class cake

Tonight was my last Course 1 class and I finally learned how to make roses! Aha!! The light slicked on in my head and I figured it out and they didn't look like cabbages or something equally weird looking. My cake colors however didn't turn out exactly like I'd hoped, but that is the product of rushing through making icing after getting home from work at 4:30 and having no icing whatsoever made! But, in 1.5 hours, I made the caramel sauce (O.M.G. sooooooooooooo yummy-tastic!!), filled the cake, made 2 batches of icing, colored it, and iced the cake with it's base coat and smoothed it out. I got all my bags ready and off I went to class in a rush. Tonight, I only blew 1 bag (a regular habit there apparently, 3 weeks in a row....) and managed to make a pretty nice cake (minus a few crumbs in the icing, courtesy of a very, very moist chocolate fudge cake). Sadly, I did not get a piece of said cake, as I made Mom a 2 second offer to bring the cake to her to work tonight (can't believe she even had to think about that!!) and brought it there for the unit to enjoy. I, on the other hand, had a wonderful snack of apple slices and caramel sauce (again, O.M.G, soooooooo yummy!!!).

Hope you enjoyed the cake St. Boniface NICU!!

:)

Gone Fishin'

Tonight I made a birthday cake for a little boy's first birthday. It seems like it took forever to make these cakes! They're vanilla, with pudding in the middle, and covered in fondant. Everything is edible, even the pebbles. He even has his own smash cake!

Enjoy!

The main cake


The smash cake

Valentines, birthday cupcakes and more

It's been a busy baking week around here. It took me awhile to get my stuff together for my class. A couple batches of icing for class and to use for my practice cake, make a cake, then make and decorate Valentine's cupcakes for Erica to take to school. Then tonight, I made birthday cupcakes to bring to work for someone tomorrow. This weekend I've got a first birthday cake (including smash cake) to make, then getting ready for this coming week's class. I still haven't decided if I want to bring cupcakes, or make a new cake to bring. We still have hardly touched this weeks'. I think I'm going to be cake'd out by the time my fourth class is done!

Here's the pics from this week's decorating.


My class cake - Not the greatest one I've ever made (the buttercream got a little smushed up from various sources.... and I think i missed half a row of stars in the orange color, oops). That's why it's called a practice cake!!


Birthday cupcakes for Peter - Yellow & chocolate cupcakes with buttercream swirl on top


Valentine's mini cupcakes - chocolate cupcakes with buttercream swirl and sprinkles on top

Beach mini cupcakes

I made these for my mom to take to a retirement party. Waves, sand (really, they're graham wafer crumbs) and cocktail umbrellas. Makes me wish I was really at the beach, sunning it up!