A birthday cake

A friend of mine was having a birthday party over the weekend and I made a cake. It was one of the few times that I was given freedom to do what ever I wanted on a cake. I always enjoy those opportunities so that I can experiment. I wanted to do something bubbly and cheerful to match the birthday girl. This is what I came up with. I tried a new boarder on this one, and really like how it came out. I think it is a keeper.I had some left over cake batter, so I think I might play around with some filled cupcakes. Will let you know how they turn out….

Another Dora Cake

I had an order for a Dora cake for the 4th birthday of a darling little girl. When I was talking to her about what she wanted on her cake she mentioned she wanted Dora to have backpack on her back. So I found a picture showing backpack and went with that design. She also requested that she have chocolate cake and pink frosting.

Here is the cake. I still can’t quite nail Dora’s facial features, I am not sure why, but I will have to keep working on it. When I was taking pictures I realized I had forgotten Dora’s cowlick – so I quick added it.

Cake Balls Galore

In addition to the cakes I made last week I also continued to experiment with cake ball combination. I was not thrilled with the yellow cake/milk chocolate frosting/dark chocolate shell, so I thought I would try something new. Here are a couple of the chocolate ones. I decided on a cherry cake/cherry frosting/dark chocolate shell. Here is the outside of one.And the inside – see that moist cake!! I also tried a carrot cake/cream cheese frosting/white chocolate shell. Here are some of the white chocolate covered cake balls.

Here is the inside of the carrot cake ones. I had some left over chocolate cake and butter cream frosting, my decorated cake stand by, so I threw those together and added a white chocolate shell. This is what these look in the inside.So far the verdict is that the carrot cake one were the best, but they all were good.

Hmmm….there might just be something to this Cake Ball thing…….

Hello Kitty Supersized

I had an order for a Hello Kitty cake for a little who was turning 6 and wanted to bring it in as a birthday treat. The cake needed to feed 25, so I went with a half of sheet cake, which meant Hello Kitty’s head was going to pretty big.

Here is the cake. From the side. Here is the birthday girl and her class enjoying the cake.

Twilight – take 2

I had an order for a twilight cake and this time I added an apple to it, from the cover of one of the books. This was what I had intended to do on the first one, but ran out of time. Here is the final product. Here is the cake including the sides with the red stripe at the bottom. A close up on the side. I have another order this week for a Hello Kitty cake to feed 25 – pictures will be up soon.

Baseball Cake

Baseball is a big part of my brother in laws life right now, so I wanted to do a baseball themed cake. Originally I wanted to do a baseball diamond with a large bat and ball on top of it. As I was looking for pictures of a baseball diamond, I found a cute one with a glove. I liked how it looked and decided to go that route instead. Of course once I decide this, my printer was having some issues, and I was not able to print out the picture I found. This meant I had to draw it by hand. My nieces and nephew were over at the time and quite skeptical that I could draw it. They were quite impressed when they saw the finished sketch. They were even more impressed when they saw the finished cake.

Here is the baseball cake. With the side included.

I was pretty happy with how is turned out.

Cake Balls

Recently at work several co-workers were talking about Cake Balls, a trendy new gourmet dessert treat. After doing some research and finding out how super easy they were to make, I thought I would try them out.

First you start out by making a cake. I chose a classic yellow cake. Here it is cooled.Then you crumble it up into fine pieces. I have to say this killed me a little bit to ruin a perfectly fine cake.

Once the cake is crumbled you add frosting. I decided on milk chocolate.

Here is it is mixed together – the “dough” for the cake balls.

Then you shape them into balls.

I need to work on the consistency so that I can make them more spherical. Then you dip them in chocolate, I used a darker chocolate. The end result was cake balls. So far the reaction has been pretty good and I keep thinking of all these yummy combinations.