Sunday, April 29, 2012

Horse Cake

This cake was for a sweet little girl for her 8th birthday.  Her mom provided the horse figurines (wish I could say I sculpted all of them out of modeling chocolate, LOL!).  This was such a fun fun cake to create!  I love it!  The cake is a 3 layer, 9 inch, chocolate cake with mint cream filling.
The chocolate cake recipe is a sour cream chocolate cake that I've made several times.  The recipe calls for 5 egg whites beaten to stiff peaks and then folded into the batter.  The last time I made it the egg whites deflated when I took it out of the oven and the whole cake shrunk like a nightmare soufflĂ© gone wrong!  Yikes!  This time around I decided to scrap that step and just add the egg whites (unbeaten) with the rest of the wet ingredients and it turned out fabulous.  What a relief, and so much easier!
Hope you like :)



Friday, March 16, 2012

Relief Society Birthday Cake

I made this cake for our ward's Relief Society Birthday Celebration. When I was designing this cake in my head I was hoping for something old fashioned, pretty and girly to compliment the theme of the evening "Women of faith from our heritage". I think I accomplished that :). I love it. The bottom tier is a 12" vanilla cake with lemon cream filling, the middle tier is a 9" chocolate cake with a vanilla cream filling and the top tier is a 6" mint chocolate chip cake with chocolate buttercream filling. My house smelled so good baking that mint cake!! Good reviews all around on the taste. Hope you like!

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Cub Scout Cake

I made this cake for the cub scout blue and gold banquet.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Red White and Blue Cake

Made this cake for the Republican Party fundraiser dinner. It will be auctioned off. I hope it brings a lot of money! :) I absolutely love it, it was so fun to make! It is a lemon cake with raspberry cream filling - mmmm...delish.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Pink and Black Heart Cake

Made this cake for a Valentine's bake sale. I absolutely love how it turned out. I felt like the decorating went perfectly, I wouldn't change a thing. The cake is Red Velvet with a creamy cream cheese filling. The cake recipe turned out really yummy but not very red. Red Velvet cake is chocolate cake colored red. My cake didn't look very red, even with the huge dollop of red food coloring, it just looked like a slightly colored chocolate cake. Oh well, the person buying it won't know until they cut into it and it will still taste amazing! I got the recipe from bakedbree.com. Hope you like it!


Blue Brown Bow Cake

This cake was for my birthday. Yes, I made my own birthday cake, why does everyone ask that? You think I'm going to let my husband whip up a box cake, dump it in a 9 x 13 pan and slap some canned frosting on the top? I don't think so. Making my cake is one of the highlights of my birthday! I've been dreaming up this cake for weeks. I love how it turned out. Hope you like it too!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pretty Quilted Cake

Made this cake just for fun. Really fun to do, no deadline, no pressure, just fun. Hope you like it :)