This past weekend I had 3 cakes to do, 2 bridal cakes and a groom’s cake.
This is another ‘naked cake’ which is all the rage these days!
This was a vanilla cake with buttercream icing serving 300.
This was a chocolate and vanilla brides cake with buttercream icing decorated with in a rustic theme of laced burlap.
The groom who is a fireman with my husband, requested a fire truck cake.
And this is why I don’t get to blog very often, buttercream and keyboards are not friends. Here are a some events from the last few months.
Buttercream cake before the flowers were added.
This was a beautiful poolside wedding!
And this barn wedding cake is one of my very favorites!
This was also a barn wedding. I love these “naked cakes”.
I cut the cake from 3 9″ rounds and a smaller square cake, cutting, stacking and carving until it looked right. I coated it with ganashe before adding the fondant.
This picture is more true to color.
The water was buttercream.
Last week I was covered up with cake and cookie orders for Easter. Then I received a last minute request for this cake so I pulled an all-nighter and got it done… because don’t all little girls dream of a Frozen cake?
I promise you, the life of a baker and cake decorator is not easy, but when you see the smile on the customer’s face it makes it worth it!
This year between being so slammed with bakery orders and the new addition to the family it was hard to keep our usual Resurrection Day/weekend routine, so we just learn to be flexible and do what we can.
I love, absolutely love tablescapes.
Our table isn’t always pretty, but on special occasions I like to go the extra mile. Some people may say it’s not worth the extra work but I beg a difference.
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much, or maybe you haven’t.
Our life has gotten so busy, so industrious that the blog is waaaay down on my list of priorities. It’s not because I don’t have anything I want to blog about, actually, I keep saying, “I’m going to write a post about ‘that’ (insert passionate topic), but at the end of the day when I sit down to type, I am so exhausted my brain can not form a sentence.
I made this cake last weekend for a little 3 year old’s birthday!
It had buttercream icing on a vanilla cake.
The turtles were made of fondant.
Once you learn the basic skills of baking and decorating it is easy to learn new techniques and be more creative and elaborate with cakes.
Last weekend’s wedding was so beautiful!
A beautiful southern wedding with finger foods.
The bride’s cake was elegant with a lot of delegate trim work.
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The cake was layers of vanilla, strawberry and Bride’s white.
Although cake decorating is VERY stressful there is much satisfaction when the job is done and everything comes together as planned.
1 - 8″ round
1 - 9×13
1 - 8″ square
Cut to shape.
Carve arm, then lay it on top of the other one so they are the same size and shape.
‘Glue’ together with buttercream.
Dirty ice with buttercream. Ice head with a bright yellow and then hot knife it to make it smooth. Add hair with a decorating spatula.
Its fall and we live in Alabama. Everyone here eats, breaths and lives football, but not us).
This week I had an order for an Alabama football cake and some specialty cookies. This one feeds about 40-50.
Pans:
Dirty iced with buttercream.
Covered with 2 pieces of fondant.
I used foam poster board for the ears and covered them with fondant. They wedged nicely into the two rounds.
