Pink Zebra Cake

This was my final cake for the second cake decorating class I took. It was on flowers and design...it definitely wasn't as informative as the first class I took, but we did learn some different flowers... I think the Lily is my favorite! Anyway, we had to use some of the flowers we made in class on our final cake. The flowers were made out of Royal Icing, so they last a looong time...but you probably don't want to eat them because they are extremely hard! I had some hot pink roses, so I decided to make a hot pink zebra cake with the roses on top. I just made a 6 inch cake (because I didn't have any one to give it to and didn't want my husband and I to eat all of a huge cake!....or make it go to waste). It was a chocolate cake with Buttercream frosting. The cake was pretty tasty, we had some friends come over to enjoy the cake with us and play some card games, fun night :)

Longhorn Graduation Cake

I know...I know... It's a TU cake...but it was for a friend's graduation-so I was ok with it...I guess lol. My friend, Kimberly, and I grew up in Bedford together until my family moved to San Antonio in 8th grade. My husband, Dawson, and I just moved to the North Austin area a couple months ago and Kimberly was going to grad school at UT. She just finished up school and had a graduation celebration for friends and family and she asked me to make her cake! What a blessing! Of course, I had to use burnt orange and white (thought about making the center icing maroon so she wouldn't know until she cut into the cake!)...but thought I better not since it's her day and all :) The cake was a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting, her choice. It turned out moist and delicious! All of the decorations are of fondant/gumpaste mixture. I had to create my own "cookie cutter" for the longhorn...I didn't like any of the longhorn cookie cutters at the stores, they were too defined in shape and didn't look like the UT longhorn. I printed one off the computer that I liked and cut it out and traced that onto my fondant...pretty easy! I made the fondant ribbons on the front and back and then wrote on them with the buttercream frosting before I put them on the cake. It was a challenge to make a LONGHORN cake, but I enjoyed the process of it!

Here is the back of the cake..you can see a little more detail of the graudation hat on top :)

I think it turned out pretty well :)

Polka Dot Cake

A new experiment. This was my first ever 10 inch cake. I tried a new white cake recipe. And the first time to do any kind of fondant bow. So all in all, lots of new things! The cake seemed HUGE! I'm not sure if I like the white cake recipe yet or not, may try a few tweeks to it and see what that does. The fondant bow...well I got a little impatient and didn't let the ribbon pieces dry over night so they don't stand up how I wanted them to, but it was still a good learning experience! There was lots of cake and not many of us to eat it!! My parents were in town, so they had some and then my neighbor came over (who has two boys) so I gave her probably half the cake...and still lots left over. I used brown and turquoise, even though the picture makes the brown look like an army green, ha! It was fun to make!

Cupcake Sampling Party

This past week my parents came in town to help me get ready for the cupcake sampling party!

I made samples of:

Carrot cake
Red Velvet cake
Snickerdoodle cake
Chocolate cake
Yellow cake
Strawberry cake

...and lots of yummy icing: vanilla, chocolate fudge, cream cheese, strawberry buttercream, buttercream...

It was fun making them all!

There are lots of pictures of each decorated cupcake, enjoy!

 Cupcake Pops

 Cupcake balls

 Cute snowmen- yellow cake with vanilla icing

 kids cupcakes

 ice cream

 butterfly

 football

 Cars 2- lightning McQueen

 Sheep

 Snickerdoodle & Reeses

 Flowers!

 Zenia

 Snowflakes

 Pearls

 Lily

 Rose

 Santa Hat

 Rudolph

 Holly

 Christmas Tree

 Turkey

 Carrot

 Leaf & Acorn

 Christmas

 Fall

The whole table!

Those were all of the different decorated cupcakes for the party- some got taken home with people and I have a lot left over that I need to find some people to give them to :)





Halloween Cupcakes

 Candy Corn Cupcakes

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Our Monday Night small group decided to have a "Halloween" Party- just an excuse to bring friends and eat yummy food! I decided to make some cupcakes and decorate them with a Halloween theme..well kinda-not the scary Halloween theme. I made yellow cupcakes and decorated half of them as Candy Corn and the other half as Pumpkins. The frosting is just vanilla frosting and colored the various colors for each design. Hopefully there will be a lot of people there so we don't have to bring lots of cupcakes home with us! These were fun and easy to make!



Loui Vuitton cupcakes

My wonderful husband has been doing some marketing for me while he meets with some of his clients too! A lady that he met a couple of days ago called and asked if I could do Loui Vuitton cupcakes. hmmm I didn't even know the logo off hand for Loui Vuitton, but sure...i'll try! ha. She didn't care what flavors but she just wanted 2 dozen of them- she called thursday morning and needed them friday (the same week that i had to make 8 dozen cupcakes, 2 dozen cupcake pops, and a small cake), but it all got done!

The story behind why she wanted the cupcakes was great! Two of her friends were celebrating their 15th anniversary and a bunch of people were going out to celebrate with them. The wife in this couple has wanted a Loui Vuitton purse for the longest time and has never had one. So all of the ladies going out with them that night were going to use their Loui Vuitton purses and kinda "rub it in" to the wife. (the husband did get the wife a Loui Vuitton purse for their anniversary but isn't giving it to her until later that night). So they were making the whole night be a Loui Vuitton themed night, hence the Loui Vuitton cupcakes!

One dozen is a snickerdoodle cupcake with cinnamon buttercream icing and the other dozen is chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I stuck with the brown theme because they all had the brown loui vuitton purses. I love the bronze cupcake liners! They are my new favorite! I colored the cream cheese frosting to make it a tan color and the cinnamon buttercream is already the tan color. I used fondant to make the circle for the "medallion" and then painted it with pearl dust to make them sparkle. I used some of the cream cheese frosting to write the LV logo on the cupcake. She came to pick them up and loved them! I hope the party went well :)

Lemon Daisy Cake and Cupcakes

My mom came in town for a couple of days to help me bake! I had to do 4 dozen cupcakes and 3 dozen cupcake pops for a rehearsal dinner, 2 dozen cupcakes for another lady and then my friend, Claire, asked me to make a cake and some cupcakes for her Mother in -law's wedding this weekend.

This is the wedding cake and cupcakes...She wanted a lemon cake with a lemon buttercream frosting. This is a 6 inch cake (they wanted a small cake to keep) with a light yellow frosting and white polka dots with 3 fondant daisys painted with pearl dust to make them sparkle!

She wanted 2 dozen cupcakes with the daisy on them as well. Her colors were yellow, cream, and hunter green. The icing is tinted a very light yellow and the daisy on top is the same daisy that was on the cake. I added some green leaves to incorporated the hunter green in the wedding. I think they turned out pretty cute!