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!