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Cupakes at the Shower

Cupcakes

Cupcakes for a baby shower!

Cake #10: Justin's Birthday Cake

Justin's birthday cake.
It turned out good for the first "beer cake."
Next time the things I'll do different are:
1. make sure the gelatin ice has time to completely mold together, and
2. use empty beer cans instead of full ones (so that they don't break the cake!).

Justin enjoyed the cake... and the beer! Success!

Cake #9: Baby Shower Cake - Finished!

Cake #9: Baby Shower Cake - phase 1

I'm making a baby shower cake for work. On days I have to work, I try to bake the cakes one day and decorate the next because the process can take a while. Sooo, here's phase 1!


The top layer is a chocolate fudge cake, blue buttercream icing in the middle, and yellow butter cake on the bottom. I used a 12in. pan. The chocolate was only 1 cake box mix, the yellow butter I used 1.5 cake boxes.

Cake#8: Decorated Baby Carriage Cake

The finished product.


Need to work on the wheels and not crazy about the colors, but overall I'm pleased.

Cake #7.5 Baby Cake 3rd Attempt

Success!!...only 3 times of trying to get it out of the pan without it breaking apart... decorating it tomorrow.

Cake #7: Baby Carriage Attempt

Had to work with a broken cake. At least it was just a practice cake!

Cookies

Well, I attempted to make cookies today and forgot a very important ingredient in the microwave. I was wondering why the cookie dough never looked like cookie dough. In fact, what was supposed to be chocolate chip cookies, Justin thought was oatmeal.....

Cake #6: Sprials

Tried a spiral cut out. Not crazy about the color combination of orange and purple (reminds me of halloween). I had flowers left over, so I threw them on the cake.

Cake #5: Flowers

This was the last cake for course 1, decorating basics.

I had to make the flowers a few days before to let them dry. I had to put them in the fridge to harden.


The flowers on the cake.

We learned how to make roses tonight in class. We also learned to write with the icing.

The cake:

The certificate of completion for Course 1!

Cupcakes

Today we decorated cupcakes. I must say that I don't care for them. I do like putting the base layer on the cupcake, but I don't enjoy decorating each and every one of them.


Here is the mum. You can see the cupcake with the base, yellow icing in the background. That's the part I enjoyed the best.

Here is another flower we learned how to make. I don't remember the name of the flower.


Next week: double layer cake!

Cake #4: Circles

Greg's birthday cake! It's chocolate buttercream-ish icing. It's the Pillsbury reduced sugar cake and icing. This icing was more difficult to work with, but overall I think it turned out nice. The circles are made out of fondant. I've seen cakes with the circles and wanted to try it. The chocolate icing makes the cake look more manly too!
Next week we make cupcakes.

Cake #3: Zebra Print

I made this cake for a nurse who is leaving the hospital (an opportunity for more practice!). The zebra print is actually a sugar sheet. This cake is my favorite so far!

Cake #2: Fish

This is what we did in class tonight. More cakes coming at the end of this week!
Stay tuned!

Cake #1

So here's my first cake. I made it for the nurses at the hospital. The idea is to try to make cakes for other people so that Justin and I don't get stuck eating them. I captured the process. The cake looks much better in the pictures than in actual life. I'm probably my toughest critic.


Here's the cake out of the pan:

The base layer of icing:

The decorated cake:

The cake next to the picture I used:

My hands...dyed from the food coloring: