Snowman Cake January 14, 2009

Apparently I have reached my space limit for pictures so I can’t post a picture of this cake.  I don’t know if I want to put links to my pictures, move my blog, or pay for the upgrade.

The cake was a 12″ vanilla cake.  I stirred half a cup of soft peppermints into each layer.  I used my regular buttercream recipe, with 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract instead of vanilla.

I left the icing white that filled the cake, but I tinted the icing blue that covered the cake.  I made a snowman out of fondant.

If you ever need to crush candies, I found my nutcracker to work quite well.  I tried a rolling pin, meat tenderizer, and food processor, but for various reasons, none worked real well.

It was a really cute cake and all reports say it was tasty.  Hopefully I’ll figure out how to continue posting my pictures.

Mummy Cake Update January 11, 2009

The cake was a hit, the perfect amount of strawberry flavor.

I also found out the Sarah-Jane uses rolled fondant for her version.  That really explains why her’s look so much neater.  I’ll have to try it her way.

Mummy Cake January 8, 2009

I have only done one cake between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I was supposed to do a cake this week but it got postponed which left me time to make a cake for a friend’s birthday. 

I have been wanting to try another of Sarah-Jane’s designs for awhile, a mummy cake.  It is one of her designs that she does for weddings.

I learned that I really need to work on my hand strength, but I can’t wait to try this cake again.

I also tried something new, I made strawberry buttercream instead of my regular vanilla.  The cake is also strawberry with strawberry filling.  The buttercream is very lightly flavored so it isn’t very strong.  Hopefully it isn’t too much strawberry, I’ll know later tonight.  Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

In other news I am going to my first ICES meeting later this month.  The woman I spoke with was quite friendly and excited to have a new member.  There will be a demonstration/workshop on making a teacup and saucer out of fondant.  The woman teaching the class has amazing cakes, I am looking forward to a real lesson from an actual professional.