11 February 2009

Bake Sales and petits fours

Baking fun with the girls!  The petits fours were just for fun, as I wanted to try something new.  The first icing I made was NOT coming out how I pictured it, so I made another, and that's what you see here.  Call me a perfectionist if you must.  They were quite beautiful, although I still need to figure out how to cover the whole thing...  The chocolate hearts were for a CMDA bake sale.  I used a doctored cake mix and a homemade ganache.  







Operation and Ferrari's

Some more cool cakes!

An "Operation: The Game" cake for Chris' anatomy review.  Half chocolate, half yellow cake with chocolate buttercream and chocolate MM fondant.  The body and letters are a royal icing, hardened and "glued" on top.

The coolest I've made so far!  A white chocolate cake with regular buttercream and MM fondant.  The horse and letters are a different royal icing recipe that did not work as well.  It was very crumbly and hard to work with!  But, it still all came out all right.  Happy Birthday, John!




Birthdays and baby showers

So I finally decided to publicize my baking endeavors.  Who knows what I will wind up adding to the page, but no doubt, it will be tasty!  Enjoy the pics, ideas, etc.  I'm always excited to try new things and put a twist on the old ones. I'll start off the blog by adding pics from my past projects.  Enjoy!

My first "official" cake, made for a friend's baby shower.  It's a white chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream and marshmallow fondant.  Yum! (Photo accredited to Adam and Erin Falgout photography - http://www.erinfalgoutphotography.com)

The inside just makes you want to DIG IN!

A birthday cake for another friend.  This was the white chocolate cake again with a cinnamon buttercream and marshmallow (MM) fondant.  The fondant was a little too thick this time, but you live and you learn!

I like the side view because it looks nice and tall!