Airplane Cookie Cake for Mr. Happy Feet’s Third
Last week Mr. Happy Feet turned three years old. My mom and I made his cake together. I made the cake and she did the cookies. This is our second cake made with decorated sugar cookies. The cake was a six inch, double layer chocolate cake with Swiss meringue buttercream (SMB) frosting and filling. The [...read the rest]
Amazing Gumpaste Princess Crown
My mom made this beautiful gumpaste crown for Mrs. Sayuri’s fourth birthday cake. Needless to say, Mrs. Sayuri adored it. She would not hear of throwing it away until almost two weeks of it being in the fridge! I had a hard time convincing her that although it was “technically” edible, it would not be [...read the rest]
Mini Red Velvet Cupcakes
I made some mini red velvet cupcakes today. These really should be called mini red velvet bites. They are literally a pop in your mouth kind of deal. Yummy. This Southern Red Velvet cake recipe is our stand by. I baked these little minis for 9-10 minutes. The frosting was from Toba Garrett’s The Well [...read the rest]
Race Car Cake
I had a lot of fun decorating this cake. It was made up of 3 layers of vanilla butter pound cake with whipped cream filling and slices of fresh strawberries. The frosting was a Swiss Meringue Buttercream. I crushed oreo-like cookies in the food processor and used them for the race track on top. I [...read the rest]
Cakes, Cakes, Cakes!
As I mentioned in a previous post, a lot of my free time lately has been spent on cakes. Decorating them, baking them and tasting them! Here are three cakes that we made a month ago or more. The mini cake above was a practice cake. I really like the 4″ round cake size stacked [...read the rest]
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