cake decorating

Race Car Cake

July 18, 2010
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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 [...]

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Cakes, Cakes, Cakes!

June 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Buttercream Mmm…

January 9, 2010

We made these delicious cupcakes the other day. The texture was the perfect mix between a brownie (one of my all time favorites) and a chocolate cake. On top I piped a single rosette in buttercream frosting. What a scrumptious combination it was and almost sinful tasting. Mrs. Sayuri added the embellishments. She sprinkled the [...]

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Stars and Rice Paper

December 17, 2009

Last class I learned how to decorate a cake using rice paper and to create designs on cakes using the above technique of piping tons of tiny little stars. If anyone is interested in trying this out for themselves. Here’s what we learned below. This technique of using rice paper is recommended in conjunction with [...]

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Cake Decorating 101

December 5, 2009

This is my first real attempt at cake decorating. I’m feeling pretty proud of myself. My brother and I have enrolled in a 5 week course in Basic Cake Decorating. The first class was all about how to bake the perfect cake. I still need to work on that. The second class was very hands [...]

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