cake decorating

Snowman Birthday Cake
Yesterday was Hubby’s birthday. We made his cake. Hubby requested a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I used the Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate cake recipe and frosting that are on the Hershey’s cocoa tin. The cake itself turned out very moist and the frosting was quite rich. Together they were good but one piece was more […]

Young Cake Decorator
Over two years ago, I posted about Mrs. Sayuri being our Little Cookie Decorator. She is not only enthusiastic about cookie decorating, but she is an amazing cake decorator. These cake and cupcake creations are all from the past 8 months or so. Above is my birthday cake she made me in April of this […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Buttercream Mmm…
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 […]

Stars and Rice Paper
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. [slider title=”Tools Needed:”] Icing – an ideal frosting for this is […]