Saturday, May 21, 2011

Happy Birthday Dave....
















This is supposed to be a life size replica of a friend's electric bass guitar....



Boy, oh Boy, did this cake give me trouble....I put a LOT of energy and thought into this cake, and I wanted it to be perfect.....but then.....humidity....heat....NO AIR CONDITIONING....bad fondant...bad fondant....


I tried to correct it, and took the fondant off, which was a HUGE mistake, because it took big chunks of cake out with it....when I reapplied the fondant, same issues...tearing, stretching, cracking. So I ended up having to put a wide base of fondant around the guitar which makes it look a little funny, and some cracks on the guitar body which I could not smooth out.


So all in all, beside the fondant issue and lumpy neck, it's an OK cake. I used stretchy metallic thread for the guitar strings because the fondant was too stretchy to behave. The body of the guitar is a Guiness chocolate cake with a Bailey's ganache filling and frosted with a Jamison whiskey chocolate buttercream. The neck is vanilla cake with the same filling and frosting.


And BTW, it's an Ibanez guitar...by the time it was time to paint the Ibanez logo on it, I was like "screw this"....I'm done....LOL....

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Yummy.

From top to bottom:
- White chocolate cream cheese pound cake with a limoncello buttercream.

- Amaretto vanilla bean pound cake with a fresh raspberry buttercream

- Monkey LaLa...Which is a Kahlua and Bailey's infused devils food cake with a Kahlua, Bailey's, vanilla vodka and coconut cream buttercream.

- Irish Car Bombs....which are a Guiness chocolate cupcake dipped in a Jamison Whiskey infused ganache and topped with a Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream.

Noah's Ark Cupcakes.































Saturday, May 14, 2011

Noah's Ark cupcake Toppers...













Noah's Ark cupcake toppers....































Noah's Ark cupcake toppers...































Noah's Ark Cupcake Toppers...































Noah's Ark cupcake toppers....































Bachelorette Cake.

This was fun to make...The skyline below is of Minneapolis....

The top tier is a Guiness chocolate cake with a Bailey's Irish Cream filling and iced with a Jamison Whiskey flavored chocolate ganache, The bottom tier is lemon with strawberry filling and a limoncello buttercream.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cupcakes.













Inspired by Lynlee's Petite Cakes of flickr. I'm not that good at recreating exact characters...so I'm not real happy with the Mickey Mouse, but all in all I think these are fun and capture the spirit of the Mickey Mouse clubhouse.