Wish I could film myself when I bake/decorate. One of these days I'll try do it. In the meantime picture/video will do.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Valentine's cakes
Forgot to post about these because of personal stuff happening in my life right now.
Anyway!
These three cakes were ordered for St. Valentine's Day. I was hesitant about accepting to make them because of my niece's cake. It's not my niece's fault that her birthday is two days before St. Vals but holy molly! I will NOT be making any St. Valentine's cakes anytime soon again. I was exhausted by the time I was done with all the cakes.
I didn't take that many pictures because quite honestly my priority was my niece's cake. But these three turned out cute. It helped they were so small and not too complicated. The one with two hearts is a zebra cake (zebra batter, one half of the batter dyed red). The red one is chocolate and the other one is basic yellow. The red one was crumb-coated in chocolate ganache as well has having chocolate ganache as filling. The other two were crumb-coated in buttercream and had buttercream as filling. All the cakes were covered in fondant as well as the the boards.
The clients all liked their cakes.
But yeah, too much cakes for an amateur like me. In order to make all these cakes I had to freeze the chocolate cake because I baked it a week before (left over from the chocolate cake I did). The other two were baked at the same time as my niece's cake and stored in the fridge. I did the all the decorating on Sunday before my niece's birthday party. (I have done her cake on Saturday)
Well, that's it for now.
No new cakes for now. I guess everybody is broke after St. Valentine's.
Anyway!
These three cakes were ordered for St. Valentine's Day. I was hesitant about accepting to make them because of my niece's cake. It's not my niece's fault that her birthday is two days before St. Vals but holy molly! I will NOT be making any St. Valentine's cakes anytime soon again. I was exhausted by the time I was done with all the cakes.
I didn't take that many pictures because quite honestly my priority was my niece's cake. But these three turned out cute. It helped they were so small and not too complicated. The one with two hearts is a zebra cake (zebra batter, one half of the batter dyed red). The red one is chocolate and the other one is basic yellow. The red one was crumb-coated in chocolate ganache as well has having chocolate ganache as filling. The other two were crumb-coated in buttercream and had buttercream as filling. All the cakes were covered in fondant as well as the the boards.
The clients all liked their cakes.
But yeah, too much cakes for an amateur like me. In order to make all these cakes I had to freeze the chocolate cake because I baked it a week before (left over from the chocolate cake I did). The other two were baked at the same time as my niece's cake and stored in the fridge. I did the all the decorating on Sunday before my niece's birthday party. (I have done her cake on Saturday)
Well, that's it for now.
No new cakes for now. I guess everybody is broke after St. Valentine's.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Blue zebra cake
Blue zebra cake that I did this past weekend for my niece's 11th birthday. (She's a tween!!!!!)
It all started with the prep work: making a zebra out of gumpaste:
I also made a bow out of blue fondant and let it dry for a week, and also made some flowers with blue fondant and tiny white flowers. I had an idea about how to use them, but it really didn;t come together until I assembled the cake (like always). Each tier had three layers of cake. Each cake from each tier had a different size. So the bottom tier was composed of one 10", one 9" and one 8". The second tier was one 8", one 7" and one 6". the top tier was 6", 5", and 4". The idea was to do a sort of topsy turvy without too much carving. I ended up doing some carving to make them with the bottom layer smaller than the top one:
The bottom tier was crumb-coated with buttercream. The other two were crumb-coated with chocolate ganache.
The first tier is basic yellow cake with a twist. At the last minute I decided to dye blue two of the layers.
Funky looking cake, right?
The middle tier had two layers of chocolate and one layer of chocolate. The top tier tier was all chocolate.
Covering the top tier in fondant turned out to be the most difficult to cover. It ended up with some mistakes which I was able to cover with the zebra stripes.
The other two tiers were "easier" to cover, but the problem if having the bottom smaller than the top was a factor when covering them. But I got them done! Then it was a matter of adding the zebra stripes. Also, I realized that I didn't have enough blue to cover the bottom tier, so I decided to go with white for the bottom tier, and black for the middle and play with the stripes. It turned out to be a good decision.
I then drove to my brother's to finish the cake there. My brother, s-i-l and niece were out, but my 22 year old nephew was there, so I put him to work making balls out of fondant. Good thing too, because making that many balls is a PITA.
And once I put the middle tier on top of the bottom, that's when I decided how to use the flowers. My nephew came out with how to put the balls on the top tier.
In the end the cake was a success. One of the moms asked me about how much would it cost to make another (I answered at least $250) and she took my card. As a "marketing tool" I brought some of my cards and left them in the table by the cake.
And this is what was left after singing "Happy Birthday":
It all started with the prep work: making a zebra out of gumpaste:
I also made a bow out of blue fondant and let it dry for a week, and also made some flowers with blue fondant and tiny white flowers. I had an idea about how to use them, but it really didn;t come together until I assembled the cake (like always). Each tier had three layers of cake. Each cake from each tier had a different size. So the bottom tier was composed of one 10", one 9" and one 8". The second tier was one 8", one 7" and one 6". the top tier was 6", 5", and 4". The idea was to do a sort of topsy turvy without too much carving. I ended up doing some carving to make them with the bottom layer smaller than the top one:
The bottom tier was crumb-coated with buttercream. The other two were crumb-coated with chocolate ganache.
The first tier is basic yellow cake with a twist. At the last minute I decided to dye blue two of the layers.
Funky looking cake, right?
The middle tier had two layers of chocolate and one layer of chocolate. The top tier tier was all chocolate.
Covering the top tier in fondant turned out to be the most difficult to cover. It ended up with some mistakes which I was able to cover with the zebra stripes.
The other two tiers were "easier" to cover, but the problem if having the bottom smaller than the top was a factor when covering them. But I got them done! Then it was a matter of adding the zebra stripes. Also, I realized that I didn't have enough blue to cover the bottom tier, so I decided to go with white for the bottom tier, and black for the middle and play with the stripes. It turned out to be a good decision.
I then drove to my brother's to finish the cake there. My brother, s-i-l and niece were out, but my 22 year old nephew was there, so I put him to work making balls out of fondant. Good thing too, because making that many balls is a PITA.
And once I put the middle tier on top of the bottom, that's when I decided how to use the flowers. My nephew came out with how to put the balls on the top tier.
In the end the cake was a success. One of the moms asked me about how much would it cost to make another (I answered at least $250) and she took my card. As a "marketing tool" I brought some of my cards and left them in the table by the cake.
And this is what was left after singing "Happy Birthday":
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