Christmas Time is Here

Well it's that time of year to get into high gear and bake! Thank goodness for me, I don't have much baking to be done! My cousin requested a cake for her preschool class Christmas party and seeing as I have been dying to try out some fondant work, I thought, hey this is a great opportunity to do so!

I wonder what's inside?

The picture above is probably one of my favorite cakes I have made to date. It is a 3 layer yellow cake with regular buttercream icing. My red is not as red as I hoped, but I still love it and it wasn't difficult at all! It was pretty heavy to carry but completely worth it!

For the bow, all I did was roll out my fondant pretty thin and using a pizza cutter, cut thin strips. I attached them with piping gel and put a toothpick in them to make them stay up. (Don't worry, the toothpicks were removed when the fondant dried).

This is the extent of my Christmas baking, but I will later post the sugar cookies my mom makes every year, they are awesomely decorated!

It's Not Always Sweet...

Hello once again. Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. Here's what's been happening:
I've definitely cut back on making cakes since class has ended and it's given me a nice little break and a time to recuperate. I had my first official cake making job for one of my good friend, Megan Radowick, for her 24th birthday!

Me and Megan posing w/ the final cake!

I had huge plans to make her an awesome red velvet cake that I found from my moms old home-economics recipes with cream cheese frosting and cool music notes going all around it! I couldn't wait to start! I got home that week and made my cakes, froze them, and planned to decorate the night before I had to deliver. I get home and immediately greeted with my mom saying that it's not thick enough. I had to make a whole other cake to add some thickness to it. I whip up the cake and start making icing. I soon realize that the cream cheese frosting is not thick enough to do anything on it. At this point, I was frustrated that I already had to make another cake. I begin to frost the cake with the cream cheese icing anyways! As I'm in the middle of frosting, they start sliding off. The middle layer turns to mush and completely falls apart while I'm frosting the cake. At this point I'm so frustrated I almost started crying. I make some buttercream icing, take off the 2 salvageable layers that I have and frost it and put it together. As you can see in the picture above I got a new toy for my fondant. It basically is letter cookie cutters, really fun stuff! After all this it turned out and although I wanted to make something a lot more awesome, I need to realize my skill level is still quite novice. Megan and her family enjoyed the cake which is truthfully, the goal of every cake!

Now that the holidays have arrived I will be baking up a storm, as will my mom. She will be making her famous decorated sugar cookies. I will definitely blog about that!