Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Sooner Birthday!

Today is one of my best friend, Jen's, husband's 38th birthday and besides heading over to their house after work for a Birthday BBQ, I am bringing him a Sooners Helmet Cake (or attempt at one anyways).

After a lot of trial and error...here's the end result.



Not perfect (wish I could have figure out how to make the face mask stay but the fondant I used kept falling so I had to just pipe it on) but not half bad right?


So to all you Sooner Nation Fans out there and CHAD.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

May The Force Be With You....

Okay first off ... apologies for my month plus sabatical from blogging. I've had some internet issues and crazy things going on in life that prevented me from the blogging sphere.

All is good though, and fingers crossed my internet seems to be working, so bare with me as I make some baby steps until I get back into my groove.

Keeping it simple this first posting out, check out the Star Wars (more specifically the kick ass Stormtrooper Cake) I made for Jen's 5year old son Dylan's birthday this past Saturday.

Believe it or not it's really hard to find a flat picture of a Stormtrooper Helmet (everyone is so fancy these days and made 3D cakes using Fondant...which is a medium I still haven't embraced yet...can't get over the fact fondant taste like paste to me).
So I finally located a flat drawing on the internet, printed it out (after some help from a co-worker) and blew it up to the size I thought the cake would be sized. I then baked a doublebatched chocolate cake, cut out the drawing as a stencil, carved the cake into the helmet shape, then cut out all the black areas in the middle of the stencil, filled those in and then had to free hand the rest.

Yeah, I kinda kicked arse (I think) considering I am in no way an artist.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Fiesta Cake

Today I made a Sombrero/Fiesta Cake for a friend of mine's two year old. Last year I made a rock n roll Silver Record Cake that was a hit, so this year she asked if I could make a Sombrero Cake for their Fiesta Themed Birthday Party.

Being it was the holiday season and all, I must say I hadn't put much thought into the cake until, well yesterday. But to my surprise I was very happy with my results. I decided to use my airbrush kit that my friend, Becs, gave me for Christmas a few years ago as well as decided to branch out and make some fondant little trinkets to put around the cake.

As I said, I was really happy with the results and the cake was almost completely devoured by the time we left the party.

So, Feliz Cumpleanos to all you December birthdays!