Fiesta 1st Birthday

I took this order knowing it was for a party the same day as my son's 1st Birthday Party.
I. Am. Crazy.

The theme was Fiesta!

There were 4 flavors of cupcakes:
Banana Cake with Caramel Filling and Cream Cheese Frosting
Lemon Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Chocolate Cupcakes with Oreo Bottom and Cookies n' Cream Frosting
Yellow "Hostess" Cupcakes with Ganache

The Lemon and Banana Cupcakes were both decorated with a donkey pinata piped on with different colored Buttercream.

The Oreo and "Hostess" cupcakes were left with their natural looks.

Then, there's the smash cake for the Birthday Girl.

I used my giant cupcake pan to bake a Yellow cake, fill it with Ganache in between the top and base then cover it with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream and pretty fondant flowers.

This was my first time covering a giant cupcake base with fondant...it took a couple tries but I finally got it. It's definitely not as easy as it looks.

Happy 1st Birthday Adele!

Coming Up....

MY SON'S 1ST BIRTHDAY!!!

A little girl's 1st Birthday! (Due the same day of my son's party. Ya...I'm crazy.)

Cupcakes & Cake for my cousin's Wedding!

Transplantiversary Cake!

So keep checking back!

Thanks for reading!

Hailey's 9th Birthday

Ever since I started my baking adventure I have pretty much been in charge of making the birthday cakes for my niece Hailey.

She turned 9 this past weekend.

She asked for a Barbie Cake, which wasn't going to feed many so she also requested a cake with yellow flowers for her party guests.

Barbie had to be prepped for her cake adventure.

The skirt process was easier than I thought it would be, although I used a lot of frosting!
I'm pretty sure my niece didn't mind.

Barbie even helped me out and held her hair up for me.

I made a whole bunch of leaves and flowers with Marshmallow Fondant and let them dry a bit on an egg carton so they'd have a curved shape on the cakes. I ended up not using any of the purple flowers.

Both cakes are White with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream but I filled the serving cake with a Whipped Cream Cheese Filling...something my niece probably wouldn't have liked because she is very picky.

Happy Birthday Hailey!

Guitar Cake

This cake was made for a guitar teacher, from a student.

The teacher is recovering from hand surgery.

This is the teacher's guitar:

Step 1:

Template.

Step 2:

Bake Devil's Food Cake.

Step 3: 

Carve Cake.

Step 4:

Fill Cake with Ganache.

Step 5: 

Cover Cake with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

OOPS! Forgot to snap a photo!

Step 6:

Cover cake with Marshmallow Fondant and decorate!

I debated for a long time whether or not to put strings on the Guitar.

Last time I made a Guitar cake, I didn't out of fear that I would ruin the cake.

My boyfriend told me "This one needs strings. You can do it baby, go nice and slow."

So I did.

I had lots of cake scraps leftover and about 1/2 cup of Ganache that I didn't want to go to waste.

So I pulled out a bag of mint chips that were close to expiring and some other ziplocks of candy melts that were too small in quantity to really accomplish anything else.

I'll never get tired of cake balls.

Using the Ganache instead of frosting really made these extra delicious.

...and the mint shell...man, was it good!

Here's the random mix of cake balls I had.

They were all delicious.