Groovy Funfetti Mini Cupcakes

When asked to make GROOVY cupcakes, peace signs and big hippy flowers immediately came to mind! ✌️

So I started with some lovely flowers. Hot pink "daisies" and tiny little purple flowers this time. (Please excuse the horrible picture. I had some Crisco on my lens and wasn't aware of how this picture came out until after the flowers were on the cupcakes. Sorry!) 

For the flavor of our groovy cupcakes, I chose a funfetti recipe with a lot of bright sprinkles in it. I also used papers that were brightly colored, with flowers and peace signs on them. 

I was actually really impressed with this recipe because even after 4 batches (scraping the bowl, stiring, scooping) the color on the sprinkles had not started to bleed into my batter yet. A feat that should impress anyone who has ever tried to blend anything into a vanilla batter. Lol! 

After I had them all baked an cooled, I added a very simple, fluffy vanilla buttercream to the tops and finished them off with groovy fondant flowers and sugar peace signs. 

They were amazingly delicious! And wonderfully colorful as well!

I recently discovered the amazing ness of these little cupcake containers for transport! Highly recommended for cupcakes over the traditional cake boxes!

Pokemon Pokeball Cake

My son normally wants a cheesecake for his birthday but this year, after seeing all the cakes I have made, he decided to have me make his cake. Being extremely obsessed with Pokemon right now, he suggested a Pokeball. Perfect! So we started planning...

We didn't want to carve a sphere shaped cake (because that takes time, and can go wrong really easily) so we chose to make it out of a 10in round cake and just have the "illusion" of a sphere. :) 

I had my son help out a lot, since this is a pretty simple cake. We dyed half of our vanilla buttercream a dark red and covered half of the cake. Then covered the other half with white; the very messy line where those two colors meet was covered up with the black fondant stripe. 

My son cut 3 fondant circles (one black, two white) and placed them in the center.  

To finish it up I added a red pearl border on the bottom. 

My son was so happy and pleased with the final product, and that's all the approval I needed! :) It was a fun project and I loved it! 

Lotus Flower Cake

I recently made a cake that I am pretty obsessed with! It was for my niece's college graduation party. She is very interested in anything henna/mendi inspired so I took hints from that for my main inspiration. 

I decided that using my hexagon pans would help achieve that look the best. I am using the 6in hexagon pan and the 9in hexagon pan, to fit their servings needs. I wanted to use a sophisticated, yet bold, color pallet so I went with a dark turquoise frosting, with gold and white accents. 

For my topper, I chose to make a white lotus (I am slightly lotus obsessed, to the degree that I have a lotus tattoo on my inner wrist! Lol). I searched through a few different online "paper lotus" patterns and instructions until I had a good grasp of what was involved and then kind of "winged it". 

I used a small bowl and allowed the bottom layer of petals dry, creating the softly curved shape of the lotus petals. I also pinched the end of each petal to help give the petals the "cupped" look most lotus petals have. I used smaller bowls and cups to help the inside petals hold their shape while they dried. I also created a small center of the lotus by folding petals over it until a 'bud' form started to emerge. I should also mention that I used a petal veiner on each of the petals to help give it a more realistic effect.

After carefully placing the (partially dried) petals onto the "base" petals, and adding the bud into the center to make it look like the flower was blooming, I brushed the entire flower with pearl dust to help make the petals more realistic and pop a little more. 

For the cake decor/decorations, I opted to go with a henna inspired patterns. After I piped them in royal icing and let them dry sufficiently, I brushed them all with an antique gold powder. In retrospect, I should've colored my royal icing gold and then brushed it with the gold powder to achieve a deeper/richer color. The white royal icing needed a lot of dust to make an impact and even then, it was not as bold as I wanted. But they were still pretty gorgeously antique. 

I made yellow/butter cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. 

I colored the frosting a beautiful, dark turquoise color and frosted both cakes before adding on all the gold henna accents. I also made a bunch of gold dots to add color and add detail to the little henna decals. 

The top of the cake all boxed up. I added a gold pearl border to the bottom of both layers. This time I did color the fondant gold, and then brushed it with gold dust. It did help make the color so much deeper. I really loved it! 

Once I made it to her house I stacked the cake. It was much easier to stack it on site than it is to try to travel without messing it up. Haha :)

Everyone loved the cake and it was absolutely delicious! 

Like I said I am VERY obsessed with this cake! I think it is gorgeous, bold, elegant, and fun! And it has a beautiful white lotus topper, can't get any better than that! Hahaha! Hope you all enjoy it just as much as I do! 😃

Ivory Cake with Pink Bows

A few weeks ago I had the wonderful priveledge of making a dear friend's wedding cake ❤❤❤❤❤

She needed a 4 tiered cake, which was the largest I have made to date (over 16in tall!). She wanted round and hexagon layers to alternate (the round layers were red velvet flavored, and the hexagon were a strawberry flavor). 

I accentuated the round layers with simple scroll work and soft blush pink gum paste ribbons and bows. 

The hexagon layers were decorated with a quilted pattern and buttercream pearl details on the bottom and where the quilting pattern intersects. 

This cake was made with the 6in round, 9in hexagon, 12in round, and 16in hexagon Wilton cake pans. 

Congratulations to Brittiany and Brent! ❤❤❤ wishing you many years of happiness!