Flowery Hello Kitty Cake

Fondant flowers are one of my very favorite things to make. I made them in various shades of purple, pink, and some yellow ones. I used white pearl and silver dragees of different sizes for the centers of the flowers. 

I also made up some larger flowers with a bunch of different colors and sizes. 

I used a vanilla confetti cake recipe to make 2 - 10 in rounds. 

And used royal icing to make a little Hello Kitty to put on the top of the cake.

I used a soft fluffy, pink buttercream to cover the cake. Added white fondant pearls to the bottom of the cake and added all of my flowers onto the sides and top of the cake.

I added the "Happy Birthday" message and the Hello Kitty image to the top. I also added a little fondant flower to the image to help it pop. 

It turned out really well and was very girly and fun! Sweet little Sophia loved it and had a wonderful 2nd birthday!!!

Purple Penguin Cake

I had a request for a penguin cake...and well, not being very good at carving cakes, I had to find a simple way to achieve that. This idea was simple but ADORABLE! 

Two small 6in round cakes. I cut the top off the bottom cake, but did not cut the top off the second cake. I was so lucky that the cake on top actually raised into a perfect little dome (otherwise I would've had to carve it out a little bit). 

Since the customer's favorite color was purple, we decided to go with a purple penguin. 

I made a tiny little pink bow for the top of her head (to add to the adorable factor, lol!) 

Little button eyes, thin purple fondant for wings, and yellow fondant feet and beak.....ADORABLE!!! HAHA! :)  

Probably one of my very favorite cakes! It's so super adorable and just got cuter the longer you looked at it. I loved it!!!

Seahawks Football Cake and Cupcakes

While football season may be a few months away, true fans celebrate with their team year round! And so is the case with this weeks cake. It was made for a 80 year old Seahawks super fan! He was having a large party with all of his kids, grandkids, and great grandchildren so we did a small cake and a bunch of cupcakes for everyone. We chose to do vanilla cupcakes with fresh raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream. 

For decorations I chose to make some chocolate football toppers (as always, I found the mold for these online at amazon). I used white chocolate for the laces and then milk chocolate for the footballs. They were adorable!

I also made some stars in Seahawk colors to be toppers as well, for those who did not want chocolate. 

I made up 100 vanilla cupcakes for the party, and also used dark blue and lime green cupcake papers to match the Seahawk team colors. 

I used an apple corer to cut out the center of the cupcakes. I cut off the inside but kept the top so that I could put it back on when they were filled. 

I made some amazing raspberry filling with some fresh raspberries (it was delicious!), then filled up all the cupcakes. 

I placed the tops back on so that the raspberry filling wouldn't spill out all over the place.

And then topped them with a light, fluffy vanilla buttercream.

This is what they looked like in the middle. They were one of my very favorite flavors to date! Absolutely amazing!

After they were all filled and frosted, I added all of the chocolate toppers and stars to the cupcakes. 

All stacked up and ready to go! :) I also made a small cake to cut. It was a small 6 in cake with blue and green stripes. I used a lot of the stars and footballs to make a little starburst topper to add to the top of the cake as well.

Once I got there and I was able to put it all together I was so pleased with the final product. The football and star topper looked wonderful and festive for the big surprise birthday party!

We made a large display for cupcakes as well. 

Everything looked amazing when it was all set up. I am actually really happy/surprised that I was able to match the Seahawks colors so closely (Americolor, if you are in need). I had such a fun time working on this project!

Go Seahawks!!!

Rocking 40th Birthday Cake

Hello Everyone! 

Hope you're all ready for a fun, new twist on the "40th" birthday cake. No "Over the Hill" cakes here.....we celebrate the awesomeness that is 40! They wanted a German Chocolate Cake with a "Rocking 40" theme, with a lot of guitars. 

The biggest challenge I encountered with this cake project was the guitars. Molding them out of fondant was an option, but seemed rather tedious and time consuming. I found a really inexpensive chocolate mold on amazon that made that whole process a lot easier. I used different shades of blue candy melts in the chocolate mold and loved the results. I also used some Candy Melt Markers to draw on all the details. 

I also make some matching fondant stars in various sizes to help decorate the rest of the cake. 

I attached some of the star (and guitars) to floral wire so I could make a starburst topper for the little cake. 

***Sorry for the fuzz pic, I had shortening on the lens and didn't notice until after I delivered the cake. 

The German Chocolate cake came out wonderfully for the first attempt. I made two 8 inch cakes and let them cool while I worked on the frosting.

After the cakes cooled; I filled them with a caramel, coconut, pecan filling and stacked them. I covered it with a thin coat of chocolate buttercream. I was going to cover the cake in ganache so I did not want to make it too thick or overly sweet.

I mixed my ganache up (2:1 chocolate to cream), let it cool slightly because I still wanted to be able to pour it. And then started layering my ganache.

Layer One went on a little thinner than I expected but I wasn't too worried since I had more layers. This is the first time I had ever poured ganache over an entire cake, I normally just use it as a filling. I wish that I had taken the time on layer one to pop any bubbles and fix all the little imperfections that were starting to appear. Lesson learned I guess.

Layer Two of ganache went on a lot smoother and thicker. That little flaw on the top drove me crazy! That is why you should probably fix it on layer one. I tried to fix it at this point, because it became extremely obvious. But it didn't really make much of a difference.

Layer Three of ganache was wonderful and thick as well. I loved the look that ganache gives to the cake. I was very frustrated with that dang bubble on the top, but other than that the cake looked gorgeous. Haha! :)

After the ganache had set overnight I started to decorate the cake. The decorations were very easy to adhere to the ganache, which made decorating it a LOT easier than some other cakes I have done. But you can't pick anything back up, so make sure you have it where you want it. Haha!
Cannot express how much I loved this cake! The pictures really do not do it justice. The dark chocolate ganache color with the blues and silvers was absolutely amazing! I would love to use this color scheme again soon!

Here's the final product with the "40" topper :

As I said, the pictures do not do it justice. It is really gorgeous! And...isn't a "Rocking 40" cake so much more inspiring and fun than all of those gloomy and depressing "Over the Hill" cakes? :)

Garden Flowers, Button, Bow, and Brooch Cupcake Toppers

I am so excited and ready to share these adorable little cupcake toppers with you! I had so much fun making them and know they will look wonderful at the Vintage Tea Party Bridal Shower that they're headed too.

I was asked to make bow, button, and flower toppers in pinks, purples, and cream. I am beyond pleased with the final result :)

My very favorite thing is the edible chocolate/candy melt cameo brooches! Look! They're actually tasty and beyond adorable! I am so obsessed with them...I cannot wait to use this candy mold to make a million different colored brooches! :)

I made a tutorial that shows step by step instructions on how to make them as well. Here: http://sherilynncakes.blogspot.com/2014/06/edible-cameo-brooches.html?m=1

I added some small fondant flowers to the bottoms of these brooches, to add a little color and also to help them tie into the other decorations - which were all fondant.

I also used the Wilton Silicone Button Mold to make these ADORABLE little buttons!!! They came out well, but they looked even better after I covered them in a little shimmery pearl dust.

I made a variety of little bows as well, and covered them in a shimmery pearl dust.

Since this was a vintage garden tea party, we thought a few little roses and flowers would help tie that theme in. I added a few leaves to make it look a little more realistic. They are a little longer than I would normally make them, but that was so you could really poke them down into the frosting. They also got a light dusting of pearl dust.

This is what it looked like all ready to go to the bridal shower, wrapped up in the box (just needs the next layer, with the roses and leaves).
They looked great together, despite being very different items. Very aclectic and lovely. Perfect for a Vintage Garden Tea Party Bridal Shower :)

Purple Lace Cupcakes

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few months working with a wonderful bride on a fun alternative to a wedding cake - a beautiful cupcake tower with a small cake for their cutting ceremony. 

She wanted purple frosting with silver dragees of various sizes on her cupcakes, with silver papers and a delicate, white, shimmery cupcake wrapper around each one.

The cake on the top was covered with marshmallow fondant and sprayed with food coloring until it was a nice shimmery silver (to match the cupcake papers). I used royal icing on top of the fondant in a technique called "Brush Embroidery" to create the flower pattern on top.

She also wanted peonies and small purple flowers in place of a topper. I created the flowers out of gum paste and floral wire over a week before to make sure they had enough time to dry.

Overall it was a stunning display and it really had some major impact when placed in such a gorgeous venue. 

I had such a wonderful time working with this bride and feel so privileged to be part of her special day! <3 Congratulations to the newlyweds!

White Wedding Cake with Royal Blue Ribbon

This week I had the wonderful privilege of making my life long friend's wedding cake <3

She was having a 4th of July, beach wedding. She had picked a very simple color palette, of just navy and white, and explained the the overall theme/style as "simple" as well. So I didn't want a lot of embellishments, details, etc on the cake (which I found surprisingly hard to  edit myself for this one, I wanted to add shimmer/glitter, flowers...then more flowers, edible diamonds, etc)

I went with this very basic/rustic white butter cream cake, with two layers of a strawberry orange cake and one layer of chocolate (6in, 8in, 10in). I added a simple fondant ribbon along the bottom - in the same color as the ribbon on her wedding dress. And finished it with a little butter cream pearl border.  

Once it was all set up and ready to go I added the finishing touch - a custom made wedding topper to celebrate the new couple <3

We were very happy that it did not melt and made it to the beach in one piece (with the 3hr drive and 80deg temperatures). I feel so honored to have be part of such a special day! <3

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!