Science Cake

Beaker Flask Cake

For my chemistry major son.

I started with Wilton's giant cupcake pan.

inverted.  I then cut it to taper and added 

2 cupcakes on a lollipop stick stick into the middle.

Once everything was lined up I added a thin crumb 

coat of frosting then added the white fondant.

The blue was painted on using food coloring and 

small paint brush.  The bubbling over was malted

balls dipped into melted frosting.
This was definitely one of my more
creative cakes I've made! 

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Here's a few cakes I made recently for friends...

This giant cupcake candy cake will mostly 

give you chocolate overload with the base 

of it covered in KitKat bars and the top 

covered with M&Ms! It's one heavy cake!

This mini girly-girl mini cake is the first time

I've worked with fondant...its kind of like

working with paper clay where you have 

to work quickly before it dries out!

Mini Monkey Cake

Here's my second attempt at making a mini monkey cake

for Mr Kevin's 1st birthday at the end of the month.

The first one never got decorated because the cake

all fell apart coming out.

This time around I was patient and didn't try to 

remove the cake until it had cooled.  I used a large

fruit can for the base and only filled it about half full.

For the top I used a mug that was the perfect size

in diameter to the can.  I sprayed them both heavily 

with Pam cooking spray and they just popped right out.

For the tan muzzle, eyes and ears I used vanilla wafers. 

I also used mini chocolate donuts for the ears and cut

off 1/4" on one end.  I think for the real one I will use

mini vanilla wafers for the ears so there isn't so much

tan showing.  Next time around I know what I will

do and not do so I am glad I practiced first :-)

Happy Birthday Mr Morgan!

Its my baby's 19th birthday...yep 19!

Where did the time fly to!?!

I surprised him with a Hamburger Cake

3 layers of cake and various flavors of frosting.

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Mini Cake

I just remembered it was safe to share this mini cake 

photo with you that I made for a friend's birthday.

I want to stress that I am not a cake decorator 

whatsoever I just wing it. I have found some 

helpful tools as I go along.  One of them is an 

icing sculpting set my hubby gave me for my 

birthday. That's what I used to create the

ridges around main part of the cake.

To bake my cake I used an idea I borrowed from 

pinterest where you bake mini cakes using food 

cans you've saved.  For this cake I used a large 

canned pear can and sprayed the inside with Pam 

cooking spray and then filled it 3/4 the way full.

For the flavoring I used packets of crystal light 

raspberry pink lemonade to flavor both the white 

cake mix and the frosting.

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Sinfully Delicious!

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter 
Explosion Cake

Happy Birthday too me! It was my birthday this past week, but being laid up like I was I didn't get a chance to make my birthday cake until yesterday.  My gift from one of my sons was to give me all the fixings to make my own birthday cake LOL I know that doesn't sound nice, but its actually what I wanted since I was given some new cake decorating paraphernalia I wanted to use.  I made the above cake by combining a couple of recipes. I used the cake explosion recipe from HERE but also swirled in plain creamy peanut butter.  I used the peanut butter frosting recipe from HERE along with the chocolate ganache recipe but omitted the addition of the peanut butter since I felt I had enough peanut butter going on.  I used the peanut butter frosting between the layers and then did a crumb coating with the frosting over the entire cake before I added the dark chocolate ganache. This cake ended up being over 8 inches tall and waaay too rich!

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Spring Chickies Cake

Spring Chickies Cake

I made this cake for a friend's sister who raises and loves chickens. Its actually a peach flavored cake with peach flavored frosting.  The chickies are cake balls/pops (You can click HERE to view my other cake pops). For the base of the cake I used a round layer cake and the smaller center is half of my wilton's giant cupcake pan.

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Funky Strawberry Shortcake Themed Cake

Wow where did this week go! I'm really not sure just busy busy with one son moving out and another getting ready for college and hubby working crush at the winery my days are flying by!

The only creative thing I've really done is baking and decorating a funky strawberry shortcake themed cake for my grown niece's birthday. Remember I never claimed to be a cake decorator so no laughing LOL

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Rainbow Cake

I baked a rainbow cake yesterday for St Patrick's Day.

I used white cake mix with egg whites and added  ALOT of  gel food coloring to each layer.  I goofed up and didn't get the colors in the right order but no  matter.  In between each layer I used lemon curd and then frosted it with homemade whipped cream frosting.  

My family seemed to love it!

Here it is once I cut into it 

isn't it pretty!

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Delectable Bundt Cake

Double Fudge Chocolate Mint Chip Cake

I made a delectable double fudge bundt cake and substitute the water for creamy coconut milk. I also added chocolate chips to the cake before I baked it. For the frosting I used regular vanilla frosting and added food coloring and mint flavoring and then sprinkled on chocolate chips. Boy was it rich and yummy!

Although this wasn't a recipe I was following, I was inspired to make it because I'm hooked on watching Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee on the Food Network Channel.