HAPPY BIRTHDAY OZ

HAPPY 78th BIRTHDAY OZ

Today I made this cake for Branden's Grandpa's 78th Birthday.  This was a replica of his trawl boat, the King Lafitte.  It was a rather large cake, since he had a huge birthday party.  This was also the first cake I've made not using fondant as a cake covering.  The boat itself was modeled out of rice krispie treats covered with fondant.  The rigging and flagpole were the only non-edible pieces, being made from skewers covered in gumpaste.  Gumpaste was used to make the flag, rake, radar, dipnet, winch, cleats, trawl boards, box, picking table, v-test, anchor, seagulls and porpoise.  I piped the nets out of royal icing.

The cake was vanilla with half strawberry and half pineapple fillings.

This is the result of 3 days worth of modeling the accessories and 5 hours building the actual boat.

IT'S OFFICIAL, I SOLD A CAKE

This was a fun cake to make.  This was also the first cake I sold!  I made this cake for a baby shower (little boy) for a lady over at the Coast Guard base.  It was made with 2- 9" Rounds and 2- 12" Rounds with a little baby blanket draped on the side.  The pattern on the baby blanket was made using the animals from the Fisher Price Rainforest collection, which was kind-of the theme the lady had bought for her baby. The smaller rounds were filled with strawberry and the larger rounds were filled with pineapple.  Let's just hope this actually looks like the baby when he's born!  (We judged the hair and eyes based on his older sister)

Laissez Les Bon Anniversaires Rouler! (Let the Happy Birthdays Roll)

Today was my Mother In Law Linda's birthday observance party. (number undisclosed) Since her birthday falls close to Mardi gras this year she wanted to have a Mardi gras themed cake. This was one of my favorite cakes that I've made. Everything but the feather was edible. The mask, I made out of modeling chocolate and handpainted it with luster dust. The doubloons were embossed with a real doubloon and airbushed gold. The fleur-de-lis were cast in a mold.  Few minor meltdowns were had, though supergenius factor was running high.


The fillings were mango and pineapple.

Warm and Fuzzy Holiday Feeling

                                        

The gingerbread house - I made it for my daughter's headstart class' Christmas party.  Probably the most fun cake that I've made.  Fun but exhausting.  Most importantly, ZERO meltdowns.  It took 11 hours for me to make it.  Starting at 7 P.M. till 5 A.M.!!  Starting with making the fondant till putting in the candy accents.  Everything you see was edible.  The trees, sled, gate and gingerbread people were made from pastillage and airbrushed.  The square of the yard was red velvet cake with cream cheese snow, while the house itself was indeed a gingerbread cake.  Now I have to admit that the figures in the yard were store bought, but that was it.

The Bundt - Was a birthday cake made for an older man who lives on the Island.  It was an apple-spice cake.

Mama I'm Coming Home

December started off with a new cake.  New tools came in.  Got a shiny new fondant ribbon cutter and a cake airbrush!! So I made this one for my mother-in-law's coming back home party.  This was the mother of all meltdown cakes.  Surprisingly since it wasn't a big cake.  It was 3- 8" stacked rounds.  Everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong.  Buttercream melted, Fondant went flying and I swore that I would never make another cake again.  Needless to say, I did.

It was purple velvet.  Not red, but purple with cream cheese frosting.  It was also the first time I used the airbrush to pearlize the cake.

Floundering Around

Mid November 2009
Yeah I had a couple of weeks with no cakes

So one day, husband asks me if I think I could make a cake look like a fish.  I answered yes and said I would make a flounder.  Then husband looks at me like I'm crazy and thinks to himself "she totally can't do that".  So, I totally did.  And the gross-out factor was cool too cause it was red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.  When it was cut, it looked like it bled :)

Trick or Treat...was mostly a trick

So by now I'm kind-of expected to make a cake for something, so the first cake was a small 2 tier cake for my daughter's headstart class. Check out the Pastillage Spider and graveyard scene. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate peanut butter filling.

The second cake I made that weekend was the three tiered one. I made it to bring to a couple's house for a neighborhood trick-or-treat. The kids got their candy and everyone got a bowl of Jambalaya and some cake. The thing is that after we delivered the cake and left to bring our daughter trick-or-treat, nobody wanted to cut it! They all said it was too pretty, so I had to cut it when I came back around. It was a vanilla cake with Strawberry, Pineapple and chocolate fillings.  Meltdown factor was pretty high, and supergenius factor was nearly depleted.

Bonus cake - just leftover batter and practice with piping since I had virtually no experience there.