Square wedding cake.... Oh my?!

MWhy oh why did I agree to square fondant covered wedding cake???

Because I'm always up for a challenge that's why!

My first professional square cake was butter cream only with a gum paste Lilly and gum paste sea shells!!

Luckily the gum paste Lilly was fantasy flower (looks similar but not natural) and it is covered in fondant!

Unfortunately, I've never covered a square cake in fondant!!! Ah what to do what to do...

I searched online duh! And practiced! And it turned out well!!!! 

The design of the cake was from the bride. I was sooooooo lucky I was searching for something else and found this excellent filigree stencil on Evil Cake Genius. I was so excited to use it and it was beautiful!!!!  Stacked the cake and used this dowel technique I saw where there's one long center dowel since the cake had a three hour road trip!!!!

The cake was vanilla cake with vanilla IMBC and vanilla fondant with chocolate royal icing (tinted black).

It was wonderful! The friend of the bride who ordered the cake had great things to say about it and he said they LOVED the cake!!! Excellent way to end a square cake weekend ☺️

Well, happy caking!!!!

Jae

Owl Themed Baby Shower Cake for Olivia

Well, this cake was a doozy for me.

Most of the time when I accept a cake I try not to dab too much into the unknown, lol, but this time I wanted to make the owl figurines for the cake because I am creative.

Eh, in my brain I believed I could do it but I was still so nervous.  They turned out okay.  Next time I would do some things different, but I have gained more confidence.

The baby Olivia's mom and family loved the cake and I am so pleased.

The owls are chocolate fondant.  The plaque is gum paste, hand cut, designed and painted.

The cake is almond cake with mascarpone filling and vanilla IMBC.  The chevrons and owl hearts are vanilla fondant.

Until next cake,

Jae

Batman, duh na na na na na na na, BATMAN!!!!

Well to date, this has been one of the most fun cakes to make...

I mean, who doesn't like Batman... No offense to the Superman fans out there, lol.

I got inspiration for this cake from a black & white Batman cake I saw on Pinterest. Noted differences, this cake has splashes of color, lol and it isnt covered in fondant like the inspiration piece.

The birthday girl loved the design! Especially since it was a combination of Batman and art! I cannot explain how excited I was to make this cake.

The figurines were gumpaste. Hand painted and drawn.

This was so fun for me even though I had several no sleep moments, worried that the gum paste wouldn't dry. Lol, I'm always a bundle of nerves on cakes.

But all the decorations all turned out great... I was so pleased and hoped the birthday girl would to.

The cake was vanilla rum cake, filled with pineapple curd and covered with vanilla Italian Meringue Butter cream. This cake combination is because the birthday girl's favorite cake is pineapple upside down cake. So it was recreated in the combo.

I'm glad for this experience because it showed me that my skills are growing. That's always fun to learn, ^_^

And besides, like i said, who doesn't like Batman, lol...

Well until next cake...

Love,

Jae

Catching Fire Cake

In January, the first cake of the year for me was a birthday cake for a special 9-year old who loves Katniss!

Cake was based on the movie Catching Fire.
Cake: chocolate, vanilla IMBC, sugar pearls, gum paste decal decoration

She was surprised and loved it!

Until next time,

Jae :-)