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

First cake at Hummingbird

Well, on week two at Hummingbird Macarons and Desserts...

Loving it this far!!! What's not to love about dessert, right?!!!

Anyhow, I did my first cake at the shop yesterday....

It was a simple birthday cake, vanilla on vanilla... Rustic design with a macaron on top...

Easy right... No!!! I was told I wasn't being creative enough, 😢😢😢😢 next cake I will!!!! I'm a stickler for specifics lol! What can be said!!!

Until next time keep caking!!!!

Jae

First cake collaboration

So, I'd never been in a cake collaboration before...

Thought they were cool, so was so excited when I was able to join one...

My first cake collaboration was Happy Chinese New Year!!!

My challenge was to actually pick a design. I knew that I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and do figurine work, but I didn't do what I normally do, which is commit a design to paper, eh, what a mistake that was...

Lesson learned!!!  The cake turned out ok, but I felt it was rushed 😢

But the great thing is, now I know and can move forward to the next one with a better vision of what I have to do!!!

Love life lessons so that was a great one!!!

The cake was chocolate with chocolate IMBC, vanilla fondant lettering and the goat/ram was made from fondant.

I'm happy it didn't look horrible, but next year, I'm going for the wow!!!!

Until next time,

Jae

Happy birthday Alan...

Alan is one of those great guys who is equally annoying as he is great. You can't help but want to surprise him on his birthday...

That's what we did...

The cake is vanilla with vanilla IMBC. 

Simple design for a simple kind of guy...

Great surprise for a great guy!

Until next time,

Jae

Katniss Wedding Dress Doll Cake

So, every year one of my favorite ladies asks for a special birthday cake, this year was no different!

Turning 10 is a big deal, right? So why not ask for something extravagant. My daughter is a HUGE Hunger Games fan, HUGE! So this year, she asked for a Katniss Everdeen Wedding Dress Doll Cake from her favorite book in the series, Catching Fire.

Easy, right? Not for me! I'd overthink and over analyze this baby to the bitter end, but the results were amazing and the birthday girl loved her!

Katniss was inedible because she is the special edition doll made by Mattel. The rest of her was all cake and fondant!

Cake is chocolate with vanilla IMBC and vanilla fondant.

Can you believe she's cake?

Until next time,

Jae