I can’t believe it’s September. The temps in Colorado have been dipping into the low 40s at night and we enjoyed some nice 70 degree days. Do you know what all that means??? IT’S FALL!!!! I make the monthly birthday cake for my ex-employer. They’re incredibly nice parting present when I quit in April!!! September [...]
An ex-co-worker ordered a Super Mario Brothers Sluggers cake. She sent me a text requesting the cake…..first order completely done by text messaging….months ago her son wanted an Indiana Jones cake. I had visions of sculpting the hat out of cake with a gum paste whip around it. But, as children will do, he changed [...]
Albert the Rooster was entered into the Denver County Fair in the Cake Decorating competition. I thought about creating a rooster cake the instant I saw the Fair flier with the little rooster head on it. A second reason I wanted to do a rooster was that Denver recently changed their ruling about allowing chickens [...]
So, I quit my “real” job. As I was letting my clients know that April 1 would be my last day as an environmental consultant, one client said it was great timing because she was hosting a baby shower in a few weeks and could use a cake. Sweet! I put the message that I’m [...]
My coworker Nicole referred her friend to me after I did the Diary of the Wimpy Kid cake for her. Nicole’s friend wanted something skateboard themed. I did some looking around at various skateboard cakes online and gave her 3 options to pick from: 1. A regular round cake with a skateboard topper on it [...]
Making a cake for my friend Jenny. She requested a black forest cake, a new recipe for me. For the cake: Betty Crocker Devils Food 1 box instant chocolate pudding 1 scoop of sour cream ~1/4 cup of flour 4 eggs oil & water per box For the filling and the syrup: I started with [...]
I made a Thanksgiving cake for a friend to use as a hostess gift when she sells jewelry. Pumpkin cake with creamcheese-y filling and spicy icing (Kay’s recipe but use ground cinnamon and fresh ground nutmeg instead of butter flavor) I made a cornucopia with pumpkin, apples, and peppers out of fondant.
A Tip and Trick for today!! Randy and I were talking about colored sugar after looking at the Hello Cupcake monthly challenge. Having no colored sugar in the house, I wondered if you could just add food coloring to regular household sugar. Randy being the more scientific minded, went to Google to look it up. [...]
A friend just got me the book: Hello, Cupcake! Check out the Hello, Cupcake Website. And their Blog!! It came in the mail yesterday, right as I was about to make cupcakes (Good timing!) After flipping through the book, I decided I had all the ingredients (wouldn’t have to run another errand!) for the Butterfly Cupcakes. [...]
For a lunch at the construction site I’m working on, I contributed some cupcakes. The cupcake collage shows a prairie dog colony on the bottom right, silt fence going through, wetlands, and a stream. The Silt Fence was made out of fruit leather on toothpicks. Wetlands were used using green buttercream and a grass tip. [...]