November 2010 Archive

LOL ok not really but yeah I do. I made a cake this weekend and while the buttercream tasted good, I just can’t get it to be smooth on the damn cake. Now like my other post said I think it’s cause I’m using the wrong shortening. I’m going to buy some high ratio shortening soon and test it all out. I will post a picture when I do. Right now I have to work on my son’s cake soon. His bday is in January and I want to make the fondant ahead of time and stuff.

I think I figured out my buttercream issue. I’m using the wrong type of shortening. I should use high ratio shortening. I can’t wait to try it out….

Here is my desert for Thanksgiving.  It’s a pumpkin spice cupcake with creamcheese filling and buttercream on top.  It tastes pretty good.  now I have to make my icing thinner, less sugar and more water….

So summer time rollls around and I’m done with cakes for now LOL.  So I found some brownie mix my son can have.  So lets play with that a bit shall we…. He loved the bites but not the full cupcakes.  My boyfriend and his friend ate the cupcakes.

So now it’s back to buttercream again.  I was getting cocky!!! I thought ok great, my chocolate fondant came out great so let me try buttercream again….. Buttercream is still my downside.

Now I was getting tired of my buttercream not turning out so I moved back to marshmellow fondant.  Here is a yummy chocolate cake wiht homemade marshmellow fondant.  It was GOOD.  I know it looks flat in the picture, but it wasn’t LOL.

Now this again is a cake my son can eat.  I’m getting better at getting the cake batter good.  Now i have to work on my buttercream frosting.  Now the buttercream for you and me I’m getting better at, but the kind for anthony still needs work.  This is what the cake looked like…

Welcome to my new cupcake and goodie blog.  I will be posting pictures of my goodies as I bake them.  Hopefully you will enjoy them.  I’m starting to take cake deorating classes because of my son.  See my son has allgeries to Milk, egg and peanuts so I have to hand bake all of his cakes and stuff.  He’s now at an age where he want’s cool things made for this birthday and school parties, so I have to learn how to do all of this. My full time job is as an IT specialist so cake decorting is new to me.  This is going to be a little place where I can post my creations to see how far I’ve come.  Thanks for stopping by

Ok here is a sad birthday cake I made for my son on Jan 2010 for his 8th birthday.  It’s suppoed to look like a bakugan but sadly it does not.  So many thing went wrong on this cake.  Baking allergen free is hard, so you have to mess with the cake ingredients so it will rise.  I didn’t know this until after this sad looking cake. 

Now I figured out how to play with the cake mix to get it to do what I wanted.  I also worked more on my MarshMellow Fondant.  This is also my first carved cake.