Jerry Sailor Wedding Cake

My work was asked to create a wedding cake revolved around the Jerry Sailor tattoos. I was extremely excited to do this cake; I personally have a couple tattoos and love the old tattoo style. Also, as much as I love glamorous and dainty cakes, I love an atypical cake once in a while. :) I basically built this cake on my own which was awesome. My coworker baked the cakes, I filled and frosted them, and then decorated. My favorite part was cutting out white, fondant disks and then hand painted them with food coloring. This is the part I am most passionate about; handpainting cakes. I would love to be known for handpainting cakes. (How many times can I say 'handpainting cakes' in one post eh?) Anywho, this cake was a lot of fun to do and turned out great.

Whipping out Cakes at Work...

I've been relatively busy at the bakery I work at in downtown Olympia making cakes, cupcakes, and more! Here is a taste of what I do...

Cupcakes & Chocolate Decorations;

Sheet Cakes (1/8", 1/4", 1/2");

Tortes;

Wedding Reception

My former coworker Alviena had asked me to create a cake/cupcake combo for her wedding reception that she was hosting for family and friends that were unable to attend her wedding in Vegas. She gave me an image of a small 6" cake atop a tower of cupcakes; black and white with red accents were what I had to work with. I made a 6" chocolate cake frosted with a delicious vanilla bean frosting. The cupcakes were the same but in bite size form. :) The red flowers were specifically requested; I used gumpate and painted them red. I have found it difficult to color white gumpaste red; it tends to turn out pink. I then sprinkled red sugar sprinkles on them to add texture and add a sense of glamour. Alviena supplied the cake topper which is a beautiful engraved piece with their initial and wedding date :)

Keeping it Classy

Hello readers, it has been a while... again. I have been working at a local bakery downtown and have been making plenty of cakes for the business but haven't had much time for myself. But, my uncle's birthday seemed like the oportune time to make a cake! His two favorites are German Chocolate and Red Velvet; and being the chocoholic I am, I selfishly chose the German Chocolate cake! I didn't want to do anything too fancy here; just a simple and classic look that makes the German Chocolate Cake so recognizable. I made a chocoalte cake infused with PLENTY of melted organic chocolate, a coconut & pecan filling, and chocolate frositng also infused with melted organic chocoalte (My goal was to make this as chocolate packed as possible!).

Decorations were simple, lettering, borders, roses, the end. Kept it classy and clean. :)

Itsa me, MARIO!

Hello again viewers, long time I know. As a twenty year old girl finishing college and moving between various jobs to finally land in a bakery full-time, I have been pretty busy. But guess what! I was asked to make a cake for someone I don't even know! This may seem very trivial, but for a girl just starting out in cake decorating, this is a big step.

I was sent a picture via text of mushroom found in the classic video game Super Mario. This specific mushroom has special powers when eaten by Mario, allows him to grow! The idea of this being a cake sounded simply adorable, therefore I agreed :)

The flavor chosen was a vanilla cake with sliced strawberries.

The construction was rather difficult. Obviously, by simply looking one can see that the bottom is smaller than the top. The top is quite hefty in size and weight therefore the bottom needed to be strong. I definitely considered making the bottom just a solid rice krispie treat. It would add structure and stability. However, as a novice I just made it out of cake. The bottom started to bow after a few hours but i stablized both level with 4 small wooden dowels and a large dowel through the middle to attach the two.

I am not a fondant lover. It tastes fake and unappetizing. So instead of fondant, I covered the cake with modeling chocolate. The upside to modeling chocolate is that is is more forgiving than fondant :) However, it is just as hateful of the refridgerator as fondant is. Luckily I knew this beforehand and covered the cake last second to ensure it would not melt off or become sticky.

I am rather excited about how it turned out and hope the person enjoyed it aswell :)

I also hope you enjoy!

Megan



Gingerbread Madness!

Surely gingerbread is more associated with Christmas than with Thanksgiving, but hey; I already had a traditional pumpkin pie, why would I want to make ANOTHER pumpkin dessert?! That is simply outrageous. So instead I decided upon a gingerbread cake with a lovely cream cheese icing filling & covered in vanilla buttercream which was dusted with cinnamon!

Happy Gingy

Gangs all here!

that was my father's piece :)

Early November Cake Practice

Hello followers! :)
Sorry I have been so busy working at a retail store; and well, I am sure you are aware of how OUTRAGEOUS people can get the closer it is to Christmas. Anywho, after Halloween I had a mass amount of candy left over to I decided to incorporate it into a cake I decided to make for my coworkers.

So I baked a white vanilla cake with crushed up: Kit Kats, Whoppers, and Hershey Bars. I also whipped up a vanilla french buttercream to coat the outside of the cake to help the fondant stay in place. To make buttercream you boil sugar and water to 145 degrees (brushing off sugar crystals from the side of the pan with a brush dipped in water, then pouring the hot sugar into your egg yolks while beating quickly [which is why you cannot see the whisk]Then after it cools you add butter & shortening until it becomes the right consistency)

For the Icing I had a delicous cream cheese icing that I had added REAL vanilla bean to. So to decorate this four layer beauty, I draped chocolate fondant on it and decorated with chocolate royal icing.

What I will work on for next time: I need to buy dowels to hold my cake in place so it doesn't shift and of course my fondant work. See you soon with my Thankgiving contributions!!

Megan (: