Zebra for Lauren

Oh wow, it's been too long. I have been baking quite a bit: some cheesecakes, cupcake bouquet, more lollies, tea cakes, cookies and little things, but I kept forgetting to post. So when my friend Monica, asked me to make a cake for her daughters 17th birthday I promised myself I'd post it. It's a four layer chocolate cake, with cream cheese frosting and fondant decorations. It was a lot of fun to make, but made me a lot more comfortable with fondant. I think Monica will take some more photos of it when they eat it so I'll post those later.

Sports Cake

What I really wanted to title this post was.. balls balls balls, but since I laughed when I thought about it I figured maybe I shouldn't.

I got a request for a chocolate cake with different types of balls on it. I had made a football cake before, but this was a new challenge.
I made a 9 x 13 sheet cake and a lot of buttercream frosting. I colored it: leaf green, copper, no taste red and made a little bit of chocolate frosting that I colored black. I piped the green all over and used the other colors for the balls.
I shaped the balls with rice krispy treats. I was going to make the treats myself, but ran out of time so I just used the store bought ones. This was my first time playing with the rice krispys, as well, and they are much easier to shape than I thought they would be.
After I got the desired shape, I put it in on a toothpick in the foam (the same one I use for the lollies) and frosted with the star tip. This took a bit of time, but wasn't very difficult.
After I had all the pieces I transferred them onto the cake and piped Happy Birthday!

At first I thought of just buying the balls made out of plastic, but it's so much better when you can eat every part of the cake.

Lina's Lollies Take Two

I gave the lollies a second try and these were much easier and I think turned out tastier than the first ones. They are chocolate lollies, covered in chocolate and walnuts or coconut flakes. Monica S Photography took these photos for me :o) See more after the jump...

First Lollies

I was so excited to make my first "Lina's Lollies". These were so much more work than I thought they would be and I got a lot of ideas on how to improve them next time around.

I made the red velvet cake and the cream cheese frosting....

Made the balls...

Dipped in chocolate....

Lina's Lollies are done!!!

Coming soon....Lina's Lollies

Planet Cupcakes for Donovan

It's Donovan's birthday and he wanted some planet cupcakes. I made chocolate cupcakes with a bit of whipped cream frosting and fondant decorations. 

After a couple hours of coloring fondant cutting out shapes this is what I got :o)

Happy Birthday Donovan!!!

Football Fun

Football season is starting... this means that every Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday for sure I will not be getting much of a conversation from my boyfriend. That's ok because I secretly like football too ;o) I made this cake for Superbowl 2010. It's a black magic cake that is probably my favorite, with buttercream chocolate and vanilla frosting piped all over and raspberry filling inside.

While decorating this cake I learned that if you hold your piping bag filled with frosting for too long in your warm tired hand (ok maybe it doesn't have to be tired but it was) it will melt a little and your pattern won't look so good... that's ok 2011 Superbowl here I come!!!