Custom Cake for Kate

I did a custom birthday cake for a special girl this week! Yellow cake filled with my homemade blackberry jam frosted with vanilla buttercream. The reviews from the birthday girl were great- it was happily devoured by a group of teenage girls!

Wedding Cake

I just finished my last class for my baking certificate, Wedding Cakes! For our final we had to design and bake a cake start to finish. I made a white cake layered with fresh strawberries and iced with vanilla buttercream decorated with sugared roses. I love it!

Cake Decorating Final

I baked a layered Chocolate Cake frosted with American Butter cream and filled with Mixed Berry Jam. The mushrooms on top are made out of fondant and the mushrooms around the cake are made of royal icing.

Cake Decorating

This semester I've been taking a cake decorating class. I like the class but it's really been testing my patience! The importance of fines details makes everything take so long!

I killed two birds with one stone while making this cake! My cake decorating class called for "an adult birthday cake" while my color and design professor said design a cake with complimentary colors (green, orange and violet are a triad on the color wheel)! This was definitely great practice, baking a cake from scratch and decorating it! I used a recipe from my Chef Instructor, Apple Sauce Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. Super tasty and moist, my class loved it! [I'll post the recipe when I stop being lazy]

In two weeks I have my final cake due! The assignment is to use four techniques we've learned in class which leaves lots of room to be creative. I already have my design figured out! It's uhh... I think I'm going to leave you guys hanging! I promise in a few weeks I'll have it posted (;