Golf, in cake form

I made this cake this week for a 60th birthday celebration, inspired by Cakespace. Banana cake with caramelized banana filling and caramel Swiss meringue buttercream, covered in fondant. All of the decorations are made out of fondant. I really enjoyed working with all of the simple components and small details - from the golf bag to the tees and golf balls :)

View from the top:


Side view:


Another top view:


Green, up close:


Golf bag, up close:

Rose wedding cupcakes

I hosted another wedding cake tasting this past weekend - red velvet with cream cheese icing, chocolate with raspberry and chocolate ganache filling, and white velvet with strawberry buttercream filling - chocolate and white velvet were iced with Italian meringue buttercream. They were all decorated with fondant roses and other small flowers, and sugar pearls :)

A few pictures ...











I also made a special treat for my co-workers :) Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache filling, iced with Italian meringue buttercream, with fondant flowers:

Baby shower cupcakes

I made these cute little cupcakes, inspired by Hello Naomi, for a surprise baby shower this past week. They were chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing underneath the fondant circles, and decorated with fondant rainbows, bees, frogs, chicks, caterpillars, rainbows, and clouds.

Hello Kitty!

Hi All -

So sorry for the lack of posts lately; life has been pretty crazy, and unfortunately there hasn't been much baking going on :(

I did have a chance this weekend to make some cupcakes for a friend's 25th birthday party. She loves Hello Kitty :) My initial ideas all used fondant; but her party was held at a Buddhist Cultural Center that is vegetarian only. So I had to get creative!

I have seen many tutorials on how to decorate cookies using the royal icing flooding technique - so I decided to try my hand at making some Hello Kitty faces using the same technique. I was a bit worried at first that the faces would be too fragile to handle; fortunately I was wrong, and everything held up beautifully.

Hello Kitties, waiting for cupcakes:


Mocha cupcakes with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream icing, close up:




Cupcakes at the party:


The birthday girl!

A weekend of cakes

It's a crazy weekend of cakes! :)

Wedding cake tasting today. Three cakes were sampled - white velvet cupcakes with strawberry buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream icing, white velvet with raspberry cream filling and vanilla buttercream icing, and chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, covered with ivory fondant.

Here are a few pictures from this morning ...


Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, covered with ivory fondant:










White velvet with raspberry pastry cream and vanilla buttercream icing:



White velvet cupcakes with strawberry buttercream filling, vanilla buttercream icing, and gumpaste flowers: