So I made my first wedding cake a few weeks ago and I am SO pleased with the results.

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Cupcake assortment for a shower.

Cross posted in my Journal

last month, my friend and i made a guitar shaped cake for her boyfriend's 16th birthday. it was the first time we ever really made a carved cake. i think it came out really well.

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It's a tradition for my mum and I to, during wild rose season, pick wild rose petals (all rose petals are edible, but we prefer the wild ones), candy them, and decorate a cake. The result is lovely, because as the cake sits in the fridge the flavour of the roses seeps into it and gets stronger every day.



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This one's from Cake Bible
Its soft, moist and light
due to cake flour and sour cream
next time I'll skip the ganache and
just do a chocolate glaze

Welp, when you're 3 hours away from your mom's mad cake skills, and you have a perfectly good bundt pan going to waste, what else can you do?

( You bake yourself a cake! )

In addition to my job as "maker of the wedding cakes," during my recent trip I added on the task of baking some cupcakes for my nephew's 10th birthday which had passed a few days before.

I had some cute little star-shaped marshmallows an an idea I'd wanted to use for a child's birthday, so full steam ahead I went!

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 It was my brother's girlfriend's birthday on Sunday, and I just had to make her this cake.  I think it turned out fairly well, althought I wish I didn't get so lazy with the pattern.

It was vanilla with a maple buttercream filling, and marshmallow fondant.  It broke my heart to see it cut, but it was so delicious! 

So I tried my hand at using fondant tonight, so I thought I'd share how it turned out!


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They looked a lot cooler in my head. o_O



It was supposed to be after this:


But I'm so terrible with the piping bag! >__<

Ah well at least they taste good.
They are white cake, filled with blueberry preserves, and cream cheese frosting.

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so i came across this community this morning (hi! *waves*) and i just HAD to make cupcakes, i adored how they looked and i definitely wanted to know how they taste.
i wasn't quite sure whether i'd manage everything as i'm german, but i absolutely insist that my english isn't that bad and so i tried my best and here's the result:

my first rainbow cupcakes EVER ....

I made these to take to the movies tonight.
But with no black food colouring in the house, the characters were kind of limited.



( Riddler, Joker & Robin Cupcakes! )

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My sister asked me to make her cake as my wedding gift to her but wasn't able to decide on complementary flavors for just a tiered cake (i.e. mint buttercream anywhere near raspberry/vanilla = yuck!).

This past Friday was the big day, and I did manage to make everything work!  I'm quite proud of my first ever wedding cake(s).

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Hello Everyone , This morning I decided to make a fruity cupcake - heres the results !



( Red Raspberry Roses )

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This is just boxed white cake mix (doctored up) and from-the-can frosting. I had to make these on a weekday after work, and the thought of making 72 mini cupcakes from scratch made me want to scratch my eyes out. So I cheated. :)

The red isn't as red as I wanted, it's more of a faded red. But I used an entire tube of gel red food coloring, plus half a bottle of liquid red. And that's all I had in the house.

I had previously used this recipe last year for my cousin's 21st birthday, but I feel it works better in smaller portions with lots of icing. Thus, cupcakes! :D
The cupcake don't rise to the idealistic 'dome' shape that many cupcakes have (it doesn't have eggs and the butter isn't creamed)  -  the lack of shape is then made up with chocolate icing ;)

 
 

I posted a few older pics to a cupcake community , thought maybe you guys would like to see too!

( cuppycakes )

I had so much fun making these cupcakes for my friend's daughters 1st birthday. The party colors were pink and orange and had a butterfly/garden theme. Here's what I created!



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( pink&orange awesomeness )