One thing that I have always loved to do is bake. Well, actually cook anything. I like homemade food, not packaged for the most part. Unless you count cake mixes. Those are invaluable, I have never made a homemade cake that tasted as good as a box cake. I try to make cakes for my grandbabies birthday parties. The point to this whole post is that it doesn't need to be perfect, they just love that grandma took the time to ask what they wanted and then scoured the internet and pinterest to figure out a way to make it happen. Here is a showcase of some of the cake I have done.
Baking birthday cakes is simple with a few easy tips. First check out the internet for free colouring pages. I cut out all the parts I want to use, and then trace the images on the main cake with a toothpick, fill in the outline with the proper colours and you are good to go!
Two tone icing is easy to achieve. Simply mix two colours in separate dishes and then combine them side by side in the piping bag. Elevates a plain cupcake to something special.
Arrange those cupcakes to represent something. I love these flowers!!! The centers were iced and then covered in sprinkles. Pour sprinkles in a bowl and dip the cupcake in so as not to make a huge mess of your kitchen.
This teapot was created using Pyrex mixing bowls. You can put them in the oven, they are round, so it's a win. I did use a pound cake recipe though, you need something sturdy to construct these. Two bowls make the body of the cake. The spout and handle are just cardboard iced to match the cake. Piping roses are possibly the easiest thing to learn to do, some of the other techniques are more difficult, as you will discover I use the piped rose liberally.
Again, use those colouring pages!!! Also I usually use a toothpick to inscribe the writing, so I have something to follow, If you make a mistake you can smooth over it and try again before you actually write on it with icing.
Cupcakes and cake are a good idea for every celebration. Kids love them, and most adults do too!
This was my second foray into fondant. I am not a fan!! I just don't have the skill for this particular task. Although the cake looked fine, it was just difficult to work with. The bottom of the superhero cake is a giant cookies, and I used pre-made cookie dough. A pizza pan and some partchment paper and voila you have a giant cookie.
I think this is one of my favorite cakes of all time. It just turned out better than I expected. I am not much for Sponge Bob, but he makes a cute cake.
Fun fact about placing cupcakes on waxed paper: Bad for transportation purposes!! I made this arrangement for our youngest grandson, and I was unable to attend the party as I was tending to another family member that was ill. I enlisted Grandpa to take the cake and go to the party. Well......he called to inform me that he had cupcakes sliding all over the back of our SUV, and perhaps next time I could possible fasten those down. He did salvage them, and put them back in configuration,
Lesson learned and this one transported for more than an hour and looked perfect on arrival. I just use a dot of icing to fix them to the board. Works like magic!
As you can see these cakes are not perfect, but you don't need to be. The "Littles" are just so happy that you made them what they picked out, perfection is optional.
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