Dora The Explorerer Cake

Hey everyone! So sorry for the lack of posting lately... it just seems that summers are so busy. Every weekend there is something to do whether it be a party, a cookout, a trip to the cape... I'm sure you all know how it goes.

Recently we have been experiencing a bit of a heatwave as well... 90+ degree temperature don't really motivate me to bake... but soon I will be resuming my baking as I have a couple of orders coming up next weekend!

As for this post... a few weeks ago one of our good friends was having a birthday party for their beautiful daughter. They asked me to make the cake and I was VERY excited! Hailey LOVES Dora so it was only natural to make a dora cake!

I started out with 2 10inch vanilla cakes. I colored some of the cake batter purple and marbled it through the cakes just for a fun effect.

The layers were filled with a creamy "fun-fetti" type filling and the cake was frosted in buttercream.

To get the Dora image on the cake I used the piping gel tranfer method. I found a picture I liked of Dora... printed it...and then traced it on parchment paper using piping gel. Once it was all traced I transferred it onto the frosted cake.

Once I was satisfied with the transfer I began coloring her in by piping using a star tip. I had a colored picture to use as reference while I filled in the outline.

Here is the final product....








Hailey loved the cake.... she actually just dug in using her face! I was happy with how the cake came out and look forward to making more fun cakes like this soon!

I hope everyone has a great week and stays cool!

Skull & Crossbones pull-apart cake

Last weekend was also my baby brother's birthday. I shouldn't say baby brother since he was turning 26 but you get the idea :)

He was throwing a joint birthday party with Vanessa who is just like family and I made them a cake for the celebration! Well actually I made them cupcakes!

I placed a bunch of cupcakes on a platter really close together like this....




Then I smoothed on some frosting. My brother requested purple frosting for Vanessa. I love how it was shaped sort of like a flower. I decided to leave the edges "rough" instead of piping a border... I liked the look of it better for this cake.



Next I transferred on the pattern using piping gel. My brother is a bit obsessed with skulls... he has a bunch of them tattooed on his body so I figured I should put one on his cake.



After the pattern was transferred I "colored it in" by piping stars. I used glitter black gel for the eyes and mouth.

Lastly using the black gel, I wrote out the Birthday message and wha-la.....









The best part of this cake was that when it was ready to be served people could just pull out a cupcake... no cutting necessary which worked out perfect for this outdoor party. I can't wait to make another one of these types of cakes.... So fun!

Well I hope everyone enjoys their Day and has a good week next week as well! Let's all cross our fingers for some better weather!

Reid's 1st Birthday Cake

The Family I nanny for asked me to make a Cake and Cupcakes for their daughter's first birthday! They decided to go with a Lady Bug theme for her cake and I seriously had so much fun making it!

The flavors were simple... Chocolate and Vanilla with Vanilla buttercream.... the adventure was in the design.

The cupcakes were frosted with Pink and Green frosting and topped with some different fondant pieces.

On the green frosted cupcakes I had these cute little pink ladybugs!



The pink frosted cupcakes were topped with black "ladybug" dots!



For the cake it was frosted in pink and covered in black "ladybug" dots. I also wrapped it with a green ribbon. For the top of the cake I made a number 1 out of fondant and also some little flowers to stick out of the cake on wire.



For the Birthday message I cut out a flower shape from white fondant and piped on the message.

Overall I thought this was the cutest cake I have made yet and from the pictures I saw Reid enjoyed it as well!!!









I hope everyone stays dry during these rainy days and stay tuned this weekend for the 3rd cake I made this past weekend!!