What all those words have in common? They are part of the cakes I did this week... yes you are right, I was a bit busy hahaha (taking into consideration I have a day job :P)
Well let's start, the first one is a Raisin Butter Cake with a green and yellow bow, I totally loved how those colors looked together. My mom was in love with the first bow I made, so she wanted a similar cake, but with more "grown-up colors". I covered the cake with White Chocolate Ganache, before proceeding to cover it with fondant.
The second cake is a super rich Chocolate Mud cake, mmmm so yummy, I got to taste this one because I made it for a get together that I had with my high school best friends (oh time goes by sooo fast!), the flower was made with plastic chocolate (also known as chocolate paste). The stripes: rolled fondant over marshmallow fondant.
The third cake is the one I'm proud of, I was told that I needed a pan to make the igloo and I didn't have one at the time, so I made a chocolate mud cake in a regular pan and then carve it to make my igloo, and I totally loved it :)
The base of the cake is a White Velvet Butter cake, first time I did one of those, and I was really pleased with the texture and the flavor, so was my client! My "snow" are semi-melted marshmallows. It was a two layer cake filled with caramel.
The last one was a failed attempt to decorate a cake, here's the story, I made the cake, covered it on fondant and put some plastic over it until ready to decorate it... I didn't realize the poor cake was under the afternoon sunlight's... yeah go figure, when I tried to remove the plastic it was all sticky and my fondant was a mess.
I wasn't really on the mood to change the fondant, so I left the cake and started fooling around with some colored fondant, I made some lips and my sister told to create a green tongue to make the mouth look creepy... and I did it haha. Later I decided that the two creepy things belonged together, so I put the mouth over the poor ugly cake hahahaha.
Bows, Stripes, Pinguins... lips?
Ragamuffin and Classic Vanilla Cupcakes
Again working with Classic Vanilla cupcakes, so yummy I can't stop using them :)
This time I did Mr Ragamuffin, he is from Lenore - The Cute Little Dead Girl, he is a cutie when he is not trying to bite someones neck, since he used to be a vampire, but now he is only a toy.
Ragamuffin is trying to stay on top of three cupcakes.
This was made for my friend Scotty, who was hoping for a Tucan but I decided to make something more attractive and way more eatable, since the Tucans are black and for some reason the black fondant doesn't taste very well (at least mine).
Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)
Today I made some Classic Vanilla Cupcakes, yummmmyyyy, they are delicious!! I covered some of them with marshmallow fondant and then tried to create like a cupcake puzzle with Cheshire Cat.
This was just my first attempt of Cheshire, I promise there will be more, and the result will be better... hopefully next time he will let us see his whole body xD
Chocolate Mud Cupcakes with Sour Cream Ganache
As I said days ago, I still had a lot of mud cake batter, I decided to make use of it. Made more cupcakes, covered them with sour cream ganache (which tastes like heaven) and then made some fondant decoration.
Enjoy the pics :)
Of Easter and Bunnies
I wanted to make an Easter bunny but in the process I remembered a character that makes me laugh so hard... that I couldn't continue with the idea of an Easter bunny and I did a Raving Rabbit!
How cool? hahaha, I know... my version is fatter but since it is the first time I do one, I won't complain, but I promise that in the future they will be more like the original one!
Chocolate Mud Cake with Peanut Butter
Found a recipe of Chocolate Mud Cake, and I had never done one before, so I decided to give it a try, but instead of making a whole cake I chose to do several cupcakes.
I read the recipe, it served 8, so I doubled the recipe to make like 18 cupcakes... I ended having more than 30 and I still have batter in the freezer (will do a cake when I have time).
The frosting is of peanut butter, but to be sincere, the cupcake is way better without it, ended up been just too sweet (yes I never say this, but this time it was!... imagine!), in the other hand, the chocolate mud was divine, the flavor, the texture, the color... simply perfect.
