Welcome to our blog!! We are learning to decorate cakes and loving every minute of it!! Join us by following our journey of designing and decorating cakes! Thanks for your interest and let us know what you think of our cakes by leaving a comment! -- Margie and Joy

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Happy Birthday Becca!!

Inverted Gift Box Cake
Becca's birthday cake is an inverted gift box cake.  Her favorite colors are blue and brown, so we used geometric shapes out of blue and brown with a marbling affect.  We would have had more brown, but we ran out of brown food coloring (one thing we forgot to check when shopping).  The top tier cake is a triple dark chocolate wedding cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.  (We had ganache that was suppose to be in the middle of the cake layers, but decided to eat it on the side with the cake this time.)  The smaller bottom tier cake is an orange cake with orange cream cheese frosting.  We experimented with an orange curd that had a candy orange taste, and did not match the flavor of the cake. So again, we did not put it in between the layers.  Fondant covers both tiers with blue and brown fondant colored shapes to decorate it. 

This is an interesting cake that a bride showed me.  We wanted to experiment and see if we could do it. This is a small scale of the original and also simplified, for the sake of practice and experimenting. And although you can see it here and it doesn't look too bad, there are a lot of problems we ran into.  We need to learn how to do seams in fondant, because each corner has a seam that we could not work out.  It is also not completely even, although we measured and remeasured!!  There are so many angles to work with and think about, that it would be hard to get this cake perfect!!

Overall, this was a fun experiment and we were happy with our final product!  Happy Birthday to my sweet daughter Becca!!

Sponge Bob Cake


Danny M. wanted a Sponge Bob cake for his fifth birthday.  Having never watched Sponge Bob, we had to do a little research to see what he looked like and what other ideas we could come up with.  The simple thing would be to go and buy a $5 toy or cake topper and be done with it.  But, we like to learn new things and experiment with any new techniques we can find.  We saw a LOT of cakes online, but we didn't like any one cake.  So, we made up our own idea combining a few things from different cakes we saw.  Our Sponge Bob is actually a piece of cake that has been completely decorated with colored frosting to give it a 3d look.  The 'sand' is a mixture of brown and white sugar.  Joy did the sugar, green seaweeds, and yellow shell.  I made Sponge Bob.  The cake was a marble cake with buttercreme frosting.  Happy Birthday Danny!!

We have a few cakes we made in the past month... (Ben's birthday cake and a cake for a workmate of Chantelle.) But since I can't find my camera, I cannot post pictures yet.  Hopefully we will get them up in the near future!!