Wilton Cake Course 1

This course was super fun! I can't wait for the second course to start up next week. 

We got to play around with cupcakes, and learned how to do the cute little 'swirl' that some bakeries are so famous for. And then we made the little 'furry mum' flowers :) 

For the last week we decorated a cake using all the techniques we learned throughout the course. 

I had to share my 'semi-successful' FIRST rose :) 

It was super fun :) 

I haven't been doing many things on my own lately, but as soon as I do they'll be posted!! 

Thanks for reading!

xoxo~Katie

Random Little Blurb...

I don't have a lot to say about this post, but I wanted to share my first image transfer :D
We learned this fancy little technique in the Wilton Course 1 class. I know I will definitely be using this clear piping gel in the future!

We put some wax paper over a design in the booklet, and then piped clear piping gel over the outline of the little cupcake. Then, Oh so carefully.... You flip the wax paper over onto the cake, and then EVEN MORE CAREFULLY.... you pull the wax paper off, and it leaves a little outline of the cupcake for you to follow. :)

It was cute and fun and simple. I can't wait for next week's class! We're going to learn how to do some buttercream roses.

This cute little cake was just something my mom and I did for one of her friends at work. Diaper Cake! Isn't it adorable? I should have thought ahead of time and taken a better picture before she wrapped it in the cellophane, but you still get the idea of it. And who can go wrong with ELMO???

Lego Cake!

So.... Cute little Angie Farr has THE MOST adorable little boys ever. And one cute little guy turned 6 last week! So, She asked me to make him a Lego cake :)
I had my mama make the cakes while I was at work on Wednesday, and then as soon as I got home from my Wilton Cake Decorating class on Thursday, I stayed up all night and got this cake looking like a Lego!

Now.. I know most Lego cakes are rectangular, but I found square Wilton pans at WalMart for cheap, so I used squares instead of rectangles! And then of course, you can see I used marshmallow halves as the little connector dots.

I could not for the life of me get this frosting to smooth out! I even tried a couple tricks I learned in my class that night. But when I looked at the time and saw it approaching 1 am, I just had to be done with it or else I was going to go crazy!

She said he loved it, so that's good enough to hear after a failed frosting night. Happy Birthday Kyler!

Superman Cookies!

My lovely cousin's birthday was a couple weeks ago, and I promised her I would make some Superman cookies to make her birthday super!

Ever since I seem these on a couple different blogs, I've been dying to try them out myself. 

I was excited when I realized Amanda and I were the perfect candidates for these cookies!

I hand cut them, and then once baked and cooled, I used a decorating marker to trace out the shield's S. 

Then of course I got to use some royal icing and create these awesome cookies. 

I shipped them to her clearrrrrrr in Idaho! Luckily she was able to still eat them and they were yummy even though two of them cracked a little in their travels.

Happy Birthday Amanda Mae! 

Her cute baby girl liked the cookies too ;D

Thanks for reading :) I'm taking a cake decorating class from Michael's, so I'm sure the cake we're making next week will be my next entry ;) 

Wish me luck!

xoxo~Katie

Cowgirl Cake!

To start off... I'd just like to say that a swamp cooler and fondant do NOT go together...

It was way too warm in my house for this fondant to set up properly. I was fighting with it the whole time, and I had to have my mother dearest text her friends from work in the Costco Bakery to give me pointers half the night on what to do with this sticky fondant!

I have looked at it for far too long, so I'm not exactly thrilled with how it turned out. But the cute girls I made this cake for said they loved it. :)

Just don't look too closely ;)

I made my little accessories out of fondant too. The cowgirl belt was probably the easiest.. ( only because my mom actually rolled it out and cut it for me ;) ) And we found the cute little felt hat down in our Christmas decorations. It had a cute little finishing touch to the cake. 

The stars and horseshoes were a little bit tricky with all the silver food spray I put all over them. And as you can see, my fingerprints took most of the spray off. BUT.... I did stop off at WalMart on my way out to Veyo to pick up some more spray (since I ran out) and I touched up the horseshoes and stars in the parking lot before I delivered the cake :) I just forgot to take better pictures :/

So.. If anyone wants a fondant cake... I'll have to remember we need the A/C on before I attempt to start any fondant making!

Again.. Don't look too closely at all the details.. :x

Happy 14th Birthday Girls!!!

Until next time! 

Go Chargers!

To celebrate Jaden's 13th Birthday.... He got a Chargers cake!

I don't know much about the Chargers, but their colors are yellow and blue with a lightening bolt as their sports mascot.

So... Erin and I were looking through 'Charger Cakes' on Pinterest and Google, and we came up with the idea of making a curved lightening bolt cake! Go figure!

It was super fun to make, and it was also a pain in the butt since I'm so stinking short!

I had to get on a chair to see over the top of the counter so I could make sure I was making the lightening bolt look the way it was supposed to look. 

I started out with 2 sheet cakes, and I had the batter colored yellow and blue, then I just marbled them together, like so:

I was getting anxious while making these since it was around 8pm. So I already had the other cake in the oven when I took this picture.

After they were baked and cooled, I put them in the freezer between sheets of parchment paper.

I was worried that the sheets of parchment paper would stick to the bottoms of the cakes, but when I peeled them off, they came off perfectly! Such a great minuscule detail when working with cakes.

So I cut the cake layers into a LIGHTENING BOLT.... And once I had my two layers stacked on top of each other... it looked like a puny little cake. So I had the grand idea to piece together the rest of the cakes I had already cut into. And I was able to get 4 layers out of my 2 cakes!

The marbled effect on cakes is just so awesome to me! :D

And of course, we can't forget Jaden's jersey number! Jaden #17!

His mama said he loved the cake, and it was the perfect amount of cake for all their party guests!

Happy 13th Birthday Jaden!!

Thanks for reading :) Now to go post my latest girly cake!

Oh My Heels!

If anybody knows me.. They would know that these cookies are.. ME TO A TEE! 

I love high heels.. My mother likes to pretend I don't have this crazy love, but even she knows I can't help it when.. I buy new high heels.. And nail polish. And makeup... Ahem..

At least these ones were edible!!!!!

I also have this sick obsession for wanting a pair of $1,000+ pair of Louboutin high heels....

That's where I got the idea to do these fancy high heels. The ones that have the red soles are Louboutin inspired. :D

Yeah, I know it's crazy.. But just browsing images of Louboutin heels feed my shoe addiction for me. ;)

I found images that I wanted to use for my cookies, and I printed them, then cut them out and laminated them so I could get the perfect sized high heels, nail polish, lipstick, and perfume bottle outlines. 

Then I just whipped up some royal flood icing, and got busy creating girly cookies!

Ever since our Kitchen-Aid broke.. I've been having to use the Bosch a bit more. And while I love it and all it can do.. It just doesn't give me the right consistency for my royal icing. I think I might have over whipped this batch before I added my colors and what not. So they didn't dry as smoothly as my other cookies have before. I'm keeping my eye out for a new Kitchen-Aid! (Christmas/Birthday present idea??)

These little circle cookies were just for fun.. They didn't have any great link to the Louboutins or the make up.. Although now that I think about it.. They could easily pass as blush pallets? Who knows!

Thanks for reading! After this overwhelming GIRLY project.. I'll proudly announce that I have a football cake to make this week! :D Wish me luck!!!

Cake Pops!

I made my FIRST 'official' cake pops!

I've never caught on to the secrets of how to make 'smooooooth' cake pops until I tried a handy little trick I learned from HomemakerChic. 

Before, all my little cake balls looked sad and deformed as I would roll them in chocolate with a spoon.

Now.. I bought some handy little sticks at WalMart in the Wilton section, and made them into little cake POPS!

I followed the easy steps from HomemakerChic's blog, and found myself with some cute little yellow cake pops. They were supposed to be little bumble bees... But the chocolate was running too quickly out of my piping bag to get the black stripes look cute and 'bumbly'. So I have for you.. Yellow cake pops with black stripes! I'll go for that!

I got tired of rolling out little balls.. So I just went with a variety of sizes since it was just for fun and no particular theme.

Dip the sticks in chocolate before putting them in the cake so that the chocolate forms a sort of glue. Who woulda thought that was such a brilliant idea to keep the cake from sliding down the stick!

My first one was a little.... Yeah... I had to be fast on my feet to get the stripes to resemble something cute.

I hope I have inspired you to go make a cute batch of cake pops now!

Thanks for reading!