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! 

4 Tiered Fondant Cake: 18th Bday!

First of all... Happy 18th birthday to my sweet sister Kallie, and happy 13th birthday to my cute brother Brody! They had a pretty awesome day yesterday, as they do every July 6th together. Cute little birthday buddies!

So anyways, as you all know.. I've been trying new and different things with CAKE. So when I seen a cake from The Shaky Baker, I just HAD to make it in orange for my sister. She's been in choir for 7 years, and she's played the piano for even longer. I knew the music symbols and the piano design were perfect for her!

So I started out with my favorite cake recipe from scratch, and made 8 cake batters... Yes.. You read correctly.. EIGHT. I had no idea baking big cakes was going to be soooo much cake! But it was worth it!

My first bottom layer came out looking like this...

I almost cried.. But then I let my other 3 layers sit in the pan to cool for a little longer before I popped them out, and they looked just fine. But on the next set of 4 layers, I was sure to put more Cake Release in my pans.. Just in case ;)

I made 4 batches of fondant for this mega cake too. I used a new recipe.. and it was FABULOUS! I found it from Veena's Art of Cakes. My best discovery yet with fondant making. The two white ones I made were perfect. But when I made the two orange ones, and the one black, they were a bit sticky while I was forming them in a ball to sit over night in the fridge. I had a little trouble rolling them out though. I'm not sure exactly what I was doing wrong.. they might have been too dry. But I got cracks and tears in my fondant once I put it on the cake. 

I know it was my first time though, so I was a little forgiving. Practice makes perfect, right? So I'm going to keep practicing, and hopefully I'll be able to figure out where I went wrong. 

I made little goat poops for the pearls around the cake.. lol we have a baby goat.. So when I started rolling the black fondant in little balls.. OBVIOUSLY someone was going to make that connection. 

My sad attempt at free drawing a treble clef. 

Happy Birthday Kallie Bug. You're the best sister there is. Love ya!

Thanks for reading, if there's any suggestions anybody has on fondant making.. PLEASE let me know :) I love advice!

Until next time!