High Heel Cupcakes!

Last week on my day off, I tried my hand at making high heel cupcakes again!  They turned out just as cute as when I did one for Regan's cake topper!

I whipped up a batch of home made cupcakes and spent some time working on my cute little high heels!

Using the Pirouette cookies worked MUCH better than using the Twix bar. And they turned out pretty cute too. The ladies I took them to as little treats loved them :)

I will definitely be experimenting different shoe styles in the near future ;)

Thanks for reading!

Two Tiered, Orange & Pink Zebra Cake!!!

Kara and I made our very first fondant covered cake! And we made it into two tiers! We were pretty darn proud of ourselves! It was super easy to do, and so much fun!
I was half expecting this cake to take us ages to do, and a few long nights, but we got it done in 3 nights in about 3 to 4 hours each night. I'd say we did pretty well on our timing!
Regan, the cute little 12 year old that we made our cake for, told us her favorite colors were "Sunset Red and Peach." Sooo... we got as close to peach and sunset red as we could. It turned out more pink than red, but it still looked cute!
We  made two 14" and two 9" round cakes to stack on top of each other for our tiers. With a vanilla pudding filling in between the four layers, and a cream cheese frosting to coat the outer layer of the cake before we put the fondant on.

9" top layer!!!

Yay for fondant!!!!

Our first time working with rolled fondant! :D

So pretty and smooooooth!

14" bottom layer!

Yay! We did it!

While Kara was rolling fondant and showing off her muscles, I did some playing around with a high heel cupcake. We thought it'd be a cute cake topper for Regan, so we found different images on Pinterest and created one of our own.

The base of the heel was a graham cracker covered in white chocolate.

The heel part was a Twix.

And then of course a cute little cupcake in Zebra printed paper.

Pink Sparkles!

Ta-Da!!!!

Then we rolled out our orange and pink fondant, and started making zebra striped to place on the cakes.

We rolled what was left of the fondant up into little balls to make "pearls" around the cakes.

I cut out letters from fondant for Regan's name

Placing the high heel :D

Our cute little accessories we decorated the cake with

Had to put a tiara on the heel for the Princess!

Yay!! We did it!! It looks so darn cute!!

Happy Birthday, Regan! She loved the cake, and she said it tasted wonderful! Everyone at the party agreed!

This was so much fun to make, and I'm soooo very excited to keep making new cakes and cupcakes every week! Wish me luck!

I Scream for Ice Cream!

I made my first attempt of an Ice Cream Cake last weekend..... As you can see, it didn't turn out the greatest. But it still tasted yummy!!!!!

I found a recipe for a sherbert layered ice cream cake in a Taste of Homes magazine, and thought I'd give it a try. I have always wanted to make an ice cream cake, and this was definitely a learning experience for me!

I started out by making my VERY FIRST white cake from SCRATCH! Oh my goodness.... It was delicious. I don't think I'll ever go buy another cake box again. And it was so simple! 

So once I had my cake made, in my 2 8inch round pans, I let them freeze for about 30 minutes before slicing them in halves to make 4 layers of cake. Now.. This was my first mistake. I should have popped those bad boys back in the freezer for a little longer when I could feel the cake being a little spongy. 

If I would have done that, I think I would have seen the white layers of my cake rather than the Raspberry Sherbert Ice cream that ran through the cake, coloring it all pink!

I used a spring loader pan to hold my cake layers together while they froze with the sherbert between the cake. 

Once I took it out of the freezer and unfastened the pan, I was left with this:

Looked a little ugly, but I wasn't complaining when I could taste how sweet and rich the cake was.

I then frosted it with another frosting recipe I tried from the Taste of Homes book.

And then I had to make it a little pretty.... We only had a box of Sprees in the cupboard when I went scrounging in the pantry for something decorative.

Andddd Wa-La!

It wasn't very pretty, but it was still yummy!

Oh, and on a side note... Ice Cream cakes aren't meant to be consumed the next day... Invite some friends over to help you eat it up in one night so it doesn't get freezer burnt! Yuck!

Thanks for reading! :) Stay tuned for my next cake adventure! 

I'm going to try making a two tiered cake for a coworker's daughter's birthday!

It's gonna be fun!!!