Blue Birthday Cake

A simple birthday cake for a friend who celebrated her 25th birthday.  Colored the cake blue since it's her favorite color.  I didn't have much time preparing for this cake thus the simple design. Used the quilting technique and also tried the scallop crimper I bought a long time ago. It was my first time using it so I wasn't quite sure how to gauge it. So I made a mistake trying it out and crimping the edge of the cake directly. A disaster!! So to cover it up, I rolled out fondant and did the crimping on it and attached it to the top and bottom edge. :)

I made a decent looking flower to put it on top. The only regret I have here is I didn't use the script letter cutters.  Oh well! What do you do if you have only a couple of hours to do the cake. hehe.

Anyway, what's important is the celebrant liked it!  Cake was chocolate with vanilla buttercream icing.

Barbie Doll Cake

Finally, I was able to make a doll cake with matching cupcakes.  Another one to check off my "want to do" list of cakes.  Took me a lot of hours to make these but it's so worth it in the end. I love how this cake/cupcakes turned out though I had some mistakes and frustrations while making it. :)

First time to use this kind of baking cups. It's pretty cute but quite expensive.  Not minding the price I went ahead with it since I thought it will look nice and complete the design when put on the stand together with the cake.  And it did!

I made a mistake of putting Barbie in the cake first before covering the skirt with fondant. I was too afraid that if I pull Barbie out that the cake will collapse.  Second mistake was due to me getting impatient... I brushed the dust on the fondant where some of the spots are still wet.  So the dust color didn't blend well and left some dark uneven streaks on some part.  Notice the white flowers by the waist? That's my attempt to cover that mistake. Ugh! But overall I am still happy and pleased how this cake turned out.

Made some butterfly and flower accents for the cupcakes.  I dusted all butterflies and flowers using Wilton's dust color in pink and periwinkle. Also used some blue pearl dust.








Cake was chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing. Will definitely do this kind of cake again if and when I get that chance.

Cupcake Stand

Made a cake/cupcake stand for a little girl's birthday party this Saturday.  Mom and little girl requested for flowers and butterflies in colors blue and pink.

I followed this tutorial on how to make this cupcake stand.  Thanks, Baking and Caking for Beginner, for the crafty DIY idea.   And special thanks to my godson for the two empty baby formula cans. :)