Cupcakes!

I recently went home for Christmas and got into baking and decorating cupcakes. I LOVE IT! It's a lot less batter, mess and less waiting to decorate when they are done baking.

I made three types of cupcakes: a red velvet cupcake with creme cheese frosting and peppermint garnish, a banana cupcake with banana butter cream frosting and caramel/fried banana garnish AND a gingerbread cupcake with butter cream frosting (perfect for the holidays). They all tasted amazing and looked great! Enjoy the photos below!

Turkey Day!

Made a delicious chocolate cake for Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

Thanks to my friend Mikey's Mom for sending me her DELICIOUS double chocolate cake recipe. This one turned out amazing!

Pepe's Birthday Cake!

All I can say about this cake is....Pepe?
Last summer, we threw a party at my place for my friend Pepe's birthday, which happens to land on July 4th. We enjoyed some food, drinks and awesome fireworks from the roof of my parking garage.

SO, for Pepe's cake, it was easy to decide what it would be. Pepe drives an ORANGE (sunburnt) care, so every time some of our friends see a sunburnt orange car, we post a "Pepe?" photo.

Needless to say, there are many albums that have "Pepe?" cars in them on Facebook.

The cake pan I used was awesome. It was shaped like a car and it actually cooked evenly throughout the whole cake. The chocolate cake mix I used tasted great as well.

After the cake was cool and out of the cake pan, it was time to frost and decorate! We colored the fondant (orange of course) and laid it over the cake. Then we made little decals to place on the cake so everyone would know it was Pepe's car and not any other sunburnt orange car.

Hope you enjoyed your cake Pepe! And I hope you had a wonderful birthday.

Little Bro's 21st Birthday!

My little brother Gage had his 21st Birthday on May 26th and I was lucky enough to go home to Utah before my summer tour started. It was great to hang out with my family, but best of all, great to spend a whole day baking and decorating a cake with my wonderful Mom!

We rolled out a TON of fondant and started dying it four different colors. This cake was going to be COLORFUL! My Mom was very good at making sure all the tones were perfect, thanks Ma!

We made a 10" cake and a 7" yellow butter cake. The butter cake turned out very dense and super moist. We covered those cakes in homemade buttercream frosting (Mom's recipe) which ended up making this cake super delicious!

We took all of our awesome colors and laid them out in pieces to create a camouflage look. My brother is a hunter and loves to take his truck off-road so I wanted to add some special personal touches to his birthday cake.

All of the pieces were together and the fondant was ready to roll (pun intended). We laid it on the cake and smoothed it all out. It was looking awesome! We added some personal touches and it was ready for the party!

Ta da! The little trucks and pine trees added some fun details and the camouflage turned out pretty cool too (I think!) After we got it all done, we brushed it off and put the candles on. Everyone came over to my Mom's for the party and LOVED the cake! I hope you enjoyed it little bro. Happy Birthday!

Cake for the Queen!

It's birthday month and I made a pretty queen cake for my friend Chris! We like to call him the 'QDQ' so I thought he could only have a cake good enough for a queen!

So I made 3 chocolate cakes and covered them with vanilla icing. This cake was HEAVY! But it ended up tasting amazing and looking pretty cute! Enjoy the pictures below

Happy Birthday Chris! I hope you loved your cake!

Delta Lambda Phi Neophyte Ceremony Cake

On May 8, my fraternity held a neophyte induction ceremony for the theta pledge class. This was very exciting because it was the neophyte ceremony for our first pledge class and I was really proud of all of the work they've put into this semester. So what better way to award my little pledges than with a CAKE!

I made a french vanilla cake with buttercreme frosting. This was my first covered square cake and I think it turned out great! Here is the finished product:

The cake before icing and fondant

Ta da! I painted on the lettering and dyed the fondant that nice deep green color

Congrats to my new neophyte brothers! I'm really proud of you guys and I hope you liked the cake!

I'm posting this as I make the cake for my friend Chris' birthday, so look out for another cake post soon!

Phoenix Pride 2010 Cake

My second cake was made for a small get together at my place over Pride weekend this month. Instead of coloring the fondant this time, I wanted to paint it, which actually turned out to be pretty fun! I also did something interesting my Mom told me about and colored the batter to make the inside of the cake very colorful. I must say, this turned out to be a pretty gay cake (and in a good way!)

The cake ended up tasting FANTASTIC (white cake with buttercream frosting) and it was moist and colorful. All-in-all I was very happy with how it turned out!

Special thanks to the boys of Las Cruces for helping me with the paint job!!

The batter getting a "dye job"

The Pride Themed paint worked perfect on the white fondant

The insides turned out great and it obviously tasted great too!

So I hope everyone enjoyed their Pride weekend in Phoenix as much as I did! Enjoy the cake!