The month of August has brought on some new challenges in the cake department. We revel in challenges and in learning new techniques. We helped celebrate the end of a softball season, a new little baby girl's baptism, an impending wedding, and a surprise birthday party. We made mistakes, had major beef with the humidity affecting our icing, and found ourselves at odds over the thickness of a cake. This month has been a month of learning and growing and CAKE!
Here is a cake sample for someone who was interested in our new little business.
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White cake, buttercream icing. |
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I tried out a new piping technique with the icing roses. I think it turned out quite nicely. |
To end a season of softball on a sweet note we made a softball jersey.
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White cake with buttercream icing colored to match a similar counterpart. |
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Which one is real? :) |
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Our next project was for a sweet little one's baby baptism.
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You will have to humor me with the amount of pictures of this cake. It was definitely a favorite of mine! The bottom layer was chocolate and the top was yellow cake. Simple pink colored buttercream with buttercream border and pearls. |
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Fondant cross with fondant flowers. |
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We fell in love with pearl luster dust, coating the flowers and the cross and even the buttercream pearls! |
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Here you can see why we have beef with the humidity. Thankfully, with some very gentle hands, we straightened out this little crease. |
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Our next project is pretty self explanatory. It was someone's birthday. Guess her age...
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Dark fudge chocolate cake (yum!) and almond icing (extra yum!). |
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Now these are some fabulous birthday colors! |
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Our last cake of the month was for a bridal shower. Just beachy...
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White cake with buttercream icing and white chocolate shells with a special trick (brown sugar) for sand. |
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Our fancy "shell border". I know this is probably not funny to anyone but me, but I cracked up the whole time while applying these little chocolate shells. I did a shell border out of icing for the top and a "shell border" out of real shells. Come on now, its funny right? |
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Best tasting sand you will ever find. |
This bridal shower cake is even more exciting because we are also doing their wedding cake in just 2 weeks!! We are both thrilled to be able to help celebrate their marriage.
Tip of the day: My Gilmore Girls education has taught me to say congratulations to the groom and best wishes to the bride. Now don't forget it!
I hope August has found each of you well and I hope your week starts out sweetly simple!