What's Coming Up?

I have a few orders coming up! I have Texas Longhorns cake to make next week. It will be shaped like the UT Longhorn emblem and covered with orange butter cream. This one will be pretty easy, I hope!

I also have a birthday cake for a fan of True Blood to make. I could get really creative here. I don't want to do a gory vampire cake though. I've never watched True Blood. I can't find any fan cakes on the web. (Google fail!) Even though I've never read or seen any of the Twilight series I like how there is easy imagery to adapt into a cake. I've been trying to figure out some imagery for a True Blood cake. I may have to try to watch it so I can be truly inspired.

I do have an idea to do something with a Southern Gothic theme. I've been researching that genre tonight and still don't have any good ideas. When I think Southern Gothic I think of mossy trees and foggy bogs, not anything that I can translate into a pretty cake.

It will be fun to try something creative here.

This is the Xbox controller cake I made today. It turned out pretty cute. I was nervous because it is my first carved cake. It is made out of chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream and fondant controls. I'll post some better pictures later. I took this one with my phone.

This is my latest cake! I tried to keep it simple in every way. I think I could have done a better job but I will always think that about my work. One thing is for certain: making this cake taught me a lot!

It is a chocolate devil's food cake with vanilla buttercream icing. The icing tasted really good! It wasn't at all difficult to make either. I know I don't want to buy the pre-made stuff in the bucket as it was easy enough to whip up a batch (or two!) of this.

The food colors I used weren't quite as saturated as I had hoped they would be but I still think the colors are cute together. Even after all the equipment I have invested in I can see how I need a lot more! I need to work on my piping skills as well. I think that I just need more practice.

I had envisioned myself making a lot of really cute fondant cakes but no one I know likes fondant! It's really expensive and it tastes pretty bad. I need to just stick to working with buttercream and maybe use the fondant sparingly for some decorations.

Next up is a cake that will look like an Xbox controller. I'm super excited about this cake and I think that it is going to be really cute. I will post some photos of it on Friday, so check back to see them!