My oldest son wanted a Harry Potter cake. We decided to do Hedwig, Harry's pet owl. After a lot of internet searches we came up with this:
I used three different cake pans. The base of the cake is an 8 inch round cake. Then the body was baked in my Pampered Chef batter bowl - which is comparable to the Wilton Wonder Mold pan (the one to make barbie cakes). Then the head was baked in an oval pan I got from the 2 Wilton class, in my class kit. I just used a knife to make it kind of bean shaped. I stacked the cakes together, with frosting in the middle and put a dowel down the center. Then I crumb coated it with butter cream. I then used almonds for the face and belly. Cashews for the beak and claws. Peach o's where the eyes with recees pieces in the middle. The ears were white chocolate fudge oreos, cut in half. For the rest of the feathers, I used the Wilton leaf tip (which I do not use to actually make leafs) and piped long feathers layered around the body. End result: a very happy 6 year old!
I got a chance to do another Cars cake last month. I wanted it a little different than the one I already did, but keep it similar since they loved the original. I also got to make a smash cake as it was for a 1 year old. As usual it was chocolate with butter cream.
Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese and cherry filling with cream topping and sliced almonds!
My son changed his mind all month on what type of birthday cake he wanted. About a week before we settled on a Cars cake from the Pixar movie. This was a fun cake to make. It's all chocolate with butter cream frosting, candy, and real cars from the toy section at Target.
Once again, I have a new favorite cake. This is the Rose cake from I am Baker blog. I would love to do it as a wedding cake - I think it would be so pretty.
This is a Chocolate Mousse Crunch Cake. It was amazing. The cakes was devils food cake, with chocolate mouse filling and a ganache topping covered in toffee bits.
This is a chocolate fudge cake with strawberry cream filling. It is covered in MM fondant with gum paste stripes and mickey mouses. Also the whimsical gum ball boarder made it the hit of the night with all the kids!
These are cream soda cupcakes with brown butter frosting and toffee bits. I should have got into the cupcake groove much earlier. These things are so tasty and fun to make!
These were ordered for a Toy Story Birthday Party. I found the instructions from the Family Fun Magazine website. Funfetti cupcakes with butter cream frosting, mentos eyes and green sour straws and sour easter jelly beans worked into the ears and antennae.
So after visiting the many popular gourmet cupcake shops I have decided to give cupcakes a try. so here are the A-mazing pineapple cupcakes topped with pineapple cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut.
