Father's Day

My dad loves Boston Cream Pie, so of course I'm going to make him Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes for Father's Day.  I ran into only one problem, I totally forgot to make them, so I had to make them that day right after church, which isn't the worse thing in the world.  But I am so glad I forgot, because I have never made custard before, so my mom and mema helped me out with that one.  I would have been totally confused when it asked me to temper the eggs lol.  So the wisdom of tempering eggs has been passed on to the next generation in the family and I can now make custard (which my husband is very excited about).  The cupcakes turned out amazing and my dad loved them and he wants them for every Father's day, always and forever. 

Spring!

I love Spring!  The smell of fresh cut grass, beautiful sunny days, blooming flowers all around....and allergies! :)  This cake was totally Spring inspired from the design to the colors.  The cake itself is a strawberry cake that is AMAZING, thank you Martha Stewart, and the icing is buttercream.  The lady I did this for just told me to do something springy, and I believe I accomplished just that.  It was my first time to make a "basket" out of icing, so yet again another challenge that was most welcomed.  It turned out good, but I am sure with practice I'll be an amazing icing basket maker.

Tough ol' hussy

One of my friends, bless her heart, lost her dad and her mom within about 2 weeks of each other.  She's been going through a rough time, but she is getting stronger each day.  For her mom's funeral she wanted me to make a cake, because her mom looooooved cake.  Awesome huh?  No only did she want a cake, she wanted it to have raspberry filling (only one of my favorite flavors in the world).  Well that brought on a challenge like no other since I've never made any type of filling what-so-ever, but this a journey of trying and discovering new things so I thought I would give it a shot.  Oh my goodness!  What an awesome scientific experiment, I loved it! Once I melted the frozen raspberries, I had the strain the seeds and I thought to myself, uhhhh is this going to be enough??  Well once I added the cornstarch/water mixture, it became enough!  It was amazing!  Baking is awesome, nuff said.

The best part of the cake though was the writing my friend wanted on it:  "She was a tough ol' hussy".  When she said that I was like ok you need to explain this one.  She told me that when she was little her mom asked her, "when I die, what would you put on my gravestone", my friend replies to her "she was a tough ol' hussy" and that has stuck through the years.  She wanted it with flowers on the top, because who doesn't love icing flowers right?  So voila!  A wonderful cake for a wonderful lady! 

German Chocolate Cupcakes

So back in May a lady I work with wanted me to make a cake and cupcakes for two other coworkers that graduated at the end of May.  Unfortunately I did not get a picture of the cake (my coworker got one and I'm still waiting for her to send it to me), but I did get a picture of the cupcakes I made, which were, as you can tell by the title, German chocolate cupcakes!  My first time ever to make anything German chocolate.  They turned out pretty awesome, and the presentation wasn't too bad either :)

                                                                               

Camo

A few weeks ago, this lady I know, Kristi, emailed me and asked me about a local stores cakes and what designs they have and if they could do a camo cake.  I know from experience that they did not have what she was looking for so I told her that if she sent me some ideas I would combine them and create a cake for her son's birthday.  So I ended up making a white cake with chocolate buttercream icing (made the "tan" for the camo).  She wanted camo colors around the edge and that was a huge experience.  I've had to learn how to mix colors to get what I want and  which food color is the best.  I was finally able to, with the help of my husband, mix the food color and icing to make the camo colors!  My sister baked the cake and she did a fantastic job!  Using a #22 tip I decorated the edge to look like camo and the effect of the tip made it look grassy.  So when we got to where the party was, Kristi put little army men and a tank around the edge, it looked awesome!  (I will post a picture when I get one!)

Cupcakes

Who doesn't love cupcakes?  I am in love with these little cakes!  Last night I made a chocolate cupcake with a marshmallow cream mixture in the center.  They are so good and they were even better today than yesterday.  They are really moist and dense, with a little marshmallow treat in the center.  I have so many different recipes for cupcakes, that I am sure I have what you are looking for.

Big Show

My friend that I work with asked me to do a cake for her son that just turned 4.  His favorite WWE wrestler is Big Show and she wanted a cake that she could put a Big Show character on.  The base cake is a white cake and the little 6" round is a strawberry cake.  Buttercream icing is used in between the layers and on the outside of the cake.  This was my first experience dying icing, since I've worked at Sam's Club all these years, I'm use to having all the colors at my disposal, but now I have to do it myself.  It took some time, but I think I got the colors right.
Excuse the mess on the counter :)