Some recent cakes, enjoy :)

And... more cakes!

VW van cake 

Gerber daisy wedding cake

The Honey Pot cake with fondant figures and dogs

Architect cake

EURO-SPEC CAKE

From start to finish with out the hours of work! If you're up for a challenge try a carved cake.

Step one was to build the structure to support the cake. If I could guess, the finished cake weighs somewehere around 50 pounds so making sure the support system won't crumble, at the worst time of course, save heartbreak from happening.

Now it's time to build. As you can see, the bottom half of the cake is chocolate and the top half vanilla. The two flavours are separated by a layer of fondant and then a cake cardboard. There are wooden dowels in the chocolate layer to support the vanilla cake. Don't try to make the cake pretty, your goal right now is to get the rough stucture to look like a semi truck.

Starting to look like a semi truck!

It's now time to make it look pretty. Once you've crumb coated the entire cake cover it in a thick layer of butter cream. Chill it for about half an hour then smooth it out by placing a layer of plastic wrap on the area you want to smooth out and gently rubbing with your fingers. Now the fun starts. If you are working from a model, take the most prominent features and translate them to the truck.

Now the fun starts. If you are working from a model, take the most prominent features and translate them to the truck.

The finished truck. Now the scary part, delivery! Let's hope the truck survives it's last trip before demolition!

You Want Fries With That?

These are so darn cute and sure to be the hit of any party. Inspired by Bakerella, www.bakerella.blogspot.com, one of my favorite sweet bloggers, I made these for a baby shower. To make a long story short, the little baby who later turned out to be a boy, was nicknamed "Little Burgers" so these were perfect.

How To:

The bun is a white cake, the patty is a brownie and the icing is colored buttercream. Bake your favorite white cupcakes and remember to sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. Once they're cool you can either leave them as they are or use a ring cutter (or a glass if you don't have ring cutters) to straighten out the edges. Slice them in half and move on to your brownie.

Bake your favorite brownie recipe, mine is the following:

Brownies

Sift together and set aside:

1 cup flour

¼ cup cocoa

½ t salt

Melt together:

1 cup butter

6 oz bittersweet chocolate

Stir into chocoate:

1 ½ cup sugar

1 T vanilla

4 ea eggs

1 cup nuts (optional)

Sift in the dry ingredients and pour into a greased 13x9 inch pan. Bake at 350F.

Once they're cool use a slightly smaller ring cutter then you used for the buns.

Make your icing and fill three different piping bags with yellow, red and green. Dab some icing on the bottom half of the bun so that the brownie stays put. Top with brownie and decorate with the icing to look like mustard, tomato and lettuce. Top with the bun top and you're done! Easy peasy!

If you want fries with that, make a sugar cookie dough, roll it out and cut it into strips. Toss the strips in sugar and bake until slightly browned.