Good News Everyone!
20 Jan 2012 1 Comment
in birthdays, buttercream, cake, chocolate, cool inside, Dayton, epic, fondant, party, projects, tutorial Tags: baking, bender cake, bender head, birthday, Blog, cake, colorful, deocorating, diy, fondant, food, futurama cake, how to, how to make a bender cake, tutorial
Well, it’s my very own birthday on Monday. I’ll be… twenty- eight. Woo. I had a brief moment of panic lying in bed last night thinking about how tragically old I am and how I’m going to be ancient and dead any time now.
Then I realized I’m not even 30 yet and I’m making myself a cartoon birthday cake and I’m going to drink like a 21 year old tonight. Then I felt a little better.
Anyhow, on to the cake!
My favorite show of all time is Futurama. And my favorite character on that show is Bender Bending Rodriguez!
So, first of all, this is my birthday, and I’m the cake chick… so my cake has to be awesome. I started with 6 layers of cake. Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla!
I leveled them and stacked them.
This thing is like a foot tall and weighs a ton. I stuck it in the freezer for a bit before carving it.
This was not an icing job for the faint of heart. That’s for sure. All that exposed cake is hard to frost without tearing if you aren’t experienced and using the proper tools. I had to keep heating my spatula in hot water, it turned out well though.
I set it in the fridge to cool a bit while I rolled out the fondant.
My fondant ended up with a weird line in it from when I rolled it onto the rolling pin, but it’s ok, his eyes will cover that.
I mixed up some of my edible silver and painted the whole thing.
Then I added a mouth, which I drew on with food color markers.
Starting to look Bendery! Also, I added his antenna which is part of the dowel I pushed into the cake to keep it from sliding around. It’s just a wooden rod I covered with fondant on top.
I’d LOVE to show you my process of making the eyes, but it was a mess lol. First, I cast eyes out of white chocolate, but they turned out to be too small… so I went with these. It was okay, but the visor was really hard. I ended up sort of stacking two fondant ropes around the eyes. It’s not perfect, but it worked. I also made a cigar, of course.
“Happy Birthday meat bag!”
Happy birthday to me! I planned on cutting it into pieces of each flavor, but who knows, maybe I’ll take the first slice and get a bit of each ;)
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My Little Slice of America
04 Jul 2011 4 Comments
in blind bob's, Dayton, off topic, ohio Tags: america, american, biking, Blog, city, Dayton, downtown, history, ohio, Wordpress, wright brothers
So, it’s the Fourth of July and what better time to tell you all about the place I live. I had a wonderful weekend. We biked on some of our area’s hundreds of miles of connected bike trails (we rode probably close to 100 miles in the past three days), we went to a baseball game at our local minor league baseball stadium, we visited the United States Air Force Museum (the largest in the nation!) and we spent a lot of time with friends, family and well… a lot of time catching up one some much needed sleep!
So, let me tell you about my wonderful slice of America… Dayton, Ohio!
This is where I live… the Cannery Lofts!
This is my wonderful kitchen where I get to create my cakes!
I really love Dayton because it feels small enough to be a community, but large enough that living downtown feels urban and fun.
We have amazing architecture and a huge love of the arts here in Dayton.
Our sky line might not be massive, but gosh it can sure look pretty!
We have SO much history here in Dayton. The Wright Brothers did so much for our city and the world! They created amazing bicycles and invented the airplane! This all happened just blocks from where I live! Now that’s awesome.
We have a minor league baseball team, the Dayton Dragons. There’s not much more American than baseball!
Riverscape has so many wonderful things these days. We have concessions, fountains, spray grounds, amazing landscaping and awesome views.
And of course, it’s the entryway to most of our amazing bike paths!
We have the Oregon District… a great little district of shops, bars, restaurants and art galleries.
I work here at Blind Bob’s on the weekends.
And I work here! At Hauer Music!
Tonight we went to an all American BBQ at Blind Bob’s and I baked, decorated and brought in some festive cupcakes!
I rode them over to the bar on my bike!
The next time you think Ohio sounds boring, think about all the amazing things Ohio has done for America and all it has to offer!
These are a few of my favorite cakes…
21 Apr 2011 1 Comment
in awesome, badass, darth vader, Dayton, dude cakes, epic, family, fondant, friends, guinea pig, guitar cake, manly, musical instrument, party, plane, projects, star wars Tags: baking, birthday, Blog, cake, colorful, cute, deocorating, diy, fondant, food, friends, fun, Wordpress
Over the past couple of years, I’ve made a LOT of cakes. More than I could have ever imagined that I would make! It’s been awesome and it’s always hard to pick favorites because I just love them all… but I love it when I step and back after finishing and cake and really think WOW that cake is awesome. These are some cakes I’m super proud of. It’s funny because I’ve often asked people which of my cakes were their favorites and it’s fun to see people’s opinions that are so different from mine!
So, here are a few of my favorites! It was hard to even narrow it down to these!!!
I still can’t believe I made Micah a giant flying v cake lol… or that I was able to create that adorable little humming bird… or that I managed to piece together that tiki cake.
I just love making cakes. It’s such a joy!!!
