Are you ready for some football… cake?
16 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in brown, cake, chocolate, dude cakes, fondant, kids, manly, party, stars, two tier Tags: baking, cake, cleveland browns cake, cute, deocorating, diy, fondant, football cake, fun, kids, sports
Okay, so most of you know I don’t know much about sports. I usually have to do more googling when something involves sports, vehicles or gaming. Thankfully, I know what a football looks like… I might not be able to tell you how football is played or basically anything else about it, but I can properly identify a football in a line up. So that was a good start.
Lori found me online, which is awesome. Since this is a side hobby for me, I just sort of rely on word of mouth and friends to spread the word about my cakes. So when google did me a solid and brought my page up for Lori, the stars sort of aligned for us and we started emailing back and forth about this cake.
She pretty much gave me free artistic reign on this one, which was awesome of her because I got to figure out what I was going to do. I did a few sketches and set to work. I baked two 8″ rounds for the bottom tier and then two 6″ rounds and a 4″ round for the top tier. I stacked the 6″s and and the 4″ and started carving. All I knew was that I needed it to look like a football!
When it came time to cover the football, I tried cutting triangular strips of fondant to lay on the shape one at a time. It soon became evident this wasn’t the key here… I had to strip the cake down and try something else haha. The pieces needed to be triangular at the top, but flare out in a rounded way in the center and bottom. Once I figured that out, I was golden. I added the stars because, after all, this was for a 6 year old. I didn’t want it to be too serious!
Lori said Lucas loved the cake! And I love this candle arrangement! Happy Birthday Lucas!
Don’t forget my own birthday is coming up next week! And I have a very fun Futurama theme planned! Just you wait!!
Also, here’s a shameless self promotion for you to check out my personal blog for a very dear to my heart story about my husband!
He’s lost 125lbs in the past 365 days!
Story here! This post is full of photos, tips, food suggestions and more!
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The Star Cake
28 Jul 2011 3 Comments
in awesome, birthdays, black, cake, cool inside, fondant, kids, party, sliced cake, stars, zebra cake, zebra print Tags: baking, birthday, Blog, buttercream, cake, children, colorful, cute, deocorating, first birthday, fondant, food, pink, star cake, star cake pan, Wordpress, zebra cake, zebra print
I always love doing repeat business! To me, it’s a huge compliment and I feel super lucky to make cakes for the same great people I’ve made cakes for in the past.
I had already done a bulldozer cake for little Atreyu’s 2nd birthday and now it was time for his sister’s 1st birthday!
I even got to add a new pan to my cake arsenal for this one!
I wasn’t sure exactly how to level this thing haha, but I worked it out.
It was a great zebra cake inside. I was pretty stoked on how bright the colors came out.
The exterior was awesome as well. :) I tried a new technique with this since I wasn’t sure exactly how to cover the star with one sheet of fondant, plus, we wanted the panels to be different colors. So I cut panels of fondant to attach at each corner.
Perfect!
Super happy with how it all turned out! Can’t wait to make another star cake!
Also, I love that this cake included two of my favorite things to do with a cake… zebra cake and zebra stripes!
A HA!
16 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in aha, fondant, pink, purple, stars, zebra cake
I got this email last week
Hi Tiffany,
I work for the company that is producing Mutual of Omaha’s “proud sponsor of life’s aha moments” campaign– visit www.ahamoment.com to see what an aha moment is and the great real stories we filmed during the campaign in 2009.
Associated to that, we have a 34-foot Airstream mobile film studio that is traveling the US on a 25-city tour to capture the country’s aha moments. We are headed to Dayton next Monday, July 12th & Tuesday, July 13th, and would love to invite you to share what lead you to begin teaching yourself to decorate cakes, and how your life has changed since. I came across your blog and think that you would have a great story to share! You would just have to step into the Airstream studio for a few minutes and tell your story on film, which would be posted to www.ahamoment.com .
We would love to have you if you are interested. We will be parked at The Victoria Theatre on Monday, July 12th (11am to 7pm) and Tuesday, July 13th (11am to 7pm).
Let me know as soon as possible and I can reserve some time for you, thanks!
I was excited and when they asked me to bring a prop that represented my a-ha moment, I made a cake, of course!
The inside was purple and white zebra stripe. I can’t wait to get my link to my interview to post here! (Could be up to 30 days)
