Cupcake Madness
14 Jul 2011 8 Comments
in awesome, buttercream, cake, cricut, cupcakes, epic, fondant, friends, love, projects, three tier, wedding Tags: 200 cupcakes, baking, Blog, cake, chocolate, colorful, cupcake tiers, cupcake wedding cake, cupcakes, cute, deocorating, diy, fondant, food, friends, fun, girly, wedding, wedding cake tower, yellow
Okay, some of you know where I stand on cupcakes. I’m not a fan. Of making them. (Big fan of eating them, however…) They’re time consuming and painful, literally! Have you have piped swirls on cupcakes? Hand cramps!
Anyhow, my friends know this, but they also know I can’t help myself and I love a challenge. So I was given the challenge to end all challenges… 200 cupcakes for a wedding. TWO HUNDRED.
The best part was when I realized I only owned one cupcake tin… that would have been an issue. Can you imagine me making 200 cupcakes 12 at a time? lol! Thankfully, I hit the thrift stores and found two and my wonderful mother in law let me borrow a 4th. I was all set!
Just another day in paradise. No big.
The second best part was when I was baking and suddenly realized “Wait… Why do I have so many leftover cupcake liners..? I thought I bought 3 sleeves of 75… but I’ve only used a sleeve an maybe half… OH NO.” I only bought enough stuff to make 100 cupcakes. Fact: I am AWESOME at math. (NOT)
Ok, so I went to the store and got the rest of the supplies lol. I had bought enough of some stuff and not enough of other stuff. Because I’m, evidently, only selectively bad at math.
In the end it all worked out and everything came together wonderfully. I admit to using the phrase “cupcake hell” at one point, but I can admit I was completely thrilled to see them all done and frosted.
I also made this little stand and cake to go with the set as a center piece. I used my Cricut Cake to cut out the heart and boarders!
So… the moral of the story, I think, is do the math twice, shop once. Or… something like that.
And… buy a big piping bag, or you’ll end up cutting a hole in the powdered sugar bag and using that until it explodes.
Also, anything worth doing is worth doing right!
Oh, and I hope you’ve gotta big trunk… cuz I’m gonna put my cake in it…
Who wants to help clean?
Like this:
Naughty and Nice
07 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in awesome, badass, buttercream, cake, candy melt, chocolate, fondant, friends, orange, party, pink, polkadots, three tier, yellow Tags: bachelorette party cake, baking, birthday, Blog, bra cake, cake, carriage cake, chocolate, colorful, corset cake, cute, diy, fondant, orange, pink, princess cake, underwear cake, white, Wordpress, yellow
I just want to say… this cake was great haha. I loved making it. I actually think I sort of got out of hand with it and went a little overboard. It was only supposed to be two tiers, but I threw a third on top and added a few extras.
This cake was for a bachelorette party and needed to be good mix of naughty and nice. Princess and underpants lol.
What a great cake! I think the little bra is my favorite. I created every little piece by hand and it was tons of fun!
The girl who ordered it from me got my name from the girl who ordered this cake from me. In October of 2009. 1.)It’s crazy to me that I’ve been making cakes since 2009. and 2.)I can’t believe how cute that cake was considering at that time I’d only been making cakes for like 6 months or something. that was also my very first attempt at zebra cake, which, as most of you know, is now like “my thing” which I feel I have completely perfected. Awesome sauce. All around.
Mystery Machine Birthday Cake!
30 Jun 2011 7 Comments
in birthdays, buttercream, cake, cool inside, family, fondant, kids, love, movies, party, pink, rainbow, sliced cake, tv show, two tier, zebra cake Tags: airbrush, baking, birthday, Blog, blue, buttercream, cake, children, cute, deocorating, diy, food, friends, fun, girly, kids, mystery machine cake, scooby birthday, scooby doo cake, tutorial, tutorial tuesday, van, vehicle, Wordpress, yellow, zebra cake
My niece Sophia turned four this year! So crazy how fast the time flies.
Last year I made her this cake:
This year she’s obsessed with Scooby Doo. Some one suggested I make the Mystery Machine and as much as it stresses me out to make vehicles, I decided I could make this happen lol…
I baked the cake for the van in a bread loaf pan sort of like this one:
Then I stuck it in the freezer for a while to let it get hard so that I could trim it down a bit without it falling apart on me. The cake itself was a hilarious idea that I had to add half a package of strawberry jello and a few handfuls of fresh diced strawberries into my cake mix! (IT WAS DELICIOUS)
The bottom cake was tiedye zebra cake :) (See how to make this type of cake here!)
That cake was gone in like… a split second haha. It was eaten about as fast as I could cut it! I think I cut almost 30 slices out of it all and there were only two left over! I call that sweet success! ;)
ps… someone send me a google+ invite!! plasticshakeupsnow@gmail.com
LOL
