Cupcakes by Holly

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Happy Birthday Cali!

I had to borrow one of Julie's pictures... I was so surprised when Cali asked for the "3" part of the cake when there was a whole Tinkerbell!! Haha, maybe its because the 3 sparkled so much!

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Declan's Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake

It turned out pretty cute.... I will try and take better pictures tomorrow at Declan's party, I was just using my phone to take all these pictures (Brian had taken off with my little canon camera!)

The making of the Lightning McQueen Cake!

So.... be proud of me, I finally moved away from 'the box' of cake mix! I found an amazing chocolate cake recipe on another baking blog I read and it is just awesome. I baked a couple batches of the cake, threw them in the freezer and then started putting everything together (I highly recommend freezing your cake especially when layering because it makes it soooo much easier to handle large sections of cake without breakage)

Ah yes, chocolate cake, chocolate icing and cherries.... yummy!

Top layer on... again, frozen cake... super easy to put on!!

I tooth picked down my photocopied stencil to cut out the car shape for the top of the cake.... frozen cake is super easy to cut and it hardly leaves any crumbles, nice clean edges.

Since the cake is cartoony anyhow, it was great to ice backgrounds without worrying about things being smooth! I wanted the mountains to have movement.

So the background is butter cream... and for the road, I formed it out of chocolate icing, which is stickier than the butter cream, so the Oreo cookie crumbs would stick and look more like a nice asphalt road.

If you are wondering how I got my cake plate so clean after working with Oreo crumbs.... haha... I got out the vacuum... :) (totally not joking, I did!!)

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Prep for upcoming Birthdays!

Declan and Cali's birthdays are coming up... Looks like disney is popular! I found the characters online, printed and enlarged, then traced on rice paper with edible ink. Declan's birthday is up first, can't wait to get started on his "Cars" cake!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Babies!

I made baby cupcakes for the "Welcome Sophie & Olivia" lunch we are having tomorrow at Mom's. A while back, Mom gave me a can of powdered gum paste and I thought it was time to mix it up and give it a shot! They turned out pretty cool... my only concern is the flavor and texture as the gum paste gets pretty dried out and there isn't a lot of icing on the cupcakes. They are cute either way, I will take more pictures tomorrow when they are set out on the table!