Cake Mama: 1 year old birthday cake

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Mickey Mouse for Abe

Vanessa and Danny requested their son's 1st birthday cake from Cake Mama. I came out of retirement for this one because - how could I not? I had done the cupcakes for Vanessa's wedding shower and this is just too fun - to make a cake for their son a few years later?

The huge Disney fans they are, they requested a Mickey Mouse cake for their son, Abraham. White cake with cream cheese frosting and a rice krispie treat Mickey hat made the cake.

They had a beautiful late summer day for the party!

This was Abe's first "sweet" food... He's clearly not sure what to make of this.

The first taste?

Mmmmm! Heaven!!!

Happiest of birthdays to you, little Abe! Can't wait to celebrate many more with you!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

They Call Him Moose

Can I just say that I love doing cakes for Kristie? I get a fun message like this from her,

"Christian is nicknamed "moose", so I thought it would be fun to use that as our theme. I then thought maybe using Rocky and Bullwinkle would be fun. So that's as much definition that I'm providing. Beyond that I want you to go crazy! As for flavors, I'm not sure if this is possible, but some sort of play on Moose tracks ice cream flavor would be fun."

And here were the plates that they were having at Christian's party. She thought going with blue and green on the cake would be a good fit.

So first, coming up with a Moose Tracks flavor cake was a fun one for me. I love Moose Tracks ice cream and had to incorporate vanilla, fudge and peanut butter cups into a cake. Challenge accepted. I opted for a vanilla cake as the base, so the layers were as follows: Cake, buttercream with chopped peanut butter cups, cake, chocolate fudge, cake, buttercream with chopped peanut butter cups, cake. I frosted the outside with more buttercream. I'm salivating as I type this.

Now, going with "Moose" or "Bullwinkle" was a fun prospect as well. I made the Bullwinkle topper out of gum paste and fondant and added the stars and ball border with more fondant. I know that Christian's big sister, Clare, would surely be a fan of those!

I think this one turned out cute! The colors could not have been more festive. I hope that Christian had a great birthday celebration! I can't wait to hear about the flavor of the cake. I hope everything worked well together!

Happy Birthday, Christian!

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Eloise and the OMBRE Cake

It happened. It finally happened. My good friend Kate requested this beautiful pink-shaded rosette cake for her daughter Eloise's 1st birthday. I later discovered that this cake was referred to as a type of "Ombre" cake, named after a style of hair. Anyway, I was SO excited to do this cake!

For the amount of people that she was hosting for the party, I recommended a 10-inch cake and 24 cupcakes. She wanted a yellow cake and chocolate cupcakes and that was perfect for the coloring I had to do!

So I started out with yellow cake batter. I used Martha Stewart's recipe and it was absolutely delicious, tender and moist. I started with the darker colors first and finished with the lightest. I split each batch of batter (I had to make two) into two pans. They didn't bake as long and they made smaller layers, but there's no waste; no dome to cut off.

After I finished with the four shades of pink cake (only two are shown), I stacked and crumb-coated the cake using the most delicious buttercream frosting I've ever had. No shortening. Pure butter. And no confectioners sugar either! It called for granulated sugar. It was amazing...oh so creamy. Not gritty AT ALL! LOVE this stuff!!!

I stacked them starting with the darkest color on the bottom, working up to the plain yellow cake on top.

Then I decorated the outside of the cake using Wilton tip 1M. I made rosettes in each of the shades of pink to correspond to the shades inside the cake. .