Mini-Cakes

I've got to say that mini-cakes are my favorite to make. They take much less time to make and they are SO CUTE! I decorated them with pink petunia flowers. I got a mold online to make the petunias. They were so easy to make and look so pretty. I also added some pink pearl dust to make them even prettier.

Tip: Do not use commercial buttercream out of those little tubs for cake decorating! It was impossible to work and it was so runny it made it difficult to decorate. I thought it would be ok because it was only going under the fondant but that made it difficult to cover it. The fondant did not want to stick. I learned my lesson!

Basket Cake

This basket cake was one of my most recent cakes. The weaving was very tricky. I somehow went from making my weaving nice and tight to gapped and crooked! But, once I finished it up I couldn't really see all the flaws in it.

These roses were my very first attempt at making a fondant rose by hand. I made the petals one by one out of little balls of fondant. It took a LONG time. Shortly after I purchased a rose petal cutter which I am currently using to make some roses. I am very excited about learning how to make realistic looking roses.

Wilton Castle Cake

This was my favorite cake until recently. I covered it with stars and made a shell border for it. I didn't have enough time to finish it in cake class but I finished it up at home by adding some flowers. The little flowers added so much to it! It was also my first attempt at making fresh buttercream. It was so delicious! The bucket that Wilton sells tastes awful. People usually picked it off the cake. My in-laws were the first to taste it and they loved it. My family ate the rest of it!

Second Cake: Wilton Roses

This is my second cake. The assignment was to make the rose and transfer it onto the cake. I thought it was hard to make the rose but it was so much harder to transfer it onto the cake. Sometimes it looked amazing on the nail and as soon as I took the scissors to the base, it fell apart. I think this cake looks pretty good...from a distance. I was very happy with my shells!

First Cake

This buttercream cake was the first cake I made on my own. I was so proud of it! It took me forever to learn how to frost it and I kept getting crumbs in it the whole time. Out of the whole cake making experience, I've got to say that frosting a cake is my least favorite.

I used strawberries to decorate it. I like the symmetrical look.

Strawberries were the wrong way to go though because the liquid from inside it went all over the place and even dripped down the sides!

Look at how pretty it looks when it was cut. I'm sad to say that I haven't done this nice of a job getting the frosting all evenly distributed since.

I always wondered how people got their cakes to look so smooth. I finally learned that the trick is to put hot water on your spatula and the heat smoothes out the buttercream.