Some more Disney

This cake was fairly small cake, nothing fancy, a single tier, yes some decoration but nothing off the wall. Well for being such a small cake it came with BIG problems. For starters the fondant didn't come out the yellow I wanted, and the fondant was tooooooo soft. I had to keep going back to add more sugar, which set me back some time, but it was all worth it. I love how it came out!

The pot originally had a lid, but since the fondant gave me so much trouble it didn't make it. I think it looks way better without the lid. The pot itself was carved from two eight inch round cakes. The cake was cold so it made it easier to carve. Once carved I covered it with strawberry jam, and then with a think layer of brown marshmallow fondant. I added a rim on the top and bottom made from fondant. The Wilton Alphabet Cut-Outs were used to write "hunny" just the way Pooh writes it. The layer of yellow fondant to look like honey was just rolled out as messy as possible. The honey was the last thing I added.

The round cake was a 10'' round cake filled with strawberries, which is my favorite if you hadn't guessed by now, covered with blue fondant. Again the fondant was tricky and laborious. I used the Wilton Cut-Outs three piece set to cut out the flowers. I also used the round three piece set to make the balls around the cake. I used the cutter to sort of get the same size balls.

The pooh face was the easiest part to do. Using the Pooh Cake Pan and Wilton Candy melts in white, and their Pooh Collection Icing Color pack. I died the white candy melts using the Pooh Color set, i dyed some yellow, and some black. I then used a piping bag to pipe in the black chocolate on the facial features like eyes, mouth, nose and eyebrows. Then once that dried a bit I piped over and filled in just the face portion of the cake pan with the yellow, popped in the refrigerator and 10 min later I had a Pooh chocolate face. I then just affixed it to the cake and the cake was finished.

Hope you enjoyed the cake! XOXO

Vasty's Birthday Cookies

My friend Vasty had a birthday dinner and I wanted to surprise her with cookie favors for her guests. She loves shortbread cookies so I decided to attempt them. This was my first time working with shortbread and I must say it was very time consuming and harder to work with than sugar cookies. But they were sooooo good!

I wanted to do something different from what I am used to. So I used photoshop to create a logo. The logo read: It's My Birthday! with a cupcake with a candle in the middle, and at the bottom it said thanks for coming with the date. I then ordered edible transfers from Fun Cakes For You . Holly was so amazing, she printed, cut, and shipped the transfers to me. I was a little worried because it was last minute but they were amazing.

I glazed the cookies with white royal icing, added the trasfers, and then piped a border with royal icing and sprinkled sugat crystals from Wilton around the edges. I finished them up by bagging them and adding a ribbon to them.

Shortbread Recipe (Joy Of Baking)

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups all-purpose flour
   
2. 1/4 teaspoon salt


3. 1 cup (2 sticks) unslated butter, softened


4. 1/2 cup powdered sugars


5. 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. In a separate bowl whisk the flour with the salt. Set aside.


2. In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), cream the butter until smooth (about 1 minute).'


3. Add the sugar and beat until smooth (about 2 minutes).


4. Beat in the vanilla extract.


5. Gently stir in the flour mixture just until incorporated.


6. Flatten the dough into a disk shape, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill the dough for at least an hour.


7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees with the rack in the middle of the oven.


8. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.


9. On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick.
   
10. Cut into rounds or whatever shapes you wish using lightly floured cookie cutter.


11. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet and place in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. This will firm up the dough so the cookies will maintain their shape when baked.


12. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes, or until cookies are lightly brown. Cool on rack.

• Makes about 20 shortbread cookies.

Basketball Fever

Hello Everyone! Well with basketball fever still in full swing, I decided to try out the Wilton Sports Ball Pan. It's a fantastic, fun and easy pan to use . I used this pan for my sister's boyfriend's brother's birthday(that was a mouthful)!

I used an 18 Wilton star tip and also their orange and black icing color. The frosting is from PuraWhip that I picked up at Smart & Final.

For the cake you only need one box of your favorite cake mix.

I got lots of compliments as this was my first novelty cake attempt. Hope you enjoy!

Here are some more pics: