Sweet Heart Cupcakes

Cake pops morphed into cupcakes..much easier.

Gumball Machine gone Lovey for Valentines Day

150 of these sweets for my sweeties. 

I took my original design and added red, white and pink ball sprinkles and a candy heart on top.  As well as a larger heart sprinkle on the fondant base.  Definitely a practice of patience to wait for the cake pop to finish dripping especially when you know you have many more to go. 

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!!

Gum Ball Machine Cake Pops

I'm not sure if there's more sprinkles on these or my floor, but my 18 month old didn't mind  helping to clean them up :)
Yummers for everyone I guess!

Star Wars Lego cake

I tried to take as many pictures as possible to demonstrate the steps involved. This cake was a good challenge because of the Lego aspect and the fact I knew very little about Star Wars...that's changed.

Ta da!

The lower tier is a 10" blue raspberry vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing filling...sounds yummy already. The top is a 6" chocolate cake with caramel and chocolate chip buttercream icing. I use Marshmallow fondant which does a beautiful job of sealing in moisture and giving the cake a clean look.

My Light saber factory. They look simple but took a lot of patience. Once dry after assembly I dusted the handles with silver petal dust.

Fondant Lego piece body parts. I used lots of Google images and added as much detail as I could because you know that 9 year old who lives Star Wars will notice.

Darth Maul gave me the creeps even without arms and a weapon.

Obi Wan and Darth Vader await assembly.

Luke Skywalker, R2D2 and Qui-Gon Jinn hanging out to dry.

Here's the gang.  Obi -Wan, Darth Vader, CP3O, Luke, R2D2, Darth Maul and Qui-Gon Jinn almost ready.

A Debbie Brown technique to applying fondant.  An alternative to drapping.

Measure and cut a perfect piece then roll it on,  flawless really except for the tricky seam to blend.  Now I'm loving the light sabers :)  worked perfect to hide the imperfection.  try to spot it!

Her technique provides a great product but requires a topper piece.

So I did airbrushed silver with star cutouts, some later to be filled in with coordinating black stars.

Fondant ready to go on the 10" cake that was 4" high. So it had to be at least 20 x 20 .  This is a very good arm workout. 

Went on great, always measure and mark all reference points.

I love airbrushing it beats kneading colour in forever only to be left with streaks.

Bases are done....now to add the fun.  This is the best part when you get to see it all come together. 

The gang is good to go, weapons and all.

Now he really scares me with arms and double ended saber.

Notice Darth Vaders already taken Lukes right Lego arm.  Thanks Dad.

Poor Luke.

Some more Character shots

Some Final cake shots

And roughly 20 hours later it's done and ready for a party.

  Enjoy Chase and I hope your cake is one you'll always remember as being super Yummers.

Lady Bug Pinata

Fun, Fun - Not a Yummer but it did inspire the rest of the Party.

This was a "no smash" version, it's cleaner and the birthday girl got to keep it. I've also re-used this style for multiple parties!

Lady Bug cake

Update 2011.02.04 - better pictures

 The bottom tier was vanilla cake (white and pink) with buttercream icing, Nice and simple so the birthday girl could have some. The top was chocolate cake with chocolate chip butter cream in the middle. The lady bug centers co-ordinate with the cake pops along with the chocolate leaves. The ladybug piñata tied the theme all together and it all looked so sweet at the party with all the lime green and pinks.

Lady Bug cake pops

These sweet little bugs were vanilla cake pops covered in pink chocolate with fondant heads and antennas. Transport to the party was tricky as it was -30 C and the chocolate leaves and antennas were soooo fragile. These were inspired and modeled after the piñata. So much fun to co-ordinate it all. It's so nice to attend the party too and see how it all comes together. Better pictures to come--- maybe without plugs :))

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY ISLA!!!!