February already?

Well, the month of January absolutely flew by... After the craziness of graduation and Christmas, I moved to a new city for a new job and have a new routine...

So I've just been busy adjusting and have enjoyed every minute of it.  It was time for a change of scenery :)

Anyway, here's proof that we actually did get around to making those Christmas cookies I mentioned before... It may have been after the fact, but my niece and nephew couldn't have had more fun.

And since then, the only other thing I've managed to bake was for our Super Bowl party...

more football cake bites... requested by Chris and Allen.

35 footballs gone in 2.5 days. I'd say they were a hit.

Pretty in Pink

This weekend had me busy making cake, mini cupcakes and tons of cake bites for a shower honoring mommy-to-be and her baby girl!


The vanilla cake was filled with fresh raspberry buttercream and frosted in vanilla buttercream.

(Below is the guest of honor :)

I was disappointed when the icing "puckered" a little on the side, but it wasn't too bad I guess... (see the bottom tier)


Thank you Becky for taking pictures for me! (In my mad rush to get things dropped off, I decided to forget trying to get any good ones myself)
Anyway, from what I hear, the shower was a success and the Mama-to-be was very pleased :)

Now... back to my "puckered" icing problem. Is there some recipe for buttercream that goes on more smoothly?
How do you get your icing smooth? I am open to suggestions if anyone's got any! I am getting better at it with time, but I know there has got to be someone who has a little trick up their sleeve!!!

Thanks!

Happy 4th of July!

I made cupcake pops for the first time, aren't they cute!? A little cupcake on a stick. . . of course it's cute :)
I got the idea from Bakerella, the only difference is, I used the peanut butter cup mold (like she uses for her cupcake bites) instead of molding the cake with little cookie cutters. I just put a hole in each candy cavity for the lollipop stick, filled it half way with chocolate, then secured my cake bite on top. Once dry, I pushed the stick with the cupcake bite on top out of the mold, and then dipped the top in candy melts. Finally, just top them off with sprinkles and your done!



And here they are all packaged up in cellophane bags and satin ribbon. They are off to a fourth of July BBQ!
Hope everyone has a good weekend :)

A Present Cake!

I finally got the chance to make a present cake. I've seen them everywhere! The pink, green and polka dots were picked by a mother for her daughter's birthday. The fondant bow was a first so it took some time to get it right. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out though!

It's an 8 inch, double layer white cake with vanilla buttercream. I sliced each layer into 2 thinner layers to fill it with more buttercream. Mmmm!
Lastly, I made her a dozen carrot cake bites (carrot cake dipped into white chocolate). Then I just packaged them with ribbon that matches the cake.

I hope she enjoys them! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday William & Grace!

Two of the kids I keep had their birthday this week, William turned 3 and Grace turned 7!
They both love cake bites so that's what they got from me! Will's always playing football and baseball so I attempted to make some out of cake... except I realized too late that I had no red for the details on the baseballs so they didn't turn out :(
But here are the footballs!

And I'm sure he didn't mind eating the plain white cake bites that were supposed to be baseballs!
Gracie asked for blue cake bites with pink flowers on them... This is what I came up with:

I made the flowers out of melted white chocolate tinted pink. I just piped the flower on wax paper and once it was dry, put it on top of the cake bite with a dab of melted chocolate!
Happy Birthday Grace! You too Will! I love you both :)

Sweet & Simple

These red velvet cake bites and pink vanilla cupcakes are for my grandmother. She turned 78 today :) Happy Birthday Mimi!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I made 65 iced sugar cookies & 48 red velvet cake bites for 1st graders and their teachers. A cookie for each student and . . .





. . . a half dozen box of red velvet cake bites for each teacher!

More Cake Bites...

Cake dipped in chocolate. Could a cake bite be any more delicious?

Actually... yes! As if choosing any type of cake (chocolate, butter recipe, german chocolate, carrot, red velvet, etc) & any type of chocolate (milk, dark, white, mint) isn't enough, why not add toppings!



I topped these cake bites with chopped nuts, crushed toffee, coconut flakes and white chocolate. MMM!

Here Comes Baby Cohen!

My sister's best friend, Kim, is about to have a baby boy! I was honored to help cater her shower. I made a two-tier cake, iced sugar cookies and 75 cake bites!



The sugar cookies were really fun to make... the possibilities of shapes & colors are just endless! I will be doing more of those in the future for sure.

Cake, Cake Bites & Cupcake Bites!

I came up with this two-tier cake design by looking at several wedding cakes. A smaller version of a wedding cake of course! It was butter recipe cake with chocolate ganache filling and buttercream icing tinted pink. Piping in chocolate buttercream. Sweet and simple!



I did coordinating cake bites and cupcake bites. These are simply cake rolled into balls and dipped in chocolate. Milk chocolate and white chocolate tinted pink! Everyone just loves these.



The cupcake bites I learned from Bakerella! She has the cutest ideas and I always want to recreate them :)