LEGOLAND!!!

 

I found another excuse to make another cake this weekend! My brother and sister-in-law and their family came in to town to visit us and to take their kids to Legoland! So I decided to make them a Legoland cake to add to their excitement. I tried out a new strawberry cake recipe for this cake and everyone said it tasted good, so I think I might keep this recipe in my collection. The little lego man was my favorite part. My nephew was so excited to eat his head though!…He was laughing while putting it in his mouth slowly and chomping away.

Happy 1st Birthday Luke!

 

I was so excited to get my first cake order here in California this weekend!! Thank you so much Kristie for the opportunity to make your little boy’s first birthday cake! This cake was so fun to make and I was very happy with how it turned out. The bottom cake is a 10” vanilla with strawberry frosting and the top tier is an 8” lemon with buttercream. The “smash” cake for the birthday boy to play with is a 4” banana cake with strawberry frosting. The only problem I had with this cake was the buttercream frosting was a little thin once I colored it blue so it had to be refrigerated until it was ready to be delivered. But all in all it turned out great! I was so anxious on the entire drive over to the birthday house trying to make sure the cake didn’t fall over while my husband drove, but everything worked out just great! I can’t wait to see what my next cake request will be…

Sprinkles Cake!

 

I finally found an excuse to make my first cake here in California! Yay! I have been wanting to try out a few things and I took the pleasure of doing so on this cake. The fondant I used to cover this cake is homemade Marshmallow Fondant. Yes, a fondant that actually tastes good! I tried this fondant once before in Hawaii but did not like it at all, but I think it was just the humidity in Hawaii that made the marshmallow fondant very stretchy and almost melty. But it worked perfect this time here in California so I’m very excited about that! This was also my first time making a bow for the top of the cake. I had some trouble with the bow the first time I tried it because I made the bow loops out of marshmallow fondant thinking the fondant would dry and hold it shape, but after two days of waiting for the marshmallow fondant to dry it still would not hold its shape as I tried to put all the loops together. So I had to start over and the second time I made the bow loops out of gumpaste (I think next time I’ll try a mixture of gumpaste and marshmallow fondant together) and they dried very nicely.  The sprinkles them was for my 7 year old nephew James who loves sprinkles! The cake was a new chocolate pound cake that I wanted to try out with a chocolate buttercream filling. Although it’s not a rich chocolate cake like I was hoping, it’s still good, and it has a lighter chocolate taste that people who aren’t chocolate fanatics might like. My husband who does not like chocolate said he really likes the cake so I’ll keep it in my recipe pile to use. All in all I learned a lot of great things with the cake and I’m happy with how it turned out!