Thomas the Train Cake

So I ended up making a simple chocolate cake for my birthday, I didn't even decorate it really. I just covered the cake in icing and chocolate ganache. I didn't have time to go all out.

My cousin called me last minute and she wanted a Thomas the Train cake for her son's 3rd birthday. Normally I would have said no since it was such short notice. But I felt bad, I'm such a wuss. I have a hard time saying no, especially to family. Her son is allergic to dairy and eggs so she needed a vegan cake. I knew if I didn't make the cake for him, he wasn't going to get any cake at his birthday party. And I couldn't let that happen.

I decided to try a new recipe I found here.

I wasn't able to taste the cake since I'm allergic to soy but my cousin said it was "Delicious!" :)

Anyway here's a picture of the cake.



It was vegan vanilla cake with guava fruit filling. I cut out Thomas with SCAL. I used the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for the grass. For the lettering I used the FMM Funky Alphabet Tappits.

I think it came out cute, even though I didn't have that much time.

Happy Birthday to Me! :)

Its my birthday in three days! I'm going to be 24, I feel so old. Lol.

Anyway of course I'm going to make my own birthday cake.

If I manage to steal my sister for a few hours, I'll take some cakes basics videos to show you how I make my cakes.

I still haven't decided what kind of cake I'm going to make. I just know it has to be chocolate.

Normally I have all these ideas of what I can possibly make. I use my birthday to experiment with cake designs. That way if it comes out ugly, I'm not too disappointed.

But this time I have no idea :(

I bought some new PME Daisy cutters so I'll have to incorporate that somehow.

Wish me luck.

Jessica Rabbit

I made this practice cake this week, just because I wanted to play with my cricut machine.

At 1st it gave me a really hard time. I was fighting with the cricut all weekend. Everything I tried to cut kept ripping. It wasn't making the nice clean cuts it used to.

I was ready to pull my hair out and throw the machine against the wall.

When my boyfriend suggested I change the blade.

Why didn't I think of that?! As soon as I put in the replacement blades it cut perfectly. :)




I just love the way it turned out. Its sexy, but elegant.

Little Ballet Shoes

My little cousin was turning 11 this weekend so I made her a small birthday cake.

She's taking dance classes to I wanted to do something really girly.

I used the Cricut to cut out the ballet shoes, I love the way it came out.

It was chocolate cake, filled with strawberry swiss meringue buttercream, fresh strawberries and chocolate ganache. Soo Yummy!

She loved the cake so much she refused to let anyone cut it :)

Here's the cake




Since I've started useing the Cricut for cakes, I'm surprised at how fast and easy it is. I love my Cricut!

A Rose Cake

It's taken me a while to post this cake pic, mostly because it didn't come out how I wanted it to.



I made it for my grandmothers birthday two weeks ago. It was supposed to be a two tier cake with a giant rose on the side. Sort of like a Ron Ben Israel design I saw.

Unfortunately I cut to much from the bottom tier and the top tier didn't fit :(

My grandmother was happy with it, but she would be happy with anything I give her.

Here's the look I was going for.



I need more practice on my roses. I'll have to think of another excuse to make this cake. Practice makes perfect :)

Sugar Beer Bottles

So a few months ago I uploaded two videos on how to make a sugar bottle mold and how to make a sugar beer bottle.







Now Dominic from www.makeyourownmolds.com posted a new set of videos that puts my videos to shame :)

You guys should check out his youtube page http://www.youtube.com/user/MakeYourOwnMolds

Enjoy :)

New Cake Toy!

So have I mentioned lately that I have the best boyfriend ever. Hes awesome!

He bought me a new Airmaster KopyKake Airbrush. It arrived today, just in time for some cakes I have to make this weekend.

I've been wanting an airbrush for such a long time. Its gonna take my Cake Decorating to the next level. :)