Tarheel Cake!!!

Go Heels!!!  

Tarheel cake and basketball cupcakes...

Iced in buttercream icing with fondant accents!

Care Bear Cake!!!

This is a very special cake, I made it for my niece Lylah! 

I must say it's one of my favorites! 

The Care Bear Cake....

This cake took quite a bit of prep time.  I made the rainbows four days in advance assuming they would be dry and stiff enough to hold there shape when placed off the side of the cake.  I would recommend a little more time, even though they were dry and pretty stiff, another day or two would have been better.  They were not as firm as I would have preferred so...

 I had to come up with something!!! 

But what???...

I was getting ready to have a moment, when my husband had a suggestion that saved the day!!!  

Thanks Jake!!! :) 

I had some chocolate melted that I had used on the cake pops, so I put some on the bottom side of each of the rainbows and let them dry for a few minutes and it worked!  Yay!!!

 Don't judge, I know you have moments too, it's allowed! ;)

I also made the bears a few days in advance so they would hold there form also.  The most difficult part of the Care Bears was getting the head in the right shape.  Following that are the details, if you have ever molded a character you know details are very important.  Something as simple as eye placement can throw off the look of the character if not placed correctly.  So details are important. 

      Care Bears....

      

      Above is Love-A-Lot and below is Funshine Bear...

       

          They aren't perfect, but I thought they looked pretty good! :)  

                 The Cake...                                       The Smash Cake...

 Matching Cake Pops...

The party was fantastic and everyone loved the cake, including

The Birthday Girl! <3

Blues Clues Cake!

Here is a cute little cake that was so cool to make...

Details...

All details and Blue are made of fondant. 

Making Magic!

Here is a magical cake! 

 Not only was it fun to make, but this cake also won a Cake Boss contest!  I was one one of two winners in NC for the Baking with the Boss contest! It was very exciting!  I got to meet Buddy the Cake Boss!
 The other winner in the NC was Jaclyn Logan!  She rocks too! :)

Buddy and I

Eiffel Tower Cake Topper Tutorial!

Finally, I am finally getting it together! :)  Here it is!  The tutorial for the...

 Royal Icing Eiffel Tower!!! 

You will need:
*Royal Icing (in the color you prefer)  I used black.
*Your decorator bag and tip. ( I used round tip #3)
*16 pieces of wax paper (you should do a few extra of each section in case some break or crack)
*Tape (to secure the wax paper over template)
*Your template.  (posted below)

Now, you may want to turn on some music and get into your zone!  It's time to make awesomeness happen!

* Get supplies together and make Royal Icing.
Royal Icing recipe: ( I use Wilton's recipe)
http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Royal-Icing

* Print the template, I found this one in Google images, and printed it.
You can print it four times if you prefer, but I only did it once.  I just gently slid the template out from under the wax paper after I was done with each one.

 After printing, I cut it into the four sections listed. You will pipe each section 4 times. Don't worry about the top, you will make it when you have assembled the tower. 

*  Place your wax paper down over your template and tape to secure.

* Get your piping bag and start tracing the outline, I filled the inside with small "X's" making sure to connect to the outline.  You also want to pipe the outline with straight lines.  The Eiffel tower bows/leans in somewhat, if you do this, the pieces will not connect correctly.  So, remember to pipe the outline with straight lines. 

* Let it dry.  I recommend 16-24 hours.

After piping each individual section and some drying time, I moved them all to one piece of wax paper (only because I needed space for the chocolate Eiffel Tower I was working on).  

Here are my pieces...

As you can see, I did an extra set.  This was precautionary in case I had breaks, and I did.  

So it is a good idea to make extra. 

*  Now it is time to begin assembling them.  You will use some of the remaining royal icing to adhere the         pieces to each other. Take one piece and put royal icing down one of it's sides, then attach another piece to it, secure it with the icing.  Continue doing this around until they are all four connected.  

Continue doing each of the sections in this way.  Do NOT stack the sections yet.  The corners of these pieces need time to dry so they will be stable when you assemble them.  

Now you have four pieces (sections) drying.

*  After the sections are dry, you can now stack them to assemble your tower.  Put royal icing around the top of the base section.  Then place the next on top, and continue doing the same until all four pieces are together and you now have a tower.  You can let them dry in between sections if you are more comfortable doing that, but I wasn't so patient.  I went ahead a stacked them all carefully and gently, then let dry.  

*  After the tower is dry, you will want to pipe some icing on top.  You can do this in the shape you prefer, I just piped an upside down cone shape.  I did so by going around the bottom and getting smaller as I went up til I had a tip on top.  

This is my first tutorial, hopefully it is helpful! 

If you have any questions or need advice please feel free to email me @ justcakethat@gmail.com or comment here! :) 

Happy Piping!

 Here is the Chocolate Eiffel Tower I made. 
It was close to three feet tall!!!

 I just melted the Chocolate and piped it using the same concept as above.  I just printed my template in poster size until I got the specifications/size I wanted.  This was much more difficult, but I did it! :) 

Paris Party!

This is the cake I did for my daughter's last birthday.  The theme was a Glamour Girl in Paris!

 

  The cake topper is made of Royal Icing.  (A tutorial will follow soon). 

   

I also made an Eiffel Tower out of Chocolate for the party!  I made it the same way as the cake topper, 

only I up-scaled the size substantially.

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