Toy Story Cake

3 tiers, fondant and gumpaste

Monster Cake

Body made with bear cake pan, decorated with butter cream.

Bottom cake covered in fondant.

Bowling Pin Cake

Mini chocolate Bowling ball cupcakes

Fondant bowling balls

The cake, the pin was made out of rice krispie treats.

Tattoo Gun Cake

Buttercream sheet cake, the gun is fondant, with fondant ball border.

Have a nice day and get a tattoo!

GEICO Pig Cake

The GEICO Pig that cried "wee wee" all the way home! This cake was hell to build, we had to make this cake twice, first time his body was more of a blob and his head was falling apart. The second time I decided to use the bear cake pan as a base for his body, when I was putting the finishing touches on the cake it collapsed and his head fell off. Vick had to race right over and help me save this cake because i only had little over an hour till pick up! Thank god for Vicky.

His head was shaped out of cereal treats, his torso and legs are cake, and his arms are ice cream cones. Iced with buttercream.

Love, G&V

Mickey Mouse Cake

Buttercream.... so hard to smooth out!!!

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All buttercream cake, ears and hands made out of gum paste, and face and buttons were made with fondant.

Love, a sleepy Grace & Victroia

Red Rose cake

Hexagon shape, white fondant and butter cream, edible roses and edible gold beads

Tattoo Cake

This cake was a gift to Charity, who gave Vicky and I the name of our business "Sugar Babies". Vicky came up with the idea of recreating Charity's tattoo. Thank you again Charity! We hope you enjoy your cake! =-)

The Tattoo

The Cake

Side view

Love, G & V

Sushi Cake

This cake was Vicky's dream cake! and she did a great job!!

Soy sauce bowl

Bowl- gum paste

Soy sauce- Melted Hershey Bar

Shrimp

orange and white Tootsie rolls on butter cream and coconut

Sushi Roll

Mounds with orange, green, and yellow Tootsie rolls




Sushi

Yellow Tootsie roll, fondant band, on butter cream and coconut

Sushi

small chocolate wrapped with fondant and topped with coconut

Even though this cake took way longer than expected. It still came out beautiful!

Love,

Vicky and Grace

Halloween Cupcakes

Quick and Easy

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mmm... mmm... buttercream

Happy Halloween! Love ,

Grace

Krystal's Jungle Baby Shower Cake

Another Cake by Vicky and Grace

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The Cake

The Shower Theme

The Gum Paste Animal's

This Cake took way to much effort for me to even have time to blog about it, so here are the pictures. Enjoy!

Love, V&G

P.S. Sushi Cake coming soon!!!

Beatles Cake: Yellow submarine

This cake took Vicky and I 12 hours to decorate! So so so much work!

We used different color fondant to decorate and gum paste to make the submarine and the Beatles cartoon pictures.

Thank you Vicky for sticking with me till the end!!

Chinese Takeout Cupcakes

Chinese Takeout Cupcakes Won!

Thank you to every on who voted on which cupcake I should do next. It was exciting to see what the winner would be.

I saw these in the book What's New, Cupcake? and I knew I just had to do them!!!

Lo Mein Noodles, Fried Rice, and a Fortune Cookie.

Lo Mein:

green and pink tootsie rolls, green twizzlers, green sprinkles and, butter cream frosting.

Fried Rice:

Rice Krispies with marshmallow, green M&M's, orange twizzlers, yellow tootsie rolls and, butter cream.

Fortune Cookie:

Tootsie Roll and, butter cream.

Macaron test run

To be honest when I first looked over the Macaron recipe I was very intimidated by it. It seemed to be very temperamental.... and IT WAS!!! As soon as I pipped them out on the cookie sheet I knew I had over mixed! But that's why this was a test run.

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The first were pipped on to parchment paper

These were pipped onto a silicon mat

Fresh out of the oven!

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I baked the Macaron's on different surfaces (silicon mat and parchment paper) to see which one would give the best end result. The Macaron on the left side of the picture were baked on a silicon mat, they held a good shape and had a gooey center. The Macaron on the right was baked on parchment paper, most of these (not all) became hollow and lopsided.

The texture around the sides of the macaron should be smooth in appearance, and not have an overflowing rough appearance like the macaron above.

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Well all Macaron recipes are tricky, but they didn't come out so bad for my first attempt. I will try again to see if I can prefect it!

Love, Mommy & Rhi

Princess and the frog Cakes

This years for the Twins birthday I decided to go simple on the cakes, making one simple sheet cake and two mini tier cakes.

I had they're invite picture printed out on edible paper. Made Flowers from fruit slice candies.

To make flowers, roll out candy's with a rolling pin and sugar to create the shape of the flower.

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I started the sheet cake with white cake, frosted with white butter cream. Placed the Edible Picture in the middle of the sheet cake. Gave it a purple butter cream border. Then I covered the white with Wilton blue sparkle gel, to give the cake a wavy water look. Then pipped ivy around the border of the cake, in green butter cream. Then placed on the flowers I made and the toys. Very simple and easy.

Each girl had her own mini 3 tier cake. Frosted in butter cream and decorated with edible gold beads and sprinkles. I tried to give the cakes a mardi gras look from the movie.

Judith's Cake

This Cake took so make time and effort to make. Its suppose to have a Topsy Turvy look to it but we lost the third tier during the transportation. The third tier was covered in purple fondant and had white rhombuses all around it, and each rhombus had a pictures of Judith's art that we had printed on edible paper, but on out last turn before we got to the venue the tier went "flop!!!". So we cleaned things up as best we could and tried to save her pictures. Once the cake was put together and fixed it looked nice, but then 'someone' insisted on putting a bunch of toys/crap on the cake. Well I don't want to go into to much detail about the problems that went on.

How it was built:
We baked rectangular cakes, Iced them and then covered them with black and purple fondant to make them look like stacked books, and used a large tip with grooves on it that was piped along the three sides to look like pages.
Then we baked 2 12 inch round cakes, 2 10inch round cakes and 2 8 inch round cakes for the three tiers. the top of each tier was carved at a slant for the Topsy Turvy look. The 12 inch was covered in purple, the 10 inch in white and the 8 inch in black.

The problem:
With the third tier was that 'someone' didn't like how I carved it so they decided to "fix it". They ended up over carving it and having to put mushed up cake back to replace it which made the cake soft and unstable which is probably why it clasped's in the car. Maybe I should have said something instead of holding my tongue when that 'someone' was placing back the mushed cake.

This cake was made with Buttercream icing. Black, white and purple fondant. Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, and spice cake.

Love,
A really annoyed sister <3

Cross Cupcakes

Cross cupcakes for Aiden's Baptism. I realized I really need to find a foolproof butter cream recipe cause in making these cupcakes I tried 3 different butter cream recipes and i still didn't get the consistency I wanted. The first was with salted butter and I didn't care for the taste, so I made another one with margarine but it was to runny, the last one I tried was with Crisco but it wasn't smooth enough. Anyone have and butter cream recipes to share?

I made the chocolate crosses a few days before with vanilla melting candy wafers in light and dark blue I pipped the design in to small cross molds and let them sit in the fridge for a minute. After that then I used melting chocolates, milk chocolate and white chocolate. I melted the chocolate and poured it into the same small cross molds and let them sit in the fridge for 5 minutes. Then ta da! They are chocolate cake, with white butter cream icing, baked in foil baking cups.

I should have taken a picture before people started taking them off the tray. But thank you Vicky for letting me use your camera

Moose Cupcakes!

These guys came out so cute!! They took a lot of work, time, and prep but it was worth it! I made Moose's because my son Aiden is my little moose. They are made with chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, tootsie rolls for the ears and mouth, m&ms for eyes, light cocoa melting wafers which is how I created the antler and Twinkies for they re snouts.

A Moose for My Moose!