the best cake i have ever made

Of course I also left my camera at a friend's the weekend before, so a cell phone picture will have to suffice. Double string basketweave sides. Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Dark chocolate cornucopia filled with luster-dusted dark chocolate raspberry creams (made by the hands of yours truly).

halloween cupcakes

(mind the box... i couldn't find my cupcake carrier)

practicing leaves

Pumpkin Cake Recipe  Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

like a needle in a haystack

...or a pumpkin atop one.



note the hay (but excuse the lighting... it was a terribly rainy/grey day)

final(ly)

The final for my intermediate cake class was a wedding cake. Despite a few snags (including, but not limited to: sickness, cake cracks, flowers breaking a half hour before class, a lop-sided bottom layer, running out of frosting, and completely re-doing my nosegay at the last minute), I think it came out quite well.


(I didn't have time to make a mini-nosegay for the bottom tier, sadly)


(The nosegay--I made the mums & apple blossoms myself)


(fuzzy close-up of the top tier)


(close-up of the bottom tier)

lady in red

For my co-worker's birthday (who happens to love red)... a carrot cake with real cream cheese frosting.



close-up of the poppies...

for a bachelorette party

a friend saw the idea online and asked me to make it for her...

frosting farewell

The cake I made for my friend and coworker for her last day...



(please note the sad siren emo tears)

touchdown

(thank you Ateco tip 133 for all of that lovely grass...)

my final cake

(the last cake for my beginner's decorating class)

red velvet, if you please

(or if you're patriotic, apparently)




(my idea to make "stripes" didn't work out so well...)

damien rice cake

I have a friend who loves Damien Rice, so I thought I'd make her an extra-personalized cake to celebrate.

[see inspiration]











it would have been much punnier (though impossible to cut) as an actual rice cake, but i thought funfetti was far more fitting (and more delicious)

i decorated this little lady on my lunch break...

well, minus making the flowers, anyway...




(the sides were basketweave, but not my best work...)

a tisket, a tasket...

guess who learned the basket (weave)??

oh and i taught myself to make roses :)

numero dos

My second cake... the frosting didn't come out as smooth and the writing didn't either (probably because I had trouble achieving the shade of brown I wanted) and maybe also because I decorated it in twenty minutes after just waking up... (i.e. I'm not a morning person)

patty cake patty cake...

How I made my first cake: a story in pictures.



(first layer - double dark chocolate fudge)



(second layer & buttercream center... taken at an angle so it looks slanted)


(the ever-important crumb layer)


(smoothing things over)


(with cornelli lace it's bordering on complete)



voila!

my first cake!