I made a heart shaped cake the other day using my Wilton Heart pan that I got from Walmart awhile back. I made a marble cake with chocolate frosting. I iced the cake and made a swirly design. Then I made rosettes with pink colored buttercream icing on the whole cake and then a ball border. It was quick and easy..well quick as in an hour or so :)

I'm really enjoying cake decorating. I wish it didn't take so long and that I had more time to play around with it. I'm looking forward to some cakes in the next few months. I'm making a Jayhawk cake for my nephew in May and possibly and Baby Shower cake for my sister-in-law. Next week I'll be finishing up my cake for Course 2 of Wilton Cake Decorating Class so check back. It's going to be cute cake!

 

This weekend I made a football cake. I didn't have the pan so I used a Le Creuset casserole dish, which had a similar shape of the football. I made a chocolate fudge icing and covered the devils food cake with it. Then I used white buttercream for the striping. I also made some cupcakes with the left over cake batter. I then cut out a colts logo and saints logo out of fondant. I got the idea from www.bakerella.com, which is a neat site for baking ideas. I think the cake and cupcakes turned out pretty good overall.

Spent the weekend baking a 3 layer stacked cake. Top layer is Lemon Cake with strawberry filling and buttercream icing. Middle layer is Chocolate Cake with peanut butter icing/filling. Bottom layer is Red Velvet Cake with buttercream icing/filling. It's all covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. My co-workers love my cakes. Pictures below are courtesy of my new DSLR camera.

 

I started working on my first tiered cake on Sunday...well that was a bad idea. I should have started on Saturday. I made a 4 inch tall by 6 inch wide cake and a 4 inch tall by 10 inch wide cake. Well I ran out of ingredients half way through making the batter so I had to go to the store to get more eggs, powder sugar, oil, etc. Then I couldn't decide whether to ice it buttercream or fondant. I settled on the normal white buttercream because I didn't have enough fondant to cover both cakes plus it tastes soo much better. I began icing the cakes and ran out of icing..even though I had made 3 batches. So I had to make more. I finally finished icing the cakes around 9 p.m. Sunday night. Then the 10 inch cake wouldn't fit in the box so I had to tape it open and put saran wrap around it. It took a lot of time but I think it turned out pretty good. Everyone at work loved it and said it tasted like Wedding Cake! I'm already contemplating my next cake!

 

I made my first fondant cake this week. I think it turned out really well. It was also a lot easier than I thought it would be. It was fun too!  Unfortunately, fondant doesn't taste very good. I'm hoping to make marshmallow fondant sometime soon, which tastes better than store bought fondant. At least I had buttercream underneath the fondant which tastes awesome!

I made another yummy cake this weekend. It is a 3 layer yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling and white buttercream filling. I made it for in-laws Wedding Anniversary. They loved it. My mother in law even asked if I was going to start a busines... wouldn't that be awesome. Cakes are so time consuming though and not sure I could make much money doing it. I still have a LOT to learn but I really enjoy it surprisingly.  I'd say this cake took me 5 hours or so by the time I baked the cake, made the frostings, colored the frostings, iced it and then decorated it.  Plus there were a few issues along the way but that's what happens when you are learning.

I made two, small Christmas Cakes. I was rushed with the snowman cake and ran out of time to finish decorating it so I used butterscotch chips and cinnamon chips to finish his nose and lips.

Then I made a snowflake cake, which was simple and easy. I ended up just using store bought icing for the overall icing and then the homemade, white buttercream icing for the decoration.  I also enjoyed decorating a few chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles and chocolate icing.

I started taking a cake decorating class at Michaels and so far I love it. I have learned a lot so far. It's so fun and neat. See some of my cakes below. I am hoping to get good enough to sell wedding cakes on the side. I think it'd be fun and a good way to make a little extra money doing something I love. Otherwise, it'll be great to know how to make fun cakes for friends, family and my future kids :)