Smash Cake

This is a smash cake for a 1 yr. Birthday. I made 2 dozen glitter cupcakes to go with them, The bow is made from fondant. There is a art to getting a buttercream cake perfectly smooth. Most people think buttercream is easier, but in fact its not. Butter cream can be heated under fondant smoothing underneath making the cake more formable. But buttercream by itself is actually hard to get perfectly smooth, and after smoothed is very easy to nick. Ok so there you have it. just some wise advice on cakes :)

High Speed

Wow! where has time gone? I have been going, going, going lately! I was accepted into the radiology program, working like crazy, and bakin cakes. But i love every minute of it. Ill be posting my cakes soon....

Gourmet Cupcakes

So lately I have been trying to concoct different recipes for cupcakes. So far I have made Orange Creamcicle, Raspberry Lemonade, and the picture below shows the newest Margarita! They were inspired by a girls night which had a Mexican fiesta theme...i thought it was fitting. So far my Orange Creamcicle has been the rave, But better ones are coming soon :) I also got to use my edible glitter that I ordered from Great Britain. By the way always make sure to see what type of currency pricing they have...I didn't realize the website was in pounds! that was expensive ha ha. If any of you have some great ideas of cupcake flavors email me at aftonlyn@gmail.com and i will try to create them. Thanks a Bunch!

Ward Bake Off

So i think this is my best one yet, as far as smooth fondant goes. Since i make my own fondant it can be very temperamental sometimes. Too much powdered sugar makes it stiff and hard to work with, too little makes it sticky and it cracks. BUT this one was just right. I did a vanilla lemon cake with lemon cream cheese filling, it was yummy!!! I made all of the flowers as well. Let me tell you though, after this cake i was very upset with my children (Buddy & Dotty). First off they ate my gum paste Lillie's that i had made, which is why there are non on the cake. Then i got home to find my pink and red pearl dust all over my carpet (which still hasn't come out). It was all over their paws...they didn't hide the evidence well. They are lucky they are cute! Again Kira did the photography which always turns out wonderful, i don't know what i would do without her. I am booking up with cake requests so i should be posting some shortly. I am also taking my first cake decorating class this month, and i'll let ya know how it goes. By the way....I got 2nd

Birthdays

First off THANK YOU to Kira my sister-in-law for taking these pictures for me, she does amazing work! If any of you need a photographer for weddings, family pictures, graduation pictures, or anything else i highly suggest her. Visit her blog at knbphotography.blogspot.com.
Okay so it's been a while since i have posted more photos but here are some recent Birthday cakes that i did. The First one was for my mother-in-law. She loves gardening and flowers so i designed something elegant. I made all of the flowers too. It was a checkerboard cake on the inside made up of chocolate and vanilla. But of course she wouldn't let anyone cut it so we don't have any pictures of the cool inside. The second one was for my sister-in-law. She really wanted a yellow lancer for her birthday, she has been dreaming about it for the past year. So i decided if she wasn't going to be able to drive one she could eat one! So i sculpted a yellow lancer out of rice crispy treats, and added some finishing touches to make it look more real. The cake was done in her favorite colors and chocolate for the cake. I tried to make it kind of modern funky. It started raining that night so you can see condensation on the cake making it shiny...pretty cool. They were lots of fun to do, but next time i think ill make them out of Styrofoam because they wanted to keep them forever. :)

Things to come

Thank you to everyone who checks out my blog and supports me I love all of you. I love learning new things, recipes, ideas, and new techniques to make my cakes that much better. So PLEASE, feel free to email me if you have recipes to share, fun ideas, a new way of doing something, or anything at all. I can even make you a cake for a special occasion. Email me at aftonlyn@gmail.com. Thanks again for all the support, I'll be postin some new ones soon.

Nightmare Before Christmas

This is the biggest cake done so far. A friend from work's daughter was turning 16 and wanted a Topsy Turvy Nightmare Before Christmas cake. I had a lot of help from my family and it ended up turning out great.