10/30/2016 0 Comments Bubble Gum Candy Ice Cream CakeSo this "cake" is a bit different than the ones I normally make but the birthday boy specifically requested a "bubble gum ice cream cake with candy inside of it, candy spilling out of it and candy on top of it". So this cake starts with an oreo crumb crust covered by a layer of bubble gum ice cream topped with mini M&M baking bits, fuzzy peach candies and jelly beans. There is a layer of Oreo cookies separating the bottom bubble gum ice cream layer from the next layer which was superlicious ice cream (blueberry, strawberry and banana) which was topped with skittles, gummy bears and round gum pieces. The next layer is cotton candy ice cream which was topped with smarties, sour cherry candies and hubba bubba gum pieces. The cotton candy layer was topped with birthday cake ice cream sandwiches which was in turn topped with another layer of bubble gum ice cream. The whole cake was iced with a whipped cream frosting. I added some sprinkles on the bottom third of the cake, piped borders with the whipped cream frosting and added more candy to the top and around the bottom.
Happy Birthday Marcus! I hope your cake is what you had in mind!
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10/26/2016 0 Comments Coffee Buttermilk Cake with Dulce de Leche Frosting, Chocolate Ganache and Coffee MacaronsThis cake was four layers of coffee buttermilk cake soaked in Kahlua iced with a salted dulce de leche frosting topped with chocolate ganache and coffee macarons filled with dulce de leche and sprinkled with espresso powder. I'm not a coffee drinker but this cake was delicious! I was happy with how the macarons turned out! I hadn't made them in awhile and I was a bit nervous especially since it was raining the day I made them in typical Vancouver fashion!
10/23/2016 0 Comments Monkeys on a Climbing Wall CakeThis cake was sour cream chocolate cake with vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream. The party was at a climbing gym and the birthday boy wanted a monkey theme so the two got combined. It makes sense as monkeys are known to climb! The cake drum is covered in fondant that is textured to look like wood grain and then painted with brown food coloring to look like wood stain. The monkeys were made with fondant. The cake was a 6" square tier and an 8" square tier but I stacked them off centre to make one tall climbing wall on one side of the cake. The cake was carved to give it texture and I used a mixture of cake crumbs and icing to add additional texture before covering in fondant and adding fondant hand grips and ropes. A few fondant bananas scattered around finished it off!
10/12/2016 0 Comments Pistachio Praline Chocolate CakeThis cake was sour cream chocolate cake layers topped with crunchy pistachio praline pieces iced in a pistachio praline Italian meringue buttercream. I had just bought a Russian piping tip set so I tried it out to make flowers for the border and on the top of the cake. Pistachio praline is made by caramelizing sugar and pouring over pistachios and then breaking it into pieces. The buttercream contained pistachio paste (which is pure heaven in anything you put it in) and finely ground pistachio praline. This might be my favorite icing ever!
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