Cupcake Cake

This is another cake made during my decorating class. The focus this week was transferring designs on to a cake and dimensional decorating.  The task was to transfer a design onto a cake.  All great cupcakes need a topping, so I topped mine with a cute little cherry.  This was fun and it turned out really cute.

Purple & Gold Chocolate Rum Layer Cake

I made this chocolate rum cake layer cake with chocolate buttercream as my final project for my first cake decorating class. I felt like I owed my husband a little something for being so patient with me while I took this course and since his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, was celebrating their centennial, I used that as the inspiration behind my design.

Although the frosting looks chocolate in the picture, it was actually a deep purple. I piped the fraternity motto, "Friendship is Essential to the Soul" and the Omega symbol with 20 pearls on the top in yellow buttercream frosting. Around the base of the cake are clusters of their official flower, african violets.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Baby Shower Cake

How cute is this?  Daddy and mommy with baby duck in tow...

Not only was this cake cute, but it was tasty too.  This three layer strawberry cake was baked using fresh strawberries and filled using a strawberry cream cheese.  Finally, the cake was frosted with cream cheese icing.  All of the bubbles were also made using cream cheese icing.  To add final touches to the cake, I used a little family of ducks which was perfect for the young couple expecting their first baby boy.

Vanilla Snoopy Cupcakes

I made two dozen of these adorable snoopy cupcakes for a 5 year old's birthday.  All she wanted was a Snoopy cake, but of course that's something hard to find in most retail bakery's, since it's not a popular character these days.  I worked with the mom to come up with a design that her daughter would enjoy and something in the budget.  I'm please to say that both mom and daughter were happy with the vanilla cupcakes, topped with vanilla buttercream icing and a chocolate Snoopy.