Driving In The Safe Lane

SADD 2011

What an amazing night! I was so happy to do this cake for my friends at my old school. They had a few speakers come in and talk about the dangers of being stupid while driving. Some things they spoke about were drinking, texting, and having too many people in a car along with not wearing any seat belts. I wasn't planning on staying but after hearing what the presentation was about I decided to educate myself a little, lol. Anyway, enough about the presentation, even though I could say so much, lets talk about the cake. So the cake was vanilla with chocolate filling and lets just say huge is an understatement. I mean this cake was seriously gigantic, it was 4 sheet cakes about 17in long lined up with another 4 on top, so 8 sheets. I then carved it just enough to give it that "bumpy land" look. Then  I covered the entire cake in green fondant, with fondant balls as the border, and strips of black fondant to look like roads. I also cut out little yellow rectangles to look like the dotted lines in the roads. After the roads were in place it was time to make the cars. They were made out of white chocolate that I colored with different types of luster dust. To finish the cake off I cut out and painted the words "driving in the safe lane," the slogan of the night, and "SADD 2011" onto the cake. The perfect finishing touch! 

Lex and the City

Two hundred fifty cupcakes later and I'm still alive. These cupcakes were for a crazy bat mitzvah, where the theme was Lex and the city and the client wanted the cupcakes to be fully "blinged" out. Let me just say, these cupcakes were not so easy to make considering how many there were, but they were a lot of fun to decorate.

Like I said, there were 250 cupcakes, 125 were my signature red velvet, the cake and frosting were actually dyed different color pinks so I guess you can say they were "Pink Velvet." For the frosting I used my cream cheese frosting, a classic to use with red velvet cake.

The other 125 were moist chocolate cakes, these were frosted with my white chocolate cream cheese.  I chose to used white chocolate cream cheese to keep a consistency throughout both of the cakes. We also chose a chocolate cake because red velvet is actually a spin on a chocolate cake so like I said, consistency.

Seashell Cake

This was a vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate bavarian cream filling. It was covered with baby blue fondant and then decorated with white chocolate seashells and sugar flowers. The chocolate was white at first but I then painted it with different colors of pearl dust and luster dust to give it that "pearl/ shell" look. I loved doing this cake it was perfect and BEAUTIFUL. Let me know what you think. Congratulations to the bride-to-be, hope this cake added on to the fun, that I'm sure you had, at your bridal shower! 

A Black and White Affair

This was an elegant black and white themed engagement party. Even the bride had a beautiful white dress with black lace. I tried my best to have the cake match the dress. It was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and the filling was bavarian cream. It was simply delicious. The cake was covered in white fondant and airbrushed with a pearl shine. It also had black royal icing lace piping. At  first I drew the lace with a food coloring marker, free hand, and then traced it with the icing. Then I added my hand crafted sugar flowers. It still blows my mind that just because people read my blog and see my work they are calling me and placing orders for there affair. Keep them coming! Up next a beach themed bridal shower! Thanks to everyone who let me know what they thought of the cake! And congratulations to the happy couple!

The Best Steak I Ever Made

Okay this steak is amazing and you have to try it. Its so simple but so good. all you need is sirloin steak (doesnt matter how big) some teriyaki sauce, soy sauce, mustard, garlic paste and oil. This is how you do it. Wash the steak then throw it into a plastic bag then take the teriyaki, soy, mustard oil and garlic and throw a good amount of each into the bag. Seal the bag and mush it all around. Let it sit while you heat the grill. When your grill is heated just throw the steak on your hot spot and cook it for how ever long you want (Depending on how you like your steak) When its done take it off the grill and let it sit for about 5 minutes under tinfoil. After five minutes slice and enjoy!!