Cake or Bust

Thursday, August 14, 2014

It's dangerous to go alone

This week, I made cupcakes and a small cake for the wedding of a friend and former coworker. The idea was that the cake would be the fairy fountain from Legend of Zelda, and the cupcakes would keep with the Zelda theme. The bride made her own cake toppers out of Perler beads, and we determined that they'd be hard to fit columns around, so the cake would be just the water in the fountain.

I didn't take a picture (due to lack of extra arms) of my new toy, the Wilton cake frosting tip. It's a giant tip, about two inches wide, that creates a thick ribbon of frosting on your cake that you then smooth out. It was a very efficient way to frost the cake, but you still definitely need a crumb coat first! My red velvet cake really really wanted to show it's crumbs through the cream cheese frosting, but I smoothed it into submission.

After a layer of white frosting went on the cake, I added random squiggles of blue frosting. Some careful and judicious swirling with a spatula gave the whole thing a fantastic, wavy, watery effect. Keep an eye out for this same technique on my State Fair cake!

Watery detail! Almost makes you thirsty.

This is my fridge with 80 cupcakes and an 8 in round cake.

Link and Zelda cake toppers

The assembled cake and cupcake display.

The gems, known as rupees, are the currency in the Zelda games. The cupcake liners are purple & green flowers in keeping with the purple & green theme.

Congratulations, Phill and Hannah! I wish you all the happiness in the world.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Note to self

1 lb 8 oz shortening + 5 lb sugar was enough to cover 80 cupcakes while still having 2.5 lb frosting left over. It took just about 1 hour to make the frosting and frost all 80 cupcakes.

All the essentials - milk, orange juice, beer, and cupcakes.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Happy Memorial Day

I saw these cupcakes at Byerly's and I thought they were adorable, impressive, and totally doable. Maybe for July 4th?

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Practice Cake #1

It's great when people invite me to things, because then I have a place to bring any extra cake I have lying around. Today's extra cake is the first practice cake for the State Fair. I think I'm on the right track with materials, I just need to fine-tune my technique.