Saturday, October 31, 2009

Baby Shower Cake


Baby Shower Cake, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

The chocolate triple threat! Baker's Cakes Signature Chocolate cake with Double Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting, topped with Rolled Chocolate Fondant! The Ducky, Bottle, and Bear are made out of crispy rice cereal covered with sugar paste and fondant!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Happy Halloween!



Halloween Mini Cupcakes!, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

These Vanilla, Chocolate, and Red Velvet Mini Cupcakes are all dressed up for Halloween! Each mini cupcake donned it's monster, mummy, skeleton, or vampire costume for this treat filled celebration!



I may have gone heavy on the vampires, but I did just read the Twilight series this summer! 



 Happy Halloween!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Cupcake Tasting


Cupcake Tasting, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

A cupcake tasting! Yum! Starting in the back row: Sour Cream Almond Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting. Clockwise to the right: Buttermilk Vanilla Cupcakes with Fluffy Vanilla Frosting. In the front row: Buttermilk Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. Finally, Sour Cream Almond Cupcakes with Almond Buttercream Frosting and Marzipan Flowers!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Lego Bionicle Birthday Cake

Are you familiar with the saying, "the cobbler's children never have any shoes?" (Or something to that effect, I always botch up axioms). Well such was nearly the case this weekend at our house, but not with shoes, because my mother-in-law is here and she keeps my kids well shoed. My son turned seven yesterday and after a long week, I was just about caked out! But, guilt (and my husband) prodded me to finish his cake!


One of the unexpected side effects of being a cake maker, is that your children witness a seemingly endless parade of cakes march out of the kitchen. So when I asked my son what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he knew exactly! A Bionicle cake with so and so's mask, and he handed me a picture. Ok, not much creative wiggle room there!

I wanted to keep the fondant to a minimum, so I blended the frosting in the background to resemble the dvd cover. But to get the detail in the mask I needed to use fondant and an edible black marker. I then did thin washes of food coloring to achieve the shaded portions of the mask! And in the end, the Birthday Boy loved it! It's hard to believe my baby is seven already! 

Friday, October 16, 2009

Chevy Camaro Cake


Chevy Camaro Cake, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

This yellow Camaro Cake, with racing stripes, was created for a Transformers fan celebrating his 5th Birthday! Inspired by the Autobot, Bumblebee it was three layers of Vanilla Buttermilk Cake and Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, topped with fondant. We hope this cake makes his birthday a little sweeter!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Lego Cupcakes


Lego Cupcakes, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

These Baker's Cakes Signature Chocolate Cupcakes (with additional chocolate chips, in case they weren't chocolatey enough), with Blue Vanilla Buttercream, will surely satisfy any Lego Maniac! The candy Lego pieces remind me a bit of sweet tarts! Yum!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Look Away Pats Fans...

Despite the fact that my husband and son cringed every time they saw these Pittsburgh Steelers inspired Vanilla Buttermilk Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, they were a hit with the Steelers fan who enjoyed them for his birthday!

Monday, October 12, 2009

Susie Cupcake!

It's our friend Susan's birthday, so I created the Susie Cupcake out of her favorite Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies and Chocolate Cupcakes:


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Happy "29th" Birthday Susie Cupcake!!! 

Carrot Cake Cupcakes!

I whipped up these Carrot Cake Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting for a Teacher Luncheon at school today:


The carrot toppers are marzipan, definitely the tastiest of all toppers! The almond flavor is a perfect compliment to the Carrot Cake Cupcakes!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Pansy Cupcakes


Pansy Cupcakes, originally uploaded by bakers-cakes.

The minute my super awesome birthday present arrived at my door, I knew I had to make something immediately! I pulled out Martha Stewart's Cupcake book (which, incidentally I thought that I MUST have, bought several months ago, and just now, finally, for the first time used) and flipped through it, while my assistant offered her opinion. We should make Pink Cupcakes, she determined. I'm sure she has only been slightly influenced by the fact that she's now listened to and read Pinkalicious about 49 times since last Thursday. At any rate, we flipped through the book and she forcefully suggested we make the Pansy Cupcakes. (And since she did suggest that I look like Angelina Jolie the other day, who was I to argue with her?) After a batch of botched blobby flowers, I scraped some pansy pansies off the cupcakes and endeavored to try again.




Why do they always look better on the test tries on parchment? In the end, even though I made 1/3 of Martha's recipe (a sure recipe for disaster), in my new much much bigger, more powerful mixer, ironic even to me, the Vanilla Buttermilk Cupcakes tasted pretty delicious!



Monday, October 5, 2009

Fall is Here!

It's October! In North Carolina that means one thing: Summer is almost over! 


We'll undoubtably endure a couple more 90' days, but today is cool and damp! So in honor of fall, an Apple Crumb Pie!

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