Another birthday cake!

This was for Myles, who turned two today!



I made the horse a biiiit too large and had to cut corners with a small tail. I also could have painted on more details, but, eh, seemed good enough. I also cut out fondant stars to put on the sides of the cake.

Chocolate cake with a banana pudding and irl banana filling. Delicious, right? Hell yeah!

I actually finished this cake EARLY. I worked on it for like, 2.5 hours last night and got up at 8 today and finished at 10. 4.5 hours excluding design time. Not bad!

Part Two of the Birthday Cake!

After working about 4 hours on this cake, and delivering it to the birthday boy, I felt tooooo exhausted to write about it last night. I thought this wouldn't take too long since it's not a full-sized cake. Nope. Haha.

Needless to say, it turned out AWESOME. Probably my best cake yet! That's a nice feeling. :D

And here are the pictures:


Snapped this right after laying the fondant bat down. It's all shiny from painting it with uncut food coloring (I am never doing THAT again, must keep vodka around at all times from now on).


Hanging out in the Batcave, I mean, kitchen at the birthday party.


Oh noes, my hours of hard work and source of delicious pride, all torn apart. And the foil got ripped, haha. I hope no one at that.

The cake was yummy, the rum berries went great with the French vanilla cake and the frosting was decent. I used a metric shitload of food coloring and that was ALL I could taste, but everyone else said it wasn't too noticeable. Sweet!

A winner is me.

Part One of tomorrow's birthday cake.

Our friend Jeff asked me to make him a cake again this year. I made him the Modern Warfare 2 cake last year. I am using the same flavors, French vanilla and raspberry filling, but doing that a bit differently.

I made my very first cake filling! I used frozen raspberries, brown sugar, (a lot of) dark unspiced rum and a little lemon juice. And some pectin to help it set up. It turned out pretty awesome! I hope the bit of tang and deep brown sugar undertones meld well with the French vanilla cake. I am going to flavor my buttercream with a decent amount of vanilla so the sheer sweetness doesn't overpower the quieter flavors.

I was afraid that this idea might result in a "Pain Train to Assville" but I think it will be tasty!

Here's a sneak peek at my goo:

Getting messy for dogs

I made my first batch of dog biscuits tonight!
I used flour, oats, peanut butter, a bit of honey, some turkey drippings, and carrot gratings. I got a little...creative with the shapes.



That in itself is messy. :D

Best Yet

I made some scones with my friend Mary Ann.
I can post the recipe, but it is just a standard heavy cream scone situation. We could have used raspberries, but replaced them with pomegranate arils. And I made a glaze out of sugar, lemon juice, pomegranate juice and honey. These are seriously the most tastiest things I've ever shot out of my fingertips.

...And also the LEAST messy baked items! What the hell!



Ah well. They weren't completely un-messy. :)

First Filled Cake

A SUCCESS!



Sadly, my Tres Leches Pumpkin Pie did not come out well. The pie was tasty, the crust was perfect, but my Leche Sauce was left on top of our car during a trip to Nebraska, so it became an offering to the earth and/or Pie Gods. Oh well. :)

Invention part 1

Tres Leches Pumpkin Pie.

I gotta try it.

Post to come!