SF Giants Baseball Cake & Cupcake

The type of cake I never thought I’d make… But then I volunteered for the smash cake for a friend’s son’s birthday before knowing the theme, so here comes a sports cake! Wasn’t sure how ‘smashable’ fondant would be, so I made an extra cupcake in buttercream only, but smashed by the little guy that big ball was! [...]

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Wii in a Pumpkin Costume — It’s a Cake!

In the peace and quiet of the midnight hours a couple of months ago, I was mindlessly Googling “unique”, “fancy”, “strange”, “elaborate” and the like attributes, placed next to the word “cake”. I was quite determined, too, to steal creative ideas and techniques from anyone’s edible pieces of art, preferably ones without a price tag and [...]

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BloodRayne 2 – Halloween/Birthday Cake

 
 
 

Happy Birthday, Precious!  
Layers of double entendre for anyone who’s known my husband long enough…
The fortress is “death by chocolate”, built of 14 layers (two 4-layer cakes for the bottom and a 6-layer top), filled with chocolate raspberry Chambord ganache, and covered with chocolate fondant (I vaguely follow this recipe which I’ve made at least a dozen [...]

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Pumpkin Cake and Trick-or-Treaters

 
 
 
 

Happy Halloween, Little Trick-or-Treaters!
 
 
An off-cake-topic story… On my first Halloween candy-giving experience some seven years ago, I had this crazy notion to make kids trick me before – or instead of – giving them treats… I also had the apparently insane thought of giving out home-made cookies, what did I know about bizarre assumed safety [...]

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Dragon Cake for a Little Thunder God

The idea for this dragon cake for my older son’s three-and-a-half birthday (he’s born on the morning of Christmas Eve, so we have summer kids parties for the half-birthdays instead) came from Family Fun Magazine, where detailed instructions showed how to cut and arrange two 9′ round cakes to shape the fire-breathing creation, as well as [...]

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