Fall 70th Birthday Cake

By -
Hello again cake blog. I have not been here for over 3 and a half years! That is what happens when you have a couple babies. I haven't decorated cakes much since having my first child 3 years ago. My skills really decreased so I have not put up anything for quite a while. I figured I could go ahead with this one. 

Today is my aunt's 70th birthday! I was happy to make her cake. I thought why not make it a fall theme. I rarely make chocolate cakes, but I came across a really great chocolate buttercream frosting recipe. Here it is by the way: https://iambaker.net/whipped-chocolate-buttercream-frosting/
I have made it a few times and it comes out the lighter color seen in the cake. I had to add more cocoa powder and dark brown food coloring to get the darker brown. 

I made 2 10" rounds, and placed them on a 14" cardboard cake board. I really like those. They are easy to just bring anywhere and leave there. Anyway, I just frosted it up and piped some swirls on the top, added little maple leaf colored sprinkles, and did a border on the bottom. 

Here is a close up of the swirls. I wasn't that picky on having the buttercream be super smooth. I did this all during the kids (and husband) nap time. Thank you to my sister who gave me the sprinkles! 


Here it is at this point. I figured I better take a picture now, before attempting any writing, just in case. It is hard to recover from a mistake with piping words.


 After practicing for a minute, I went for it. I was very proud of that "A". 



I needed a little something more, so made a chocolate leaf.




Happy Birthday Annette!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Baptism Cake

By -
Image
 A have a new Goddaughter! She is such a beautiful baby. So she deserved a cross cake, of course!  It has been quite a while since I wrote on here. It took a long time for me to get logged in because I didn't remember what email and password I used on here last 😂. Anyway... on to the cake!  I have had a cross shaped cake pan forever and have never used it! Whenever I had a baby, I was too exhausted to bake my own kid's Baptism cake :) One of the first things I did was make the buttercream. Of course, the first step is to cream that all up and add in the sifted powdered sugar! And wallah! I've got frosting.  Then I made some roses. I like putting them in the freezer to harden up, so then I can paint them with edible pearly dust when they're hardened up. After the cake was baked and cooled, I was so excited to try out a new piping tip. It's more of a large tip that spreads the frosting out smooth, ah, can't think of what it is really called. Oh well! That was rea...
Read more

Castle Cake

By -
Image
Our church had a Cana Dinner event and they had a Renaissance theme. I thought a castle would be neat to make.   The first thing I worked on was the tops of the towers. I tinted some white fondant with purple food coloring and rolled it out. Then cut out a shape to place over some cones. There were 12 of them!!! Of course it would be cool to have flags on the tops of them. I made different sizes that corresponded to the different sizes of the cones. I attached them white white fondant. I baked 6" and 10" cakes, and dirty iced them. Then I had my strong handsome husband :) roll out the white fondant for them. Might as well put him to good use. We used powdered sugar in place of the flour. Then I wanted to put some detail on the towers. I outlined the windows in purple icing and sprinkled on some silver sprinkles.  I had gotten molds for a stone look, and wanted to use that on the sidewalk thing in front of the door. I pressed the ...
Read more

Birthday Christmas Cake!

By -
Image
Happy Birthday to me! I had planned on my birthday cake this year to be from Carlo's Bakery at the Mall of America. I went to the mall today for Toddler Tuesday with the kids and of course stopped at the bakery. Since my birthday is in a couple days this was great timing for me to get my cake. I had just asked for a vanilla cake with fudge frosting. I actually didn't know how it was decorated until I opened the box at home. I was happy. It is a 7" round. The cake was so moist and dense. Yum. And the frosting was so thick. The cake itself was super heavy.  The green frosting was buttercream and was fabulous. 
Read more