MONSTERS!

Who doesn't love Mike and Sully? This Monsters cake was created to resemble some of the most popular characters from the Monster, Inc movies. My favorite part about this cake was the minimal amount of fondant needed. I find that little kids really don't prefer the taste of fondant. Fondant icing usually makes the cakes look better, but not taste the best. So, I used a marshmallow fondant to create Mike and a few of the facial features on Sully and the rest of the cake is yummy buttercream frosting.

The cake was made using 2-8in yellow cake layers and 2-6in chocolate cake layers. I used 1 and a half cupcakes to create the top of Sully's head. I love how the piping turned out on Sully! So cute!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

It seems that Ninja turtles are all the rage again! I remember my brother begging for the little figurines at the store in the 90's whenever we went shopping. I also remember watching the shows and movies with these crazy talking turtles...it makes me feel as if I am 12 years old again! Everything new is old!

These cupcakes were made for a sweet 4 year old birthday party. The cupcakes were a mix of chocolate and vanilla with peanutbutter buttercream and a stabilized whipped cream frosting. I've always tried to stay away from whipped cream frosting on my cupcakes because it was never stable enough to produce the look I was going for. However, this stabilized whipped cream frosting recipe is great!

Here is a look at the finished product:

Baby shower cupcake tree!

As much as I like making cakes and cupcakes my favorite by far is a cupcake tree design! I get to make both cake and cupcakes while mixing in lots of different ideas.  I was asked to design cupcakes and a cake topper for a mom to be who was expecting twin girls! I have three boys, so it was a lot of fun looking up pink cupcake and cake ideas.

The cupcakes were a mix of standard size and mini size with chocolate and vanilla flavoring. The frosting was a simple buttercream tinted slightly pink...I wanted to keep the pink really sweet looking and almost colorless. I created fondant toppers for half of the cupcakes to give them some variety.

The cake was a yellow butter cake with buttercream filling. I then covered the cake in a marshmallow fondant.

 And the finished product!