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| A cake I did for a magazine photo shoot, which published in March 2013 |
Since Pinterest is one of only two places left online where any proof of my work "exists", and I get asked a lot to show pictures, I felt like this was a Very Important Thing I Should Do. Because, you know, people might need to see this stuff. Or I just need validation. Or maybe I don't feel like doing any more laundry or dishes today, guys. Either way, I just totally blew off like 3 hours of time, in the interest of "sharing is caring", right?
So...if you're curious how I spent the last 12 years, or you're just really bored...go there and check it out.
Allow me to toot my own horn at this link to --> MY CAKES ON PINTEREST
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| Yes, It's a CAKE. I made a hollow sugar barrel and all the other details out of sugar too. LOVED this one so much that I took about 50 pictures of the whole process of building this, from oven to finished board. |
Still love the peacock feather cake the best, but the bride/groom split cake is majorly impressive! Your talent is indescribable! Because I've started making more cakes for other people, one question, how do you get the buttercream so smooth? I've tried a few different techniques and mine aren't coming out as well as I would like.
ReplyDeleteAww, THANKS! There's my validation, right there!! I sucked at regular buttercream (powdered sugar/butter stuff--HATE it), so I switched to only Italian meringue buttercream, which smooths like silk. (Or like.. buttah. heh) Run a hot offset spatula around the sides and voila--perfection. Google it or email me for my recipe. If you've never tried it, it's sort of a ...revelation. A little trickier to make, but so worth it! Not too sweet, silky, and wonderful. I called it my 'grownup icing'.
DeleteThe fact that these amazing creations are edible boggles my mind!
ReplyDeleteAh, Ruth, thanks! I can vouch for the fact that every single one was really yummy! (cake scraps, you know...) :D
DeleteHoly crap...those are amazing. AMAZING! I am just in awe of your talent, sister.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle! They were all really fun, and It was kind of bittersweet to look back through and post those all yesterday. Miss the creativity, just..not the crazy schedule of no weekends off with my family.
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ReplyDeleteThe poppy cake is my favourite. Your hand painting skills are very good. Do you ever paint with watercolors, acrylics or oils?
Thanks! I loved that one too...which is probably why it's still collecting dust in my upstairs.
DeleteI grew up with pencil drawing and branched into oils a bit, which I loved, but haven't painted on canvas in years. I may pick it up again though. :)
Those cakes are amazing. I bake about once a year, for Christmas, when I do things like start baking at midnight when the electricity comes for a few hours and I can use our toaster oven, which is pretty much all that's available oven-wise in Nepal. (Well, bakeries have them, and some people do serious baking in their toaster ovens; the truth is I'm just not that creative. Or determined.) But if you were here I would buy your Sharp's Rifle cake for my son's birthday, every year. It would be our family tradition. It's quite possibly the best cake EVER.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine the toaster oven being a problem...lol.
DeleteI love, love, loved that rifle so much! I took so many start-to-finish pictures of it, it was like a tutorial in photos, probably 30 pictures. My dad was a gunsmith when I was a kid, and I happened to have one of his big 50-cal blackpowder rifles here at the time, so I actually took it to the shop and used the parts to get everything "to scale" and perfect. They were blown away when they picked it up, on a real red velvet board. Yeah...good memories. :D