For a Halloween birthday. Alternating layers pumpkin spice cake and chocolate espresso cake, with alternating fillings of pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate ganache. Lumpy and true to the season!
Category Archive for: Birthday Party
For a one-year-old’s birthday, with a little smash cake at the top. Dad is a coach, so the theme was great! Cinnamon roll football and baseball cake with sticky icing filling, and smores soccer ball (graham cracker cake, marshmallow filling, chocolate ganache).
This was for my daughter’s 4th birthday party today. Strawberry cake with white chocolate truffle filling for the top two tiers, and white chocolate cake with maple cheesecake filling for the bottom tier, with fondant, and fondant details. She wanted a Disney Princess cake (and was very particular about their hair all being just right),…
Poured sugar margarita glass, mounted on Cherry WASC with cherry cheesecake filling marhsmallow fondant and chocolate fondant, with fondant and gumpaste details.
For a super stylish, beautiful 15-year-old girl, who was in love with the “Sabrina” Coach satchel, and that was what we did. A Hot Chocolate cake with Peanut Butter buttercream, milk chocolate and peanut butter chips between the layers, and chocolate ganache over it all, with chocolate fondant and gumpaste details.
This was a cake for the little daughter of a friend. She’s been talking about “butterfly fairies”, with butterfly wings, so this is what we came up with. Three tiers (tree is cake); chocolate fudge cake, with alternating layers of a no-bake chocolate cheesecake filling and banana cream; banana buttercream, then bittersweet chocolate ganache, and…
This cake was for a friend’s 3-year-old little girl … she didn’t know if she wanted a Hello Kitty party or a butterfly party, so we gave her both. Pink champagne cake with cheesecake buttercream filling, and vanilla-almond buttercream under fondant. Hello Kitty and 3-D butterflies out of gumpaste, leaves and petals all out of…
WASC cake with white chocolate-cheesecake truffle filling and a layer of strawberry glaze, white chocolate buttercream, and fondant.
Bottom tier is White Almond Sour Cream with cheesecake filling and raspberry glaze, middle tier White Almond Sour Cream with amaretto cheesecake filling, top tier with cherry cheesecake filling. Fondant with royal icing piping, silver dragees and gumpaste blossoms/bow. The turquoise matched her invitations.
I made this cake for my youngest munchkin’s second birthday a few days ago … so much fun to do! All white chocolate macadamia, with white chocolate filling, and fondant. Details all in gumpaste, except for the gloved hand, which is Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant.
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You'll notice throughout my "Freezy Does It" series that I have workhorses. Simple things like parchment paper and heavy duty freezer bags, and other more specialized pieces like my stand-up mixer, my food processor and my dehydrator. Many of these things can be picked up at a store, but I do a lot of my shopping through Amazon. Here are some links to products I like to use.
- Non Stick Parchment Paper, 205 sqft
- Ziploc Freezer Bags Gallon Mega Pack, 120 Count
- FoodSaver V2244 Vacuum Sealing System with Starter Kit
- Nesco Snackmaster Dehydrator
- Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor
- KitchenAid 10-Speed 5-Quart Stand Mixer
- Conair Cuisinart Smart Stick 200 Watt 2 Speed Hand Blender
- Pyrex 3-Piece Glass Mixing Bowl Set
- Tupperware Thatsa Jumbo Mixing Bowl 59 Cup
- Nonstick 10"x15"x1" Jelly Roll Pan
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- Kitchen Scale
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