Is this amazing or what...

Watch the making of commercial. It is amazing also.

Buttercream Transfers

I made two new cakes this last week using the buttercream transfer technique. The first cake was made for my daughters boyfriend. He is a big Transformer fan. It was the first time I tried this technique. I learned a few lesson of what not to do and what definitely needs to be done. Overall it was okay. The cake was a watermelon flavor with watermelon flavor icing. Not my favorite but the kids all love it.

The second cake was for our Karate Sensei. My husband has been taking karate with Sensei since the late 1980's. He is a great guy and really devotes his time and talents to helping others. I like to try to do something for him on his birthday, which is also Veterans Day.

This year along with the new technique I wanted to try a new flavor. The cake was Pina-Colada flavor. It was pretty yummy. I also learned that when you are going to do a transfer with wording, remember to mirror image it. My first attempt ended up back wards :). Overall the cake was a good. I still need more practice on the transfers to satisfy me...plus I'm still having problems writing on cakes. That is really frustrating me! Oh well they say practice makes perfect. :)

Sensei James Tawatao - Las Vegas Shotokan Karate

Waterfall cake

Last month one of my best friends asked me to make a cake for her dad. They were having a surprise party for his 70th birthday. Her mom and dad were like second parents to me growing up and I spent A LOT of time at their house as a teenager. They were a great influence to me and how I viewed what a family was and how they operated. I was really excited to do this for him.

Needless to say I wanted to do something really cool for him. He likes to fish, so I went with that theme. I just had a few glitches along the way :) . I started working on it several days before the due date like always, doing little things here and there. Then I felt a great urgency to finish it Friday night. I worked like mad staying up till the wee hours of the morning. I finished most of the cake with the exception of some detail work. I went to bed to get a few hours sleep. Or so I thought. A couple hours later I woke up sicker than a dog! I ended up being sick for a week. Luckily Traci my best friend came over and took me to the Doctor (cause dh was out of town). She ended up taking the not quite finished cake with her to the party. So not only did I not get too complete it the way I would have liked, I missed the party to boot! :P

Anyway, here are some pictures of the cake I made for Russ.


The figure laying down was a replica of Russ sleeping while fishing. There was a big fish just to bite his line.