These are the next three cakes I made - several months after the cupcake castle. For Ricky's birthday last year I wanted to make him a yummy cake version of his favorite candy: The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The result was a variation of a recipe that Shasta found for me - with peanut butter/cream cheese frosting and a chocolate ganache glaze on top. It's not beautiful - but it was GOOD. It was a great way to top of the night after he managed to win a jackpot playing free birthday bingo. :)
The cake with the roses on top was my 'final exam' for my cake class - we were told to pick our favorite cake from the Wilton Course 1 book - and after a lot of whining and complaining because I couldn't get the roses to come out right, I managed to make enough of them to pass the first course. One of these days I'll make it back for courses 2 and 3....maybe.
The pink and brown cake was something I did on a day when I was home from work with Evyn. While she napped I came across a recipe for rolled buttercream fondant and thought I'd give it a try. It tasted great and was fun to make - but unless you're working in a walk-in refrigerator and have the body temperature of....oh, I don't know....a vampire maybe - it will melt the second you touch it. I had a huge sticky mess in my kitchen, but Elaina and Emery were pretty excited to see it when they got home from school that day.
So that's another three cakes down - which really translates into about 5 pounds around my mid-section. I won't lie, now I'm a little sick of cake and don't eat nearly as much of it as I used to - and my hips have thanked me every day.
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