Happy Easter!!!

Good Day Everyone,

As we had a month full of birthdays, we decided to celebrate them all together over Easter, and what better way to incorporate a Easter themed cake.

Had lots of fun making this one.

Happy Birthday, Sue, Jason, Tanja and Gord!!

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Spring Has Sprung

We are getting so close to spring I just could not resist.
We had a joint birthday party to attend, so I decided to make a "Flip Flop" cake to help bring on spring time.

Here are some easy step by step instructions:

First I make a template for the flip flops.

Baked my cake.

 Used my template to cut out a right and left flip flop

Torted the cakes and filled with icing.

And filled with fresh strawberries......just to add to the spring time feeling.

Put the tops back on and complete the icing.

Colour and roll out you fondant.

 Cover each flip flop and trim

I then used some yellow and make some small flowers.
Next, cut our small strip of a slighter lighter colour for the straps and for around the base of the cake.

Put the sides on, the straps and attach the yellow flowers.
As mentioned it was a joint birthday, so we put one name on each flip flop made it really cute
Place on cake board covered icing and sprinkled with brown sugar for the sand.

Yummy!! 

Really makes you think of summer!  

Bring it on, we are ready.

For more great ideas on summer themed cakes you must visit Cake FU.

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It's My Birthday!!!

So, my birthday is right around the corner, and it is time to celebrate!

And another excuse to make a cake!  If you know me, I have become obsessed with cake making, so what a prefect opportunity to try out something new.

So far I have been making large cakes, layered and decorated.  However, I have been really intrigued by small individual cakes called cakelets.  Amy Eilert of Cupcake Envy has been my inspiration, she is absolutely amazing with her designs, so I am going to give it a go.

I have decided on doing individual gift bags (shopping bags) in pink.  The cake will be cut into rectangles of 3" x 2" and will end up being 4" high once layered filled and covered in icing. Then will be decorated with fondant to resemble a gift/shopping bag, with a monogrammed "L" (for me-Linda), a tag saying "Happy Birthday", and finally finished off with fondant tissue paper -- how cute does this sound.

I am so excited I can't wait to get started.

Here is a mock-up of what I plan to do.

So, lets get started.

First I will need to cut the cake board into 3x4" for each cake

Cover them in black fondant

Next make the "Happy Birthday" tags.  I had edible images printed on rice page for the tags and monogram, them put them on white fondant. Cut them all out and left to dry.

Next I made the fondant into "Tissue Paper" for the gift bags, and set them aside to dry as well.

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Next, cut the cake into rectangles in the size of 3x1.5".

After torting each mini cake, they were filled with strawberries and iced in a cream cheese icing.

Make my pink fondant.

Cut the pink fondant into strips of 4x10" to cover each cake.

Make hole for the handle and attach the "Happy Birthday" tag.

Make strips from in black fondant and place in the middle of the bag and attach the monogram.

Make a small rope with white fondant and place in the holes for the handle.

Fill a piping bag with the cream cheese icing and pipe in a bit more on the top and put in the fondant "Tissue Paper".

Put a small amount of icing to act as glue on the bottom of the cake and place on the black fondant covered cake board.

Then do it all over another 21 times!!

And Enjoy!!!

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