Well it's obvious that I've been neglecting my little site here for quite a while. But seeing as how I'm planning to start updating frequently again, I would like to back track a little to the last big cake I made.
This is the cake I made for the Mr.'s graduation! There is a small back-story as to why I decided a large green dinosaur would be a good fit for his graduation cake. Back before he was the Mr. and was just my good friend, he was having a rough patch in life and we were living a few thousand miles apart. I wanted to cheer him up so I sent him a stuffed green dinosaur toy randomly to make him smile. Long story short, he likes his present, I moved back and we live happily ever after.
So here is how I made the cake...
I made this during final exams so I went to Costco and bought a few packages of their bakery pound cake to save some time. I made my own buttercream and fondant and sculpted the cakes into the dinosaur shape. I frosted and then covered the dinosaur and used more small fondant pieces to make the feet, tail, spikes and facial features. For the graduation cap I used an upside down Reece's Big Cup and a large square of dark chocolate. For the cupcakes, I made some lemon cupcakes and frosted them with a buttercream swirl. I rolled out some gumpaste and cut out 4 heart shapes. Then I used red sugar pearls to spell out 2009 and then gold dragees to outline the starts to make them look fancier :)
It was crazy trying to make this cake during finals season while I was also in the midst of moving out of my apartment. On top of that, his whole family was coming to his graduation so I knew I had to make this impressive as to make a good first impression!
I plan on doing fewer whimsical sculpted cakes this summer and focus more on classier, plated desserts and pastry. But I really love bright colors and cute whimsical characters so I'm sure this will not be the last cutesy cake I make!
Happy Graduation honey!!!
So here is how I made the cake...
I made this during final exams so I went to Costco and bought a few packages of their bakery pound cake to save some time. I made my own buttercream and fondant and sculpted the cakes into the dinosaur shape. I frosted and then covered the dinosaur and used more small fondant pieces to make the feet, tail, spikes and facial features. For the graduation cap I used an upside down Reece's Big Cup and a large square of dark chocolate. For the cupcakes, I made some lemon cupcakes and frosted them with a buttercream swirl. I rolled out some gumpaste and cut out 4 heart shapes. Then I used red sugar pearls to spell out 2009 and then gold dragees to outline the starts to make them look fancier :)
It was crazy trying to make this cake during finals season while I was also in the midst of moving out of my apartment. On top of that, his whole family was coming to his graduation so I knew I had to make this impressive as to make a good first impression!
I plan on doing fewer whimsical sculpted cakes this summer and focus more on classier, plated desserts and pastry. But I really love bright colors and cute whimsical characters so I'm sure this will not be the last cutesy cake I make!
Happy Graduation honey!!!
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