Brewers Cake!

I apologize for the lack of baking posts since the cookies. I am going to step my game up soon! No excuses! In the meantime heres a quick shot of my brothers cake I made this weekend. It's Brewers themed, and has a fruit Twizzlers border =) Candy on cakes = current obsession.

Ombré love!

This is a little baby post about a cake I made this weekend! It turned out so cute I wanted to share :)

I love ombré like I love chevron ... a lot! 

Here's my favorite chicka with a slice

The process was super simple, and I found pre-dyed cake mix so I didn't have to add a whole bottle of food coloring to get a good blue.

Cake Pops!

I am really late on this trend, but I finally made some cake pops! My favorite lil' baby Harper was turning one and was having a Very Hungry Caterpillar  party so I needed to make a caterpillar for the cake. Thanks always to Pinterest, I saw someone had make one of cake pops and it looked so cute I had to try. 

Making cake pops is a lot easier than I thought it was, I just kind of winged it but figured out a lot about making them in the process.

So all you need is 

1 Box cake mix - any flavor

1 Box icing

Sticks

Candy Coating or melted Chocolate

 First and easily enough, bake your cake. It doesn't have to be pretty. I chose vanilla for both flavors since Harper had never had cake before. Once it's baked take the cake and crumble it up. If you have any hard edges cut them off, I found the don't crumble and will be weird in the cake ball later.

Once it looks like this

Start adding icing! Add enough until you can clump it together with your fist.

this is what mine looked like at that point. Once you have it to hat point you can start to mold them! If you have a nice cookie/melon-baller that works best. they also sell cake pop molds you can use like cookie cutters. Once you've rounded them, put them in the fridge or freezer to set their shape.  During this time you can start to melt your chocolates. I used red and green for the body. I saw a "Babycakes" chocolate melter later that would work really well for the dipping, but I just melted as directed on the back in a small bowl. I found that swirling them works better than trying to submerge the whole pop. 

Once they were dipped I added eyes with a small piping bag filled with extra melted chocolate.

Once my cake was finished I added these guys to the top =) the antennae are Mike and Ikes!

The smash cake! The caterpillar was made with marshmallow fondant 

Candy Cake!

Sometimes as a baker, I see things and know that I need to make them myself. Like NEED to make them. This candy cake has been calling to me for so long, and I finally got the chance (and remembered) to make it! This past week my little stinker of a sister turned 17 (yikes!). She is a total candy queen. When we were growing up if she didn't have candy on her at all times I'd be surprised. Halloween was like a religious holiday. Maybe it's because her birthday is so near it...like me with food and Thanksgiving...hmmm....


Anywho

This cake was SUPER easy to make and a very big hit with the family.

First you make rice crispies and pat into a greased 10" cake pan. You then need to add frosting to the sides and top so the candy will stick. I went candy crazy and used Oreo filling frosting. Then using fun sized kit kats place them around the edge. Use more frosting if it doesn't stick right away. Then pour on your favorite candies to the top. I thought mini M&M's were fun so I used those.

 To finish it off I used a lacrosse ribbon my sister had. The ribbon also helps set the kit-kats. Then you're all set!! Using fun candy colors really helps make the cake look fun =)

the Candy Queen

I also made her a traditional cake and cupcakes

That's supposed to be a lacrosse player...it was freehand...

Pumpkins for fall!

It was fun to bake all day, and it officially started my season of baking =)