Eat cake for breakfast is a popular saying, but we suggest you make this waffle cake and eat it for breakfast! It's a fairly simple cake design that I decided to make with my daughter as her first introduction into cake decorating. I considered buttercream rosettes, but this waffle was way more fun! Start by baking a square cake, in your choice of flavor. We went with chocolate cake. Bake two layers as you would normally for a small cake. My first choice for icing would have been ganache for a smooth finish, but I had already purchased supplies to make buttercream. We made a chocolate buttercream icing for ...
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Cake By The Emerald Coast
Last week I went on vacation to Destin, Florida. Destin has gorgeous white sand beaches, and clear emerald water. A few days before we left for vacation a cake idea came to me. I thought maybe I was crazy to try and get a cake decorated before leaving because departure was only about 3-4 days away. I purchased some fondant just in case an opportunity arose to let me actually complete the cake I was seeing in my head. The day of packing and departure came, and I started to get bummed thinking that my only opportunity to take a photo of this cake I kept envisioning on the beach was rapidly coming to a ...
28th of Mae
At the beginning of 2017, we had a local Southeast Missouri photographer, Laura Schumpert of Laura Mae Photography, contact us about a collaboration. Her magazine is called 28th of Mae, and is an online bridal magazine. The magazine features other local bridal vendors, and each give brides their tips for the current bridal trends in their specialty. For our introduction into the magazine, Emily and I were featured in an article introducing our business. We had a photo shoot where we had head shots made and photos of us working. It was a great experience. You can find our complete interview in the April 2017 ...
Doll Cake Pan, Multiple Uses!
A few weeks ago I was asked to make a Tinker bell doll cake. If you know me you know that doll cakes have never been my thing. I was dreading buying the cake pan for this cake because I was afraid it only had one purpose and then it was just going to collect dust. First, I made Tinker Bell, and to my surprise she turned out a lot cuter than I had expected. I wasn't thrilled with the inspiration photo I was sent, and I never like to just completely recreate someone else's work, so I changed her up a bit. For her buttercream icing I chose the small tip to make small rosettes and then made them ombre down the ...
Make Your Own Pumpkin Cake
I spent this Halloween in the kitchen. A week before I had received an email from The Cake Girls that included a tutorial on how to make a pumpkin with a black cat. It was so adorable I had to try it. I took this cake to a BBQ the next day and no one would eat it because they didn't realize it was a cake. I had to hold the cake up and tell everyone that it was cake and to please have a slice! Here is the tutorial so you can give it a try! Black Cat Sculpted Pumpkin Cake ...
Five Nights at Freddy’s Cake
Pace's mom contacted me recently to make him a Five Nights at Freddy's cake. She didn't think I'd know what it was but my kids had gone through their own Five Nights at Freddy's phase. If you don't know, it's a game where you must stay in a closed pizza parlor similar to a Chuck-E-Cheese and not be killed by the possessed animatronics. My kids found it terrifying, I thought it was kind of funny. Pace loves the character Bonnie the Bunny, so I featured him as the cake topper. (Yes, Bonnie is a boy.) The outside of the cake featured a stage with curtains pulled back to reveal the birthday boy's name in ...
