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My Little Pony Cake

9/29/2018

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This adorable cake took me right back to my childhood. I loved the My Little Pony’s growing up and it’s always fun to reminisce when working on a cake. I covered the cakeboard in green fondant, which is something I rarely do, but I wanted it to look like grass. The bottom tier was covered in baby pink fondant and I placed bushes in different colored greens along the bottom. I also placed white puffy clouds in fondant around the tier, making one big one in the center. I added the little girl's name in colorful fondant inside the large cloud.
 
The top tier was covered in sky blue fondant. I started with purple fondant and rolling it into a long rope before creating the bottom layer of the rainbow. I repeated with all of the colors of the rainbow, curling the ends off to the side. To finish the tier I added more tri-colored bushes, white puffy clouds, and little white stars.
 
The last touch was adding some keepsake My Little Pony toys on top. Seeing the little girls smile when she saw the cake just melted my heart!

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​Stuff Pepper Soup

9/22/2018

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Its fall and I love soup this time of year. Nothing is better than a warm bowl of soup on a chilly night, and surprisingly it’s already starting to get cool here!

I wanted to add a new soup to the rotation and I came across this one and put my own twist on it.

Indigents:
  • 2 lb  ground beef
  • 1 cup onion diced
  • 14.5 oz diced tomatoes
  • 2 cups green peppers chopped
  • 15 oz tomato sauce
  • 4 cup beef broth
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 1/2 cups Minute Rice uncooked

​Directions:
  • Brown the beef with the onion in a pan over medium heat.
  • Drain your beef and onions and place in a 6-quart slow cooker.
  • Add the tomatoes (juice and all) and the rest of your ingredients.
  • Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours.
 
 It was delicious and filling and even Andrew enjoyed it!
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Claude Monet Water Lily Cake

9/17/2018

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In my standing tradition of fair cakes, I recreated a piece of art on a cake. This year’s masterpiece was inspired by one of Claude Monet’s water lily paintings. I had a fun time playing around with new techniques to decorate the cake, from hand painting to piping buttercream, even some fondant work. 
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Step 1:  Glue a 8" Styrofoam cake drum to a 1" think 8" Styrofoam circle to create the base of the cake.
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Step 2:  Cover the cake base in buttercream 
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Step 3: Cover the cake in blue fondant that the color wasn't fully blended to create the look of water.
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Step 4: Pipe on green lily pads all over the cake. Add a flower on several of the lily pads.
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Step 5: Using shades of blue and green food coloring thinned with a little vodka to paint all of the blue fondant area. This made it look like a water painting.
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Step 6: Using the same shades of green food coloring at a little extra color to the lily pads. Then place white fondant on a cake board and create board lines and wood grains and paint with brown food coloring thinned with a little vodka.
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Step 7:  Using different sized heart shaped cookie cutters cut out green fondant to make the 3-D lily pads. The green fondants color wasn't blended fully to create the same look as the blue fondant. Attached all over the cake, making sure to cover and problem spots. 
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Step 8:  Using flower cookie cutters cut out white fondant and layer them and curl them up and a yellow ball of fondant and "glue" in place. To finish the cake use a little light pink food coloring thinned out and add touches to the flowers. Then repeat with a deep green color for the lily pads.
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This cake is truly is a masterpiece!
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​Update:  I got first place!

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Naked Wedding Cake

9/10/2018

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I’m not even going to lie and pretend I enjoyed making this cake. Wedding cakes make me all sorts of nervous. It is someone’s big day and you are responsible for making a huge focal point of the wedding. To top it off this cake was for my good friend and Andrew’s Godmother. Talk about added pressure! It was nice to be able to continue to make all of her cake for her marriage though; I made her bridal shower cake back in July and last month got to make her bachelorette party cake. How cool is that! She wanted to have the wedding cake be carrot cake with pecans instead of walnuts and the same delicious cream cheese frosting as on her other two cakes. The even scarier part of making her wedding cake was that she wanted it to be a naked cake. I love how naked cakes look, but it is something that I am not very good at. I have had problems in the past with the frosting being too thick and tearing the cake, causing crumbs in the supposedly simple pretty cake. With the lessons I have learned with past naked cakes, I prepared the frosting much thinner to give it a smooth clean finish and thankfully it worked out well.

Being honest I still wasn’t happy with the cake though. However, once I added the fresh flowers to the cake during the setup it made the cake look more complete. But then…the cake and the cupcakes I made to go along with the cake were displayed on a table in front of a beautiful old window that was used as a room divider giving it a 360-degree view of the cake. There was no way to hide any flaws. To make matters even worse, the wedding and reception were in the morning. Where they placed the cake table was in the direct sunlight, something they normally don’t have a problem with afternoon weddings. The sunlight light started to warm up the filling in the cake causing it to sink. My heart broke. I wanted to cry and no amount of turning, flower placement, or extra support was going to hide it. I was happy that I was able to take a few pictures before the cake started to sink. They also cut the cake before it got even worse!

Later the bride told me the cake was perfect and tasted amazing, and in reality, her opinion is the only one that truly matters.

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The morning sun hitting the cake table
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The cake starting to sink
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Apron Now in the Shop!

9/4/2018

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I love to make aprons and I love wearing them. I probably have over 20 aprons I wear for every day, special occasions or the holidays. Since I’m always buying fabric to make more aprons means I have lots of fabric, so I recently decided to clean out some of the fabric bins I have and started sewing! I now have a bunch of aprons available for sale on my Etsy Shop! They are great quality and will last for years to come.

Go take a peek and see if there is one perfect for you or to give as a gift!
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