UCF Graduation Cake

WOW! This is the first time I post a picture of a cake in a long time. I'm going to have to start backwards to go forward. :) Well, here is a cake that I did for a really good friend's cousin. She just graduated from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. I'm very familiar with this school. I use to travel alot in FL when I taught cheerleading camps held at different universities . UCF happened to be one that I visited quite often. It's a great school and the campus is beautiful. As for the cake, my friend said to make it black and gold. I decided to cover the cake in black vanilla fondant. I then made a template of the UCF Pegasus. I tinted white fondant yellow and then it cut it out using my template. I mixed a little bit of gold edible dust with vanilla extract. I basically painted the pegasus with the gold mixture and let it dry. I placed it on the cake and used a little VE (vanilla extract) to make sure it stuck to the cake. As for the sides and border, I just cut out little square/diamonds and the border was rolled black fondant balls with several alternating gold balls. I also rolled fondant into a diploma and put a black ribbon on top. The cake flavor is my signature: vanilla with dulce de leche filling. Yummy! Hope you enjoyed it.

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We are officially up!!!

I'm so happy to say that the blog is officially done. I have to thank Shalon Estrada for her extreme patience with me and her work is just absolutely amazing. I hope everyone enjoys it. We still have to tweak a few things (fix our featured items & the gallery). Enjoy!!!

Changes coming up...

Hi everyone! I'm in the process of redoing my blog. I'm working with a talented graphic designer and so far it looks great. I know I haven't posted in while but the blog will look amazing and be incredibly useful. I really can't wait for you guys to see it. In the meantime, I'm posting all pics and info to my facebook. I will also try to update my flickr. So many places to update but so little time. :) I still haven't decided whether or not to completely delete everything on the blog and start anew. I guess you will have to wait and see....

Ana

Baptism Cake Pops

These cake pops were done for a friend's sister-in-law's daughter. She saw these brownie pops from this site, Brownie Pops and she wanted to incorporate these as favors. She wanted them to look a little chic but yet nice for her daughter's baptism. We found these on Beaucoup and they were just what she wanted.



I used my ever so popular homemade chocolate cake recipe and formed them into cake balls. I inserted a lollipop stick into the cake ball and dipped them into melted white chocolate and milk chocolate. For the design, each pop had the baby's initial, A, for Abby and some other scrollwork and dot design. For the finishing touch, each pop was bagged and tied with a white fabric. A personalized tag with an guardian angel background brought it all together.

Movie Theme Birthday

Here's a cake that attracted much attention in the month of December. I actually had a very busy December, which was good. A friend that I went to high school with contacted me because it was going to be her daughter's 11th birthday. It was a sleepover party and theme was movies. I tried to incorporate all the aspects of movies with the popcorn, movie reel, tickets, stars and the director's/scene clapper. The popcorn is real! Yes! I just had to make it a little extra special.

iPod Cake

Well, here's one cake I did for a friend's co-worker. She wanted the cake to be in shape of an iPod and it had to be pink because she loves the color pink. This is one of those things that has to be exact or else it doesn't look right. I think I did an ok job and I was so nervous before she came to pick it up. She was so happy with the results. When she brought it to the office, people kept saying how good the cake smelled and aroma of the buttercream and vanilla was amazing. So, I was happy. :)

Soo late

I know I haven't posted in a while but it's been kind of crazy. I'm pretty much like 6 months behind on cakes and other goodies I've done. I promise soon I will post pictures especially of my first wedding cake I did in December. Beautiful as can be!!! Plus, pictures of my new cupcake stand that I've been putting to good use. I've had lots of baby showers, bridal showers, and 1st birthdays. You will see them very soon.