Here are the cakes I made for Monkey Boy’s at home birthday celebration and his bowling party. (He turned five.) I used discontinued Wilton pans for both cakes.
Unfortunately, the pictures I took of the mini cupcakes I made for his preschool class didn’t turn out. Neither did the picture of the mini cake I made with the leftover batter. I had Big Bad Dad take that one to work since we were going to have a ton of leftover cake anyway. Want to make friends with your co-workers? Bring cake!
The Mickey Mouse cake was pretty easy since I decided to make icing stars over the complete cake. I find it very hard to smooth icing on the cake with a offset spatula, like the Wilton directions tell you to do, without picking up crumbs and ruining the icing.
The motorcycle cake was a challenge since it was hard to tell where the bike engine’s parts started and ended. Also, I didn’t use many icing stars and instead made ropes of icing that I smoothed out with a brush. I was pretty happy with the results.
So after two weeks straight of cake baking and decorating, I get to take a weekend off. Then next week I’m making around 70 baby faced cupcakes for a friend’s baby shower.
The following weekend I’m going to make mini-ice cream cakes for Boo Girl’s second birthday, since she can’t eat cake because of an egg allergy. I still haven’t decided on any recipes though.
It’s a wonder why we don’t all weigh 300 pounds around here. Frankly, cake and icing are beginning to lose their appeal. I’m sugared out.
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hey, about the crumbs in your frosting.
In the cake decorating class I am taking right now.. the instructor mentioned that if you make thin some preserves (she said Apricot)and brush it on the cake before frosting, it will secure the crumbs and you will not have a problem. She also told me that my frosting was too stiff and that was why I was getting crumbs. Just thought I would offer my 2 cents.. thanks T.