Checker Cake

So I got a new cake pan set over the weekend and I couldn't wait to try it out. I made each of the layers of this checkerboard cake but I have not put them together because silly me forgot to get icing. Though the cake layers look really pretty. I plan on making this cake for my room mates because their birthdays are back to back so I am going to do each of their favorite colors. Then I was thinking about taking the idea further and using it on the small vanilla cake for the bridal shower (using the 2 colors of the invitations).

Chocolate Roses

Well guys I decided to to see if I could use the rose pattern for the cake that I'm working on to make chocolate flowers for my friends for Valentine's Day. I found a modeling chocolate recipe online so I thought I was good to go. But, the chocolate stayed sticky and didn't get hard and was overall very difficult to work with, even after I put in the fridge for the recommended amount of time. So I thought about making it more a fondant material so I took my trusty bag of powered sugar and my shortening and began to kneed in powered sugar and about a tbs of shortening until the chocolate was pliable and easy to work with. I then began to mold the roses and at first I made them the same way as the fondant roses, but when I put them on the lollipop sticks they just didn't look full and big enough so I added another layer of pedals, they looked so much better and almost real. I brought about 4 of them to my dad's work party over the weekend since he works at a restaurant. My dad tried one and was like it tastes just like a tootsie roll (I had been trying to figure out what it tasted like). The pastry chef's were also impressed and were wondering why I was going to school as a math and education major. Well here is a picture of how they turned out.  Oh and the leaves on the bottom is just made with a green white chocolate using the exact modeling chocolate recipe.

Fondant Roses

Well I actually found a rose design that I like 10 times better than then the 3 that I asked you all to vote on. (Thank you too all who voted by the way number 2 was my favorite as well.) I made 2 for fun and took a picture of them this is how they came out ... I think you will also agree that they are much better.

Bridal Shower Cake Work in Progress

Well I have my next cake project. I am making a cake for my boss's sisters bridal shower. Its a tea party theme and I am a little nervous about it. My boss gave me a picture of what she wants it to look like so I will be making it sometime in the next weeks to see how it comes out. If anyone has a good fondant recipe I would love to try it.

As of right now I am working on making some of the roses so i can figure out what design rose I want to do, I made 3 different ones they aren't colored because i didn't want to dye the fondant yet so lemme know which one you think is the best...

Steak and Grill Cake

Hello, everyone my name is Candice and I have been spending some of my free time making cakes for different occasions. Recently I made a cake for my father's work. He works at a steakhouse so I designed a cake based on his place of work. The main part of the cake is made with two layers of red velvet cake the top of which had Oreo cookies cooked into the top of it so it looks like burning charcoal under the "grill plate." Then i made the two steaks with a thin layer of cake left over from leveling out the main cake then covered it in fondant to resemble the texture and color of steaks. Some of the cake is covered in fondant I made my scratch, I don't think that i put enough powdered sugar in the mix because it was hardening the way I would have liked so I ended up buying a tub of fondant which I also used on some of the more important parts that needed to be sturdy. The over all cake didn't come out as neat as I would have liked.

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