Tractor cake!

Here is what the straw bales went for! I used a 9x13 cake and built the tractor on top of its "field" any questions I will gladly answer! This was a really fun cake to do.

Straw Bale Cake Decor Tutorial

So I am working on a tractor cake this week and just finished the straw bales that go on it and wanted to share how I did this because when I looked for how to's on these I could never find ONE straight answer I know that everyone has their own way of doing it but this was mine it is was REALLY simple! Enjoy

1. Take coconut put it in a bowl and add just a TINY bit of coloring and I used a little bit of Wilton golden Yellow and Lemon yellow and mixed them together and got some orangy pieces and some yellow pieces and some that were in between (sorry didnt take a picture of this step)

Pre heat your oven to 350 and put the coconut in there and toast it. Be careful and watch it closely because the pieces around the edge (at least mine) toasted faster and I had to stir it a few times, and just toast it until you get the color you want mine took about 10 min.

This was the color I achieved

2. Take a rice crispy treat (I made mine according to the recipe on the box). Formed them into rectangle boxes and put in the fridge over night so they got hard. and coat them in butter cream, I made a small amount of buttercream and tinted it with a TINY bit of brown, copper and golden yellow to get a tanish gold color. 

Then roll the rice crispy in your toasted but COOLED coconut.

And VIOLA Straw bales

Will post a picture of the completed cake tomorrow when its finished!

Hot chocolate Mini's

Sorry I havent been on here much lately been extremely busy! but I have a new recipe and decorating tip for you guys today! I was able to experiment a little bit this past week and came up with a dynamic dual! Hot Chocolate cupcake with a white chocolate butter cream! Can you say AMAZING! ;)

Hot chocolate cupcake
1 box chocolate cake mix
4 eggs
3 TBS coco
1 stick softened butter
1 1/3 cup buttermilk
1 pkg chocolate pudding mix
1/2 cup hot water

Mix all the ingredients in mixing bowl on med-high for 2 min scrape the bowl, and mix for another 3 minutes. The batter will be thick!

Pre Heat oven to 325

Line your cupcake tins I used mini and got about 70 out of this one

Bake for 13-15 min or until done!

White Chocolate Butter cream

3 sticks butter softened
2 tsp vanilla
1 bag of Powdered Sugar
1-1 1/2 cup of premium white chocolate chips
3 TBS of heavy cream

Put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and put in microwave on 60% for 30 seconds, stir and continue doing this for 15 second increments until the chips are melted, let cool

Cream butter and vanilla in a mixing bowl, add half of your powdered sugar and mix until its well incorporated. Add the other half mix until well incorporated then add cream, beat on high for 2 min. Fold in your cooled but melted chocolate beat again until butter-cream is about doubled in sized and not as dense.

Frost cooled cupcakes!

My Daughters Cake

As I mentioned before I LOVE blossom flowers, so for my daughters 1st birthday cake I made her a pink and white blossom cake! The bottom tier is a rainbow cake with a fresh raspberry cheesecake filling and the top tier is a chocolate cake with a caramel buttercream filling!

Rainbow Cake!

So my daughters 1st birthday is on June 23rd, and I wanted to do a colorful cake, so I decided on the rainbow cake!! Below I will post the how to!

• Plain white box mix
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 large box vanilla pudding
• 1 tsp vanilla

Mix all the ingredients together with an electric mixer until smooth (makes 1 9 in tall round cake). If you want to make a layered cake double all your ingredients.

Get 5 bowls and divide your cake evenly among the bowls. About 1 cup per bowl

Add 1 color to each- red, yellow,green, blue, and purple

Spray your pan with bakers joy (I LOVE this spray nothing sticks!!)

Put your red cake color in the middle of the pan in a nice blob, then add the yellow on top of that.. Keep adding each color on top of the previous one, The batter will spread out as you add each color on top of the next. DO NOT use a spatula to even it out it will cause your colors to run together.

Bake at 350 for 30-35 min or until done

Now the top of the cake it will look as though the colors dulled but inside they didn't.. the below picture I had reversed the colors for the second layer (the first was already in the oven). I had leftover colors so I decided to make a cupcake with the colors in the correct order just to show you what it will look like! Enjoy!

Fondant Blossom Flowers

I think that cherry blossoms are the prettiest flowers ever! So for my daughters 1st birthday cake I made 3 different colors of the blossom flower, White, Pink and a mixture of white and pink! In the center are light pink sugar pearls and painted with edible glitter (who doesn't love a little bling on a cake!)

Mini Cupcakes

So this past week I was contacted to do 500 mini cupcakes for a wedding. Their choice of flavor was lemon cake with a lemon buttercream. So below I will post the doctored up quick recipe for an amazing lemon cake!!

• 1 box white cake mix
• 4 eggs
• 1 box lemon pudding mix
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• Zest from 1 lemon
• 1 cup water
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• Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl
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• Bake at 325 for 12-14 minutes
• Makes 65 mini cupcakes using 1 tbsp of batter per mini cupcake cup
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• Lemon buttercream
• 1 lbs butter
• 2 lbs powdered sugar
• Juice from 1 lemon
• Zest
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Milk until desired consistence

Adding more lemon zest will make a more lemon flavor, I added the zest from 3 lemons for this buttercream!

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Beat all with mixture. I like mine fairly thick to pipe onto the cupcakes!