I am so excited! I can't wait to start decorating!☺
This week, I am making two cakes and will be using the Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro's recipes for Vanilla Cake and Chocolate Cake out of his Baking with the Cake Boss book. One cake is for the Teacher's/Staff Appreciation for Wednesday and the other for a dance mom friend who is graduating from college for Friday. I have been experimenting with modeling chocolate and different structures trying to get just the right look. For the Teacher's cake, I used candy melts and light corn syrup to make the modeling "clay" and made these:
The chalkboard will have ABC 123 written on it with icing. I tried the writing with the "clay" but it just didn't work out. I am quite impressed with myself. I am by far the worst sculptor you could imagine, but these came out pretty well, I might say. ☺ This cake is just for fun, although I wanted to show off a little. ☺ I wanted to try a few new things and this gave me the perfect opportunity to do so.
For the graduation cake, I made this:
The laptop is made out of Rice Krispy treats and the "clay". The screen and keyboard are just a picture of a laptop that I added the wording to in Paint Shop Pro X2 and printed out and laminated. I was going to make the medallion look similar to the laptop, but it just would not cooperate, so it is just a picture of the friend's real medallion that I laminated and will lay on the cake just like it is pictured. ☺ This cake is pretty important to me. If the friend likes it, I will probably be getting more "orders" from other dance moms through word of mouth. I don't and cannot charge for my cakes, so I could be really busy pretty soon. ☺
Pictures of the cakes will come once they are done. I will try to post progress pictures like I did for one of Emma's birthday cakes. ☺ We'll see how that goes. Once I start decorating and get in the "zone," I usually forget to take pictures until it is done. ☺
