I was asked to make some mini muffins for our team meeting today. Since it was Halloween I figured I would do the icing in orange but then I didn't want a lot of left over orange icing in my fridge with nowhere to go. Then I remembered seeing fang cupcakes in my travels on Google. Of course I decided to do this at 10pm last night. I didn't have any type of gel or cherry pie filling, ideas I saw from other examples. I did have strawberry jam. So, I added a bit of red dye to that and with a tooth pick (wonderful tool) added the "bite" marks. Super fun and easy to decorate.
Clover never ceases to amaze me in what challenge she dreams up for me to do for her son's birthday cake. This year was no disappointment! The baking was the easy part for this cake! The cake was technically a 3 tiered cake that was about 9" x 10". The tiers were separated with a half inch black cake board cut down to size. The bottom was chocolate, then vanilla and then cookies and cream. All were covered in vanilla butter cream before being covered in red fondant. Thankfully Mr T's cousin Amanda was over visiting for the weekend and ended up helping me a lot with the cake. She built the handle for me using cardboard and electrical tape. She also told me that it was customary to have stickers on your toolbox so I printed off some plumber related ones and laminated them. We even got the cake done early and delivered. Woohoo! Can't wait for next year's challenge! That's a joke. P.S. Now in my Instagram and ...
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