I am behind in posting my latest cakes that I've made. This one I made for a New Year's Eve birthday celebration. The house was decorated in black and silver and that's how I decorated the cake. I made a three layer Perfect Chocolate Cake but with salted caramel icing instead of the whipped cream filling. Covered in grey fondant then heavily dusted with silver shimmer dust. It was Kostas' 40th birthday so I put 40 stars on the cake. I also made 3 dozen cupcakes to go along with the cake.
For this 80th birthday I was asked to make 6" cake and 8 dozen cupcakes. I was told that the birthday girl liked flowers so that's what I went with for the decorating. I absolutely love how this cake turned out. It was a two layer 6" cookies n' cream (this time I didn't forget any ingredients!) cake. I covered it in pale blue fondant, with soft pink and white flowers. I made a large three layer rose the night before with some leaves so they would have enough time to dry out. For "80", I cut out two of each number out so I could hide the cocktail stick between the two layers. I had just enough of the soft pink ribbon to go around the bottom of the cake to finish it off. Now, for the cupcakes I did raspberry cupcake with raspberry mascarpone icing, lemon cupcake with lemon cream cheese icing, caramel cupcake with salted caramel icing topped with caramel sauce and cookies n' cream cupcake with buttercream icing. Two dozen of each went t...
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