Peaches, Cherries and Mint, oh my!

These were made yesterday, for today! Included are a peach pie, dark chocolate cupcakes with mint filling and chocolate candy transfers on top AND another black forest cake. (I think this might be my new favorite cake!)

Black Forest/Pea Pods

Two different orders this weekend, last two before vacation!

Black forest cake made with Kirsch soaked cherries and stabilized whipped cream. The sides are covered with chocolate shavings. I really wanted to eat this cake when I was done with it! It was made for my friend Tricia's husband, Robby. Happy Birthday Robby!



Vanilla cupcakes with fondant pea pods made for a baby shower. The buttercream on the cupcakes is vanilla colored brown to match the colors of the nursery which are sage green and brown. Love the way these turned out!

Bananas!

I made these cupcakes for our friend Tyler who requested/suggested them. Tyler has a life-long tradition of eating a banana cake (from a very specific bakery in Canada) on special occasions and he thought it might be good for me to take a stab at it.

I made two versions, one with toasted coconuts and pecans baked in (and on top) and one plain, with banana flavoring only.

These came out GREAT and I'm definitely adding them to my menu. I'm very pleased with the result and taste. I used banana cream candy flavoring instead of banana extract to achieve the taste I was going for. Recently I've noticed that when using extracts, my cupcakes seem to "sink" a bit. Not so with the flavoring - cupcakes came out perfectly fluffy and delicious!

With toasted pecans and coconut



Without

Travis

These cupcakes were made on the fly, for one of Rodney's co-workers, Travis.

Chocolate mousse with chocolate buttercream and silver luster dust.




Chocolate cream pie, coming up next!

Merle

This is an Italian Cream cake that I made for Ryan's mom (and our "second" mom), Merle Ann. She's always ordering cakes for all of the Buchanan's, it's about time she had one of her own!

NYE cupcakes

Made these for the black and white NYE party we threw.

Vanilla raspberry and dark chocolate mint cupcakes with fondant cut-outs on top. I used a paint brush to flick the silver luster dust (plus lemon extract) on each cupcake to give it the "splattered" look. Each cupcake completed with one silver dragee.

Lola's Tree

This cake was made for Rodney's boss, Lola, for her annual holiday party.

Lola requested a "Whoville" type cake, or something nostalgic. After looking for different ideas on the cake boards I frequent and coming up with nothing, I finally "googled" "whoville" and came up with a picture of a tree that was at Disney Land recently that represented "Whoville." I sent the picture to Lola; she said she liked it and so that is what this cake is based off of.

The entire cake is made up of four different cakes. 2 red velvet and 2 lemon (all with cream cheese bc).

The colored ornaments were made from melted down jolly ranchers that I molded into round shapes, the rest are silver dragees and edible pearls. The top is comprised of wedding sprays.

I really hope Lola enjoys this cake, it was a lot of fun to make!

close up of the top:





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