Valentines Day Cake Balls

This Valentines day I got a cake ball order from my mom's boss. She wanted to send them off to her kids at college. I decided to get a little creative and dress them up a bit for Valentines day of course. I just used a simple yellow and chocolate cake and covered all the cake balls with light cocoa melting chocolate. I used a squirt bottle to make the swirls on top. I found this technique a lot easier than just the 'flicking the fork' method or a pastry bag. I found the bottles in the candy making isle at Hobby Lobby. I used pink colored chocolate (already colored) to drizzle on top. I put each cake ball in a small liner and fit as many in the tin as I could. She said they looked beautiful and would be easy to ship along with a few other things for her kids. I highly suggest using the tins if you want to ship cake balls in another box, they fit in there perfectly and have little room to slide around and break.

Ella's Princess Cake

This cake my sister helped me make because I was very busy with school. So she baked it and then together we both decorated it. My uncles girlfriends daughter was having her 7th birthday. Ella loved princesses and decided to have a princess birthday party. I knew I wanted to put a huge sparkley princess crown on the top so I decided to go with light pink and light purple. I did a diamond pattern on the bottom to give it that puffy tucked look and also added shimmer dust to both tiers. I lined the bottom of each cake with a white woven ribbon and found little heart jewels that I attached to floral wire to come shooting out the sides along with some gum paste stars. I got great feedback on this cake that a lot of 7-year-olds loved it!

Wilton Cake Decorating Class

I took a Wilton cake decorating class at a Hobby Lobby here in town. It was a set of 4 or 5 classes where it taught the basic skills and techniques of cake decorating. this particular cake was practicing flowers. I discovered that I was the best at making the star-dropped flours. I also had a leaf tip that I used to add more color. And I used a small tip with white frosting to make the centers of the flowers.

Super Bowl Cake Balls

Well this was my first attempt at cake pops. My boyfriend got me this really neat cake pop book for my birthday and I thought that the super bowl would be the perfect opportunity to try them out. I really enjoyed making them. They were a bit more challenging than regular cake balls which I had made in the past. But I think they turned out pretty good. Everyone enjoyed them. And I made the foot ball field out of Styrofoam and paper :)