Bumble Bee Cake

Hi everyone, can you believe its wednesday tomorrow ?? Oh summer is going so fast, its about to be my birthday soon.... :0) and that means time to celebrate. Anyways enough about me, lets get to business....

A couple of days ago I twitted a picture of a cake I found while flipping through a catalog which I was really inspired by. Here is the picture I twitted. If you don't follow me by twitter, you can follow me here. 

So I liked the cake so much that I couldn't wait to start rolling fondant and create.

The weekend was coming up and since I had a small family BBQ I made this adorable cake. 

Cake Recipe : tres leches

To make the bee I used: 

Wilton circle metal cutter

Wilton white/black fondant

Using the circle cutter I cut out a yellow circle.

Using the yellow fondant shape roll it in your hands forming a ball.

With your index finger roll one side to make it pointy, like this. 

To make the bee's stripes:

Using the black fondant I cut straight lines to glue them to the bee.

For the Bee Wings: 

Using this wilton cutter, cut out a few daisies. 

Using a spatula I cut two daisy petals. 

Using gum paste adhesive glue I glued them together.  

If you donºt know how to make your own gum paste adhesive your can view here to learn. 

Here are my bees and flower that I put to dry. 

*Hint: if you use half gum past and half fondant the fondant will dry faster. 

and here is my final bee cake.  Hope you enjoy my post. 

Here are the two pictures. 

This is my cake 

and this was the magazine one. 

It came out pretty cool. I so love my cake. 

 

Chocolate Cake Roll

Hey everyone, hope that you are having a great week. I can't believe tomorrow is thrusday, time flies when your baking. lol So here is another cake I baked yesterday it is so luscious. I have attached the recipe so you can make it yourself. 

Cake Recipe: 

For the cake

1/3 cup cake flour 

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

  2 tbs cornstarch 

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder 

1/3 tsp salt 

4 large eggs, separated 

1 cup granulated sugar

confectioner's sugar 

for the filing 

1 container frozen whipping topping

Here is my cake

Making the cake  

1.  Preheat oven at 350 f. Line a 15x10 inch flat pan with waxed paper. Grease and flour lined pan; tap out excess. 

2.  In a medium bowl , combine flour, cocoa powder , cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix well. In a separate bowl, using an eletric mixer set on medium speed, beat eggs yols and 1/4 cup sugar until fluffy. 

3.  in a small bowl, using clean beaters, beat eggs white on high until foamy.  Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar , beating until stiff but not dry. 

4.  Fold 1/3 beaten eggs white into egg yolk mixture.  Alternately fold in remaining whites and flour mixture. Pour batter in pan; smotth top.  Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 15 minutes. 

Rolling and filing the cake 

1. Dust a clean cloth with remaning sugar. Turn cake out onto prepared cloth: remove waxed paper. Trim the cake edges. 

2. Starting with a long side, tighly roll up the cake with cloth.  Transfer cake, seamside down to a wire to cool.  

3. Unroll cake: remove cloth. Spread whipped topping over cake to within 1/2 inch of edges.  Re-Rolls cake ; place seam-side down on a plate. Dust with confetioners' sugar before serving. Add morsels to filing if you desire. 

This recipe was very easy to follow. Hope you get to make it soon. 

Have a great rest of the day. 

Happy Dad's Day

Hi all here is another post I wanted to share with you all. 

Cake Recipe: Tres leches 

Hello Kitty Cake Pops

Hi everyone, I hope you all having an awesome weekend. I wanted to share these adorable hello kitty cake pops I made.  Here are some photos for you. 

Cake Recipe: Rainbow cake/cream cheese frosting/white chocolate. 

 

Once Upon a Time Theme Birthday Party

Hi everyone I hope you had a wonderfuld weekend and a great Monday. Here is a sweet cake I made for a little prince I know. He is sure the cutest and blessed little boy. You might remember the Nemo cake pops that I made a few months back, but if not you can view it by clicking Here. 

We had a Once Upon a Time them party for Arthur and here are a few pictures of the cake. 

Cake Recipe: 

White cake, Vanilla pudding frosting and white chocolate icing. 

 

For this cake I used my cricut cake. 

Prince crown I used the All occasion cartridge by Marth Steward and 

the wording I used the  Classic font cartridge. 

To match the theme I also made goodie bags and using the cartridges

above I cut the crown at 3". 

I really like the unlimited creativity I have using both cricut machines. 

I can match the party theme using my cricut cake and my cricut expression. 

Hope you guys enjoyed my post and have a wonderful day. 

Stilettos Shoes Cupcake and Big ANNOUNCEMENT

Happy Wednesday Everyone. 

I hope you guys are having a fantastic week. It has been great weather but today the weather is so HOT that my son's school had an early dismissal. They should really invest on installing AC's on all schools. How can you concentrate with so much HEAT. I don't know about you, but I know I can't. :/  Even though it was so hot I was still able to manage to bake a cake.  It was my first attemp to Marble cake and it came out great. :-) 

So as you may know a couple of months ago I purchase the cricut expression and the cricut cake so let me tell you... I love to work on these machines.  So today I used both machines.  Hope you like what I did and it can give you some ideas on how to do it yourself. 

Using the Cricut Cartridge - Forever Young  I cut the stilettos shoes @ 4'' on the cricut cake.

Here are my images from today. 

Dont you just love my stilettos shoes ? I love pink and brown so off course I picked those colors. :-) 

So now using my cricut expression I also cut the stilettos shoes at 4'' and created a card. 

This is a great idea for any occasion or event. Whichever event you have you can use the same cartridge using both machines and you can match both things so here is my card.  I think your going to LOVE it. 

In case your wondering what CONVITE is.... its the portuguese translation for INVITE and if your wondering where I purchase it from.... well that is the BIG news I'm about to tell you. :0)) 

I have always purchase english stamps and I so wished sometimes I had portuguese ones. So I 'm happy to announce that I will be having my very own stamp line :0) thats right Docerela Stamps they will be coming out this fall. 

I hope you enjoyed my work today and have a great evening. 

Happy Birthday Cake

Hi everyone, hope everyone had a great week, and yayyyyy weekend is finaly here, we get to sit back and relax, tanning, swimming uhmmm just looking at the sky.... Whatever you plan to do I hope you will enjoy your weekend but don't forget SIT BREATHE and RELAX.... sometimes we go through life so busy that we forget to just sit and doNOTHING. Well I'll tell you Nothing was not something I did not do today... I been in my Pink Patio buuuusyyyy... here is what I was up too... 

So a friend of mine asked me to make her favorite tres leches cake for a birthday party tomorrow... well its actually today, because its already past 2am and i'm here. :0)  So here are some pictures of the birthday cake. 

Hope you have a wonderful saturday. Oh by the way.... my website is getting a makeover :P can't wait to see.