Cake Over Batter
I had the pleasure of making an adorable smash cake for a first birthday party this weekend.
I iced the cake with buttercream and then added fondant accents. For the colors, I used the pre-colored Satin Ice fondant in red and black. I tinted ivory Satin Ice with Wilton Golden Yellow and Sky Blue. I love the way this one turned out.
Here’s a peek at my latest creation:
The cakes are buttercream and the monster’s eyeballs, horns, mouth, and little friends are made of fondant.
Don’t you just love these cowboy boot cupcakes I made over the weekend?
I iced my chocolate-chocolate chip cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Here are the steps for decorating them:
Hey everyone! My name is Lauren and I am so so so excited to be here blog swapping with Rach Makes Cakes! Seriously, Rach is the best! Have you ever had one of her cakes? They are DELISH! If you haven’t had one, I seriously suggest ordering one. Now. Usually, you can find me here at Lucy Baby Designs. Go ahead, click the link. I can wait for you to come back…
Anyway, today I’m making a cupcake stand to display Rachael’s seriously awesome cupcakes. I made it out of candle sticks and glass plates I bought at the dollar store. Hindsight- I wish I had gone to the Goodwill to find more interesting pieces. You may have seen something like this on Pinterest, but I have made it better!
I love how milk glass looks, and I figured out a pretty good way to mimic it. It’s super simple, this is what you will need.
Place your items in a COOL oven, heat to 350 degrees, bake for 30 minutes, then turn the oven off and let them completely cool before removing them. After they are completely cool, hot glue the candle stick to the center of the plate. Spray all the areas that you painted with a glossy clear acrylic to give it a nice even glossy finish.
Now, like I said before, enamel paint says you can run it through the dishwasher. Since you have just used hot glue I would not advise doing that. But- you can certainly hand wash it without fear that the paint will chip (like if you had just used regular ol’ spray paint like other tutorial say to use).
You can set your new faux milk glass cupcake stands like this.
Or stack them like this! Which ever looks best on your table.
Now that 30 Days To A Better Cake has come to an end, I’d like to take this time to thank a few (hundred) people…
If my bro-in-law, Tyler, hadn’t let us borrow his camera at the very last minute this whole thing would have never happened. Thank you, Tyler!
We called Tyler & Pat numerous times so they could help us with us video-making/editing until we figured it out. Thanks for your help, guys.
I’d like to say thank you to Gary for helping Trav assemble my table when we got to Colorado.
To everyone who visited www.rachmakescakes.com…thank you!
To everyone who Likes Rach Makes Cakes on Facebook…thank you!
To everyone who devoted their own status update to Rach Makes Cakes…thank you!
To everyone who joined the mailing list…thank you!
To everyone who subscribed to RachMakesCakesTV on YouTube…thank you!
To everyone who liked a pin, repinned a pin, and/or started following a pin board on Pinterest…thank you!
To everyone who follows Rach Makes Cakes and/or retweeted on Twitter…thank you!
To everyone who told a friend about it…thank you!
To ALL of my family members for emailing the site link to everyone they know…thank you!
Thank you for reading this post.
The biggest thank you of all goes to Travis. Thank you for inspiring me to this, the ongoing encouragement, creating the production studio, filming all of the videos, providing feedback, editing videos until I got the hang of it and being the best friend and husband a lady could ask for. You rule.
As I mentioned in video 30, that won’t be the last tutorial, so if you have a request or want to see how something is done, just let me know. Until next time, rock on forever.
Rachael
The party is over and the cake has been eaten. What’s left? Probably a HUGE mess in the kitchen.
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