white chocolate cream cheese frosting
Feedback on the other cakes is as follows...
- Banana cake = best tasting. Everyone raved about this cake flavor combo.
- Shoe cake = prettiest. If you don't think this is pretty, there's something wrong with you!
- Corn dog cake = most impressive. Not too shabby for my first carved cake.
Cake tips:
Plan ahead - obvi. Everything had to be done on Saturday, July 4. I started baking/prepping on Sunday, June 28. However, I started on the gum paste shoe about a week before that - it takes a few days to dry and I had never done a shoe before so wanted plenty of time.
- Back out from your due date and plan to bake/make something every day - so you don't drive yourself crazy (well, it could still happen...).
Don't be afraid to freeze. Cake is usually best the day its baked. But, there's no way to make and decorate four cakes in one day. Well, unless you have a large staff and a commercial kitchen. I don't. So, bake the cakes ahead of time; when completely cool cover in plastic wrap and foil; put in freezer.
- Let cakes thaw in their wrappings in the fridge.
- Don't thaw on counter because the condensation with make your cake soggy.
Be prepared for mistakes - if its your first time trying something. I'm somewhat of a crazy perfectionist (when it comes to certain things) so its hard for me when a frosting doesn't turn out, or a cake falls (both of these happened to me last week).
- Mistakes will happen - even to the best bakers. So, take a breath and take a step back. You can usually find a way to fix most problems.
- Brad had to remind me of this a few times...
Shoe. Cake. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the bday surprise :)
The bachelorette cake was for me, and was a great surprise!! Tasted amazing, especially the icing. The best part is that everyone was afraid to cut into the purple package, so it looked pretty funny towards the end of the night! Awesome.
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