Red Ribbon

Teal Cherry Blossoms

I have to admit, my most favorite part of decorating a cake is the decoration.  Baking, while necessary for a cake, can be a bit blah.  I just haven’t developed my recipes enough to make it interesting (which is my goal for this year – develop new yummy flavors).  Anyways, I was so happy when my cousin, owner/baker/decorator of K’s Sugar & Spice, asked me to help her with a few of her cakes – just making sugar flowers!  Wahoo…another opportunity to practice flower making.  So this is one of my most recent collaborations with cousin Kelley, with flowers hand crafted by yours truly.

Pink Cherry Blossoms

Hibiscus

Pink Rose and Stephanotis

Roses

Spaghetti with Meatballs?

 

We celebrated a friend's birthday today at an Italian restaurant.  I thought it might be neat to create a cake that looked like pasta.  So...one word - "Google".  What would I do without the internet?  Underneath the "spaghetti" is a rich chocolate cake.  The noodles are made of piped cream cheese kahlua butter cream icing.  The meatballs are Ferrero Rocher and the parmesan is white chocolate.  The sauce is strawberry preserves.  Loved this because it was such a fun and easy cake to make.