MIA'S BABY-SHOWER! <3

To celebrate Mia's Baby-shower, I created a colorful cake.  Below you will find step by step, how I made this cake.  Enjoy the journey!

 1) Find your inspiration.  In this case, the gift bag inspired me.  I loved the combination of colors, perfect for Mia's baby-shower.

  Dots, strips, lines, flowers were incorporated in the cake design.

2) First Tier: An 11" (2 layer) Vanilla Cake.  Covered with lemon buttercream icing and raspberry buttercream filling in between layers.   Yummy!

I used the leveler to make two equal layers.  A ring made of buttercream to separate the filling from the lemon buttercream icing.

With tip 789, I iced the cake and later smoothed it with the spatula.

3) Second Tier: An 7" (2 layer) Chocolate Cake with chocolate filling in between layers covered with chocolate buttercream icing.  For chocolate lovers!

4) You should calculate the amount of fondant you will need to cover the cake.  I colored the fondant lime green for the first tier.

I smoothed the side of the cake with the fondant smother.

If you got a bit of buttercream on your fondant when you cut the fondant around the cake, you should trow it away, that way you won't contaminate the fondant.  A little waist of fondant is ideal.

5) Be creative and use the tools you have to have fun decorating the cake.  In this case I used the scallop tool, round cutters, ribbon cutter, flower cutters, silicone mold, modeling tools, sugar pearls etc....

6) Embellish your cake but always remember, less is more!

7) When stacking cakes, you should use appropriate dowels to guaranty structural integrity.

I can't wait to meet you Mia!

I am back!

It has been a long time since I posted something in my blog.  Sorry about that but, I was busy teaching at my 4 stores and making cakes for special occasions.  Below you will find some of my last creations.  I hope you like what you see and I promise to keep in touch more often.  Have a wonderful day! 

Cheers,

Natalia

Halloween treats

It has been a long time since I posted something on my blog, I really apologize for that but, we had such a great summer this year here in Vancouver :)  

Halloween just passed and I had so much fun doing some decorations, I will like to share will all of you my treats...

The fist treat is made out off pumpkin pure, cheese cream and other delicious ingredients; covered in white chocolate these "Bloody eyes mummies pumpkin truffles" are just spooktacular!

Another treat that I made were the "Brain anilla cupcakes with lemon filing dyed green", and "Brani red velvet cupcakes with raspberry bloody filing", all of the covered in vanilla buttercream icing, they look terrific and are simply delicious!

My 3rd treat a customize Halloween cake.  A (2) tier vanilla cake with white vanilla buttercream icing in between layers. Every tier has 3 layers dyed in white, yellow and orange, like a candy corn, covered with white fondant and black fondant details.  A cake that tells a story, a spooky one!

I couldn't resist to make some "Halloween characters" by using cupcakes, buttercream icing and my imagination, so much fun!

"Cake Pops Halloween treats", using vanilla, chocolate, caramel and coconut flavour, are so much fun to make and my guests loved them!

I hope that you all had a great Halloween and that you all enjoyed my treats, please leave a comment below if you have any question.