Bennetts Gone Wild

Bachelorette Party. Pride and Prejudice . . . the late party. Scandalous dress unlacing down the back . . .

LEGO Baby Shower

The most recent cake is from a baby shower for my coworker. His wife is having a baby soon and being the only male in our department, he got treated as if he were one of the girls.

To help him maintain some of his dignity, I decided to opt for a more boyish cake and went with LEGOs. I used rice crispies for the toppers and covered them in fondant.

I loved how it turned out!

Hive Housewarming

I made this cake for my own housewarming party. This is the first time I've made a decorated cake for my own party so I decided to go a little crazy and planned to make ganache with butterscotch chips for the exterior of the cake.

I had never done ganache before, but I saw a cool youtube.com video where they made it really easy. Basically the guy scalds cream, takes it off the burner, adds chocolate and whisks everything until it's smooth.

Here, check it out for yourself:


Butterscotch chips aren't exactly like chocolate, so it was a shot in the dark, but it seriously turned out amazing!

My cake was rather large, so it didn't quite get the glossy pour look from top to bottom that you can get on slightly shorter cakes . . . but I had to do the bee striped interior.


I would highly recommend using ganache on cakes. It's really easier than you think, especially with the trick of melting the chocolate right into the cream.

Put your cake onto a cooling rack that fits inside of a lipped cookie sheet and pour the ganache right in the middle of the cake. Make sure to use the mixture once it cools down a little and gets thicker. You can use a spatula or knife to spread it around and any excess ganache or big drips pour right through the cooling rack into the cookie sheet and can be saved for midnight choco cravings.

Babies

Baby Shower Cake! It's supposed to be a little stork delivery on a porch mat . . . not sure if it came across as intended. The baby is made out of rice krispies and fondant. . . . it's not at every baby shower you hear the words, "I want to eat a piece of the baby" more than once.

Under the Big Top

My friend hosted a circus birthday party. I got the privilege of making the cake.

Humpty Dumpty

One of my coworkers fell off a ladder last year and was seriously hurt. Fortunately, he was able to recover and returned to work. A year later, we threw him a Humpty Dumpty Day to let him know we're all happy he's healthy and alive today.

It might have been a little tasteless, but I was asked to decorate the top of an ice cream cake made by another coworker . . . and this is what I came up with.

Pork Update

I just got these pictures back from the Pork Party and couldn't help sharing them. It's my pig cake, post-op.



It's really sheer dumb luck that these things turn out okay and, like this one, better than intended.