Tiffany Lamp!

I'm home alone again this weekend, which have turned into my personal baking retreats. This weekend I wanted to replicate a Tiffany lamp cake I've seen done my Maggie Austin cakes in DC. I baked a 4 layer red velvet cake, then stacked the layers with buttercream. I carved them into a lampshade shape, then dirty iced and covered it in fondant. I mixed luster dust with vodka and used that to paint the stained glass pieces. I used some old black buttercream I had mixed up in the fridge to out line the pieces, then put a white knob on top and put a dot border around the bottom. The border and knob would have looked better in black I think, next time!

Tiffany Lamp Cake!

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! 

Cupcake Explosion!

Last night my friend Shannon wanted to come over and make cupcakes with me, so we got a huge batch of yellow cupcakes made and a triple batch of buttercream. The cupcakes we dyed different colors, some we left white, some pink, and some were teal. The teal were the prettiest, and we put light pink icing on them! Here are some pictures from our extravaganza:

I really had a fun time, it was awesome to make a huge mess and tons of cupcakes, then have someone to help clean up! I think she really enjoyed it also, hopefully we'll do it again soon. 

On another note, I went to the dr today and found out my rotator cuff is sprained, so I won't be paddling for a week or two. Its really not that upsetting since it hasn't rained in a while and its freezing all of a sudden. 

Scandalous Cupcakes

My latest project for cupcakes is somewhat of a scandalous one... at work we got an order for cupcakes with lingerie on them for a literary society honoring some poet who was a known womanizer. In order to prepare, I practiced at home one night with the help of a friend. We made fondant out of marshmallow fluff and powdered sugar, and then designed a template for corsets. Our cupcakes were red velvet, so we used a cream cheese frosting for the tops. We iced them in white, then used a flesh colored icing with a round tip to put little boobs on them. The fondant we colored pink and purple, and cut into the shape of the corsets. We used black royal icing to pipe the details on them; I think they turned out great! Here are ours at home:

A few days later I went in to work to help my boss make the forty needed for the party. Here are the ones we came up with at work: 

The homemade fondant was pretty cheap and easy to make, but it doesn't store well and was really messy. Overall, I had a ton of fun making these!