Molded Chocolates: Part 4

Part 4 on making molded chocolates is up in the tutorial's section!

Owl Cookies

One more attempt on making iced sugar cookies.  Owl sugar cookies for my son's first birthday. 

Candy Buffet

I made a small candy buffet for my son's birthday party.  I wanted to make some more but ran out of time.  I think it looked good though the way it was. 

I made iced owl cookies, chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, chocolate covered pretzels, molded owl chocolate suckers, lollipops, and rock candy.

Happy 4th of July!!

Happy Birthday to our country!  Here is a patriotic cake for the occasion.

Cowboy Cake

A 2 ft tall cowboy cake.  Decorated in fondant and modeling chocolate.

Owl Smash Cake

In keeping with my owl theme for my son's first birthday, I made him an owl smash cake for his one year photo session today.  I'm thinking I will do him an owl like this for his party too.  This one is about 5-6" tall.

Owl Cupcake Toppers: Tutorial Coming Soon!

My son's first birthday is coming up and his party is owl themed.  I've decided to make cupcakes with owl toppers to fit the theme.  I experimented over the weekend trying to decide what I wanted the toppers to look like and came up with something I think is cute.  Let me know what you think.

I will be posting a tutorial on how to make these cute toppers in the tutorials section.

I also am experimenting with different flavors.  The icing here is peanut butter icing.  I will post the recipe in the recipes section as well.

LSU Tigers cake

I may end up doing a tutorial on this cake.  It could be done for any sports team and it looks really neat in person. 

The cake is iced in buttercream but I textured fondant panels and painted them to look like tiger fur before putting each panel on the cake.  Its a really great technique that I came up with one day.  This cake was for a friend.  You can't sell anything that says LSU or Geaux Tigers because those words are copyrighted.  I think its pretty unfair but thats the way the world is.  The top is airbrushed purple and then everything else is piped buttercream.

Those little footballs are candy footballs I bought from Oriental Trading.  They came in a pack of about a hundred individually wrapped footballs, soccer balls and baseballs.

3d carved Cotton mouth snake

This cake was a completely new ball game for me.  The bulk of the cake is carved into a hill that is only on one side of the board.  The other part of the board is only covered in fondant with part of the snake on it. 

When I was asked to do a cotton mouth snake, I was a little hesitant.  What I ended up doing is cutting the snake into sections, covering those sections with fondant, then adding a vine to cover the sections.  To get the colors, I decided to use all white fondant and paint everything myself.  I had never painted on a cake before so this was a first.  I also had to make that head myself.  I found pictures and had them hanging everywhere and sculpted the head, then painted it.  

Now looking back, I would do several things differently next time but overall I am very satisfied with the outcome.

Pink Fire Wedding Shower cake

This cake was for a wedding shower.  I thought it was awesome that it was a wedding shower and this is what they wanted!  I loved it.  All black fondant with pink flames on the entire cake.  The board was marbled pink and black fondant.