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Metallic & Turquoise wedding cake & cupcakes

November 14, 2012 by · 5 Comments

My cousin got married this month!  I love family weddings, spending time with my family is one of the most fun anyone could EVER have.  I laughed more in the few days we spent together then I have in years.  I laughed until I cried, couldn’t breath, the back of my jaw hurt and I almost peed (still have bladder control after 5 kid- TAKE THAT!).

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Another fun part of my family getting married is getting to make a wonderful creation for them!  I was hoping for a huge grand cake, but she wanted cupcakes…  Well the bride is always right, and in the end, while I’m STILL not a cupcake fan, I do think it turned out VERY pretty!  And I’m really happy with the whole set up!

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My favorite part is the Gold Leaf Cake.  GORGEOUS!  I love that I got to learn a new technique for this cake!

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We went with 5 flavors of cupcakes, almost 3 dozen of each flavor.  We used a menu board to help people figure out which flavor each cupcake was.  We still had a few people grab the wrong flavor, but we did our best!

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My cousin originally was wanting a cupcake tower, but neither of us loved it, then I was struck with GENIUS!  Different sizes, heights and colors of cake stands!  She totally ran with it, and painted them different metallic shades to match her color scheme.

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I’m sure you noticed my new hair color… it didn’t turn out QUITE the way I wanted, but it’s been a fun change!

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I got a new extra EXTRA large star tip for these, it made frosting the 14 dozen cupcakes super fast and I love the way it looks!  Big, fat ad fluffy! Don’t forget to click on the pictures/links below to see the cake tutorial, cupcake and frosting recipes.  YES, I’m sharing recipes!

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And the cutting of the cake!  Isn’t her lace dress lovely?  My second choice in wedding dress would have been something like this.  And the grooms silver suit, everything matches so nicely, I love how it all came together!

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The cake was 7 layers of my dark Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting.  Mmmmm  After the bride was done cutting the cake and they left on their honeymoon we took the cake with us to the family party that night!  So we all got to enjoy it!

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Metallic & Turquoise Wedding Cake and cupcakes
Gold Leaf Cake tutorial
Five Wedding cupcakes and recipes
Dye your own sprinkles and sugar crystals

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Small wedding cake.

November 8, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

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My husband’s aunt called last night asking if there was anyway I could throw together a cake for a last min wedding.  The only thing she has been told it that it was for about 30 people.  So since there was no wedding colors or requests.  I went with something I’d been wanting to try for awhile.  Using stencils and royal icing on top of the fondant.  It didn’t turn out as perfectly as I’d like, but I learned a TON from it and can’t WAIT to try it again.  I might make a just for fun cake this week to try it again!  Getting the royal icing black was the hardest part, of course.  I used an entire container of black powder and half a container of black gel for just 1 cup of royal icing (started with chocolate royal icing).  My husband loved it, how striking the colors were together.  And his aunt said the wedding party liked it.  The only hitch was that the guest list ended up being much bigger than 30, more like 200+!  But the reception also included a full dinner, so hopefully most people ended up with at least a small piece! 
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Another wedding cake!

February 17, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

This was the cake I made for the reception tonight. I wish I had gotten a shot of the inside. It was white almond, Sour cream dark chocolate and then white almond again. In between each layer was a pistachio mousse. It was SOOO good. And I made Marshmallow fondant for a change. It was delicious. A nice change from the normal chewy gross fondant. About halfway through the outdoor reception we got one of our famous Texan sized Rain/lighting storms. And even though we were undercover the rain came right on in~ The cake got soaked, and the fondant liquefied a bit and got all stick. Luckily it was near the end of the evening. Even so we had a lot of guest leave without cake and the entire bottom layer is left! Good thing cake freezes well! If it hadn’t been for that storm I think there would only have been half of the bottom layer or less left. It was a huge cake, built to feed 154. The brides colors were brown green and white. The decorations were beautiful, the setting was amazing and the food and snack were all green, brown and white. It was really beautiful, even if I did get soaked.

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Yellow Texas Rose

August 18, 2007 by · Leave a Comment

So here is the final cake, all she wanted was yellow frosting roses on white frosting, with white cake and white filling. I wanted to go all the way up the bottom layer, with roses, but after putting on the second row I knew it wouldn’t make the car trip. I did have quite a few fall off in the car and had to do some damage control once I got there. But in the end it worked out well.
It took 48 cups of batter, 18 cups of buttercream, 12 cups of royal icing, 10 lbs of powdered sugar, but only 24 eggs! And I finally finished of a 50 lbs bag of powdered sugar I accidentally bought at Costco last year!

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