Step by step homemade baking recipes
Today I’m showing you how to make a real bubbling cauldron cake. This witch’s brew cake appears to have special brew bubbling away above a fire. The delicious eight layer Halloween cake is coloured black, orange, green and purple on the inside . . . a crazy surprise when it’s sliced open.
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Today Jenn Johns shows you How to Make a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them cake! Harry Potter is one of my her all time favourite book series, and she’s super excited about the new movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them coming out. Which Harry Potter book is your favourite?
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Today I’m showing you how to make a Farm Heroes Super Saga Garden Cake for the favourite gardener in your life! We are also doing a giveaway for an iPad Air! Links below for the rules and contest entry form.
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I bought myself a Nintendo for Christmas. Guess what game I wanted to play first? Minecraft! Well, that’s a lie. It was vintage Super Mario, but that doesn’t go with this cake. Guess what game I wanted to play second? Minecraft!
Once, many moons ago, I made a grass block Minecraft cake, and that took such a ridiculous amount of time, that I decided I would never do it again. So when I thought about making another Minecraft cake, I chose to make this cake out of mini cake blocks instead of one big giant one. Both giant block cakes, and Minecraft landscape cakes have been created in wonderful ways already all over the internet. So my problem was how was I going to produce a fresh cake idea when I was late to the party? I decided (with Paul’s expert advice . . aka his idea) to go with a background/backdrop of the cake being an un-mined, yet to be explored area that Minecraft Steve is working on, and in front of him, an area of land where he has already been, therefore exposing the various different block types.
Here are a couple of pictures of the cakes that I spent last week working on. There were pretty simple, but I loved doing them! There is something about the non-fussiness of a buttercream covered cake, that calls my name. I think that as soon as you start involving fondant, your game has to be ON. With a buttercream cake, it’s just you and your piping bag, and I let mine go where it wants to take me.
I needed a refresher on some simple buttercream borders, so I went to YouTube to check some out. I will be posting my own Simple Border Video soon, so make sure you take a minute and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, here.
This was the Root Beer birthday surprise cake for “Weiny”. It is a Root Beer cake base, with a Root Beer Buttercream icing. Mmmm!
This cake was for a lady who’s colleague was leaving and wanted to wish her Good Luck. It is a Vanilla Cake, with Pink Vanilla Buttercream.
This is cake was for my Dad’s hockey team. I made it for them to enjoy after their final game of the season. Word on the street was the “guys” loved it. I love how my dad talks with hockey player speak, as if he is 20. It’s so cute! This cake is a Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream. Doesn’t get more Classic than that. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here.
Like I said, these cakes were all pretty simple, but fun to make. This week coming up we’ve got some more intense creations on the list: Monster Trucks cake for a 6 year old’s birthday, and a Truck replica cake for a client’s brother in law’s 25th birthday. How is that men like the same things st 6 and 25? Ha ha! Should be interesting! These are right up Paul’s alley.
