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Heart Shaped Kit Kat Cake for Valentine’s Day

February 4, 2015 by Jenn

 Whether you are a lover or hater of Valentine’s day, you’re bound to love this cake because it’s full of candy, and lined with WHITE Kit Kats!  

For whatever reason, I wasn’t able to find the white KitKats in Canada.  For those of you that might find yourself with the same problem, I got the white KitKats on a recent trip to the US.  Being so close to the border, I find that it’s super easy to order things that we don’t have in Canada, and have them shipping to a shipping outlet five minutes from the Canadian border.  It’s awesome.  And deadly at the same time.  It’s quite an addiciting habbit.  With Target pulling out of Canada, shopping is incredibly sparse in my city, so if it means I have to drive an hour or so to pick up packages from the USA, I’m willing to do so.  All for the sake of the videos.  All for you.  ALL FOR YOU PEOPLE!!!  Hahaha . . . that is true, but I might have an obsession with online shopping.  Maybe.  Why do they have to make it so easy!?!?!?

For the candy topping, you could use whichever your favourite candies are, themed with Valentine colours.  Of course, you could make this for another occasion, and it would look just as awesome- I’m thinking Halloween, Easter, Christmas, or even a rainbow theme! 

For the heart shaped cake, I used my favourite cake recipe, divided it in half like I would for any 8″ or 9″ pan, and baked them for about 45 minutes at 350.  I think I had too much batter in the pan which is why I had to bake them for so long.  The heart cake pan comes in a variety of sizes, so when you’re working with your batter, I just advise you to start watching it at 30 minutes.  

When I’m choosing ribbon to use with cakes, for something like this, I went with a larger sized one.  I also stay away from the ones that are “Wired”, since they tend to crinkle, and don’t lay flat on the cakes.  They might be better for making bows, but aint’ nobody got time for that!

 

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Transformers Cake- Using a Shaped Cake Pan

July 5, 2014 by Jenn

 Learning how to use a shaped cake pan was how I learned to decorate cakes- so therefore, it’s how you should learn to!  Hahaha!!  Just kidding.  Using a shaped cake pan is ONE of many ways you can learn to decorate, and since it’s the way that I’m familiar with, I chose to show you in this tutorial.   When using a shaped cake pan, the lines and indentations are made for you, so the spatial piece that comes with design isn’t as tricky.  There is still some amount of challenge as you have to figure out where each line is connected, but all in all, it is way easier than free-handing a complicated design. 

When baking the cake batter in the cake pan, I will be honest and tell you that using a box mix is probably the better choice.  For whatever chemical/preservative reason, the baked box mixes come out of the cake pan much easier than a cake from scratch does.  I’d rather not think anymore about what that reason is! 

There are many ways you can go about decorating a shaped cake, but I find it easiest to start with the outline, and then do the little areas that are other colours, or specific shapes etc, so once those are all done, you can quickly fill in the rest of the cake with the main colour(s). 

There are a number of companies that sell shaped cake pans, but Wilton seems to lead the way in shaped Character pans.  A simple Google or Amazon search will offer you hundreds of choices of characters!  Garage sales or yard sales are also an excellent source of cake pans.  Cake pans sometimes serve a one time birthday purpose, and then collect dust in the bottom of a cupboard.  If you are lucky like me, you head to a garage sale from a former cake decorator and you hit the mother load of shaped cake pans!  That is how I acquired the many shaped pans that I had, but when I stopped decorating cakes as a business, I sold them on an online site- which brings me to the point that online buy and sell sites are also great places to get cake pans.  There’s no need to pay the full amount (usually $25-$50) when you can get it for $5 second hand. 

As when exploring anything as a beginner, reaching perfection takes time.  Don’t give up.  Practice until you’ve got it perfectly decorated.  And then you can thank me later.  Haha! 

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