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Black Velvet Cake: Halloween Cake

October 11, 2012 by Jenn

 I’m going to get a little disgusting for a minute.  So stop reading if you don’t want to be grossed out. 

If you eat this, your poop will be green. 

I warned you! 

This cake is a play on a Red Velvet cake, but instead of red, we’re using the black dye for the cake!  It’s perfect for a spooky Halloween cake . . . which is bound to impress your family, guests, or coworkers.  

But remember, if you don’t want to be asked uncomfortable whispered questions in the hallway at work, “Um, Jenn?  Was there something in that cake that… maybe…might have…um…?”. 

Black Velvet Cake, Part 1

 Black Velvet Cake, Part 2

In this part of the cake series, we use the Cricut Cake!  **Curses**  Now, as you may know, my Cricut Cake can be slightly temperamental, but, thanks to the beauty of video, it appears flawlessly executed!  If you are currently “bargaining” with your Cricut Cake, YOU WILL GET THROUGH IT!!  In this video, we are using Photofrost Icing Sheets which we airbrushed black to match the cake theme of bats and Halloween.

The beauty of using the Cricut with icing sheets is that they tend to travel through the Cricut smoother and is cut easier than a fondant/gum paste mixture.  It is more like true paper.  Using the icing sheets makes for less time spent rolling, setting up, tearing, re-rolling, re-setting….etc! 

 

Black Velvet Cake

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Cricut Cake Cakes

July 5, 2011 by Jenn

What the eff is a Cricut?

I had NO idea when I first heard about it, but it has turned out to be one of the great things that make caking a little bit easier.  Sort of.  This machine can be very temperamental.

When I first heard about it, I thought it was a CRI-(rhymes with TRI)-cut.  But now I have learned that it is “crick-uht“.

Like the noisy insect in the bushes when you’re camping.

You would have thought that the cricket shaped logo would have given me a heads up!  Duh.  Not surprising that that one got away on me if  you know me.

This is a Cricut Cake. It is a pain in the a$$ but it does some pretty cool things when it wants to.  A refined adjective to call this frustratingly beautiful red machine (I love red electronics) would be FINICKY.

You need to have a perfect combination of gum paste and fondant, but it can make you cool crowns, and Happy Birthday signs!

Girl Guides Cupcakes

You have to have the mixture at the correct temperature . . . too warm and it won’t cut, the blade with just rip the fondant.  The Cricut Cake cut this image out of the girl guides, which was perfect for a Brownies wrap up!

Butterfly Cake

You have to have the blade at the correct depth (I’ve heard this is a complaint also from the Cricut Expressions for scrapbooking, but I don’t claim to know anything about paper) . . . too high and it won’t cut anything, too deep and it cuts into your cutting mat.  The depth was perfect for these butterflies and yet another Happy Birthday sign!

These cake pops were topped with flowers and butterflies cut from the Cricut Cake.

For a horse lover . . . horse shoes, and a different Happy Birthday sign.

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Cricut Cake

May 2, 2011 by Jenn

I am now the proud owner of a Cricut Cake!  I ordered it and got a stinking good deal on Ebay from a fellow out of Vancouver . . . $230 if you can believe it!
It got here within a couple of days, and I decided to make a vlog out of it!

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