A Cake Baking Hobby
Handmade with lots of love and sugar
Handmade with lots of love and sugar
After lots of googling, self-teaching, and empty summers in need of filling, I have discovered a recipe for homemade fondant and begun a journey of endless cake baking.
All of the following were made personally by me, Katie Lee, with lots of love and plenty of sugar.
All of the following were made personally by me, Katie Lee, with lots of love and plenty of sugar.
For my friend, Mike's, 25th birthday, I created a cake with a mini-Mike and Words With Friends letters (A game that we play constantly together) that spelled out "Happy BDay!"
The cake was a double-layer red velvet cake with buttercream icing and regular fondant. The blue piping on the outside of the fondant is also buttercream.
Mini-Mike:
Made of gum paste and a toothpick, mini-Mike comes complete with a Boston Celtic's jersey, #9 Rondo.
The scrabble letters are also made of gum paste.
The cake was a double-layer red velvet cake with buttercream icing and regular fondant. The blue piping on the outside of the fondant is also buttercream.
Mini-Mike:
Made of gum paste and a toothpick, mini-Mike comes complete with a Boston Celtic's jersey, #9 Rondo.
The scrabble letters are also made of gum paste.
Halloween cupcakes for my friend, Jake, and his fraternity brothers.
Red velvet cupcakes with buttercream frosting and fondant ghosts, pumpkins, witch hats, grave tombs and hands, black widow, Jack Skellingtons (from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" movie) and upside-down witch legs.
My first multi-tier cake, made for my mother's 50th birthday. This was my first lesson on the difficulty of smoothing fondant.
Each layer was a different flavor (chocolate, vanilla, and of course red velvet). Buttercream was used to frost the cake before topping with regular fondant and plastic flowers from Michael's. The black strips are also fondant.
The very first fondant cake I had ever made. By this point, I didn't know how to color fondant, but I remember watching "Cake Boss" and seeing them use food coloring and paint brushes. I used this technique to create the blue and green pieces.
The "M" stood for my dad's name, Michael. This cake was made for his 50th birthday.
The "M" stood for my dad's name, Michael. This cake was made for his 50th birthday.
