My little boy turned 1 this weekend, so, we had a small family party for him! I, of course, baked my heart out the day prior, and here are the results:
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| The Smash Cake - Vanilla butter cake, covered in marshmallow fondant, with strawberry buttercream and fresh strawberry filling. The 1 is made of a gumpaste/fondant mix and the decorations are marshmallow fondant. |
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| Football Cupcakes! Vanilla butter cake with chocolate buttercream, and fondant footballs with royal icing accents. |
The smash cake was so much fun to make! My son's favorite food right now is strawberries, so I made him a strawberry cake. I used my vanilla butter cake recipe, found
here, in an earlier post. The strawberry buttercream was a basic buttercream recipe with about 1/2 cup fresh, pureed strawberries added in.
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| Smash cake torted and filled with fresh strawberries and strawberry buttercream |
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| Smash cake covered in a crumb coat of strawberry buttercream. |
The football cupcakes are the same vanilla butter cake as the smash cake. The chocolate buttercream is a basic buttercream recipe with approximately 1/4 cocoa powder (to taste) added.
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| I think he liked it! |
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| Everything all together for his birthday table! |
This weekend was also my friend from work's mom's birthday, so she asked me to make a few things for her. I was originally going to make red velvet petit fours ... I attempted these and the results were delicious, but hideously ugly =( SO, her petit fours turned into red velvet cake balls (bon bons) covered in chocolate. I will never attempt petit fours again, until I am much more experienced! They were a horrible experience; so bad, I am not even going to post the pictures. In addition to the cake balls, I sent my friend with a mini red velvet cake and some strawberry cupcakes:
The cupcakes are the same vanilla butter cake and strawberry buttercream I used for the smash cake. The flowers are some I made in my decorating class and have been saving to use for something "pretty".
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Strawberry cupcake - vanilla buttercake with strawberry buttercream. The purple and yellow flowers are gumpaste/fondant, the pink flowers are royal icing. |
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| Some of my "left overs". Chocolate covered red velvet bon bons, strawberry cupcakes, and a mini vanilla buttercake covered in chocolate buttercream. |
For the red velvet bon bons, I used my red velvet cake recipe,
found in an earlier post, here. I mushed up the cake and mixed it with some cream cheese buttercream frosting. I then formed the mixture into ball shapes. I melted down some dark chocolate and white chocolate, and drizzled over the balls to achieve the look I was after. I allowed the cake to show on the bottom, because I wanted to show the red velvet. The ones pictured here are not the best ones, as I did not get a picture of the pretty ones I sent with my friend. I have got to do better about keeping my camera handy!
I had so much fun this weekend! I'm exhausted from being so busy, so I probably won't be baking again for a while, well, for at least a couple days.
Happy Baking!
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