Goodies by Design: January 2015

A young lady at my Church is about to get Married. I have the honor of creating her cake and cupcakes for the big day. But I also did her bridal shower cakes. Her favorite color is purple and she loves butterflies and flowers.
I have been taking cake classes on Crafty.com which has been a wonderful learning experience. If you would like to learn how to do the dot pattern on my cake take "Clean & Simple Cake Design" with Jessica Harris. Please take your time to check Crafty.com out as it has many classes on cake decor and many other things.

The dots, butterflies, and dress are made out of modeling chocolate which is home made. Jessica Harris also teaches you how to make modeling chocolate and fondant in her class. I also learned how to make fondant from this link: http://www.howdoesshe.com/easy-marshmallow-fondant-you-can-do-it/
I am very excited about getting to do her Wedding Cake very soon!! :)

Happy 4th birthday to my sweet little, lady Olivia. As you can see we had a ballerina themed birthday this year. Olivia loves to dance and the color pink so I felt this was the perfect party to create for her. The beautiful picture of Olivia was taken by Provosto Photography, She is a military wife and knows how to use natural light to make a picture come to life. Thank you Amber for these memories!!

I went small on the treats this year, as we are living in a new location with not as many friends to attend the celebration. The cake was a double chocolate cake with pink butter cream and home made fondant flowers. http://www.howdoesshe.com/easy-marshmallow-fondant-you-can-do-it/# here is the link on how to make Fondant, super easy!!

Ballerina dress cupcakes

I used a small heart cutter for the top of the dress. I used fondant but suggest you use modeling chocolate as it is a stiffer medium. Butter cream was used to design the tutu part Wilton tip # 104. Cake was a vanilla cake with fresh strawberries.

Marshmallow ballerina slippers

I have a bow chocolate mold that I first filled and allowed to set. Then insert the stick into the top of a big marshmallow. Melt pink melting chocolate (make sure to add a little veggie oil to thin out), dip the sides set down on wax paper to harden. (tip I throw them into the fridge) Put left over pink chocolate into a sandwich bag. Cut the tip off the bag and pipe the strings onto the front of the slipper. Add a little chocolate to the stick and place bow onto the chocolate.

Welcome to our party set up: You will see a lot of pink :) The banners where made with my silhouette cutter which I just love when it comes to making things for parties!! The flowers where designed by my wonderful mother-in-law.

Party Favors: I made Tutu's for each little lady that came to the party and also had a friend make hair bows. Instead of goodie bags I did goodie jars filled with candy.

Oh course every party must have a party game: We played pin the tutu on the ballerina

Then we had an art time where the girls made ballerina hand dresses and the boys created a hand pirate. I used my cutter to cut out the leotard and then glued it on so the girls only had to go the hand prints. It was a very fun and super cute project.