Sprite Can Cake

I made this cake to look like a can of Sprite. It's a super small cake that only feeds two people at most. It's a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. It's covered with fondant and there's pipping gel on the side to look like spilt Sprite. I used my air brush again to make the blue and green on the fondant. I'm getting better at using that machine!

Red Power Ranger Bust Cake

Happy Birthday!!! I made this power ranger bust cake on Sunday for my boyfriend's 19th birthday! He liked power rangers when he was little so I decided to have him relive those days by making him this cake. It's a red velvet cake with buttercream frosting inside and covering the entire cake. I didn't cover this cake with fondant. Instead I smoothed out some buttercream all over the cake and air brushed it with red food coloring. Although, I did use some fondant to make the white triangles, eyes and mouth. This cake had a lot of trial and error especially since it is my first time air brushing a cake. It didn't come out quite as I envisioned, but that's expected since I'm a beginner with the air brush and covering in only buttercream. The cake turned out good &  I'm so glad Joel liked it!

Nike Jordan Shoe Cake

I was asked to make this Jordan shoe cake for a customer's little brother. The cake is a marble cake (vanilla cake with chocolate swirls). In between each layer is vanilla buttercream frosting. I made this cake out of a few rectangle cakes stacked onto each other and just sculpted out the shape of a shoe. The decorations are all fondant! I'm super happy with how this cake came out looking! & I'm also happy the customer liked the cake! Yay!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cake

I made this cake for my cousin's god son's birthday! The bottom tier is a chocolate cake decorated as a pizza, the second tier is a vanilla cake decorated as a city, and the top tier is vanilla cake decorated as a sewer hole that the ninja turtles come out of. It is all decorated out of fondant...even the ninja turtles are fondant. I'm really happy with how this cake turned out!

This is the first tier of the cake. I really liked the way it looked as a pizza. The middle isn't covered as much as the sides of the cake, because I was going to top it with the second city tier. The white cheese is actually white chocolate I shredded with a cheese grater.

3 Ingredient Pancakes.. So Quick & Easy!

This pancake recipe is probably the easiest and fastest one ever! It only uses three ingredients..a banana, cinnamon, and eggs. It makes three medium sized pancakes, so if you want to double or triple the recipe to feed a family you can. I made one batch for my mom this morning and she was so surprised that I didn't use any flour or sugar.  You can top it with what you normally eat pancakes with. My mom put pancake syrup on it. Mom said it was the best pancakes she's ever had. Yay! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1 large ripe banana 
• 2 eggs
• Cinnamon to taste 

(I used about 1tablespoon of cinnamon)

Directions:

Mash the banana in a bowl. Add the two eggs and cinnamon. Mix together until fully incorporated. 

Butter a skillet and set the heat to medium. Ladle over a small scoop of batter into the skillet. 

Cook on one side for 2min. or until golden brown. Flip over and do the same to the other side until the pancake is fully cooked. 

3D Minion Cake (Despicable Me)

I was asked to make a minion cake for a customer's daughter's birthday party this Saturday. All I was told was to make sure I had the two eyed and one eyed minion somewhere on the cake. It's awesome when I'm given creative freedom on cakes, because I'm not stuck making traditional cakes. I love getting to run with different ideas. I've never made a 3D character cake before so it was really fun challenging myself this week. This cake was super exciting to make! The customer was really impressed with it & I'm so happy! 

The minion cake is chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting. The cake in front of the minion is strawberry and vanilla buttercream frosting. All the decorations are made out of fondant.

Easiest Semifreddo Recipe

I love homemade ice cream! I haven't eaten store bought ice cream for a long time. When I make ice cream I typically use my ice cream churning machine. However, yesterday I didn't feel like taking out my massively heavy ice cream churner just to make a couple servings of ice cream. So I opted instead to make semifreddo! Semifreddo (italian for half cold) is basically another version of ice cream. It is has an airy frozen mousse like texture. It's definitely more creamy than regular ice cream. This version of semifreddo is different than the traditional semifreddo recipes, because this is a simpler way to make it, but same result. The condensed milk is a substitute for the egg that normally goes into semifreddo (which I think is a plus). Enjoy this super easy and delicious semifreddo recipe! 

Easy Semifreddo Recipe

Ingredients:

1 can (14oz.) sweetened condensed milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 1/3 cups cold heavy whipping cream

Directions:

In a medium bowl, stir the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract until completely mixed together. 

In another bowl using an electric mixer, whip the heavy cream on high until stiff peaks form (it should turn from liquid to looking like whipped cream from a can).

With a rubber spatula fold in the whipped cream into the condensed milk and vanilla extract mixture. Gently fold until fully combined. 

Place a long piece of saran wrap into a 4 1/2-by-8 1/2-inch loaf pan and have some hang over the side (for easy removal of semifreddo later). Pour the mixture into the loaf pan and freeze for six hours. You can freeze this covered for up to one week. 

Enjoy!