6/1/12 Jessica's Finally Cupcakes

These cupacakes were one of the easier things that I have made.

After not being about to make the cake because of the difficulties of using modeling chocolate I resorted to making individual cupcakes with chocolate horse, a barrel of hay, and green frosting piped to the cupcake to look like grass.

Piping grass is quite simple, all you have to do is squirt small bits of grass evenly so that you cant see any of the cupcake underneath:

 Making the chocolate horse is simple too. All you do is make one drawing and put it under the wax paper and trace the outline and fill in the drawing with the chocolate in a plastic bag.  After you put it in the fridge and wait about 2 hours and then you can easily peal the chocolate off the wax paper:

THE FINAL PROJECT!!!!!!:

5/16/12 Nutella Cupcakes

Today I decided to make these delicious Nutella Cupcakes.  This was my first time carving out the middle of a cupcake and putting in chocolate ganache for a filling.  This cupcake included putting Ferrero Rocher on top crushed up on top of melts chocolate as a frosting on top of the chocolate cupcake.  Essentially this is a chocolate lovers cupcake.

5/12/12 Ithaca Bakery

After quiting Papa John's I was quickly on the job hunt again.  With help form my mother, I recently got a job at the Ithaca Bakery Catering Company.  After getting a full tour of the kitchen at the Ithaca Bakery I was amazed at all of the wonderful equipment that put this operation together.  Earlier in my project I had a post about different prices at B&W Supply for all the necessary components for operating a bakery.  At the Ithaca Bakery they had huge mixers, bigger than the 60 gallon ones I had earlier researched, and it was really cool too how smoothly they whole operation ran, making hundreds of cookies, pastries, and cakes a day.

5/10/12 New Findings

Today after school I decided to go to Michael's to find some new baking tools.  There were so many interesting baking tools to try out!  A lot of them I have seen on television on Cake Boss but have never had a chance to try out in my own kitchen.  So many of them were either too big or expensive for this small project but would be something I would invest in if I ever made my own business.  But, finally I found the perfect thing to accent all my butter cream flowers.  It is called Sparkle Dust, it is a very thin powder that you can can apply to the butter cream flowers with a paintbrush and a small bit of water.  It had dimensions and makes the flowers look so real.

Alix's Birthday Cake

I haven't known Alix for as long but I do know she loves green.  She is also alergic to chocolate so her cake will be a vanilla cake with strawberries also in the middle and vanilla frosting.  Along with green frosting there will be a variety of things on her cake, a sheet music of fondont with edible paint, and a jamaican flag to represent her, which will also be made of fondont.  There will also be lots of sparkles which she loves.

Jessica's Birthday Cake

For my best friend's birthday cake I was planning on making it a one layer chocolate cake with strawberries in the middle layer.  Since Jessica loves and working with horses all the time and is on the polo team I was planning on making it a grassy top with a few hay barrels and finally a horse.  The horse will be made out of model chocolate which is new for me and i will mold it around wooden spools.  I did some research on this and figured out I can make the horse and put it in the fridge so it will stay good and not melt.

Cake Walk-Field Day

Today I have been asked by the Red Cross Club to bake a few cakes for the field day.  These cakes will be raffled off for the Red Cross Club.  Since field day is the last day of school and technically the start of summer I was thinking of making every bright and summery cakes.  Using some of my new frosting and techniques with different flower and making them very vibrant and flashy.