I'm not a Gator fan, but end up making the most Gator cakes. This is another for my friend Kelly who loves cream cheese icing. The cake was actually not for Kelly but a friend of hers. She wouldn't appreciate me saying that she wanted a Gator cake. :-)
So anyway the icing was blue cream cheese icing, the gator head was a frozen buttercream transfer and the cake was yellow with cream cheese filling.
I'm very excited about the new addition to my blog,What's Baking Monday. You see I have folders and notebooks full of recipes that I've never tried. They all look so yummy so I needed a reason to try them. I found my reason. Every week or most every week, when cake decorating doesn't keep me and my oven completely occupied, I will try a new recipe, post pictures, give you the recipe and give my review of that recipe.
I will mostly do fairly easy recipes that take little to no culinary skills. Because let's face it, I'm not a gourmet cook. I just love to bake. So feel free to try out the recipes that I post, post a blog of your own about it, comment here and link your blog. If you don't have a blog, then comment anyway and let me know how your's turned out.
Check back Monday for the first installment of What's Baking Monday. In the mean time here's another football cake I did. This time the team was the Troy Trojans. Have a great weekend!
I know I've posted one of these before, but this one is gator and it has a little bit of a funny story behind it. Funny now, but not so much last week.
I was working on this cake right up until the minute I needed to leave to deliver it. I was in a hurry to say the least. I didn't even have time to change. I went in my jogging pants and t-shirt covered in powdered sugar....just so you know how big of a hurry I was in. :-) Well, I put the cake in the box, closed the lid and didn't give it another thought.
I got to my delivery spot and opened the lid to show Ms. Julie S. her cake. What I saw was my first real "cake disaster". The top part of the gator head had stuck to the box lid. I was horrified and so upset. Julie was so sweet about it, saying after three kids nothing really bothered her. I offered to take it home and fix it, but in the end she just took the cake as it was saying it really was no big deal.
I felt bad about it all evening and then I get a text from Julie with a picture of the cake restored to it's former glory. I was amazed and very glad to say the least! After talking to her, I found out that Julie just cut the part of the box that had Mr. gator on it out, stuck it in the fridge for a while, and just flipped it back over onto the cake perfectly as if nothing had ever happened. That was brilliant of her because it was a frozen butter cream transfer after all. So all was well and Mr. T had his gator birthday party.
Note to self....never ever get in a hurry again and STOP PROCRASTINATING!
Okay, they're not my team but I have to give a great big shout out to the Florida Gators for winning the SEC Championship. In honor of the victory here's a Gator football I made for a little Gator fan's birthday.
The cake is chocolate with cream cheese filling, buttercream icing, fondant decorations and the gator is a buttercream transfer.
I really love this cake! Maybe it's because garnet and gold are just so pretty together or because I love those Noles, but either way it turned out really pretty. It was for a gentleman turning eighty years old.
I was thinking as I was making the cake about how many experiences and life lessons the honoree could probably share and the wisdom from those experiences he most likely deems priceless. I reminded myself to cherish every experience in life. Good or bad. They make us who we are and prepare us for the place God wants to take us.
That's my thought provoking tidbit for this late night. On to the cake.
Want to know something funny about the above picture? My two year old wrote on the wall in permanent marker. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was the background of my picture. Photo Shop is a beautiful thing!
Another little bit of background information on this cake is this.....The day of the party, the honoree's daughter calls me and in our conversation she asks me how the cake turned out. Well, being the procrastinator that I am I had to admit to her that the cake was not done. I could hear her small gasp over the phone even though it was quiet. I know it was not comforting for her to hear those words from me on the day of a birthday party that she was planning for 60 people, but I promised her that it would be finished. I made good on my promise even if I was working on the cake right up until the last minute.
It's still the season.......This cake was for a little boy turning 3 and he is apparently very fond of Auburn football so this is the cake I came up with using the Wilton football pan. The cake is yellow and the icing is buttercream. The football is decorated with marshmellow fondant.
And here's the other side.
This fondant cheerleader is definitely a Gator as is the birthday girl. The birthday girl wanted a Gator cheerleader cake so even though I'm not a Gator fan, I had lots of fun making a fondant person. This was a chocolate cake with butter cream filling and icing. Happy Birthday Laney!
And while we're on the orange and blue, here's another small cake I did just a couple days later. It was for Ms. Kelly so of course it was yellow cake, cream cheese filling and butter cream icing.
Yet another football cake. Somebody loves the Miami Hurricanes. :-)
I went ahead a bought a football pan. I figured at the rate I'm going I'm bound to make a football shaped cake.
..as the kids would say. We are so proud of our graduate, Aunt Claire. This is the cake I made for her graduation party. The design was borrowed from a friend, Mrs. Sofa. And I just have to add that this cake did not escape the destructive little hands in our house. But I managed to patch up the area and all was saved.
