That's right... she's a drag queen... and we were eating brunch. AMAZING.
And now that I've spent most of my week recovering from a weekend filled with Bridal showers and Bachelorette parties, it's about time for a new post!
A few weeks ago I got an order for a kid friendly Easter cake. The client was having an Easter egg hunt for her daughter and some of her friends. I tossed around the idea of doing a bunny shaped cake, or attempting to carve out an Easter Egg shape, but since I was going to have to do the work on a week night, I decided to go for a simpler double layer 9in round that had a bunny in a basket filled with Easter eggs. This is the cake that I got my idea from:
It was a cake that was on the Wilton website. I decided to pipe the center rabbit instead of use a color flow icing technique (technique that creates those crunchy candy pieces that we all loved as kids... or at least that I always loved so much as a kid that my bother and I would come to blows over who got the biggest piece), partly because I've never done it before and didn't want to screw up a cake I was being paid to do, and partly because I was just lazy. So here's what mine ended up looking like:
And a little brighter:
I was pretty happy with how it turned out. I wish the paws were a little different, I wasn't super happy with the color of the basket, and I couldn't get the grass to work around the eggs because of the frosting I was using, but the client seemed to love it. I will say that cream cheese icing is MUCH harder to decorate with than buttercream, so given that I think it came out rockin!
Happy Early Easter!
Holy crap. 1 - Drag queens are awesome and I love your shirt.
ReplyDelete2 - You weren't HAPPY with that cake!?! It's adorable! Way better than the one that inspired you - which almost gave me a sweet tooth and made me groan just looking at it. That cake is amazing, hands down.
(Oh PS dollface - you've been mentioned in print on my blog in this post: http://paintandsoul.blogspot.com/2010/03/fd-ftnss-now-with-less-vowels.html and given a nickname. :D Wub.)
Thanks for always being my cheerleader :-) I have two more cake orders in the next two weeks, so there will be plenty more noms coming.
ReplyDeleteAnd hooray for being talked about elsewhere! :-) I'm glad I made it into your blog-o-sphere.
Hugs and whatnot!
That cake looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!! Dying to know how you did the basket weave look. Love love love it!
ReplyDeleteYour cake making business is really picking up!! I might have you make a Transformers cake for Ben sometime. :-)