Christening Cake, Cupcakes & Cake Pops!

Good Morning!

I’m not sure if anyone noticed but I moved my domain name over to my new website for my little bakery that Aaron and I have decided to start! I am still working full-time and Aaron is now working full-time plus taking three classes at PITT so we’ve been pretty busy. I’ve had about 6 or 7 orders so far (one of them being 750 chocolate covered pretzels & 150 cake pops) so we’ve just been baking every weekend and a lot of weeknights.

I finally had some time this morning though to link my blog from the new site so here is how it’s set up right now:

Blog’s URL is http://pamcakesandeggs.wordpress.com/

Bakery URL is www.pamcakesandeggs.com

There is also a link to my blog from pamcakesandeggs.com up in the far right corner.

For those of you that have my blog in your readers, it should still work because I just had the wordpress domain pointing to pamcakesandeggs.com before this. Not entirely sure though but if it doesn’t work, I’ll work on it soon.

Okay done with that junk.

I baked this cake for a coworker’s daughter’s Christening last weekend. The top cake is a 6 inch two layer almond cake with raspberry filling, covered in buttercream and then covered fondant decorations. The cupcakes are also almond cake (two different recipes though) filled with raspberry jam and then almond buttercream on top. I made the cupcake toppers out of fondant too.

My first attempt at fondant teddy bear and booties:

I made mini booties to match the big ones for one of the cupcake toppers too:

20 cupcakes total:

Aaron made the sweet cupcake stand out of wood. He’s my handyman. I made O-L-I-V-I-A blocks out of rice crispy treats covered with fondant.

Plus ten almond cake pops:

Hope you enjoyed the cake! I had a lot of fun making it for them. wooo

Making a Million Cake Pops plus Wine!

Jul19

Well I guess I really don’t feel like blogging about the wedding yet. Can’t.bring.myself.to.do.it.

So I’m blogging about the week before the wedding instead!

My mom and I spent HOURS making a million cake pops (a la Bakerella) for wedding favors. You can read step by step instructions of the cake pop making process here.

Yellow cake and vanilla frosting:

Dipped in chocolate:

And individually wrapped and tied with purple and green bows:

My best friend and maid of honor, Gina came over and helped us tie the bows on the cake pops. At some point in that tediousness, we started drinking wine. My dad came and picked up my mom and Gina and I continued drinking wine and taking pictures of ourselves… This was my bachelorette party of sorts. I wasn’t into the whole wear a sash and crown and go out to clubs thing so we just hung out at my house drinking wine, listening to music and making fools of ourselves dancing.

My coworkers made me wear this bride to be pin when they had my office bridal shower.

Gina is engaged too! She’s getting married next October. Can’t wait!

We danced to the George of the Jungle soundtrack until Aaron walked in on us…

He laughed at us then starting dancing too:

And singing:

Then Gina’s fiance Jason came over!

We hung out until maybe 1-130 AM then finally made it to bed. The next day was my bridal shower. Gina and I weren’t feeling exactly awesome that morning but we made it through for the most part…

I’ll have pictures of the bridal shower probably by next weekend so I’ll get those up soon. The wedding has been over for almost a month now! I can’t believe it! I’m going to blog about the wedding eventually but in the meantime, here’s a picture of the bridal party for you:

From left to right: Aaron’s brother Dave, Aaron, Me, Sister-in-law Sam, BFF Gina, Aaron’s friend Matt, my friend Laura, Aaron’s friend Josh.

Alright time to eat popcorn and hang out on the couch reading blogs and doing laundry. Aaron is at band practice this evening so I’m by myself. For Pittsburgh readers, Aaron’s band, Meeting of Important People, has a show this Saturday, the 24th at the Thunderbird in Lawrenceville. I’ll be there!

My First Fondant Covered Cake

Jun7

Good Morning!

Yesterday I did my cake trial for the top of the cupcake stand. I made a two layer 6 inch cake, covered it with buttercream and then attempted my first fondant covered cake. I don’t really have too much time this morning to write about it but it went really well! It’s not too hard to cover a 6 inch cake. I’m thinking that it would be very hard to cover a really big cake though. The flowers and leaves are all made with rolled fondant too.

The actual cake for the top level of the wedding cupcake stand will be four layers so it’s going to be twice as tall as this one but this gives you an idea of what it’ll hopefully look like.

A few pictures (I took the cake outside for the lighting…..)

Then Aaron came over to take a shower (we’re remodeling the bathroom at his house so he was covered in dirt) and I made him hold up the cut cake under the kitchen light so I could take a well-lit picture. ha.

Annnnnd off to work!

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