LITTLE DELIGHTS CAKES

a little faith and a lot of frosting

“A” Cake

You can make a GORGEOUS cake with a few basic skills. For this cake I used the Smooth Frosting Technique and some Basic Cake Stacking tips. Then I used Duff Brand Fondant for some stripes and polka dots (black is really hard to color), and Homemade Fondant for the pearls around each tier. For the topper I added sticker rhinestones to the wooden "A" I found at Michaels (or any craft store) along with a big boofy feather. Simple and cute! ... VIEW POST

Hot Cocoa Melts

These were just for fun, my daughter Natalie had heard of it somewhere so we tried it out. Basically cute little mini cups of chocolate that you can just drop into your cup of hot milk, stir and enjoy. We made a few different flavors just for fun! We melted semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave (1 minute, stir, then increments of 30 secs until it was smooth.) Then we lined our mini cupcake pan with cute little cupcake liners, filled them half way with the chocolate and added toppings ... VIEW POST

MORE Cake Pop tips

Another post about Cake Pops but there is just so much to cover! :) I have gotten some emails about the Wiltons Melts I use so in addition to the other cake pop helps under "Cake Pops" let me cover melting the melts! For some reason the darker colors of melts do not melt as thin or smoothly as the lighter colors. And because I must double dip (see "3 things to know about CP") this can be a problem. So I always have a bag of white Melts nearby and I add a few into the pot when melting darker ... VIEW POST

How to make Mini Cakes

To make these I lined a jelly roll pan with wax paper and then spread my cake batter filling the pan a little over half-way, (I didn't want it too thick since I wanted 3 layers in some of the cakes.) Once it had baked and cooled I used a 4" circle cookie cutter to cut out the rounds, it was nice using a JR pan because I could get so many rounds with hardly any wasted cake. The wax paper helped me get them off the pan really easily too. I built them just like a regular cake but only used butter ... VIEW POST

Chocolate Roses

These are a fast and easy way to decorate a cake or cupcakes. The photos explain it best but basically just roll out strips of modeling chocolate, fold one side over and crimp it slightly as you roll your rose. Cut off the base if it is too thick for your decorating. See HERE for an easy Modeling Choc Tutorial! ... VIEW POST

Making Fondant & Gumpaste Flowers

I know a lot of people recommend gum paste when making flowers because it dries so hard so fast, but it dries out a little too fast for me as I work with it. So to make these petals I used Wiltons Fondant (homemade would be way too soft) and as I rolled it I added Gum Paste Powder so that the end result would be more firm than just fondant. The center of the flower was all connected like a typical rose (about 4 layers of petals, I let it dry between each layer I added) and then I started ... VIEW POST