Hello lovelies!
I apologize for being so M.I.A – school is kicking my butt at the moment, and in between exams and papers and cakes, a blog post is the last thing on my mind, although I should be posting more! I hope these cakes help you forgive me.
So one of these cakes is from a week and a half ago. I was given creative freedom with this one as well – my client told me to just go with purple, gold, and elegant for a birthday cake for her mom. I had bought these silicone onlay mats online a little while back, and had been dying to dry the damask onlay. SO, given that I was able to put my creative juices to use, I tried out the damask onlay on this cake! I was super happy with the results – however, the onlays are advertised to be super easy and quick. Mind you, with practice it would probably come easier, however I found it really difficult to get a clean onlay in the beginning. It did take a significant amount of time to make sure everything was perfect. It was totally worth it though – I LOVE the look of the final product! The cake itself was a rich chocolate cake with a creamy vanilla buttercream. What do you think?
The next cake was a Chanel inspired cake for my older cousin! She asked for anything black and white, since I know her favorite brand is Chanel, I decided to make an elegant Chanel cake! The cake was a yummy vanilla with a Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Yes, you read that right, Swiss Meringue Buttercream. I almost always use traditional “American” Buttercream, but – OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS – I am in LOVE with Swiss Meringue Buttercream. It brings me close to happy tears in that it is so amazingly magical. It is silky, creamy, velvety, light… Seriously, it is that good. I’m thinking of permanent changing my caking routine to only use SMBC – now THAT is a big step. Here’s the cake:
The last cake was a Bellini shaped cake – vanilla cake with a bavarian cream filling. The birthday girl does not like fondant, so this cake was mainly buttercream with a whole lot of bling and a few fondant pearls! This was one of the few times I’ve made bavarian cream filling – and I fell in love all over again. Seriously, I scraped the “extras” bowl clean after I filled this cake. And I don’t even feel guilty about it because it’s just that friggin’ good. Here’s the cake:
In other news, I am completely BOOKED for the 2014 Wedding Season! I am super stoked for the Wedding Season to start – and in celebration of that, this week I made a few of my brides some cupcake samples for their cakes!
There were over 16 different cupcake/Swiss Meringue buttercream combos for these samples – phewf! Included were:
– Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese SMBC
– Lemon Cake with Vanilla SMBC
– Lemon Cake with Lemon SMBC
– Marble cake with White Chocolate SMBC
– Marble cake with Vanilla SMBC
– Marble cake with Mocha SMBC
– Chai Tea Latte cake with Vanilla-Cinnamon SMBC
– Vanilla cake with White Chocolate SMBC
– Vanilla cake with Vanilla SMBC
– Vanilla Cake with Coconut SMBC
– Vanilla Cake with Pistachio SMBC
– Chocolate Cake with Butter Rum SMBC
– Chocolate Cake with Vanilla SMBC
– Chocolate cake with Mocha SMBC
– Chocolate cake with Hazelnut SMBC
– Chocolate cake with Mint SMBC
I hope this makes up for lacking in posts for the past two weeks! Let me know what you think of these past few cakes in the comments below 🙂
Happy Baking ❤
Just Cakes 