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Easter peeps sunflower cake tutorial

By on April 23, 2011 in Handmade Easter Craft along, Holidays, Patticakes, Tutorial

If anyone missed me, I have been in bed with the flu for two days!!  Yuck!  I have not had the umph to get up and make anything else for Easter but I scraped myself out of the abyss this morning long enough to pull together a very simple little cake if any of you want to make it for tomorrow. This cake is very simple and quick to make.

Here’s what you need:
Chocolate frosting
Your favorite cake recipe
Chocolate chips (I used the big ones but the little ones would be even cuter)
15-19 chick peeps
Bake two 9 inch layers of cake.  Cool them completely.  Level your cakes by cutting off the rounded tops.  Put down your first layer and top it with a layer of icing.  Place your next layer on top, make sure it is level all the way around and ice the whole cake smooth.

 with a star tip, pipe a border all the way around

 now take your peeps and without taking them apart, place them on the edge all the way around.

                                      
fill the center of the cake top with the chocolate chips starting from the center of the cake going around and around to the edge

Enjoy, if you can’t bake or don’t want to you could also pick up a chocolate cake at the store and decorate it.   And now I am going back to bed!
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A Mickey cake for Keaton

By on July 16, 2010 in Patticakes

As a cake designer the best compliment I can receive is a repeat customer but when you really like that customer it is so much the better.  This is the case with Keaton and his Mom.  Keaton’s mom is very particular about her cakes.  She knows what she likes and what she does not.  She is a brilliant artist herself so I always enjoy the challenge.

This year she wanted a very smallish cake for just her son and a few family members to cut at the Magic Kingdom.  She always works his age into the cake somewhere and really likes details.

I happened to be deathly ill (nothing contagious) just painful on the day I had to make her cake so it is my hope that it met her expectations.  On top of the misfortune of not feeling well when I got to dying the fondant black I realized that my cake guy sent me dark purple instead of black, oy!!!  I refuse to use the all too common and ill tasting stuff from craft stores and so that means making it myself and special ordering which leaves no time to exchange wrong items.

Well, as you can see we figured it out but boy what a doozy.  Every cake I have ever made has some challenge, some minor hiccup but it is always fun getting to the end result.  Thank you to Keaton and his Momma. Hope to make a cake with a 5 on it next year.

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