~How To~

Here's another "How To"! Don't worry if you are getting tired of the "How To's", I'll soon be posting about how to make a cake from a box taste like a cake made from scratch.

Anyway let's get to it!

This cake is a triple chocolate cake, filled with dark chocolate ganache. 

You can either use canned frosting, or make your own dark chocolate frosting.

After you have made your frosting, frost the cake generously with it.

Then place Hershey's kisses and pipe stars around then as well as on on top of

each. Then with a larger tip, pipe stars around the bottom for a boarder.

Then pipe on the words.
This cake was made for my neighbor's radio station.

Thanks for reading!

Keep Baking!

...Socialbutterfly...

~ How To ~

Hello Readers!
Today I will be showing you how to decorate this cake:

 Isn't it pretty? 

Ok so to get started, the first thing you do is bake two heart-shaped cakes. Then you want to cut a little bit out of one of the hearts, and fit the two together to look like they are interlocking.

 Then you frost your cake with whatever frosting you desire. I was making a sugar free cake (I know, right?) for an anniversary, so I used white, but you can use what ever color you want. Then you do a simple shell border around the bottom.

 Then just like the bottom you do a shell border around the top: 

Like I said before, you can use what ever colors you want. This is just what the customer wanted for this particular cake. The next step is to add your roses. I made the Wilton style rose, but you can use what ever flowers you want, it all depends on your preference. You are going to want to put an odd number of roses on each side of your cake, I know it sounds weird, but it makes the cake look a lot prettier.

 With all the flowers placed:

Then the next thing, and this is important if you have made any mistakes in the process of transporting your flowers to the cake, is to add the leaves. With leaves you can add as many as you need, and it makes the roses stand out a bit more, as well as hide any mistakes. ;) 

And finally the next thing you do is add your writing. You can also add rings, to symbolize marriage, but I didn't here. You can also add anything else you think it needs depending on the reason you made this cake. :)

 This is a great, and simple cake for any occasion.

Thanks for reading my blog!
Keep Baking!
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Cupcakes for a graduate!

How many cupcakes do you think there are? Well, there are 150! I had to bake and decorate 150 cupcakes for a graduation party and I only had 2 weeks to actually do all the baking. It took 2 weeks to experiment with the different flavors. The first flavor was just plain vanilla with buttercream frosting. The second flavor was German chocolate with it's special coconut frosting, which is more like a filling then an icing, but is still delicious! The third flavor was a dark chocolate cupcake with raspberry filling/frosting. The filling/frosting is regular raspberry filling, but mixed with whipped cream
 to give it a fluffy texture. It is really good!

 The fourth cupcake is an apple cupcake, with a caramel apple filling, and a caramel apple frosting, which incorporates the apple filling as one of the ingredients. The fifth cupcake is a chocolate cupcake with peanut butting frosting. These were topped with graduation hats that I made with a peanut butter cup, Ghirardelli caramel filled chocolate square, and topped with yellow licorice. (seen below)  And the sixth and final cupcake flavor is a mocha flavored cupcake with a mocha buttercream. For the recipes of the apple and the coffee flavored cupcakes, I will post the links on my list of recipes, (on the side bar of my blog). The apple one is from Java Cupcake, and the coffee one is from Brown Eyed Baker.
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