my sister's upcoming wedding and testing out ideas

I'm making the wedding cake for my sister's wedding in June. We've chosen a 5" cake for her and Patrick and individual wedding cakes for the attendees. My sister has left almost everything up to my judgement as far as the cakes go. My first thought was to do basic cupcakes but I wanted something more substantial. My second thought was to use my new popover pan and end up with larger cupcakes that could be filled and decorated like a regular cake, but popovers are kind of conical shaped and that might look strange. My third thought was to use soup cans. I know it sounds bizarre but it works really great and keeps me from having to buy several 3" cake pans and cooking all day to get the number of cakes I need.

cupcake, popover, can-cake


My friends are so sweet to let me test cake recipes and decoration ideas on them. My friend Kim just had a birthday on Sunday so a few of the girls are coming over tonight and we are having a little party for her and an excuse to get the girls together and hang out. I'm using all the opportunities I have to make cakes and practice my decorating skills.

I'll update with a picture of the cupcakes as soon as I get a good picture of them with the Royal Icing flowers placed on top. Rumors tell me that Royal Icing breaks down on buttercream so I don't want them sitting there too long before the party...just in case. (Photo at very top) Here's a photo of them pre-flower.



ok, so I tossed out the popover idea because of how awesome the can-cake turned out and because the popover sides were so angled. Using the can-cake, I divided it in half and put a layer of buttercream frosting and then did the basic white frosting base...to be decorated from there.


This isn't the exact way I want to decorate my sister's guest cakes, but it's cute and it worked for this one and matches the cupcakes.


I like how this angle looks, just wish I hadn't created so many angles on the round cake sides. :) I'm being perfectionistic again.


and here's another angle of the can-cake on top of the cupcake stand with the cupcakes

My gluten free scratch cake was featured in an article about gluten free eating, Celiacs and Autism! A link to the article. The cake recipe isn't the same one I used, but the photo's are mine. :) cool!

I went to my cake decorating class on Saturday in preparation for Tracy's wedding (June) and realized that I am capable of making awesome decorations. I really had a great time, got lots of practice and learned so much!

This is a 10 inch double layer cake. I used 2 Pamela's Classic Vanilla Cake mixes (one for each layer) and made my own frosting. This is an excellent cake mix and I highly recommend it.

gluten free and delicious!