Autumn Crafts

I've mostly posted edible creations so far, but I figure my crafts are pretty sweet creations too, so here you go!

A while ago I had Columbus day off and got into a crafty mood.  One of the few things that I actually completed that day was my Autumn wreathe.

I started with a metal wreathe frame, a leaf garland, some Autumn colored flowers, ribbon, and some wire.  I also use some hot glue to attach everything and tada!

Football Field Frenzy

Recently, a friend of mine got married.  She asked me to be a bridesmaid and then a couple months later told me about her plans for a grooms cake.  Her fiance/husband loves BYU sports, especially football.  She was having the woman who was doing the wedding cake make a BYU football helmet and football.  She thought that it would be really cool to have a football field to put them on and asked another bridesmaid and I to do it.  So, here it is.

We ended up using rice crispy treats to make the cake.  It's 12 inches by 18 inches, so it took alot of rice crispy treats.  Since he does love BYU, I dyed the rice crispy treats blue.  Then I covered them with buttercream to make it smooth. 

It is covered in green fondant that I made.  I found some tiny cookie cutters to make all of the numbers and letters.  The yard lines are piped on.  The words Brigham Young and Cougars, I made by making some blue fondant and white fondant, cutting out the letters, and then stacking them on top of one another.

The center Y was made from a fondant oval, colored with edible marker and then a Y cut out and place on top.  Finally, I edged the cake with green buttercream frosting piped on with a grass tip.  The cake turned out great as did the wedding.  Congratulations to Courtney and Mike!

Tasty Sunday Treats

A couple weeks ago, I got bored after church and started baking.  The first thing I made was butter bread.  I got the recipe from a good friend back home and it is delicious!

As implied by its name, butter bread has lots of butter!  Each segment is dipped in butter before it's baked.  I love eating it with strawberry jam. . . :)

I then continued my baking spree by making some cake.  This is a chocolate fudge cake with a dulce de leche filling and then frosted with home made chocolate buttercream frosting.  It was very tasty!

I was in a hurry to get to a gathering of friends, so I didn't spend a ton of time trying to make it look great, but I think the taste made up for it. : )



The Actual Wedding Cake

Finally, after months of waiting, here are the pictures of the completed wedding cake. I made all the parts and then had to send it with the bride's sister. I never actually saw it completely finished. There were a second set of pillars for between the top pillars, they were only three inch ones, but I don't know if they ever ended up using them. They were getting ready to cut into it, so the ribbon on the middle layer was already taken off.

The cake was three layers, with a fountain in between. It was a pretty simple design she wanted, square with ribbon. The cake is carrot cake and a cream cheese icing all covered with white fondant that I made.

Practice. . .

A couple months ago I offered to make a wedding cake for a friend. Well the wedding is next week so I thought I should probably make a practice cake so she knows that I'm not completely incompetant. :)

It's a pretty basic cake. This is mainly so she can try it and make sure that I understand what she wants. It's going to be three tiers with a fountain between the bottom and top two tiers. Since her colors are blue and green, we'll alternate ribbons on the tiers.

The bottom tier will be sixteen inches, then there will be the fountain with the clear pillars I found. The top tiers will be twelve inches and eight inches. If you look closely at the background, you can see the fountain in the background.

We're doing carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Then nice, smooth fondant to cover and make it look good. Pictures of the finished product will be coming in the next couple weeks!

Anna's Baby Shower Cake!

This weekend we had a baby shower for Baby Will! There were lots of family in attendance which made for a really good time!

The bottom layer is two 9 inch funfetti cakes with a chocolate filling and chocolate buttercream frosting. I added some big, light green fondant polka dots to go with the baby boy theme.

The top layer is an oval funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The back is made from half of an egg pan. Covered with light blue fondant, buttercream border, and small, light green polka dots to tie in with the polka dot theme on the rest of the cake. Needless to say we had some good times and delicious cake!

Truffles!

So I finally created an Etsy shop to sell some of the fun things that I make. One is truffles and they are so yummy. They are milk, white, or dark chocolate ganache dipped in milk, white, or dark chocolate. They turned out so good!


These are a mix of milk and white chocolate ganache dipped in milk chocolate!

The white chocolate ones are really good!

These are white chocolate ganache dipped in dark chocolate. Delicious if you're a dark chocolate fan.

If you want to check them out, you can see them at http://mandyssweetcreations.etsy.com !