Happy Birthday Ann

Get Ready... Get Set...

I was recently approached by a few different people asking me to make them cakes so I have my first couple of "official" orders coming up (so psyched!).  I really want them to turn out perfect so I spent this past weekend prepping.  

On Saturday, I shopped around for tools and supplies.  I actually baked 7 cakes (and a batch of cookies to hold the hubby over) on Sunday morning - it's a good thing we have an extra freezer/keg-o-rater to keep the cakes fresh.  Tonight was spent making a stencil.  

I'm going to try ganache under my next cake - I've heard incredible things about laying fondant over ganache, and it tastes soooo good.  Perfect for the Chocolate cake they wanted.

Wish I had a new cake from this past weekend... but there are not enough hours in a day for that :) 

Simplicity

This cake was a simple design that you can modify however you wish.  Smaller tiers, larger tiers, more tiers, one tier, different colors, various blossom sizes... etc.  Because of it's simple design, and for no one in particular - I don't have a whole lot to say...

Of course, as always, if I were to do this again, I would have done this slightly differently.  Smaller top tier and taller bottom tier.  I would have also kept it all white (as was my original plan)... 

 

At any rate, I like this one.  I feel like the design is universal; could be used for a general get together, happy Spring cake, birthday, shower or even wedding...

Thanks for checking out my cake for the week!

Tam a lam

Cake Pop Cake Pop Cake Pop

It may sound crazy but truth be told, I don’t love to eat cake.  If I am presented with desert options, nine times out of ten I’ll choose anything over cake (that is unless it is carrot cake or ice cream cake).  I love frosting, and I love decorating cake – but that is about as far as the love goes for me when it comes to cake…  Well, that is until I discovered cake pops.

Reading about cake decorating online, I stumbled across the term “cake pop”.  I had no idea what a cake pop was so I googled it, and found the cutest little creations made from cake, frosting and candy coating.  Essentially, a treat made from cake that looks like a lollipop.  Cake balls if you will, stuck on a sucker stick, then dipped in candy coating.  And it turns out these things are pretty popular – even substituting wedding cake for some people.

 It really is cake!

They sounded easy enough to make and I just had to try it.  Sounded is the key word there… not quite as easy as one would think.  But so fun never the less, at least to me.  So here is my first attempt at cake pops.

Not only are they adorable, but they are friggen yummy!  Perfect combination of crunchy and soft – double decker mini cake shot.  And, they keep for about 2 weeks at room temperature!  Not that they will ever last that long.

 I was so excited to try my hand at cake pops that I put my cake for this weekend on hold again.  It’s all baked and leveled sitting in our freezer.

Anyway, as you can probably tell, these little cake pops got me all psyched up.  Doesn’t take much ;)

~Tam a Lam

 

 

 

Taking a Short Break

Hey - o!

No cakes this weekend - my husband is itching to brew a batch of beer this weekend (he has been brewing for a few years now)... And the three cakes from last weekend kept me pretty dang busy between working and baby.

But... I already have my mind made up about my next few cakes and I'm psyched to start working on them soon! If I am able to do a cake next weekend, it will be trueley a "Tam" cake - simple yet somewhat feminine. I think I'm also gonna take a shot at making homemade red-velvet cake just to shake it up a bit... There will be plenty to share... you will just have to come and visit :)

Maybe in a few weeks we'll have a celebration with home brew and cake?


Cheers,

Tam a lam

September Birthdays

Until Next time...

Tam a lam

No New Cakes this Week...

Sunday my immediate family is celebrating 3 September birthdays.  This will be the first time I am making cakes based on what other people want/requested.

So, I am taking a "break" this past weekend/week as I have 3 cakes to make for this upcoming weekend.  I have been working on the birthday cakes since last week, doing what I can after the baby goes to sleep for the night...

I hope they all enjoy their cakes as there is a lot of love in the making of them :)

Until next week -

Tam