Cakes

This is a picture of my Fiesta! Royal Icing cake, it was a really time intensive cake, but overall a cool experience. I think it turned out pretty cool.
I made maracas, and strings of confetti. I also have royal icing primrose, wild rose,and violet flowers on the cake. The side is a butter cream basket weave with a rope border. It was really fun to see it all come together.




A couple weeks ago my roommate Stacy's boyfriend, Ryan, turned 26, and she asked me to help her make a cake for his surprise party. Ryan has a pet hamster that Stacy gave him when she got tired of having a pet, and Ryan loves him so we wanted to do a fondant hamster eating the cake.
When we started out we were a lot more ambitious. We wanted to have the hamster standing up with cake in his hand and a nibbled on circuit board (Ryan's in the engineering program here) with another hamster trying to scramble up the side.

Our fondant turned out to be a little to soft and we didn't have enough time to fix it, so we scaled back our plan and made it like this. I baked and iced the cake, and Stacy made the fondant hamster.

He still loved it and it turned out pretty cute for the time we had to complete it.