PME Module 1

I am taking professional classes by PME, taught by Sheila Brooks of Cake Craft Shoppe. What a wonderful instructor! This module is on pure fondant. The class is taught and then we have to come up with our own cakes with inspiration from cakes made by Sheila... so the following are what i managed!

Stacked cake - first time ever!

This was my first attempt to a stacked cake.... it was not as easy as it looks on shows and pictures! The cake is coffee with raspberry whipped cream and whipped chocolate ganache. I was given literally a days notice to make this cake....ummm ...why I took this challenge is beyond my thinking at this point. I baked the cakes on Thursday and then on Friday I started at 9am and got finished at 3.30pm! I seriously think I am going to stick to cupcakes, unless given at least a few days notice. Oh, the icing outside is cream cheese (i found a recipe that crusts so that i was able to give it a somewhat smooth look, although if I had a day to do that it would have turned out smoother.

some pics of the cupcakes at the bake sale

Choco Marshmalloreo
Mocha Java
Simply Vanilla
Peanut Butter Chocolate

School Bake Sale Sampler

I baked the whole day yesterday - that's when you wish you had two of the Kitchen aids and large ovens! I created 10 boxes of Caketivity samplers consisting of 4 different cupcakes; Mocha Java, Choco Marshmalloreo, Simply Vanilla and Peanut Butter chocolate. Always scratch baked...never out of the box! Hopefully those who buy have enjoyed them!

Just a note

I would like to thank all my family, friends and all my "tasters" for the lovely words and encouragement that you have provided to me in the past few weeks. Keep it up...LOL...it provides me with the boost I need. I suppose my next step would be to go out and market my product...just waiting for my business cards to come in.

Hurray...I just got my first order!

I got my first order for 2 cakes - an 8" 4 layer and a 6" 2 layer - Chocolate Raspberry Ganache. Basically the cake was chocolate with consecutive layers of raspberry whipped cream, whipped chocolate gancahe and then all covered with ganache. The leftover batter I made into cupcakes...once again I love making cupcakes...chocolate cupcake with whipped raspberry cream filling and a decorative star of chocolate ganache (hehehe...thats all I had left, therefore I had to use sparingly).

Sports cake

Hurray, I got my grass tip! The birthday cake for the boys is complete. They have not seen it, so I look forward to their reaction. Yellow cake with buttercream icing. This design was inspired by the paper products I bought for the party.