Posts Tagged beach

A Beachy Bridal Shower

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White Cake with Chocolate Ganache Mousse and Buttercream Frosting

This cake is a second attempt at this cake, but in two tier form created for a bride whose wedding will take place on an island.

The dots and borders were created with royal frosting (my new best friend). The shells are white melting chocolate molded into different types of shells using a specific mold easily found at a local craft store.

The day I was making the cake was very humid and warm, and therefore the fondant and I were not friends. All in all, I need to work on my patience and time management so that I do not get stressed out.

If anyone knows of a better set of alphabet cutters I would greatly appreciate the heads up, I really do not like the unevenness of the ones I used for the lettering on this cake.

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A Beach Birthday

A close friend of my had a birthday last week and I offered to make the birthday cake. My friend is a big fan of the beach and I knew I had to run with that theme. I had difficulty deciding on a specific idea until I did some googling and I finally got inspired.

Here is my cake…

Beach Cake

Here it is again….

Beach Cake 2

I made a chocolate cake (Martha Stewart’s One Bowl Cupcake Recipe) layered with cream cheese frosting (my personal favorite). Here I am cutting the cake…

Beach Cake  Cutting

Once I layered the cake and crumb coated it with the icing I dyed the fondant an ocean hue. I attempted to use white chocolate to do the piping around the cake but it was too soft so I ended up whipping up a batch of royal icing and using that.

For the shells, I used a chocolate candy mold. For most I used white candy melts. Some of the shells I swirled in pink candy melts or butterscotch chips to add some color.

My next cake making goal is a two tiered cake and/or some ribbons….

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