RAD(iation)

A good friend of mine was working in the Radiology department at the hospital and asked me to make this cake for her (okay, technically TWO of these, but I digress).

I have to admit this is one of the fastest and easiest cakes I've ever made... and one I love the most!  It was SO awesome and I was really pleased with how well it turned out. :)  I'm glad she liked it as much as I did!

Enjoy!

What I learned:  Black fondant is more easily achieved when it is chocolate, because it's already brown.

Cindy

Halloween Hoopla

We trudged through grass, tree roots, and mud for two days and finally found our way back to our resurfaced parking lot from the street parking we had to endure. We are okay.  We made it!

So, back to business here.  I'm going to throw a couple of Halloween-related cakes on here today.  One of them was actually a birthday cake for a friend of mine last February, but it is more closely related to Halloween, and I didn't dare put it in the "Beautiful Birthdays" post last week.  Seriously.  I don't think you'd count it as beautiful!!

Enjoy!

 Topsy Turvy cake for a church Halloween party.

This was my first attempt at a Topsy Turvy cake. 

All decorations were piped on.

What I learned:  Sometimes when working on a cake, you just get lucky!  

There had to have been Divine Intervention for it to turn out this well!!

 Halloween Party Haunted Castle

I used the Wilton Castle Kit for this cake, though I was rather unimpressed with it.

What I learned:  Royal icing breaks when it drops.  Royal icing is gross.

Zombie Birthday Cake 

See?  Not exactly something you add as a "Beautiful" cake.

The eyeball on the side had a 23 written in 'blood' (which was just decorator gel)

What I learned:  carving the cake to the right shape makes the fondant layering much easier.

and:  it's hard to achieve the right skin tone.  Coloring this fondant took me a LONG time

Thanks for looking again!

Cindy