Hi all!

I wanted to walk you through my latest cake because it was experimental, and I also have some tips to share from other great cake artists!



Goal #1. In need of a fluffy vanilla cake/cupcake recipe

I've been searching and experimenting to get the best fluffy cake recipe; like the "box" brand. Yes, I love the fluffiness of that cake and even though I make homemade cakes, I do still love that fluffy mix for myself from time to time. Then I found on Sweetapolita's blog that she mentioned the same thing about fluffy cake and her yearning for the box brand too! :p Anyway, she has a fantastic recipe that I tried out for this cake and I LOVE it. Here is the link to her recipe and here is a photo of what mine looked like.

http://sweetapolita.com/2011/07/fluffy-vanilla-cake-with-whipped-vanilla-bean-frosting/






Goal #2. Sequins on a cake. I've been wanting to try this as well and found out through The Cake Blog that Jenna Rae Cakes has a great step by step tutorial on this. It's way easier than I envisioned! I did run into a problem because instead of using pastel candy confetti, I used regular color and thus needed SO much silver luster dust to cover up that deeper color. I ran out of luster dust so if you can see in my photo below, the sequins aren't as silver as they should be and you can see some color peeping out. Otherwise, it was a success.

http://thecakeblog.com/2014/06/diy-gold-sequin-cake.html




3. Fantasy gumpaste flower and/or sugar peony

I don't have the materials needed to create one with wires and this seems like the best way to do so. I hardly ever make flowers with wires and usually only do roses. I didn't want to buy materials I probably wouldn't use much so I used the wilton peony cutters and I think it worked great. It was really easy to do; you just use a ball tool to roll out the edges much like with sugar roses and put in an egg carton to dry. You can see my Youtube tutorial on roses in other blog post if you want a reference point of what I mean here.





And for those who have asked me to do tutorials on icing a cake cleanly with buttercream as my bottom tier is here (although there are some imperfections)... Instead of me doing a tutorial, I would highly recommend you check out Tessa of SweetBakeShop's tutorial because she does a fantastic job explaining it and I use the same method as her. Below are some of the tools I use and the link to her page.

http://sweetbakeshop.com/video-tutorial-how-to-stack-and-frost-a-cake-with-perfectly-smooth-sides/