91:99/ She Loves Me Cake

 

The cake marathon has officially begun.  I went from 99 cakes in 365 days to 9 cakes in 3. Thanks to all of you for your input/encouragement over the past couple days via facebook/text/blog to tell me to keep going!

Here's the list for the next few days:

Miette's Tomboy

Chocolate apricot roll with lacquer glaze

True orange genoise

Torta de las tres leches

Le succes

Mini vanilla bean pound cakes

Marion berry short cake

Bernachon palet d'or gateau

Back to the She Loves Me Cake- 

Fresh Coconut Cake

 

A friend of mine asked me to bring a cake to an event last night and I happily agreed. I made the Baby Chocolate Oblivions from Rose's Heavenly Cakes but then I realized that they probably wouldn't have enough time to cool for the party.  It was supposed to take 4 hours for them to cool.

So fresh from the book signing with Jodi Rhoden, I decided to quickly try out one of her cakes for the party.  I had exactly an hour before I had to leave for a meeting.  I could bake the coconut for 15 minutes while I prepped the cake.  Then I could stick the cake in the oven for 20 minutes.  That's 35 minutes total.  I could make the icing and grate the coconut while it's cooking.  Let it cool for 10 and then ice it in 15.  It's brilliant, right? Exactly one hour.

I opened the fridge and the pantry to begin but discovered that I had all the ingredients except the essentials: eggs, milk, and butter.  I thought I could make it to wal-mart and back and then swing back home later on to ice the cake right before the party.

Lesson of the day: always allot extra time.  Making a cake on the run, especially a coconut cake, is not always the best idea.  Here's why:

48/99: Yellow Butter Cupcakes and 49/99: Chocolate Egg White Buttercream

 

Birthdays are the best. I think they are almost as good as Christmas time.  There's something so special about celebrating a life every year. And it's always fun to blow out some candles.

This weekend was a weekend of birthdays. We celebrated Stephens birthday and we decided to celebrate George's birthday even though it was a week ago. 

These cupcakes were really easy.  They have a ton of butter in them which always means they will be yummy.  They also call for sour cream but I used yogurt instead.  She says full fat yogurt is acceptable but I don't think they sell that at my grocery store.  I looked for awhile.  I guess it makes sense though; who would want to buy something that says "full-fat" on it.

The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake

I have been singing "It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" for about 2 days now haha.

This cake was for a little girl, Taylor, who just turned two and had a mickey mouse clubhouse birthday party!

It was so much fun to make- I love working with fondant- especially when it's homemade. I still have a lot to learn and would love to take a class on it but it's fun to experiment.

The Cake is the classic butter cake from Rose and the fondant is also Rose's from the Cake Bible.  It's 3 layers in a 10 inch pan.  I had to veer off of Rose's Heavenly Cakes for this one but since it was the Cake Bible, you really can't go wrong.