My gumpaste skills are getting better

My First Gumpaste Doll

Here is my silly creation. I have never taken a gumpaste class of this kind, but a few weeks ago I bought some gumpaste molds really cheap and I also wanted to practice. One of my friend's birthday is coming soon and i have a really special idea that I am working on. So, don't worry, this won't be her doll, she is more pretty than this.

The Best Smile Ever

After a very quite Valentines Day at home by myself, I had to get ready to work the next day. One of my coworkers will be in Italy for the next 2 weeks, which means I have to cover for her the next 2 Sundays ( yes, it is obvious that I hate to work on Sundays, but I guess at some point I will need my vacation too, so I want someone to work for me). Well, the thing is that after a long boring day at work( where I didn't have a choice and I had to study) I got this very little active surprise!! Just look below. ( by the way, daddy cut her hair) nice, we just saved $16.

Birthday Cake with Valentines Day Theme

Carrot Cake with Cream cheese frosting. I got the recipe from epicurious, it is the best carrot cake I have ever eaten. Very moist!! yummy!! This flowers are for the cake, I think they will look good on top to hide some imperfections. I am not really good at icing.



This is what Camilla does while I bake or decorate, isn't she just adorable?

Valentines Cupcakes

I was asked to make some cupcakes for our office Valentines luncheon , I made 30 and put them in this beautiful cupcake stand that I just got. I think they look beautiful. And they are also very tasty, we didn't have any left.
These are some cute little gifts I made, I used a clear plastic box, put some pink, white and red M&M's a cupcake inside and tie them with colorful ribbon.

Valentine Cake

This is the cake that I baked last night. Chocolate cake with semisweet chocolate ganache. I used the same recipe for the cupcakes and it was absolutely delicious.
I iced the cake with the pink buttercream that I used for the cupcakes, then I putted in the refrigerator right before I covered with fondant.

Here I have wax paper under the bow's loop just to give it some movement.


Here is the final work. I have to say that I painted the cake with red shimmering dust and i didn't like it at all.

Getting Ready For Valentine Day

Valentine Day is coming and I am quite happy because I have some orders to make. I won't be making a lot of money, but at least practicing my skills. By this time of the month I am supposed to be studding for my upcoming test, of course I haven't done it. I have been busy baking and getting some things done around the house (still looks messy) I done even have the excuse that I am not sleeping, I guess I am starting to gain my life back ( regarding sleeping) on day at the time. Cami es finally sleeping all night, I still can believe that I put her down on her crib, read a book , say good night and that's it, well it was about time, my friend's were getting a little tired to hearing me complaining every day about the same thing over and over. Going back to my school issue I feel that I am not motivated this semester, my tests, yes, 2 of them are in two weeks, so I don't know if I am going to make it.
Going back to my valentine's backing ( some how I am not getting my thoughts were they should be) I just baked 40 chocolate cupcakes and a chocolate heart cake, it looks awful, but in the pic it was just coming out of the oven. Here are some pics of my day at my kitchen today, I know they are awful, I just don't take the time to take them nice, but I also think that if someone at some point see this blog can see that we all are the same when we bake , a little messy, but... VERY CLEAN.
Chocolate cake coming out of the oven.

Yummy dark chocolate cupcakes

Semisweet chocolate ganache cooling down

My dinner table full of packaging supplies

Birthday Cake

After my cake wreck, a little nervous still I went back and started to bake again.This is a 50th birthday party cake. First tier is dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and the small tier is vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream. I made the bow with 50% gumpaste and 50% fondant and tinted with dark blue. I made the loops 3 days in advanced, when I assemble the bow I hand painted it with blue luster dust. The border is a little different compare with what I have done before. I got the idea from a cake that I saw in a magazine last week, so I think it is kind of cute.

Simple Plain Cake

This is a simple cake but yet very tasty. One layer chocolate cake and one layer of vanilla with strawberries and whipp cream filling. I iced the cake with vanilla buttercream.

Beautiful Winter Pics

Yesterday snowed all day, it was beautiful to see the snow coming down , all white and fluffy, it was even better that I was at work and I didn't have to go outside for quite some time. I didn't think the same when I went to get baby, but the good think was that I went home early and I just stayed in my house nice and warm.
The view of some trees this morning was awesome, so I decided to take some pics to share. Enjoy.