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Oakleaf Cakes made a life-sized Storm Trooper cake for a sci-fi convention. Even better, they photographed many steps along the way so if you’ve ever wondered what kind of structures are inside one of these amazing cakes, go check out their blog entry and photo slideshow here.
I considered sharing an image but a) I’m lazy b) I’m busy and most importantly c) I really want you to go look at their page!
I haven’t had time to post Quick Bites lately (and in part because I’m not sure many were reading them…more comments would inspire more posts!), but I stumbled across this gem on Google+ and had to share:
Strawberry Mascarpone Cream Cake (or Ice Cream Cake)
Photo from SheSimmers.com.
Leela of SheSimmers.com has a brilliant yet simple methodology of assembling this lovely cake and she shows you how in photos on the linked page. Brava Leela!
Whether it’s this week, next, or just after Labour Day, kids in North America are heading back to school! Here are some fun goodies to inspire you for back to school treats of your own.
First up, two book-themed cakes by Sprinkle Bakes: a gorgeous one called Words Take Flight and then a Birthday Trip To Narnia with the White Witch plus a recipe for Microwave Turkish Delight.
The Decorated Cookie Blog also takes a confectionery trip through literature with Harry Potter Painted Marshmallows and applies the same technique to some First Day of School Marshmallow Pops.
Hungry Happenings did some experiments to find a non-corn-syrup-based modelling chocolate recipe and discovered that, when combined with some fruit leather, she’d made tasty and adorable little books. Check out her recipe and tutorial here. She’s also got a round-up of some of her other school-themed treats here, some of which I think I’ve featured here before.
For a tutorial on making little monogrammed fondant books, check out this post by A Baked Creation.
The Sugar Turntable shows you how to make Chalkboard Cookies (via CraftGossip).
If your favourite student is into puzzles and you dig a bit of a baking challenge, go for this Rubik’s Cube Battenburg Cake by S’tasty.
It’s not just kids going back to school. If you happen to know a grown-up heading off to train for cop duty, you’ll definitely want to make these Police Academy Themed Cupcakes by Bake Happy. Even if you don’t, check out the creative use of parts of cutter shapes and texture pins.
Today on Quick Bites, lots of fun with cupcakes!
Making Cupcakes
- First, maybe you want a cupcake or two but don’t want to go to the trouble of mixing a big batch and then finding other people to eat them with you. Because eating an entire batch of cucpakes would be wrong. Yes. Very wrong. Why are you looking at me like that? Anyway, lucky for you How Sweet Eats posted this recipe for One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes For Two (via CraftGossip).
- For those who want a little more, Krissy’s Creations has a recipe for Hot Fudge Cupcakes You Eat With a Spoon (via Cupcakes Take the Cake). You’re welcome.
- Want to swirl two colours of icing on your cupcakes? You can buy two-part bags or use Our Best Bites’ handy instructions for using two bags for two-toned icing out of a single tip.
- Add cute chocolate butterflies and dragonflies to your cupcakes (or any cake) with advice from Sisteroo (via CraftGossip).
Amazing Cupcakes
- Do you like cute cupcakes? Then warm your heart with this The Cupcake Blog post of a incredibly adorable Chilly Penguin cupcake by Little Cake House. Also via The Cupcake Blog are these sweet little VW Beetle cupcakes by Lindie Sugar Art.
- Don’t like cute cupcakes? Consider yourself exterminated by these two different yet equally awesome Dalek cupcakes: first HepKitten’s post of fondant-wrapped little techno-beasties and then these elegant drageed invaders on Cupcakes Take the Cake made by Crumbs & Doilies. Either way, you’re going to need a Doctor.
- Now, what if you love cute cupcakes and nerdy sci-fi cupcakes but also want a phenomenal cake to go with them? First of all, you’re asking a lot. Secondly, Jcake Homemade totally has you covered with this phenomenal Star Wars Cake and Cupcakes, which was also found at The Cupcake Blog.
Been too busy to post for a bit, but enjoy these lovely works of confectionery art while I start sorting through my massive pile of links to share!
- A breathtaking Sweet 16 Party Dress Cake by Pink Cake Box. This is definitely in the “OMG I can’t believe that’s edible!” category. Wow.
- BitRebels has a great posts featuring an edible miniature Shanghai, a a boat made out of chocolate, a chair made out of sugar like a giant lollipop, and cameo portraits carved into the icing inside Oreo cookies.
- Nerdalicious posted this faboo Legend of Zelda cake.
- Also via Nerdalicious is this wonderfully detailed Doctor Who Cake by Michelle Sugar Art.
I found more Fourth of July goodies to share, and I’m sure more will come over the weekend as well. However, since all of the core volunteers at Capital Confectioners are working like crazy to present an amazing Day of Sharing, blog posts are going to be a little less frequent as we approach that date.
For now here are some more Independence Day desserts:
- First, the amazing Sweet Sugarbelle shows you how to make plastic templates to make fun little rocket cookies. She also partnered with Glorious Treats to whip up a tutorial on making star-shaped stained glass cookies. Both of these techniques are widely adaptable, so bookmark them for future use!
- Apparently featuring the irrepressible 1 Fine Cookie in the previous Quick Bites post inspired her to look into Canada Day desserts along with more Independence Day fun with Pop Rock Cupcakes with Fireworks Truffle Toppers.
- Going for a beach picnic this long weekend? Take some of Munchkin Munchies’ cute little Burger Bites Cookies or Bake at 350′s nifty Fried Chicken cookies. If you can’t go to an actual beach, you can still use that theme at your party with help from Diamonds For Dessert’s lovely Sand Dollar Cookies (via CraftGossip).
- If you’d like some healthier fare, Bakers Royale made some Fruit Dessert Pops with creative use of cutters (via CraftGossip). If you’d like to start out with healthy fruit and then do things to it that make it less healthy but extra fun, fANNEtastic Food has a great suggestion for strawberries at the bottom of this post and Tidy Mom shows you how to make Red White & Blue Candy Apples.
- Lastly, check out Sweetology 101′s adorable School House Rock I’m Just A Bill Cupcake. I love that song, and being the awful nerd that I am, I love some of the parodies even more. But I’ll let interested parties look those up themselves…
Today on Quick Bites, odd things as inspired by this morning’s trending topic of “Fried Kool-Aid” on Twitter.
- First: a news story explaining what Fried Kool-Aid is (basically a doughnut hole with Kool-Aid in the mix). I can see that it’d just be a fruity-sweet doughnut. What do you all think? Have you tried it?
- While on the subject of deep frying, check out this Instructable about Deep Fried Doughnut Cupcakes.
- Here’s something unusual that works really well: a cake surrounded by Kit Kat bars by Cake Whiz. Amazing how elegant it looks!
- Lastly, on these hot days if you’re looking for something a bit upmarket relative to a standard popsicle, try making what Scent of Green Bananas calls Ice Candy. I’m sure you can use the recipe concept in regular freeze pop molds even if you can’t find the bags discussed in the article. Via CraftGossip
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Was too busy today to put a full post together, sorry. Worked on stuff for the Day of Sharing and Gummy class most of the day.
But I stumbled across more atypical Fathers’ Day stuff: Lola’s Cake posted some great dad’s hobby cupcakes on Flickr. Via Cupcakes Take The Cake.
I love that they’re miniatures, that they can be customized to suit any dad’s interests, and that they’re adorable!
Today on Quick Bites: it’s National Doughnut Day! Aside from the fact that many doughnut stores are offering freebies today, here are some fun doughnut links:
- A cute little doughnut cake, baker unknown but spotted on GirlyBubble.com.
- A Homer Simpson Doughnut Cake. Not sure who the decorator is as it appears in a photostream from a show. And of course there’s always Browen Webber’s Simpsons cake on Food Network Challenge.
- I found a lot of stacks of doughnuts that were meant to be cakes of sorts, but none of those compare to this World Record attempt or Krispy Kreme’s 65th Birthday Doughnut Cake.
- The Party Animal Blog shows you how to make a Donut Robot Birthday Cake.
Do you have a favourite doughnut recipe? I don’t, but I do have a tutorial on how to knit a torus, which is sort of close. You could make an elongated version of the icing from this cupcake pattern and stitch it on the doughnut. Then you could always have a doughnut around whenever you want it, calorie-free. Yay!
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