Butter Cake with Maple Buttercream Icing & BACON in the middle!

There is a local store that sells cupcakes with Maple (Real Vermont of course) Buttercream Icing & a slice of bacon on top. We went there one day to buy one but they didn't have any. I was disappointed & mentioned it to a friend who suggested I make my own. That's what I did & here's the results! It was SO good...however we decided that it's best to take the bacon out before you eat the cake or else the bacon overpowers the cake. When you remove the bacon it leaves the flavor on top of the maple buttercream filling & is to die for!

St. Patrick's Day Cakes

When you think "St. Patrick's Day" what comes to mind? For me it is Guinness & Bailey's Irish Cream...as well as shamrocks & leprechaun's. I had so much fun this year making a Chocolate Guinness Cake with my Bailey's Buttercream icing!

Chocolate Guinness Cake with Bailey's Irish Cream Buttercream Icing (The design is the Celtic Birth Sign of the person getting the cake).

Traditional St. Patrick's Day cake!

Fun with Fondant

When people hear "fondant" they think "YUCK"! However, my homemade buttercream fondant is melt in your mouth delicious & is a great addition to any cake! I can flavor it any of the same flavors as the filling you pick out. Here are some examples:

Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream filling/icing/fondant!

Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream filling/icing/fondant!

Chocolate Cake with Peppermint filling (as well as crushed candy canes)/icing/fondant.

Butter Cake with Peppermint filling/icing/fondant. Decorations are Royal icing.

Butter Cake with MAPLE Buttercream filling (as well as strips of bacon!)/icing/fondant.

Butter Cake with Maple butterceam filling/icing/fondant.

Bailey's Irish Cream Butter Cream Icing with a Chocolate Guinness Cake!

This is SUCH a yummy cake & perfect for St. Patrick's Day this week. I can also make Bailey's Irish Cream fondant to cover the cake with & can decorate it anyway you would like! E-mail or call me at 363-0554 to place an order for one now! No St. Patrick's Day party will be complete without one!

Melt-In-Your-Mouth Mocha!

If you love coffee & chocolate than a cake like this is for you! A chocolate cake filled with a smooth & creamy mocha butter cream, and then frosted with mocha butter cream icing. A wonderful cake that can be decorated anyway  you would like - lots of flowers for your favorite woman in your life, or something like below for that special guy!

Chocolate Cake with creamy mocha butter cream.

Decorations are vanilla butter cream & piping gel. Yum!

Character & Shaped Cakes

Character cakes are so much fun to make & children (& adults) love them! Wilton makes some awesome character cake pans. The cakes are just a single layer cake (without a filling) and are covered in buttercream icing (with your choice of flavor). The possibilities are unlimited with these cake pans. Here are some of the ones that I've made.

The first shaped cake I did. A flower for my niece's 2nd birthday! Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting & buttercream icing for the decorating.

This was a cake for my fiance's birthday. Chocolate cake with chocolate & vanilla buttercream icing.

A chocolate cake with cream cheese icing & vanilla buttercream. This was made for a friends birthday.

My daughter's dedication cake. Lemon with vanilla buttercream.

This year's Valentine's Day cake! Chocolate with vanilla buttercream icing.

Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing.

Think Spring!

March has arrived. Although here in VT it doesn't feel that way, that doesn't mean that we can't get into the spring mood. This is a 6", 2 layer, lemon cake with vanilla buttercream icing. The flowers are also buttercream. A design like this would be great for Mother's Day (hint, hint)!