To celebrate my 16 birthday I am counting down my top 16
cakes that I ever made! Today I don’t have a whole lot of birthday plans some
shopping and going out for lunch, and it is the homecoming dance tonight. Talk
about the best party ever:)
Oh I forgot to tell you a secret. I don’t like cake. At least
not plain vanilla or chocolate, I do like coffee cakes and “fancier” flavored
cakes. This was a big factor in my favorite cakes.
Lets get Started
Number 16:
Poseidons Trident
This cake was for Paul’s 9th birthday party. It
was Percy Jackson themed . Percy Jackson is a book about a boy, living
in 21st centaury New York, who finds out he is half human and half
god. In Percy’s case his father Is Poseidon. Paul (and I) loved this book so we
made it his theme. On the trident is says Happy birthday in ancient Greek
writing.
Number 15: pool balls
For my uncles birthday I made pool ball cupcakes. You cover
the frosting with colored sugar. I just added food coloring to sugar. Then slice
a marshmallow and write a number on it. Leave one ball with only vanilla
frosting to be your cue ball. Starbursts
work great for pool stick chalk and use chocolate dipped pretzels for pool
sticks.
Number
14: Star burst
Simple yet fun, I made these cupcakes for my aunt’s birthday
this summer. I didn’t have a lot of time, so I made them look polished with fun
colors and the star with the opposite color was piped on to give a finished
touch.
Number 13: The avalanche
We still don’t know what happened to this cake. My Friend
Taylor and I made this a few years back. It makes number 13 because how much
fun we had doing it. Best cake experience ever.
Number 12: super soaker
My brother’s 7th birthday party was all about
water guns. It’s only fitting that we made him a super soaker cake.
Number11: Blueberry lemon swirl cake
This cake was super tasty. Here is the link to it! http://thetastebuddiaries.blogspot.com/2011/03/blueberry-lemon-swirl-cake.html
Number 10: Apple crumb cake
Last year for my birthday we went to a apple orchard/ corn
maze. For my birthday cake I made a Apple Crumb Cake. It was supper moist and
dense making it the perfect fall cake. To top it off my dad made two apple
swans for decoration.
Number 9: Teddy Graham Football
Paul had a football themed party this year. I made a vanilla
cake and frosted it green. Than with white frosting I made the ten yard lines
and touchdown zones. My friend Mariel and I frosted jerseys on graham
crackers. Two chocolate chips sitting
bottoms together make the football in the middle of the field and chocolate
dipped pretzels make the field goals.
Number 8: Camping Moose!
This cake has a very interesting story. We were camping last
year on my brother’s birthday and I wanted to make him a cake. All the decorating
stuff was bought at a gas station up in northern MN. It is made with a standard
cupcake frosted with chocolate frosting. Than on Paul’s cupcake I frosted a
Twinkie and stuck it into a stick (from a branch, you have to use what you can
while camping:-) and then into the body. I melted a Hershey chocolate bar to
form the antlers and a bit of marshmallows for the eyes. Both are already
camping musts.
Number 7: Bible
This year I got confirmed. In the Christian faith and in
most denominations (for me Lutheran) people are confirmed at some point in our
high school life. When we were babies we were baptized. Our parents said that
they would raise us Christian. Being confirmed is when we say that we will stay
Christian and become an adult member of faith community. I added strawberry
jell-o to the vanilla cake mix. By cutting the cake in ½ I was able to make a
realistic sized bible. In between the layers were cutup strawberries. A
flattened laughy-taffy was used as a book mark.
Number 6: Red velvet Sweetheart cupcakes
I made these with a few of my friends for Valentine’s Day last
year. For the full story and directions click the link.
Number 5: Easter
Chocolate Nest Cake
This
is the perfect cake for chocolate lovers. It is a chocolate cake with chocolate
frosting. The eggs are truffles and the nest is a cut up chocolate bars. For
the recipe http://thetastebuddiaries.blogspot.com/2011/05/nest-chocolate-cake.html
Number 4:
Sunflowers
My birthday is, obviously, in the fall. I didn’t really know
what to do for my cake, so I decided on sunflowers. Frost your cupcakes green, place an Oreo
cookie in the center. With yellowish orange frosting, pipe on the leaves. They look
great like this, but for a finishing touch use a red M&M and chocolate
frosting to create a lady bug.
Number 3:
Babies!
This summer my aunt hosted a baby shower for my step cousins
and his wife’s, son. You can’t have a
baby shower without babies! I only made ½ a batch of these because they are a
lot of work, and a whole batch of number 2 below!
Number 2: Chocolate malt cupcakes with cherry
vanilla butter cream
I have never loved a flavor of cake as much is this. The two
flavors complemented very nicely. On top of the butter cream I added a whooper
for a fun touch. There will be a post on this recipe soon.
Number 1: Monarch Butterflies
I have loved butterflies for as long as I can remember. These
monarchs have beautiful wings made out of candy melts (found in craft supply stores).
It works best to have two people when making the wings. My mom piped on the
orange and I did the brown. Then take a tooth pick and pull it through the
brown to orange. Use the brown to make antennas
and chocolate chips for the body.
Hope you enjoyed:-)
