Here is a recent order for a wedding shower cake – genuine buttercream with white fondant flowers. This order called for a lot of buttercream so I obviously made a huge batch. One thing I learned was that the proportion of meringue to butter doesn’t always translate in a big batch. While this batch turned [...]
I wanted to blog about everything I’ve been up to lately and I know I haven’t posted a UTT, so I figured I’d roll it into one. I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times, but practice really does make perfect. If you are a perfectionist like I am, you want it to come out [...]
Well not quite yet, but I am so close! I’m still working out a few details and I have some pages to finish, but I’m so excited I figured I’d push it through. Once I finish, it will be back on my domain, so when you type in www.karascakery.com, it will show up instead of the [...]
In addition to being on vacation, I’ve been a little busy with a few orders. The first was a birthday poker cake. I went back and forth with the idea of painting the poker pieces with gel color and actually piping on the details. I decided to pipe the details. Next was an order for [...]
Here’s a pretty spread over at PW! It would be lovely for a small wedding or gathering. Enjoy!
Yes I’m finally back from my Vegas, beach, wedding extravaganza vacation. After cleaning up my WP dashboard (aka marking 67834567 comments as spam) here I am to write a new post – which I’m sure you’ve been eagerly awaiting. I don’t have a Useful Tip Tuesday (other than don’t spend more than 3-4 days in Vegas [...]
In addition to the coconut birthday cake, I also made a baby shower cake for my best friend. Rachel was headed up this way for her cousin-in-law’s baby shower and requested a cake. I immediately thought ducks, blocks, diapers – but this cake would be slightly more original. Rachel sent me the invitation and told [...]
I was certainly not as busy as I was last week (martini cake, birthday numbers, etc), but I loved these newest cakes. The first was very simple – a coconut birthday cake. So do I make coconut cake with vanilla buttercream? Vanilla cake with coconut buttercream? Both? I added a small amount of coconut milk [...]
If anyone needs a birthday cake (or any cake for that matter) and loves Lady Gaga… I am dying to make my own version of this cake!! She did a pretty good job… not gonna lie!