Summer 2009 Brewfest

Hubby Dennis did this cake when we sponsored River City at the annual Brewfest. It totally rocked!

Soldier!

This little soldier comes to us courtesy of "Mr. Lisa", my husband/partner in crime Dennis! A little 8 year old girl requested a soldier cake, and wouldn't take pink camo for nuthin'!

Oh Sweet Ladybug

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Mary Jane's Birthday

Her Momma didn't ask for anything nearly this elaborate, but I wanted to play fairy tale...

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Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen

Happy Sweet Sixteen to my beautiful daughter. I am so proud to be your mom! Thank you for filling my life with joy!

California Cake Club Meeting

If you're in the area, please join us for a cake club meeting! It will be held today, February 8, at 1:00.

Location: Cake Stuff, 438 Main St, Suite C1, Placerville, CA 95667
Phone: 530/417-1451

Grandma's Cake

Happy 81st Birthday, Grandma!

Party At Cake Stuff

Isn't she cute?!?!

Happy 9th Birthday, Brianne!

Brianne's cake is a 10 inch chocolate cake, 4 layers, with two layers of chocolate buttercream filling and one layer of ganache filling. It is 5 inches tall! It is iced in chocolate buttercream (thin layer), then topped with homemade fondant. I did the two layers of buttercream in the cake so that those who don't care for fondant can take it off but still have a good filling-to-cake ratio.

The loopy bow is gumpaste...it has been damp here so although I did it two days ago, it is not as dry as I would like. Still good though. The 3D butterflies are gumpaste, and the smaller ones are piped on. All are coated in luster dust. The drum is fondant covered, embossed and covered in luster dust. Around the cake are embossed butterflies. In case you hadn't guessed, the birthday girl wanted a butterfly cake!

Happy Birthday, Brianne!

Doll Cake

I seriously wish I could take good cake pictures. Seriously.

Snowman Part Two

Billy The Snowman

We built Billy The Snowman for our good friend's birthday. Bill loves the beach, and his birthday is right at the beginning of winter, so my husband came up with this design (and set out to do it during the craziest Christmas week ever. But I digress).

Billy is obviously a 3D cake. He is sitting on a styrofoam half round, with actual cake for the top half of the bottom round. His head is all cake, and his hat is a 4" cake sitting on a cardboard round. The icing on the hat and ground is pecan...german chocolate is Bill's favorite. Which is fortunate...it worked for our design!

Let's go from the bottom up. The cake needed a structure. It was going to travel from Placerville to Sacramento, with my husband driving. Yikes. The bottom board is a masonite square. You need this kind of sturdy base for any large/heavy cake. We covered it in fondant, then spread pecan icing and crushed vanilla wafers for the sand. The snowman's form is built on metal piping (washed very well and then wrapped, of course). We used a styrofoam base just because we are not cake experts and the cake was traveling. On top of that is cake baked in Wilton's Doll Mold. For the arms, we used rice crispie treats to mold around the pipes. The head is baked in Wilton's Sports Ball pan. The hat is a 4 inch on a cardboard round. The connectors on the piping acted as dowels, keeping the weight of the next layer off the previous layer. Hopefully you can see what I mean in the pictures. Anyway...he is coated in a thin layer of buttercream, then fondant. I had some issues with the fondant (probably b.c it was 2am), so to cover my mistakes I added a thin texturing layer of buttercream over it...and liked the effect ALOT! He is then sprayed with silver luster dust.

The palm tree is all Dennis. The pole screws into the masonite board. He fashioned a cardboard cone to slip over that, and he layered fondant/gumpaste up the cardboard. We used alot of fondant/gumpaste mix for this stuff b.c it dries faster and sets up harder than plain fondant. The leaves he created a template and cut the leaves using straight gumpaste. We fashioned coconuts from chocolate dipped crispies, then attached them to the leaves, then to the trunk.

His glass is just plastic, real sunglasses, and we ran out of time on the surfboard :) It is just painted cardboard. I'd do gumpaste next time. Oh, and his nose is fondant, on a skewer, stuck in. I assembled the nose and leaves at the venue.

Whew! I know I forgot some things...if you have questions, just ask!

I LOVE MY STORE!

Seriously. I LOVE IT. I want to be there all the time. ALL THE TIME. I love talking to the people. I love planning classes. I love teaching classes. I love planning and getting inventory. I just love it. It is a great store!

Come see it!!!

Character Pans Are In!

I just finished unpacking a large supply of Wilton Character Pans, along with themed cupcake liners and icing decorations.

Come check them out!

Cake Stuff Updates

The soft opening is going well! Having to make a few adjustments to the retail hours...I over-extended a bit. I didn't take into account how long the day would be if I opened at 10, closed at 4, then held evening classes. I need to adjust the hours, but am going to play it by ear for awhile. For December, I have set store hours as follows:

Monday CLOSED
T/W/Th 10-4...closed for lunch 12.15-12.45
F 12-4
Sat/Sun 10-4

If you are coming a long way, please call beforehand to make sure I am here...I have four kids, and while I do have back-up care, sometimes there is something unavoidable that requires me to close. And as always, if I am closed and you need something right away, call the work phone at 530-417-1451 or email me at llmagnuson@comcast.net .

My GRAND OPENING has been set for November 29 from 10-4. I am so excited! I will have demos ongoing all day, and even my little Emma has a scheduled demo. It should be a fun time!

Cake Stuff Part 2

Cake Stuff-Opening November 11, 2008!

Cake!

Happy First Birthday, Jocelyn!

PS...Isn't Bun cute?!?!

Happy Third Birthday, Gabby!

You make me happy every single day!

Here is your "Dora and the ooey gooey geyser" cake. It was fun to make, especially with YOU!