Saint Patrick's Day Baking Marathon is Gearing Up

With just the simple announcement that I would be making some St. Patrick's Day sweets, orders started rolling in.

I love it. I love being busy baking. It's an exciting time for me. The best part of it all is the fact that so many people are smiling because of my creations. That really makes my day.

So, I'm looking at making cake pops, cakes, cupcakes, and cheesecakes all with the lovely Irish Cream flavor. We shall see how it goes. I will be making a trial run of cupcakes in the next few days to see how that goes. If they turn out well, I'll let you know.

St Patrick's Day ideas

I'm thinking about doing some St. Patrick's Day goods. First, of course is green cake pops. Pretty simple. I found a recipe for Irish Cream Cupcakes that I may try. Those might even make some pretty good cake pops. A friend suggested green "velvet" cupcakes (and cake pops, of course), so I'll have to give those a shot and see what I can do about that idea.

So what do you think?

Baking Marathon

I had so much fun baking the last few days. Mostly, I had fun seeing the smiling faces, the embarrassed men, and the empty cabinets. This marathon consisted of 28 different orders from cake pops to cheesecakes, to cupcakes.

I did realize a few things: First, I need a better system for tracking sales and deliveries. Luckily, a new friend told me about an app for my iPad that will help me track inventory and sales. It's going to take a while to input everything, but I think it will help a lot.

Second, I need a delivery driver. Fortunately, I know someone who is a good driver and is willing to make some money.

Third, I need to have more cakes baked and ready to mix for many orders of cake pops.

I think the best part of this whole experience came in the last home delivery I had. A young lady wanted to surprise her husband with a chocolate covered strawberry cheesecake for Valentine's Day. I knocked on the door and when he opened it, he looked at me, looked at the box, screwed his nose up, and said, "OK, Thank You!" took the box and started to close the door.

He had no idea what was in the box. It was absolutely adorable. One of the experiences that made the whole busy-lack-of-sleep-lack-of-food event worthwhile. Of course, I had a few others, such as embarrassing the security guard at the courthouse, or the mechanic at the car dealership. Those were pretty awesome too.

My favorite creation, besides the cheesecake, was the Miami Dolphins cake pop bouquet. I love how it turned out.

Miami Dolphins colors. The brown pops are footballs.

Valentine's Day Repeat

I am once again making my luscious Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecakes for Valentine's Day. These Cheesecakes are scrumptious. I made the recipe up myself, and I must say, it's a doozy.

The crust is a delectable Oreo Cookie Crust. A lovely plain cheesecake hides a precious strawberry treat. A decadent chocolate ganache tops the super tempting cheesecake. Chocolate covered strawberries decorate the top in an amazing display of sweet temptation.

If you want one, they are available in KFalls only! $30 will buy you one delivered on Valentine's Day!

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Tangled

I had an order for a Rapunzel cake - from the cartoon Tangled. I didn't want to attempt the tower, afraid it would topple. So, I made a small two tier cake, covered it in little purple and pink flowers, wrapped her hair around the cake, and put lanterns floating down the sides.

The cake is chocolate, no filling. It is covered in vanilla buttercream and green marshmallow fondant. All the decorations are either made of frosting or fondant. It was for a little girl's birthday party, so I wanted it to be edible.

I bought a new airbrush machine and I got to use it on this cake. I sprayed the yellow lanterns gold, and I sprayed her hair gold to give it a little extra something. Then I sprayed the whole cake with shimmer to make it shine. It turned out really pretty. And for the first time, my fondant turned out smooth and pretty.

That's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow...

Well, I created a kit cake for the first time ever. This cake was very simple... except the cake was too moist and made it difficult to frost the cut edges.

It is a strawberry cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. I used white frosting for the waves, and blue colored piping gel for the water.

The little characters on it are from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Still turned out pretty cute, even for a kit cake. :)

Humvee Cake

The Humvee cake turned out really cool... Unfortunately, I don't have a picture that does it justice. I have pictures, but I don't think it photographed too well. It still turned out really cool. I was also told that they finished it off today, so it didn't last long.

The cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. The hummer is also made of cake. I used Oreos covered in black fondant for the tires. I used the black fondant for the windows. I brushed them with powdered sugar to give the impression of glass. I used the remaining black fondant to make the balls around the bottom of the cake. The sand is made of graham crackers and sugar to give it the sparkle that only sand has. I used black frosting to write ARMY on the grill of the Humvee.

He loved the cake. Welcome Home!