Bake Me a Cake

At the risk of all of you mistaking me for a food blogger I’m going to show you this:

I made that cake!  Seriously. And it was edible. It was really good actually!

I was asked by Michaels a few weeks ago if I would try out new Cake Boss products.  Baking is not my thing but I thought it would be fun to see if I could do it, and involve Boo since she loves to bake (mostly lick the bowl and eat the finished product).  The cakelette pans were what grabbed my interest…I love all things miniature and the little cakelettes look like miniature layer cakes:

I let Boo do most of the mixing:

And things probably would have gone without a hitch if I’d just stayed uninvolved but instead I said: oh just fill the pans up with all the cake mix, why not?  Well, this is why not…they expand and overflow. I obviously do not bake a lot. I’ve probably made 3 cakes in the past 15 years:

I’m pretty good at salvaging almost anything though and I grabbed the cakes out of the oven and using the big icing knife I cut off the tops and popped the pan back in.  Guess what….they turned out perfect:

I put the cakes into the refrigerator for the afternoon to chill (that’s what the directions said to do). Later we got out all the icing and decorating tools:

I was excited to play with the fondant because I really didn’t know what fondant was except for what I’d seen on TV. There was a brief moment of panic when I didn’t think I owned a rolling pin but then I found that I had saved my mom’s old one:

Boo iced the chilled cakes:

And then I draped the first with fondant…look out Cake Boss:

I did take a few sculpture classes in college and I think the skills might be very transferable:

The decorating turn table might be the best invention ever. I will use this for my 3-D art going forward. I squeezed icing and Boo spun the table. I didn’t even have to move:

A tiny miniature “layer” cake:

Boo cutting fondant ribbons with the special cutter:

 

I used one of the icing tips to cut tiny circles for her:

Boo’s creation:

The I got a little carried away making polka dots…but they were so fun to punch out:

That was a lot of fun. I could drape fondant all day. It just sounds divine, right? And I could see myself using all those tools in art as well. I love all the little punches, and cutters, and smoothers and especially the Cake Boss turn table. Baking is an art after all. As much fun as we had I have a friend Mindy up the street who has a baking business. So after we cleaned up and ate all the yummy goodness, Boo and I packed up our wagon with Cake Boss awesomeness and paid her a surprise visit:

And the next time I need a cake I know where to go! If you are into baking make sure to check out the new tiered round cakelette pan that I used…I just like writing the word cakelette. cakelette. cakelette. Miniature love.

 

A huge thanks for Michaels an Cake Boss for letting me in on the fun even though I’m not the typical baker. It’s fun to get out of my comfort zone once in a while and see what’s out there. Here is some more info from Michaels:
·         Cake Boss released a variety of new product at Michaels this month that made preparing for Mother’s Day a breeze!
·         If decorating is your thing, Cake Boss has new icing duo decorating bags, but if it’s baking tools you’re looking for, try the Cake Boss cake lifter or dough pastry blender.
·         Michaels is also hosting a Cake Boss Twitter party on May 7 at 7pm CST using the hashtag #AskCakeBoss – tune in to learn new tips and tricks from the Cake Boss himself!