Anthropologie is having their semi annual sale. Just some things I picked up:

I like the idea of having mismatched mugs for coffee and tea, I always buy one or two at this sale. Above: Do Sul Mug, $5.95! Culinary Herb Pot, $9.95!

One of my excuses for taking such a long break from blogging in April is the crazy amount of birthday's I had. How many Aries are there out there, really. This is one cake I had so much fun with. Matthew, birthday boy, is on a serious health kick lately. The kind where you don't eat cake except for yours and maybe baby Jesus' birthday. This is the one chance I had to make him really good cake since it's the only cake he'll have all year (hm, so he says). Naturally you and I both know cake should be eaten anytime it's in front of your face. Considering all this, I thought it would be humourous to make him a broccoli cake.

I used the normal point tip #2 or #3 in fast circular motions to make the broccoli head shown in more detail below, #2B tip would probably work too.

Sculpting a cake is both fun but also terrifying to see it in the beginning steps - will it look right? Will it be proportioned?

The broccoli cake was a strange one, it started off looking like a mushroom from Super Mario Brothers.

Let them eat broccoli! (cake)

My good friend Kelly finished her yoga teacher training and I wanted to congratulate her.  This cake right here is proof that I don't just work with fondant!
I wanted to do something pretty for the look of the buttercream and it came to me instantly, at this moment I grabbed a…

It's simple, turn the cake around a drag your fork at the edge. Helps if you have a turntable or lazy suzan.

For the flower I tried to create a lotus (key word: tried) out of gumpaste. It is an intricate flower. Probably would have worked better if I made it in white gumpaste and then painted it with food coloring. Couldn't decide on putting it on the top or side. What do you think looks better?

Have a good weekend.

It's been awhile since my last post! Did you miss me? I missed you. In all this time away I've baked a lot and designed a lot. This means I have a lot of material to post, and I'm excited to share them with you. Let's start with this baseball jersey cake for a 27th birthday...

ps.
I haven't exactly called it quits with my contest a day challenge, but I have to mention that it has been over 6 months of not winning anything. Maybe the big prize is on its way? Who knows, but I will try to keep this going by posting 7 contests every monday. We'll see. I am a positive one.