Childrens Celebration Cake

Today I finally finished my childrens celebration cake! The pastillage took a weird turn ( weather or something??) and took much longer to dry than the usual 3 days.
So the cake is Devils Food and the icing is chocolate butter cream. The pastillage plaque is painted with cocoa and gin and accented with modeling chocolate. The figure is out of white and dark modeling chocolate. Combed the sides and shell border piped.

Seattle on a Sunday...

Today we left the house at a very early hour of 7 ( hey its a weekend!) and gathered a few of our friends. We then went off to Seattle to watch a SeaHawks game...NFL... it was super fun. We just got back and the both of us are super exhausted. Thought I would post some quick pictures of our trip!

Pablo

My nephew loves the BackYardigans. I have to make a childrens cake for my celebration cakes class, using only chocolate. So I created PABLO PANGUIN out of white and dark modeling chocolate and royal icing. The modeling chocolate- especially the white- starts the melt almost immediately after you touch it. So finess is a little more than difficult! I am waiting on my pastillage plaque that I painted with cocoa powder and rum to dry, so I can assemble the whole piece. So for now..... meet pablo...

Havent put stuff upppp

I have been saying pictures tomorrow for a few posts now, but I am soo busy making wedding cakes that I have no time to breath.









So here is a picture-utopia...

pictures of desserts

Pictures of the game

and a picture of us!

tonight....

Tonight Hy and I have tickets to an NBA game at the Rose Garden. We are going to see our home team the Trailblazers play the Minnisota Timberwolves. I am pretty excited. We are going with my girlfriend Rudee and her boyfriend John.

We also had them over for dinner last night and then we went and saw the new movie "Role Models". Pretty vulgar....pretty hilarious. We had a great date night. So for right now I am going to go practice working with modeling chocolate and marzipan, then get ready for our night with the NBA!

P.S. We got such freaking sweet tickets and we get to go early and hang out with the players while they warm up a few hours before the game! NICE....Pictures tomorrow