Chanel and Minnie Mouse

Ah, I love baking and I love transforming cake into art!  It's been several months since I had an excuse to make a cake and it felt good to be creative the past couple of weeks.  First, a Chanel cake for a bachelorette party.  I learned two things making this cake.  First, the design on top is not two horesehoes, it's the CHANEL logo!  Second, it's hard to make frosting or fondant black, but marzipan takes black food coloring perfectly.  The cake was red velvet with cream cheese frosting. 

Thursday night I put this cake together for a little girl's birthday.  Got to love Minnie Mouse!  It's a white cake with a thin layer of raspberry jam between the layers.  I tried a new product by Wilton called Sugar Sheets.  Basically it's very thin sheets of fondant that you can cut with a cookie cutter or scissors.  It doesn't taste like much but it's edible and I used it to make the Minnie Mouse silhouettes.

My next cake will be a replica of our wedding cake to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary.  Who needs to save the top when the baker is in-house and cake just make the cake again!