Our Cakes Throughout the Years: Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcakes

I realized that I had never made a Valentine's Day cake before (I'm not into the holiday at all). I had a burst of inspiration the other day to combine apricot and rose flavoring together, so I decide that I might as well try out a new recipe and bang out a Valentine's Day cake as well.

The cake and cupcakes are a blueberry applesauce and ginger cake with an apricot and rose flavored frosting. The flavors went incredibly well together! Quite possibly a new favorite of mine!

As far as the decorations, I piped a simple design on some of the cupcakes and added a white chocolate heart on top. I also made a few flower designs on others. I piped a ruffle pattern on the sides of the actual cake, with a flower pattern on top. Voila! A Valentine's Day cake. Done. :)

Our Cakes Throughout the Years: Birthday Cake

This was a cake I made for a nun's birthday. Being the good Catholic girl that I am, I wanted to make the nun and the big man upstairs happy. LOL

The cake is a yellow cake with apricot jam filling, and coconut buttercream frosting. The nun's favorite color is lavender, so I added lavender-colored ruffles on the sides of the cake, and a lavender-colored flower on top. I also sprinkled chopped coconut around on the inside border of the cake.

Our Cakes Throughout the Years: Pre-School Celebration Cake

I wanted to make a special cake for my son's pre-school. It was their last day of school, and I wanted to give the students and teachers a little treat. It is a marble cake with buttercream frosting. The flowers, banner, and birds are made out of fondant. I used an edible black marker to write with.

Our Cakes Throughout the Years: Mother's Day Cake

I am the proud mom of an almost 3-year old boy, and decided to make a cake to celebrate Mother's Day. I hosted a BBQ for our parents and had some rosemary-thyme smoked pork ribs off of our own BBQ smoker (we're actually BBQ competitors and card carrying members of the Kansas City Barbeque Society).

The dessert I made was the cake shown above. It is a Guinness and Chocolate cake with a strawberry-rosewater coulis filling and also a vanilla sea salt frosting. The cake is covered in dark chocolate fondant and I piped the flower (I got inspired by a new flower which was planted in my garden) and scrolls with buttercream.

Our Cakes Throughout The Years: Butterfly Baby Shower Cake

This cake was designed for my cousin's baby shower. The theme is Butterfly Garden. The cake is covered in fondant and accessorized in fondant flowers. The butterflies swirling up the cake are made of gumpaste.

Our Cakes Throughout the Years: Flower Basket Cake

Flower Basket Cake
This cake was designed by Connie for the Wilton Cake Decorating Course. The cake is covered in vanilla buttercream with a basket weave pattern. The flowers on top of the cake are hand-crafted out of royal icing.