omnomnom now I'm hungry

You and me both XD Mmmm, cake!

lol
i want a cake

I really admire your icing and decorating skills. :]

Thanks =D I do hope that, someday, I'd get the chance to take advantage of the Wilton cake decorating classes >.> Especially so I can learn how to make roses better XD

Don't they offer something like that at craft stores like Michael's? I know I've seen some kind of decorating class there - it's just me making the effort to do it. lol

Yeah, that's the one :) THey have them at AC Moore's and Jo-Ann Fabrics too, but they always seem to have their classes at odd hours, so I never can make it to them :(

They may be cheap to take, but you also have to supply all the supplies yourself. I've got a good chuck of the supplies, so that's at least something I wouldn't have worry about but...yeah, it can get expensive just getting the supplies for it O.o

I think that's what keeping me from jumping all over it - buying the supplies. Kinda like art school all over again. xD

Yeah I know O.o Especially when I think they want you to buy the pre-made Wilton buttercream too...sure, it's handy to have but...I'd rather just make my own, if I knew how much to make ahead of time. The fondant I don't mind buying pre-made cuz I'm too lazy to make it XD But I don't like the idea of added, unnecessary stuff in buttercream >.<

On the plus side, from what I hear, you get to bring home the cake that you decorate ;)

haha I have yet to really GET icing. My friend sent me a butter cream recipe I need to try, but for cupcakes for a b-day next weekend I cheezed out and bought the store stuff - whipped, so it's not too heavy for him. And I know you need at least some talent to manage fondant, you can roll it too thin, or if you want to add color to get just the right shade, (thank you color theory class, I think that would help lol) but I have zero supplies - but I would just adore being able to do even small, simple, yet elegant cakes like you do. :]

The buttercream I used for this cake is a pretty easy recipe. I got it from watching Kitchen Boss, and the original recipe is enough to frost 12 cupcakes when being piped from a bag. And the recipe can be easily cut in half, or doubled or tripled, and it still tastes amazing :) I can send you the recipe if you'd like to try it out sometime :)

For fondant, I have a fondant mat that I use. It's basically two very large pieces of clear vinyl. You lay one down on the table, then you can place your fondant down, knead it and push it to somewhat flat with your hand. Then place the second sheet of vinyl on top of it, so you're sandwiching the fondant inside. Then you just roll it out a little at a time. I've got a chart that tells you how much fondant you need to cover various sized cakes, so I measure out how much I need ahead of time. Then, I just have to pay attention about if it's a round cake or a square/rectangular cake and make sure I roll it out so that it'll fit appropriately, and keep an eye on how thick it is. Because the vinyl is clear, I can see how thick I can roll it out and pretty much eye-ball it to see if it'll fit or not. The mat comes in very handy :)

And for colouring the fondant, sometimes colour theory doesn't work >.> When I was trying to get the right shade of red for Kalika's mom's wedding cake, I figured "Ok, I'll make the fondant red (I have bright red) and since it needs to be a little darker, I'll add a little bit of black." Because I figured that red + black will be a darker red. Nope, it turned purple. Uh...wait a minute, doesn't blue and red make purple?? XD Sometimes it really depends on the colour shades that you get. For something that absolutely NEEDS to be a certain colour, I think I'd rather just get the fondant pre-coloured, instead of wasting a ton of fondant, trying to mix-and-match colours to get the right shade that I need. It's a little more expensive to do it that way, but at least I'll know the person getting the cake will be happy with the right shade ;)

lol yeah red and blue make purple. xD I don't think black food coloring is common - at least when I buy the very basic sets which have the primaries plus green even though you can make green with yellow and blue. xD Yeah, if you could note me that recipe I'd like to compare it to the other one I have and see which one is easier - thanks! :D

I don't think the liquid food colourings come in black, I've got the gel colouring, which is best for fondant, and it makes buttercream have bright, vibrant colour, without having to water it down, or just having it stay pastelly coloured, so red comes out as red, and not pink :)

I'll Note you the recipe for the buttercream right now :)

Great, thanks!

that looks really awesome and professional! I havent had a birthday cake on my bday in years hehe

Thanks =D

And aww, everyone should get cake for their Birthday!

We just had 2 big pieces of it. It was very delicious! Thank you very much! :9

I somehow had this mental image that you guys just cut the heart in half right down the middle, and went to town on it XD

So glad you guys like it! :)

I see I'm not the only one that got a birthday cake this weekend.

it looks deeelivious ... My birthdays in November! +holds out hands innocently+

I let him have a slice but the rest is miiine! Muahahaha! ;)

A word to the wise: Never get between a girl and her chocolate ;)

Chocolate perfection! That may be redundant. ;D

Looks delightful!!!

Now that's one awesome bday present!!