Since my last post, I have made 6 cakes. The first cake was baby shower cake for my friend's baby shower. The small cake on top is 6 inches and made out of red velvet cake. The owl was made using rice krispies covered in fondant. This also was my first time making champagne frosting, which is quite tasty. Each of the cupcakes was topped with a fondant button.
So it looks like I haven't written anything in a while. The past few months have been entirely consumed by school and work with little time to make any cakes. It was a pretty hectic last semester of school, but I finally made it and I can now say I am an official engineer! (I graduated on May 11th with my bachelors in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University!) So there are a few changes in my future, one of them being the indefinite postponement of cake making in Iowa. I will no longer be residing in Iowa as I have taken an engineering position in Washington state. It is unclear if I will be able to continue Cake Engineering in Washington State due to zoning/state laws and time. I will still try my best to continue improving my cake making skills for when I have the opportunity to revive Cake Engineering. It has been an awesome adventure making all the cakes the last few years, and I hope to continue in the near future. Since my last post, I have made 6 cakes. The first cake was baby shower cake for my friend's baby shower. The small cake on top is 6 inches and made out of red velvet cake. The owl was made using rice krispies covered in fondant. This also was my first time making champagne frosting, which is quite tasty. Each of the cupcakes was topped with a fondant button. The next cake was made for my mom's birthday. She used to love sewing, so I made her a cake to look like a spool of thread. The top portion of the spool was a piece of cardboard covered in fondant. I could have made an edible topper, but I ran out of time. The next cake I made for Easter. My grandmother loves chickens, so when I stumbled across this cute chick cake idea, I had to make it for her. This next cake was made for the winner of a cake I donated to a raffle for a fellow Civil Engineering student diagnosed with terminal cancer. The logo is hand-cut from fondant and carefully placed onto the covered cake base using a stencil. The last cake I made is a husky holding a fish in its mouth. The fish was made using Mexican Paste so it could dry hard and fast. Well that is all the cakes I have made since January. I have enjoyed being able to share my talents with so many people over the last few years and I hope to someday share my gift again. Right now I am going to focus on my engineering career, but don't count me out just yet. I have a few extreme cake ideas up my sleeves that just may make an appearance sometime soon. So until until ne
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Amanda
11/6/2013 01:41:36 am
Hi dear wanted to know how do you do the Rice Krispies moulding
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Cake Engineering
11/10/2013 07:25:48 am
Hey Amanda,
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