LL's Sweet Stuff

Well, that ugly strawberry cake was a hit!  My in-laws and my husband loved it!  It worked so well with lemon buttercream icing and whipped cream with fresh strawberry filling.  Yum!  I can’t be over-filling it the next time though.  The darned thing fell all to pieces and didn’t serve very pretty when we cut [...]

I tried a new recipe for strawberry cake. After licking the beaters, I wasn’t so sure that it would actually turn out any good.  It was so sickly sweet!  My husband asked if it were the icing or the filling – when it was actually the cake itself!  I baked it, and cut off a [...]

Wow, so I tried making fondant flowers today in the dark purple that is one of my brother’s wedding colours.  The dark purple fondant just crumbled in my fingers.  The roses I tried with it kept falling apart – talk about frustrating!  So I tried with the white that hadn’t been coloured yet.  They still [...]

So, I’ve offered to make the cake for my brother’s wedding.  I’m so excited to give it a try!  I have 2 years to practice and make it perfect (otherwise, I’ll be buying them a wedding cake).  They want a 3-tiered cake covered with fondant and done pretty (what “pretty” is, I don’t know yet). [...]