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November 1, 2016

Star Wars Birthday Cakes

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My son loves stormtroopers, so my husband and I threw him a Star Wars-themed 4th birthday party!  His cake was a two-tier fondant covered cake.  The top stormtrooper tier was a tall 6″ cake with vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream for my son on the top, and the rest was chocolate with chocolate ganache and buttercream.  The bottom tier was an 8″ ube cake with leche flan and ube buttercream.  I didn’t really have much of plan for the bottom tier of the cake, so I airbrushed it to give it a galaxy look.  I had some Star Wars character cutouts that matched the ones on his invitation, and placed them on the cake.  Here’s a video of how I airbrushed the bottom tier with edible paint, as well as the completed dessert table. My son’s Star Wars birthday dessert table had decorated storm trooper sugar cookies by Shing Bakes, rice krispy treats, ube crinkles, PB chocolate cookies, Halloween cookies, red velvet cream cheese cupcakes with chocolate Star Wars toppers, a variety of French Macarons, and of course, his Stormtrooper cake. mmc bakes, custom cakes, san diego, chula vista, star wars cake, stormtrooper cake, fondant cake, birthday, the force awakens Happy 4th Birthday to my precious firstborn Nathaniel!  I love you so much! I’ve actually made quite a few Star Wars cakes.  Check them out!
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Here are tutorials on how I made the Chewbacca Cake: This is an 8″ vanilla cake with vanilla bean buttercream & leche flan filling. I show how I piped different shades of chocolate buttercream with a Wilton 1M tip to produce the look of Chewbacca’s fur. I used edible airbrush paint to create dimension. Also, make sure to check out my previous part 1 video where I show how I made the fondant face: https://youtu.be/FgniqnYkdR0 MMC BAKES is a San Diego-based cake artist with a licensed home baking business. I like to share quick cake decorating tutorials and ideas under one minute long. Please LIKE & subscribe for more cake videos! THANKS! MMC BAKES For local San Diego order inquiries, please visit my website: https://mmcbakes.com FOLLOW ME! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mmcbakes/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MMCbakes/

October 31, 2016

Unicorn Cake

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I made this unicorn cake for my birthday!  I had been seeing a bunch of adorable unicorn cakes on Instagram; nothing against them, but they all looked really similar with black closed eyelashes and no nose, so I wanted to put my own spin to it and do open eyes.  This cake is a tall 6″ pumpkin spice cake with a layer of rainbow cake at the top. The mane is decorated with three colors of buttercream, and I sculpted the horn & ears out of fondant.  The eyes were made out of edible images because I was short on time.  Love this cake! ? I’m a San Diego based cake artist with a licensed home baking business. I like to share quick cake decorating tutorials and ideas under one minute long. Please LIKE & subscribe for more cake videos! THANKS! MMC BAKES For local San Diego order inquiries, please visit my website: http://mmcbakes.com FOLLOW ME! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mmcbakes/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MMCbakes/

October 22, 2016

Pokemon Cakes

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I’ve finally took some time off to catch up on my blog posts, and I first wanted to give this two-tier Pokemon cake a proper blog post because it has been super-popular on Pinterest thus far!  I made this cake in May of 2016 for Evie’s 10th Birthday party.  This is very similar to a cake design that my client sent me a photo of, however, I’d like to think that I make improvements & changes where I can, or where the client tells me.  Personally, I prefer that cakes are always personalized with the celebrant’s name and age, which I added to the Pokeball portion of this cake.  The bottom tier was an 8″ chocolate and vanilla marble cake with Oreo buttercream filling.  The top tier was a 6″ rainbow swirl cake with a strawberry vanilla cream filling.  I also made some matching mini cupcakes with custom edible wafer paper images.
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I also made another Pokemon cake in October 2016.  This was about a 9″ half sphere covered in fondant.  It also came with two dozen regular size Pikachu & Pokeball custom edible image cupcakes.  Happy 7th Birthday Avery!

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