My mum had an early celebration for her 60th Birthday so of course I used this excuse to make her a cake. The plan started with a Balloon Cake (as I had been wanted to make one of these for a while) and quickly escalated from there.
Posing with the cake table
In the end I made a cake table with multiple types of cake.
Lemon Cupcakes – lemon buttercream rose + sprinkles to garnishChocolate Bundt Cakes – coated with white chocolate ganache, buttercream garnish, and sprinkles.White chocolate covered cakesicles with vanilla & strawberry cake insideBirthday cake – vanilla cake, strawberry jam, vanilla buttercream, sprinkles, gold writing & a cake balloon!
I love the autumn. One of the reasons I love going to visit the USA in “fall” is because of the amount of pumpkin flavoured foods I can get. Whenever I can, I try to make things at home too that have been inspired by my love of the USA.
Today, this inspiration let to me making mini pumpkin cakes.
The first finished pumpkin cake
I started by making my basic cake mix and adding in tinned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices. I baked these in my mini bundt pan:
I trimmed the cakes to make them shorter, and then stacked them. I sandwiched the layers with a cream cheese icing.
The next step was coating the cakes in orange buttercream
buttercream coating added
I shaped the cakes using a yogurt pot to smooth the edges and add ridges too. The final stage was to add a stalk made from tootsie roll:
The first finished pumpkin cake
I wanted them to look a little more professional, but they didn’t turn out too bad overall.