Party Like A Rockstar

I had the pleasure of making the cake creations for Miss Skylar's 7th birthday party last month.  She had an amazing rockstar themed bash, thanks to her step-mom Nicole.  You can see more of the event photos here on her FB fan site, and hopefully soon on her blog! 

Nicole gets credit for the microphone cupcake idea... I just had to come up with the execution.  The first attempt was to simply bake the cake batter straight in the ice cream cones.  This actually worked pretty well, only they didn't "puff" up enough to make nice looking microphones, IMO.  If I filled the cones with extra batter, they just spilled over.  =(  So I ate those ones.  *Happy Face*  And then I decided that the practice ones with the cakes baked inside were meant to look like ice cream cones.  I loaded on the buttercream and sprinkles.  Personally, I think all that frosting looks disgusting but some kids would go nutso over it...

I scoured the web for Plan B.  It involved filling the cones with candy and then gluing the cakes on top. Worked like a charm!  Here they are sort of lined up, step by step.

Candy - "Glue" - Cake - Ice - Textured Fondant - Ta Da!



The final step was to punch a whole in the bottom of the cones to insert a piece of black licorice.  And now you have a cord.  Fancy right?  Ya, I thought so..

In addition to the rockstar cupcakes, the birthday rocker herself got a mini record cake like the one I made for the Pretty In Pink Baby Shower. 

Here are some of the pics from the party, courtesy of Shannon Bailey.

Gobble Gobble 2010

Hi.  I'm alive.

I have so many fun and exciting blog posts to catch up on so maybe I'll get to it this weekend in between all my eating, and laying on the couch in my stretchy pants.

Question - Sometimes I have a lot to say on here, but I don't have any pictures so I figured people would be bored.  Should I still post?  Would you still read my stories even if they are sans pics?  LMK, please.

Mmmk.  So tonight I'm getting together with a few friends to make homemade tamales.  Should be interesting...  I'll do another post on the grueling process after we're finished.

Thankfully I don't have to do a whole lot of cooking this year.  Just a stuffing for Ian to bring to his dinner at the station.  As much as I'm looking forward to eating and not doing any of the work, I'd really like to try this turkey cake.  Doesn't it look and sound so gross?  Layers of ground turkey loaf and potatoes?!?  But I bet it tastes mmm mmm good.  I'm determined to try it eventually, if not this weekend.  Besides, what if someone asks for this as their wedding or birthday cake?  I need to be able to show them I'm experienced across the board.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you are spending it with lots of loved ones.  So much to be thankful for.  <3