I couldn’t resist! To be honest, I wasn’t totally happy with how this cake turned out, but did make some notes for the next football field cake that I make. This is a 2 layer 11×15 inch yellow cake with mini chocolate chips, chocolate filling in between the layers, and covered in buttercream icing. All … Continue reading »
Filed under Sports …
NFL Cupcakes
Ah, the big guys playing football! I honestly don’t have a favorite team (I don’t think) in the NFL, so I happily take suggestions of different people’s favorite teams. I started out with Green Bay Packers. Yellow cupcakes with buttercream icing. The helmets and footballs are made out of chocolate. Miami Dolphins cupcakes. Yellow with … Continue reading »
College Football Cupcakes
It’s football season! Since there are so many college teams, I’m doing a little bit at a time with the different teams. Tennessee Vols cupcakes! With buttercream icing. The footballs are made out of chocolate, and I had to freehand the T on the cupcakes. UNC Tarheels cupcakes! With buttercream icing. The footballs and NC symbol … Continue reading »
Carolina Gamecock Cupcakes
GOOO GAMECOCKS!! Sorry, I’m a fan. These yellow cupcakes are topped in tinted buttercream icing to match the school’s colors, garnet and black. They’re topped off with helmets and footballs that are made out of chocolate. To get the garnet color with the chocolate, I mixed red chocolate with a little bit of dark chocolate. … Continue reading »
Sports Baby Shower Cake
This cake is for a friend who’s having a baby boy. Her husband is very into sports, so she wanted this as the theme. I used the combination of light blue, dark blue, light green and dark green. The bottom tier is a 3 layer 10 inch strawberry cake with cream cheese filling, the top tier … Continue reading »
Baby’s 1st Gamecock Birthday
This was for my cousin, who is a huge USC fan. Her son turned 1, and she was doing a Gamecock theme, wanted a baby cake for him, and cupcakes for the rest of us. She wanted yellow and chocolate cupcakes, so I swirled the garnet buttercream with white buttercream icing on the yellow cupcakes, … Continue reading »
Gamecock Championship Cake
This year, I’m happy to celebrate the Carolina Gamecocks winning the College World Series in baseball…2 years in a row! This is a 3 layer 9 inch peanut butter cake with chocolate filling. The baseball and letters are made out of white chocolate. What I learned: That the color garnet is very difficult to make!! … Continue reading »
Gamecock Baseball Cake
This was my first cake using fondant. I couldn’t figure out what to do, because our instructor in class was telling us to figure out what we wanted to use as a design. The night before, the Carolina Gamecocks won in baseball, so I thought this would be a great opportunity and something somewhat simple … Continue reading »
