Cake Wrecks

My daughter, Paula told me about this great blog, and I have laughed and laughed as I've viewed it. It is called "Cake Wrecks" and it is pictures of so-called professional cakes that have gone wrong, along with humorous commentary. So, for a good laugh,visit http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ and if you see a cake that belongs there, send it in, even if it's your own. None of us cake decorators are perfect, and we've all had cakes that didn't turn out exactly as we had planned...let's admit it. Anway, enjoy the blog...

It's Fall and Halloween Time...

I love this time of year, with the leaves changing colors and Halloween, one of my favorite holidays. People want interesting cakes for Halloween also. The lastest cake I did was a coffin cake. I found a picture similar to this one on the internet, except changed the colors to a dark chocolate. I have found that I can get a really dark chocolate, resembling black, using Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa. I used to use black piping jel for outlining or when I needed black, but it tasted nasty and was difficult to use. Now I use buttercream made from the dark cocoa for all of my black. Tastes great, and handles much easier too.