Who would have ever thought these cakes could have come from…
that’s right, tin cans. Found the idea on Pinterest. Ā By the way am I the only one that needs a “Pintervention?”
I hope you all had as fun an Easter as I had. I spent the whole Easter weekend doing Easter projects.
Let’s see, I kicked off Good Friday putting together this beautiful Peeps Floral Centerpiece.Ā Then Saturday, I moved onto making these cute Easter Bunny folded napkins. I couldn’t find the color of pastel linen napkins I wanted. So I went with some large paper napkins I scooped up at Party City.
Here is the instructional video from Better Homes and Gardens
Then I baked my mini cakes in the tin cans and boiled my eggs for coloring. Ā Had to put the finishing touches for the cakes and egg coloring aside until Sunday, as it was time for some sushi at RA Sushi Bar. Ā All work and no play, makes Sherri a hungry girl!
Sunday morning I colored the eggs and started on my mini cake decorating.
I cut the cakes in thirds with a serrated knife.
Next I filled in the sections with frosting.
On a side note, check out the cool blue plastic plates I scored at Target for $2.49 each. I’m so addicted to kitchen dishes and gadgets. Not that this has anything to do with cake decorating. Ā Well, maybe it does, because my caked looked pretty AWESOME on that plate!
Next, I dirty iced my cakes (means you put a thin layer on before you decorate with tips or cover with more frosting to get a clean cake. This layer catches all the crumbs.)
I used Witon tip #22 (small open star tip) and #47 (basket weave tip) and #233 (grass tip) for decorating the two cakes.
Here is a great video for piping a basket weave pattern.
I used one side serrated and one side smooth and interchanged the two for a different look.
Then I pipped the easter grass on top of the cake and finished it off with some Reese’s Pieces Easter eggs.
Now it was time to move on to the ombreĀ cake, a gradient color schemed mini rosette pattern using the #22 open star tip. Ā I used an orange buttercream that went well with the chocolate fudge cake.
I started out with a deep orange around the bottom and lightened the frosting as I worked my way up the cake pipping small rosettes. Here is the finished product.
It was getting close to dinner time. I headed outside while I still had a few hours of light to photo shoot my cakes.
This cake looked at it’s best in the natural light.
I love how the Easter basket cake peeked around the rosette cake.
It was time for the Easter basket to shine in front of the rosette cake.
I hope you all had a great 2012 Easter. I’m already looking forward to next Easter trying out some different projects. Ā Maybe a Peeps Easter wreath… or two!
What projects did you accomplish this Easter?
the cakes look absolutely awesome – nicely done!
So beautifully done! I love this idea.