These little airplane treats are all simple projects using polka dots and red, white and shades of blue.
Airplane Sheet Cake
Airplane push pop treats
Marshmallow Clouds and Airplane Cookies
Airplane Chocolate Candy Suckers
Airplane and Cloud Cupcakes
Visit www.shopcountrykitchen.com for instructions creating these airplane treats.
After many long months of waiting, I finally have the Cupcake and Cookie Texture tops almost ready to go! By next week I will have three of the six sets ready to sell. The following are the sets that will be available:
Geometric
Scroll
Whimsy Blooms
Floral
Christmas
Winter
Samples using the Geometric Cupcake and Cookie Texture Top Set:
1st birthday cookies with cupcake texture tops
Flower cupcake with Geometric Textures
About the Texture Sets:
The texture sheets are made of a lightweight clear plastic. Either side of the mat can be used. One side will give a raised impression, while the other will give a recessed impression. Each set comes with three mats. Each mat has a design that is repeated four times. Below is a sample of the geometric set.
3 sheets- Each with a design repeated 4-x's (12 textures total)
Instructions using the cupcake texture sheets:
Bake and cool cupcake. Generously ice cupcake with your favorite cupcake icing. Lightly spray texture mat with a cooking spray. Wipe excess grease with a paper towel. Roll rolled fondant to approximately 1/16” thickness. Place the smooth, rolled side of the fondant face down on the texture mat. Place the rolling pin on one end of the fondant with the mat underneath. Firmly roll over the fondant, rolling to the opposite end. Do not double roll. Lift the mat and the fondant. Flip over the mat so the fondant is on the bottom and the mat is on top. Peel back the mat. Cut fondant using a circle cutter from Autumn Carpenter Cupcake Top Fondant Cutters. Place textured fondant circle on top of the iced cupcake. If icing has crusted, brush a thin layer of piping gel onto the icing or slightly dampen icing with a small amount of water from a squeeze bottle to adhere the fondant circle.
Coordinating Cupcake Top Fondant Cutters:
The diameter of baked and iced cupcakes may vary according to recipe, amount of batter, and amount of icing used. Choose a cutter sized to completely cover the top of the iced cupcake. Use the texture sets in conjunction with my Cupcake Top Fondant Cutters. The cutter set contains 3 stainless steel cutters, 2¾”, 3” & 3¼” for standard size cupcakes.
I am so excited to have created my first cake for Icing Smiles. Icing Smiles is an awesome nonprofit organization that provides custom celebration cakes to families impacted by the critical illness of a child. This cake was created for Liam, a sibling to a critically ill child. If you are a cake decorator, consider sharing your talent with Icing Smiles! The decorators who are creating cakes are incredibly talented. The site shares priceless pictures of some of the kids with their cakes.
I certainly can’t take credit for coming up with the concept of this cake. I was inspired by a cake created by scubabaker on Cakecentral.org Mine doesn’t hold a candle to hers, but I still was happy with how Jay came out. The cake was made with 3, 7″ single layers. The top layer was a round sphere. The cake is iced in yellow buttercream then covered in blue rolled fondant. The board is covered with green rolled fondant and small circles were cut using tip #10. The letters are hand molded to match the weapons that come with the Lego Ninjago toys
Jay Lego Ninjago Cake
Hand molded Lego weapons
Down on the Farm Cake from my book, Complete Photo guide to Cake Decorating
Cupcakes with green piped buttercream grass with purchased adorable pre-made figurines.
Barnyard two-tier cake
Farm Animal Cookie Bouquets
Quick and Easy Cupcakes with Plastic Picks
Quick decorated cookies with edible frosting sheets
I’ve always loved cute animals, especially sweet little farm animals. When ever I am in the mood to create animals, I instantly seem to think that chubby pigs, cuddly lambs, and sweet little chicks are the way to go. The cakes, cookies and cupcakes above are some farm creations I have made in the past. Complete instructions for these projects can be found on Country Kitchen SweetArt’s website.
This cake is a cake featured in the gallery section of my book, Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating. I also created some cookies to coordinate. Simon (my son), now wants this cake for his birthday. He’s never been “into” construction toys, but I guess since it has his name on, he thinks it should be the cake for his birthday! The cake board is covered with red fondant and textured with my brick texture mat. The bottom tier has wood panels created with a wood texture mat and rolled fondant. The top tier is covered with yellow fondant and has cut strips using black fondant. The hard hat, hammer and orange cone was hand molded. The nails were cut using the opening of tip #6 and grey fondant. The fondant was painted with silver luster dust. “Simon” was cut using the cricut cake.
Construction Theme Birthday Cake
Road Sign Sugar Cookies
I have been wanting to use the cobblestone texture mat to create a castle cake and my boys have always loved castles and knights. I created this cake for ICES, and added some 3-D figures. The cake is rolled fondant covered. The points of the castle were created with sugar cones covered in rolled fondant. The 3-D figures are made with gum paste.
Front of Dragon
Gumpaste Dragon
Gumpaste Princess
Sydney is turning 12! This year has been a huge year for Syd! She started 6th grade -middle school! We’ve moved, so all of her friends are at a different school. She is having a slumber party with a few of her close friends. She and I both love cupcakes, so we decided on a cupcake theme. I made several special treats for the party. The instructions for all of these projects can be found on Country Kitchen SweetArt’s website. We planned on having her slumber party over labor day weekend, then she came down with pnemonia! The treats are frozen and ready for her rescheduled party. Leslie, my sister, helped Sydney make necklaces for all her friends. Each necklace had a cupcake picture and a little copper charm with their name. They turned out SO cute!
Cupcake Shaped Cake Balls
Cupcakes with a round cupcake embossed plaque
Tart and Tangy Ganache Candies
Chocolate Cupcake Shaped Suckers
Cupcake Shaped Sugar Cookies
Candy Coated Popcorn in Pastel Colors
Sample of the Cupcake Necklaces
Carroll Cross Country Running Shoe Cookies
My twins, Isaac and Austin have started their freshman year of high school. They love running cross country and track. Carroll has a large cross country team with over 60 kids. These cookies were made for each runner along with an encouraging note for the upcoming race.
Peace was the theme Syd chose for her eleventh birthday. That lucky girl had 3 birthday parties; one with her friends, one with relatives, and one with just our family. It was also Lily’s (the puppy we gave my dad for Christmas last year) first birthday. This cake was my favorite from Sydney’s parties. The cake will be featured in my Hand Modeling book (coming in 2011 — if all goes as planned!) The peace sign on top the cake is made out of chocolate using a silicone peace cake pan.
My daughter, Sydney, decided on a Movie theme birthday party this year. She wanted cupcakes, and I needed some inspiration! I did a search for movie theme cupcakes on google and saw some adorable cupcakes made with marshmallows to look like popcorn. The popcorn was then sprayed with yellow edible food color spray. I decided to coordinate these with some soda cupcakes. The soda lid is fondant. The soda straw is a mini pretzel stick wrapped with fruit leather. I created the cupcake wraps with Photoshop. They were super easy cupcakes to create!
