Cake Wars Cake making Birthday Party

My friend Johanna wanted a cake making party for her daughter's birthday. They searched everywhere for a bakery that would do such a thing. Well, they couldn't find any business that will do cake making parties. So she called me! I thought the idea was great! I gave Jo a list of things to have ready ahead of time and I brought my box of supplies!

(all these pics courtesy of Johanna!! Thanks Jo!)

The Birthday girl and Johanna.

 I had all the kids ice their cakes to get them ready to cover with fondant. I don't know if more icing was eaten or put on the cake. :-)

I made fondant with 2 bags of marshmallows, 8 cups of powdered sugar and about 1/4 cup of shortening (on my hands to work into the fondant) and had enough to cover six 8" x 1" cakes! 

 

I had everyone roll out their fondant (make sure there is ample sugar under the fondant so it doesn't stick to the table cover!) and then helped them cover their cakes.

With their smooth canvass ready to go they were ready to decorate!

 

I showed them how to make flowers out of fondant and and roses out of icing. 

 

They all did such a great job! It was loads of fun and quite messy!

The whole process took about 2 hours with 6 kids. A doable fun party idea if you have the supplies. If you want to do a party like this I would be happy to get a list of things needed together for you. I would even come to your house to make it happen! :-) This was a really awesome night! 

My friend Johanna's bog has more on the party. 

http://stopforflowers.blogspot.com/2012/02/helainas-bakeryhawaiian-birthday.html

Busy February!!

Hard to believe a whole month has gone by! A lot has been going on and I have just not found the time to update my site! My class is going well The last few weeks we have made some yummy items.

A Po'boy sandwhich. It is fried shrimp and oysters with a type of blue cheese dressing. I am not a fan of shell fish so I did not taste it. My class mates enjoyed it though!

 

A meat and cheese panini with a fig sauce. This was really really yummy!

 There were a lot of really yummy sandwiches this week! 

Yes, and week 4 in a row I got to make Mayonnaise. I am getting pretty good at it by now! :-)

Two weeks in a row I got the chance to fillet a salmon. I LOVE salmon! So anyway I can cook it or prepare it I am up for! These past few weeks we have been learning about curing and smoking fish. 

 

I got to taste this yummy fillet of salmon cured and cold smoked the next week. I  loved it!

 I made some turkey and stuffing for dinner that week as well... I really just wanted some homemade stuffing and I couldn't just eat it alone.... so I cooked a turkey, got some cranberry and made a really yummy meal. 

Since we were curing salmon and that takes days, we made some puff pastries and had those to present. These are made with cheese.

Then with basically the same recipe we made these ones for desert with a yummy cream strawberry sauce. They were really really good! 

The next week I got to make another salmon dish. This one was sooo sooo good! Coulibiac (koo' b ak)

 Rice, salmon, onion and mushrooms, and a fish stock veloute' sauce layered in a puff pastry. Yum!

 

I did say I wanted to make more cakes. So my friends Becky and Shantelle are both February birthday buddies. Two weeks apart in age. So I figured we could celebrate on the week between their birthdays... Maybe I should have put the S before the B.... lol.

Then I made cheesecakes for my brother and his girlfriend whose birthdays are the 27th and 28th!

February is a busy month!  

I also did a cake making birthday party for one of my friend's daughter. I don't have pics yet so that will have to be in my next post. :-) 

Cake anyone?