Sweet Ballerina Cupcakes

Yesterday I again broke from my temporary "retirement" and made these cupcakes for Julia's ballet teacher, who was having a recital for the other class she teaches. I thought these turned out really sweet and feminine looking. They are Devil's food chocolate with vanilla buttercream. I made the little ballet slippers using white chocolate candy melts and light pink candy melts. I used my smallest round writing tip, filled a disposable decorator bag with the melted candy and piped them onto waxed paper. It only takes about 30 minutes for them to harden nicely (at least here in New Mexico...) I sprinkled them with sugar pearls in pink, cream, and some of them with little silver dragees.

Ballerina Bunnies

Last weekend was my daughter's ballet recital. I had volunteered to make a special cake for the occasion and ended up with this. My husband (loyal fondant animal sculptor) made the bunnies and I drew faces and slippers on them using my edible markers and dressed them in little tutus made of tulle. The cake itself was butter recipe yellow with a vanilla pudding filling and vanilla buttercream. The girls had dressed as bunnies, flowers, and pretended to be butterflies throughout this "Spring" themed recital, so that's why all 3 of those elements are on the cake. It was very cute to see the girls checking themselves out in bunny form on the cake (there were 6 girls, thus the 6 fondant bunnies). I was glad to be able to help out!

Hello Kitty Ballerina Cake

Today was my daughter Julia's 4th birthday party. I had so much fun making this super girly ballerina style Hello Kitty cake. I copied a cake I had seen online (thank you to whoever put the original picture up), though I didn't have the same plastic ballerina cat figure, so my husband ended up sculpting this one for me out of fondant. He's getting really good at that! I made the skirt out of a piece of tulle I had bought at Hobby Lobby and made the flowers out of gumpaste. Though it took awhile to make each individual flower, it really wasn't that difficult to do. This is my favorite of all the girl cakes I've done so far.