Bleach Anime cupcakes!

Who loves Anime?? ME!  

I'm going to Katsucon 17, an anime convention this weekend on Feb 19th, so as my inner true Otaku spoke to me... I had to make anime cupcakes!  

Guess what Anime!! :D

BLEACH!!!

My favorite japanese animation (Anime), which I have religiously watched since the beginning of time is Bleach! 

I think I LOVE it because the character development is so good but because I secretly hope that there a sparking romance blossoms between Ichigo and one of the girls...I love Ichigo and Rukia.. the romance I long for... if only it were true! LOL :P

but I dont think it's gonna happen... boo hoo.. But I still love ICHIGO :D  OH I wouldn't mind if Ichigo got with Orihime too because they have the same color hair and are uber cute :D

But anyway I made these cupcakes with Bleach characters drawn in chibi style! :)  I made my favorites - the main character is Ichigo, then I love Rukia cuz I kind of look like her with my flippy hair.  Then I also really like Kon and Orihime...I think I only like the girls on the show..haha JK! Renji's hot too :)  but I had to put in KON too because he is just so adorable!

The cupcakes are made out of a fondant layer in pale nude colorand then I hand cut the hair and clothes out of fondant and drew in the face with food color pens :)

To all you Otaku fans - Enjoy these Bleach cupcakes! KANPAI!!! :)

Fairyland Cake

Glimpse of the beautiful Fairy Land cake!   If you ever get a chance to see one I would imagine that this is what the landscape would look like!   Here is one of my most detailed and glamorous cakes yet! 

The cake is a large chocolate yule log with vanilla and chocolate buttercream and then dusted with cocoa powder.  The fairy is sculpted and her outfit is a black leotard with green and blue leaves with black, green and blue iridescent wings.

 

The birds eye view of the landscape of the fairy. 

 I sculpted all the fairyland creatures on the cake.  Its a chipmunk!

 A cute little frog floating on a lily pad..ribbit!

This little frog is burrowing in the mud.

 Here is a little field mouse ..looks like ratatouille :)


A tropical lily blossoming on the log.  I created from gelatin these fantasy butterflies and forest mushrooms for them to be on :)

A monarch butterfly created with gelatin method and food color markers, disco dust and flower stamen :)

 A baby tropical rain forest butterfly!

The prettiest fairy of all is the blue fairy!  I created this fairy with a black leotard with leaf detailing and a tutu that is blue and green leaves.  The blue fairy has blue eyes and accessorized with blue hair piece and she has a bright teal butterfly in her palms. 

Chinese Dragon Cake!

 

The Zodiac calendar bestows upon us another Chinese new year!  The 2011 year is the Year of the Rabbit!  But this year I made a Chinese Red Dragon cake constructed out of cupcakes!  The cake is marble cake with cherry buttercream and covered with Red fondant!  I have piped detailing with gold scales on the red dragon.  This Dragon reminds me of the Red Dragon from Avatar the Last Airbender :) 

Here is the Chinese Dragon's fierce stare!

 The dragon is about to lurch!

 Here are the Chinese New Year Cupcakes I made with  fondant Square dusted in super gold and piped with Chinese new year sayings!  " Happy Chinese new year"  and "Gong Xi Fa Cai!" - which is "Good Wealth to you!"   Wishing you a very happy Chinese New year! :)

Minty Mojito Cupcakes

Start off SUMMER with some refreshing cupcakes! Here I have created a yummy lemony- lime cake infused with minced mint leaves frosted with a lime cream cheese frosting! 

~My recipe for the Minty Lime cake is below~

LIME MINT BUTTER CAKE

Makes (2) 9 x 2  - Round cakes 
or (1) – 12 X 2  Round cake
or 24 cupcakes

Dry Ingredients:

1 ¾ cup. All Purpose Flour
4 tbsp.  Potato Starch
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Liquid Ingredients:

¾ cup. – Half and Half
¼ cup. – Sour cream
2 tbsp – Limoncello liquor
1 tbsp. - Lemon extract
1 tsp. – lime oil

Creaming Ingredients:

1 ½ sticks - Unsalted Butter
1 3/4 c. granulated sugar
4 - large eggs
1 tbsp – Lime zest ( Zest of one lime)
2 tbsp. – minced fresh mint leaves ( no stems)

1.    Preheat oven at 350 degrees.   Line the bottom of the plans with parchment paper.

2.    In separate bowl sift the flour and whisk all the dry ingredients together.   Measure the liquid ingredients into a separate bowl, whisk together and set aside.  Measure the butter and sugar into large stand mixing bowl and set aside.

3.    In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter until creamy then add the sugar and cream until fluffy for 3 - 5 minutes.

4.    With mixer on the lowest speed cream, add the eggs one at a time, fully incorporating after each addition.  Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Then add Lime zest and minced mint leaves and cream until incorporated.

5.    Add the dry Ingredients mixture alternating with the liquid mixture in 3 -5 additions each, beginning and ending with the dry mixture.  Don’t wait for the dry or liquid ingredients to be fully incorporated before adding the next.  This step should take a total of about 60 seconds.

6.    Stop the mixer and scrape the sides of the bowl all the way down.  Don’t miss the clumps in the bottom middle of the bowl.   Now mix on medium speed for 15 to 20 seconds to develop the batter’s structure.

7.    Prepare the pans. Deposit the batter in 3 separate sections of the pan and smooth out with the rubber spatula or an offset spatula.  The pans should be 2/3 full.   Drop the pan on the counter a couple of times to settle the air bubbles in the batter.  Bake for 9 inch cakes for 30 – 35 minutes  or 12 inch square cake for 40-45 minutes  or for 19 minutes for cupcakes and transfer to rack to cool.

8.    For packaging, invert each pan onto a flat surface and remove the layers.  Remove the parchment from the bottom of each cake and wrap the cake tightly in plastic wrap. If you are decorating the same day, the cakes can be left out to use and frosted same day. Assembling a layer of cake is easier if the cake is cold; refrigerate the layers overnight or for up to 5 days before frosting.

I love dissecting the cakes and looking at the lovely texture of cake!   OOooOoO so yummy! :)

Now decorate with a sprinkle of brown sugar and cute little cocktail umbrellas or bendy straws and spring of mint leaf!  YAY~!

Destiny calls for a LOST cake...

It's the "Final" season for those devoted "LOST" fans!
HERE IS MY LOST CAKE!  

I have never seen the TV show "LOST" and when doing research for this cake I would say that I got many different opinions about the show.   Despite the cloudy reviews, I still needed to careful examine some of the many details for this cake.   I was able to gather valuable details about each component I had to create from fellow friends and followers of the show :)

 I was very excited to make this LOST cake and I definitely agree to the fact that this was one of my most intricately detailed cakes yet.

First I was to create the LOST Island from the TV show..  

 

Here are all the other components on the LOST cake which includes:

1) a Polar bear

2) the Four toed foot statue

3) the Oceanic airplane

4) Main Dharma logo

5) Sharks

6) Smoke Monster

 
 

 

The four toed foot statue from Season 2!

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Here is the smoke monster and that was made out of cotton candy with black powdered food coloring.

Here is the LOST Dharma logo on a luggage floating near the sharks!!

The Oceanic plan crash!!!

Here are some of the characters from LOST...can you guess which ones??  

I haven't drawn the faces in yet!

If you guessed Locke and Jack you are winnerss!! :D

 AHHHH!  Locke meets the Smoke monster!!! :D

 The back side of the cake!  There is a dharma logo on the island!! :P


 
The hand sculpted Jack and Locke figures in mini forms which are about 3-4 inches tall!

WOW!  I was soo uber amazed at the look of this cake!   
I adore it and now I am a LOST fan!   
I hope Shannon enjoys this fantabulous cake! :D

Grease Cake!

Ooooh Sandy....whhyhyhyhyyyy can't you see..that this cake is so you!! :)    

Grease is the Word!!  

I have a Grease theme cake with Sandy sitting on top. This cake was created purple  for Kelly who is now a JMU student!  

She is also playing the role of Sandy in the Grease Muscical at JMU!  

Oh... Tell me more!!

   I created Sandy in her innocent white Dance off dress!  She is made with sugar paste and I used tuile to puff out her dress! 

I do love it when she goes scandalously black too :)

I think the white dress best represents Sandy before she turns devilishly sexy for Danny..:P

 The "Grease" symbol was the hardest part to make!  

This icon is a must if you implying all things Grease symbol!! 

I created this symbol using an edible food printer to print the logo and then trace it on top of red fondant rolled out.  

Then once I cut the red car, I cut out the white part and using piping gel, adhere the grease word on the red car.  Once it basically glued to the fondant with piping gel...I used white icing to pipe in the white part to give it texture.

The first time they met...

The top of the cake!!

The JMU side of the cake ..LOL :D

"Summer Nights", in my opinion this song is one of the best duet pieces in a musical!

 Congrats Kelly!  Thanks Amanda for your support :)

I hope you  enjoyed this Butter yellow with chocolate buttercream cake!

Yummmmmmmers!