Baking, The Art You Can Eat!

Being the busy mom I am, I don't always have time to make the pretty colored fondants and spare hours to make an awe-inspiring cake. Today was exceptionally busy between running errands, cooking and making sure my daughter is fed, bathed and loved :) So here my simple cake for Halloween tomorrow.  I started off with a butter pecan cake because that says "Autumn" to me and it makes the kitchen smell soooo delicious when baking it. If you stare hard enough, you can see the design I drew on the cake.  Did you guess the shape? Yes, a pumpkin. Simple and keeps most of the edges in tact for easy frosting :)   Nothing special here, just colored frosting to make it more obvious that it's a pumpkin. BUT the special part is the flavor of the frosting: Caramel Apple! Or was it Apple Caramel...?  Using black frosting, I made it into a jack-o-lantern and added spiders. Now it looks more Halloween-ish :D Just the finishing touch now... Candy ey

For my husband's class, he wanted to bring in a cake and volunteered me :) He suggested a cake in the shape of a dollar sign so here we go!  For the cake, he chose the birthday cake mix. So I baked it in an 9'' pan and using my edible green marker, I drew out the design and began cutting.  Close enough, right?  I frosted the entire shape with vanilla frosting and then dotted green frosting to embellish on the shape a bit. Outlined the green frosting with semi-sweet chocolate chips and used the remaining green frosting on the bottom edges. And voila! A dollar sign cake that took me about an hour - not including the wait time for the cake to bake.  A pretty yummy looking dollar sign if I say so myself :)