Turkey Dinner Cupcakes

Hello, All!

Since I got the October cakes up here, AKA Tiff's wedding cake and Jake's groom's cake, I figured it was time to move on to the November cakes!  First up are the Turkey Dinner Cupcakes from "A Taste of Home" magazine.  These took SO long to make.  Myself and my brother-in-law toughed it out for only 12 of these puppies/turkeys before we threw in the towel...and the icing....and the caramels...

There were so many little details to these, starting with the pretzel stick and caramel legs...

Then making the caramel turkey skins and carefully placing them over a big dollop of frosting and sticking the legs on the turkey...

Tinting the frosted flakes green and placing it as lettuce, cutting the pound cake into tiny cubes for the stuffing, placing the sixlets and putting leaves on them for garnish....

Then dusting all of them with cinnamon to give them that "fresh from the oven" look, and DONE!

Whew!  SO much WORK!  But they turned out great and were a huge hit at the family dinner later that night!

Stay tuned for another special November cake!

Sweet Thoughts!

Angel Cakes Ali

We have a WINNER!!! Congrats, Chantelle!

So, after many visual and typed clues, we finally got the right answer!

Not Waldo,

Not Inspector Gadget,

It's.... :

LUIGI!!!!

Congratulations, Chantelle R., for winning a 50% off coupon to Angel Cakes!

Stay tuned to my blog for more updates and more contests and more Sweet Thoughts!

Angel Cakes Ali

Ok, people...REALLY?

Do I have to fork-feed this answer to you?

If this doesn't give it away, nothing but the finished product will.

Look at all the pictures together, and I think you'll be able to guess.

(If not, then my cake skills are certainly lacking...)

One more non-visual hint: if you are a child of the '80's you should get this, c'mon!!!!

I expect a decent, halfway-close guess out of the 3 followers I have!!!

Sweet Thoughts and Good Luck!

Angel Cakes Ali

Another Hint...

Ok, here's another picture that may help you in your quest to guess the cake!

And, since this one isn't a very big help...

This stuff went on top of the cake...

It was a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate fondant!

Good Luck and Sweet Thoughts!

Angel Cakes Ali

Can You Guess What's Cookin'?

Ok, I have fallen way behind on posting pictures of my cakes on here.  I know.  It all stems from the fact that my laptop has a stupid hardware issue and I have to upload pictures to my netbook from my camera, from my netbook to my email, from my email to my laptop....etc...etc...AKA-I'm lazy.  Anyhoo, I am now posting a some pictures of a cake I made WAY BACK in October.  The first person to guess what the cake will be after it's decorated gets a 1/2 PRICE COUPON!  That's right, folks!  Get a $40 cake for only $20 with a signed cake contract!  Just leave a comment below and "like" this blog on Facebook!  

Good luck and Sweet Thoughts!

<3 ,

Angel Cakes Ali

Better Late Than Never!

 

So here is the finished product!

This was the wedding cake I did for Tiffany and Jake Neibaur.  The cake was white, with cream cheese frosting and cheesecake fondant.

 

It was accented with red roses, red ribbon, and strings of fondant pearls.

The bride and groom's monogram was painted on the front middle tier of the cake in silver shimmer dust.

Pictures of the groom's cake to come soon! (As soon as I find them....)

Sweet Thoughts!

Angel Cakes Ali

New Toys, New Flavorings, New EMAIL!!

Hello, All!

Just a quick update!  I ordered my new "Stress-Free" Supports for Tiffany and Jake's wedding on the 23rd, and I'm crossing my fingers that the ten bucks I paid in shipping gets them here in time!!! Same goes for the Silver Cloud Estates white chocolate flavoring that I ordered, and it's $6.50 in shipping for a 4oz bottle!!!  Yikes!  Here's to a speedy delivery!

Also, I have a new email JUST for my cake stuff and such:

angelcakes.ali@gmail.com

This is the email I will be using to send out information on my cakes and pricing from now on, so if you see this address in your inbox, be sure to open it and mark it NOT SPAM!  Because, it's not, it's CAKE!  (Even though I do have a certain affinity for Spam, but that's a whole other blog...)

Anyway, things seem to be going on schedule, I will be buying my 12" round pan sometime soon, and starting baking by Wednesday or Thursday of next week!

Oh!  And I may be making a heart shaped Halloween cake for the 30th, so I can't wait!  This Halloween season has been busy busy busy for me so far, and I plan to add a few of my "Vampire Bite" cupcakes into the mix, as well as some other good  spooky confections!

So keep coming back for updates and pictures!

For now, I leave you with this inspiring pumpkin display

from "Frightmares" at Lagoon!

Spooky Thoughts!

Angel Cakes Ali

Happy Haunting!!!