How to frost a cake (in under 25 seconds)

I'm a long time Mac lover, but a recent iPhone owner. One of my favorite app discoveries is Motion Pictures - it makes it really easy to take timelapse movies. 

Here's my favorite movie - filling and frosting a cake in 22 seconds (decorating took a bit longer:)

 

The finished product: 12" Abby Cadabby vanilla bean cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream.

New website!

After weeks of procrastination, I finally launched my new website. It's definitely still a work in progress, but I love having the Sara Bakes Cakes site and blog under one roof!

Comments, suggestions, edits would be greatly appreciated (but be gentle, my fragile baking ego might not be able to take it!) I look forward to hearing what you think.

In the meantime, here's my latest cake, for 2-year old Nili who's a giant fan of Abby Cadabby and sprinkles! 12" vanilla bean cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream, handmade gumpaste decorations.

 

Lots of baking!!

I've been doing lots of baking in the last couple weeks and haven't been doing the best job of cataloging all of it! Here's a quick run down:

Emma and Clara's 2nd birthday cake
Both girls are big fans of Sesame Street (can you tell?)

(pre countertop clean up)

and a movie!

Red velvet cupcakes for my friend Shannon's bridal shower. Gumpaste flowers, cream cheese frosting.

Artsy flowers, thanks to Doug.

my favorite of the bunch

Trigg's elephant cupcakes

Obviously, Doug wasn't around to take these photos - had to do it myself.

Jeana's Sweet 16 cake
Huge, heavy cake for a big birthday bash! Jeana's all about chocolate and peanut butter, so this cake was 6 layers of chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream filling. I love these new funky letter molds (once I figured out how to use them, of course)

Much more to come!