cupcakes for Anna's dinner

vanilla cupcakes with white chocolate decorations
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I used the left over decorations from Lindsay's cake to top these.

Lindsay's cake

Lindsay's cake
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This weekend I made this cake for Lindsday. Red velvet with vanilla bean buttercream. Made the letters and decorations from colored white chocolate piped onto parchment (thanks, Whimsical Bakehouse Cookbook!) Realized when it's 32 degrees outside, who needs a fridge - just chilled the cake outside.

The end of the line? (or at least a while?)

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Here's a picture of our "new" fridge. Actually, it's our crappy beer fridge from the garage in its new home in the kitchen. Our other one died a couple days ago and because we're remodeling soon it didn't make sense to buy a new one now. Anything we'd get for the new kitchen would probably be too big to fit in the current space. So, long story short - it's the only fridge we have for a while which means most of my cake baking/decorating will be on hold until said kitchen remodel is complete (3 - 4 yrs from now??). I say end of the line because this little guy was where I'd put my crumb coated cakes before finishing them. Without a back up fridge, I'm lost!

Contractors promise it's a 4-6 week job, max, but I tend not to believe them.

So, no cakes for while, but that doesn't mean no cupcakes!!!!

Tom's cake

Tom's cake
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Made this wedding cake-ish cake for Doug's office. Carrot cake with cream cheese icing, which tastes great, but is sticky and slimy and doesn't stay together. Oh well, I'm in love with the gumpaste carrots. Wanted to keep some for myself!

The order of things

I've been completely bass akwards when posting, but I just discovered how easy it is to take photos from flickr and post them! Anyway - am still playing catch up but hopefully I'll be up to date soon.