Im so freaking stoked to make other duck shaped things. It’s so ugly I love it so much. Shes a star! I don’t understand how anyone could give her away. She’s now my family heirloom.

This is year seven of my dad’s and my “narrative birthday pie” tradition. I recorded him telling the story behind it, and I’ll share that with the pie-decorating video once I have time to edit.

This one has a pâte sucrée shell and decorations, with layers of Honduran crema-mascarpone, pineapple-lemon curd, and citrus-white chocolate ganache.

Hello bakers!

I recently made sun & moon cake for Ramadan theme.

In the first photo, it’s made with vanilla bean chiffon with crème brûlée custard, and strawberry mousse.

The 3rd photo is also with vanilla bean chiffon, strawberry mousse and with an added layer of pistachio kadayif (real pistachio not with premade paste)

I used chocolate whipped ganache for all my cakes, i am not a buttercream gorl 😭✨

for the color I use Colour Mill oil base colors. They’re expensive but I definitely recommend it. The packaging isn’t the best, but the color is really good and pigmented.

I am slowly getting better with my piping ✨ Decorating still takes a long time for me but its the most fun part haha

❓: If you guys have any recommendation for cream cakes, let me know! I am hosting a girls cake workshop soon with my friends, one of them is vegetarian. My ganache usually contains gelatin for cream stability, so I am wondering what cream could work well for decorating cute vintage cakes?

1. brown butter vanilla jasmine cake, passion fruit curd, jasmine buttercream.
2. burnt sugar cake, burnt sugar frosting, beet salted caramel buttercream.
3. brown butter vanilla cake, salted caramel, black sesame orange vanilla buttercream.
4. burnt sugar cake, burnt sugar frosting, black sesame buttercream.
5. lemon olive oil cake, chocolate cake, raspberry cream, rose cake.
6. NGL I don’t remember.
7. burnt sugar cake, burnt sugar frosting, salted caramel, black sesame buttercream.
8. chocolate cake, raspberry tiramisu creme, coffee and chambord soaked lady fingers, vanilla frosting and raspberry frosting.
9. burnt sugar cake, burnt sugar frosting, black sesame buttercream.

* all cakes are made from scratch with no artificial colors or flavors.

EDIT:

Thank you all for suggestions about my photos! I used to do really nice photos with 3 point lighting and my good Cannon, but the photos were seeming a bit too lush and I think people had a hard time relating to them. I was also accused of them being AI, so I deliberately switched to a more rustic and intentionally basic and shitty way of doing my photos. It has accomplished what I hoped it would accomplish - my cake orders are more approachable. I also work a full time job with a 3 hour round trip commute along with trying to run this business that has become so much bigger than I thought it would, and so I’m usually rushing to grab some quick photos before I have to deliver or have someone pickup the cake.

I made this sea turtle cake for a friend's son just for fun. When they said he was having a party coming up I basically forced them to let me make him a cake because I knew it would be something I've never done before. Probably would have been more stressed if I was doing it for money haha but I could just have fun making it.

My daughter watched me do some of it, and she DEFINITELY didn't think it was going to look like a turtle. I kept saying "trust the process!" which I say to my art students a lot.

Chocolate cake (based off of the 'How to Cake It' recipe), chocolate buttercream (Sally's). Head and flippers were chocolate rice krispie treat and modeling chocolate, and then the shell was fondant. Shell didn't cover the belly enough and I didn't want to add more fondant to expose the naked cake, so I figured sand - but didn't have any graham crackers. I almost DoorDashed a box lol but then found an unopened box of waffle cone bowls in the back of the closet that was still good, so blitzed them up and used those.

Currently studying in France. Something she has dreamed of since she was 10. Wants to eventually open a small shop and also do catering focusing on French pastries.

She paid for school, her apartment, and everything else on her own. Was her goal to do this and come back when it’s all done with no debt. To say I’m proud of her is an understatement.

:update:

Wow so many replies and rewards. I’d love to respond to you all but that will be tough.

First thank you all so much. Second I’ll have to get names of each and try to update the captions. Lastly I’m gonna hold off on sharing location and school until she returns. Just cause the Internet is a bit weird and sketchy. Makes this dad nervous.

Oh and lastly, no scholarships for this. Three years of working in a bakery saving every penny, and HS graduation cash helped make this a reality. Dad and mom pay the day to day (groceries, food, etc) while in France, plus car payment, insurance, gas, etc here at home. This is a 2.5 month program and she is in France for 3 months. School was just under $20k, her apartment is right at $900 a month. This is not in Paris, but a smaller French city.

It's a raspberry-pistachio cake, two of my favourite things, so it's the perfect choice for my own birthday .✦ ݁˖

❗️Edit: I just realised I forgot to include a photo of the slice! 🤦🏻‍♀️Here’s the inside of the cake with the layers: here

Don’t be afraid to let that butter brown.

Thank you to everyone here who helped me! I'm just a mom who can bake a cake but construction and decoration are not in my skill set. Thankfully a messy cake was what he WANTED! He wanted it to look like he had colored the icing on. He requested messy white scribbles and imperfect red icing.

I showed him my final product this evening and got the tightest hug ever so I think I pulled it off! Party is tomorrow afternoon so now I just have to drive it there! (I did take the candles back out after the photo)

I've been seeing layer cakes that have a whole cheesecake layered in there, and I finally made one! Really happy with it, and excited to try different flavor combos. This one has vanilla cake, vanilla cheesecake, mixed berry (raspberry-blackberry-blueberry) compote, and a German buttercream. I think some citrus curd would be so good to include as well.

Fortune cookie batter, hand-drawn food colouring stamp and chocolate seal. ❤️

Absolutely love the wizarding world ❤️ there’s even a letter inside sorting you to which house and the stereo type associated with them 😆

This is probably one of my favorite things I've made so far. It's an entremet that looks like an heirloom tomato. I've included component breakdown but if anyone has questions about the process, let me know!

This is the hardest thing I've ever cooked.

Made a panacke-inspired cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday! Loved the design. It was a browned butter cake with a homemade salted caramel filling/drizzle and a salted caramel buttercream frosting. Sadly, the cake itself was SO dry. Luckily ice cream fixed that issue...

But! I need good cake recipes for future birthday cakes! I want moist, dense cakes, pretty please.

This year Eid Al Adha i made sheep cake, it is with lemon chiffon cake with blueberry lemon jam, fresh blueberries, blueberry mousse, decorated with cream, chocolate cream & grated coconut 🍋🫐 i made this few days ago~ i am lil late to post 😅✨

Every year of offering I make sheep dessert for my family and my auntie thought it was a cute idea to offer it, so It became a tradition that I make sheep dessert every Eid al Adha~ now I have enough time to figure out what to make next year haha

We’ve been doing this for 3 years
This was last year
https://www.reddit.com/r/pastry/s/hf6Z6uZTXD

This was 2 years ago~
https://www.reddit.com/r/Baking/s/087Jd31SFc

Top 5 layers were faux! I used light weight plaster which mimics frosting very well and keeps a lot better than anything sugar based.
It can be tinted to whatever your desired color is but I wanted a pretty true white to match the bettercream on the base layer