Cakes by Steph » Holiday http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:39:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Halloween Candy Dish http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/10/21/halloween-candy-dish/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/10/21/halloween-candy-dish/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:25:09 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/?p=206 This cake was for my husband’s office for their Oct birthday celebration.   The bottom cake is a 10″ round with buttercream.  On top of that is a chocolate  bowl that has cake inside of it.  The hand is made from rice krispie treats and covered in green chocolate.  Everything is edible except of course for the candy wrappers :)

]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/10/21/halloween-candy-dish/feed/ 0 Chocolate Love http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/18/chocolate-love/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/18/chocolate-love/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:41:03 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/18/chocolate-love/ This is February’s  cake for my husband’s work meeting.   Putting together V-day and some chocolate – what a pairing!  The cake itself is covered in a chocolate ganache and then a heart is made on top with some chocolate truffles.  Yum!



]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/18/chocolate-love/feed/ 0 Valentine Cookies http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/11/valentine-cookies/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/11/valentine-cookies/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:32:31 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/11/valentine-cookies/ Yesterday I worked on these cookies for my 2 daughters to take to class for their valentine’s day parties.  My oldest daughter (almost 8 yrs old) has grown very particular about her cake and cookie designs :)   I find it both cute and humorous.  She saw the bridal shower cookies I made last week and loved the designs.  This past weekend I asked her what design/color she wanted for their v-day cookies.   Her reply “I want the back to be light pink and I want a red heart in the middle and make it with the curl on the one side like that cookie.  But I don’t want the crooked heart mom, I want a regular one [see previous post - I used a whimsical heart].  And do some of those little hearts up at the top too.  That’s not too hard is it?” :)   She makes me smile – her list of requests yet she wants to be sure its not going to take me a million years.

Well much to my delight it didn’t – I baked and completely iced these during the day on Wed while she was at school….all 55 of them!  They went quite fast really.  Both she and her sister loved them which made my day.  Hopefully their friends love them too tomorrow – but then again, what’s not to love about cookies!



]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2010/02/11/valentine-cookies/feed/ 2 Apples in the Basket http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/11/20/apples-in-the-basket/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/11/20/apples-in-the-basket/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27:40 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/11/20/apples-in-the-basket/ Here is the Nov cake for DH’s work.   This is a 10″ round cake with chocolate buttercream and a 6″ round, 3 layer cake on top, iced in chocolate buttercream and fondant strips on the outside to make a “basket”.  All of the leaves, apples and acorns are fondant.  Happy Fall!



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]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/10/27/halloween-cookies/feed/ 1 Halloween Cake http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/10/27/halloween-cake/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/10/27/halloween-cake/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:19:10 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/10/27/halloween-cake/ This cake was for my husband’s work for October birthdays.  Buttercream icing, gumpaste accents and a fondant covered ghost cake on top.



]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/10/27/halloween-cake/feed/ 2 More fall… http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/09/20/more-fall/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/09/20/more-fall/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:57:45 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/09/20/more-fall/ This cake was for the Sept birthdays at my husband’s work.  The brown side parts are made of a chocolate candy clay.  All the rest is buttercream icing.



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]]> http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/04/10/easter-cupcakes/feed/ 0 Pot ‘o Gold http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/03/19/pot-o-gold/ http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/03/19/pot-o-gold/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:26:53 +0000 admin http://www.halderman.net/cakeblog/2009/03/19/pot-o-gold/ This is March’s birthday cake for my husband’s work.  Two days after St. Patrick’s Day so we did a themed cake.  The pot is cake, covered in fondant, base is cake with icing.   The only things non edible are the coins ~ just didn’t have time to make something.  But its all good.  The rainbow is gumpaste.  The base cake is 10″ square to give some size reference…



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