http://www.clevercakestudio.com Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:55:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm still around and this site is still active.  This past month has been pretty quiet, not many cake needs among my friends, but things are kicking off again this weekend.  I'll be playing with chocolate! This experiement has definitely taught me a lot about cake making and decorating.  I did ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/09/16/doing-cakes/ My first attempt at a corset cake came with many learnings. I shall share these with you, so that we may better the world together by bringing forth greater sexy cakes. First of all, don't use a soft cake recipe or a cake mix for a cake that needs to ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/08/23/first-corset-cake/ This little fella was for a young man's birthday. It's a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. For a tastier result, I used marzipan (a sweet almond paste) rather than fondant for the scales, which were just individually shaped by hand and applied. You can get a more ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/08/18/blue-dragon-mini-cake/ How are these for cute baby shower cupcakes? The new mom and dad are both geeks and gamers, and babies are both adorable and delicious, so pikmin seemed a perfect choice. The cake is a simple vanilla-almond with simple whipped icing. The pikmin themselves are made of marzipan, which ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/06/23/pikmin-cupcakes/ This was a small cake done for a friend, who commissioned it as an anniversary surprise for his wife. The cake inside is vanilla with a pale orange cream filling. Their wedding colors had been deep and light purple (lavender and lilacs), very classic and clean. The design is ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/06/23/anniversary-mini-cake/ This cake was made for a boy turning 6 years old, and was probably came with one of the most rewarding responses I've ever had: jaws dropped and eyes wide, he and his other friends were totally awed and happy about it. It has lots of little details, I ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/31/sea-monster-cake/ This sweet thing was a mini cake for a coworker, as a surprise to his wife on her birthday. They have two calico cats, so I made marzipan miniatures. I'm told the likeness was pretty decent. It was really, really nice to do something sweet and simple after ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/29/kitty-cake/ This is the notorious Fruit Fucker (or 'Friend' to be polite in an under-estimating way) from of Penny Arcade repute, made for an epic birthday party. It caused us much grief, as such machines are likely to, and we had to toss about 10 or so pounds of fondant ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/29/fruit-fucker-cake/ This was inspired by Penny Arcade's game. I had a whole weekend for this, unlike the usual few weeknights I had for the other cakes. So I had a lot of fun really going all-out in details and shiny paint. It's the most complex and labor-intensive ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/19/steampunk-contraption-cake/ So, I hear you like mudkips? This is probably the hardest cake I've ever made up to this point. I made mistakes and can see where I could have done better, but I learned a lot from it. I also know better now that I need to come up ... http://www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/19/mudkip-cake/