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Flower Cupcakes: The Reveal

We are loving reveal week for the Photofrost cake challenge! See Celeste Collette's results for her flower cupcakes!

As you can tell from my picture above I actually had cupcakes that turned out really cute and I have to give credit to Photofrost Sheets. It was so much fun to experimenting with them and different embossing folders. To give the flowers some dimension I laid them on top of my cake pops pan (picture below). I had them sit like that for about 10 min, then when you take them off they have some shape to them and I think it makes them cool.

After having them dry for 10 min on top of the cake pop pan I took them off and I put together the flowers. One thing you might want to do is just dab a little bit of frosting between the layers of the sheets so that the flower will stick together.

Here’s a few of the different types of flowers I made for the cupcakes:

Here are all the cupcakes together:

What do you think? Would you use Photofrost Sheets for your next birthday party?

-Celeste

Thank you Celeste!

See more of Celeste's project tutorials on her blog here:

http://babybands.blogspot.com/

So, will you use your eBosser and Photofrost sheets for your next sweet treat?

Black Pearl Cake: The Reveal

The time has come! Denise O'Connor and her talented friend Jennifer, will reveal the cake from their Photofrost challenge!

Well today is the day! We finally get to see the end results of our cake challenge using our eBossers by Craftwell and Photo Frost Sheets. Before we do that though, I wanted to share with you something else that my “cake” friend Jennifer Carreno and I did…

We did some rolling! The Photo Frost sheets are delicate when they are fresh out of the packaging, so we had to take some care with it. Here you can see Jennifer using the end of a beater to help her roll the Photo Frost. We also discovered that rolling it as it was coming out of the die, seems to work best with these flowers.

We were so glad that these flowers rolled as well as they did because our entire focal point needed to be rolled. Have you guessed what it is yet?

Well if you guessed jewelry….you’re right!

Jennifer in addition to be a cake master is also a Premier Designs representative so the idea of combining her two loves into one was just something we had to do. It also helped that I had the Beautiful Beads die from Papertrey Ink to cut the beads with.

Do you see that little white cup with the small paint brush sticking out of it. That is the vanilla extract that I told you about last week and we used that to make sure that the ends of the beads stuck well. In other words, it was our glue for this project.

And here it is…the entire cake all done!

One more tip for you…you may have noticed in my previous posts that the black fondant appeared to have a white powdery substance on it….that was powdered sugar! In the picture above you will see that the black fondant is now gorgeous and shiny. Jennifer did that with a steamer. That is yet another thing I would not have thought of.

I want to once again thank Jennifer for helping me with this project. I learned so much! In fact, if we had to do this again, I think I could manage it on my own. The Photo Frost is easy to work with and you know that I love working with my eBosser, so that is easy peasy. Jennifer also loved working with the Photo Frost and the eBosser! She is already thinking of ways of using both in her cakes. Thanks again Jennifer!