Nutella Cake Balls Recipe

A few weeks ago, I finally got around to trying nutella flavored cake balls. They were pretty amazing, and I'm also pretty sure that's my new favorite flavor (sorry, red velvet!)

And all of you lucky readers can have my recipe...

All you need is a chocolate cake (already baked and cooled and crumbled up into little pieces, of course), a jar of nutella, and chocolate coating/almond bark/tempered chocolate (your choice; I was lazy so I went with the almond bark but I'm pretty sure tempered dark chocolate would've been amazingggg).

You make these cake balls as you would any other, except you use nutella instead of frosting, and the secret is to microwave the nutella for a bit first so that it gets a little runnier. That way it's easier to mix in with the cake crumbs.

And once you've smushed your ingredients together, rolled them up into little balls, and dipped them in chocolate, you're good to go! Now all you've got to do is hide them from everyone, or else there won't be any left by the time you get home from school the next day :P

The Dummy Cake

For my entrepreneurship class, I'm doing a presentation of my business plan next week (and my business plan is obviously a bakery). I decided to make a fake cake for part of my presentation, and I've been working on that for the past week.

It's a 6 tier square cake covered in marshmallow fondant with royal icing decorations...

And let me tell you, this has been the most painful cake I've ever made.

I don't know if it's because I've had to roll out all that fondant by hand (in addition to actually making the fondant; there's a lot of kneading involved) or because I piped 6 tiers worth of decorations in one sitting, but my muscles are so sore! (I guess it could be because I'm trying to go the gym everyday too...)

Anyway, I'll keep you updated with my progress, but I decided to wait a few days so the muscles in my right arm have time to heal and stop cramping up on me. It seriously felt like I got a Charlie horse in my forearm. Yuck.

But, no pain, no gain. And this cake is going to be totally gorgeous and worth all the trouble :)

The 90th Birthday Cake

Here we have a lovely two-tier square cake that I made for a 90th birthday party. It's a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling, Italian meringue buttercream, and fondant accents. Oh, the bow on top is gumpaste. Wilton gumpaste, not Bakels, because I learned my lesson with that one (Bakels never dries hard enough. It's quite tragic, considering how much cheaper it is.)

And I got a chance to try out my airbrush machine again! You can't tell in the picture, but the gold is very shiny and metallic.

The idea came from a larger, four tier cake I found on Google Images when I was looking for inspiration. The only thing I really had to go on was a suggestion for gold & black accents, and white frosting. So that's what I did! I wanted this cake to be really special because turning 90 is really special too! 

I'm so honored to be able to help celebrate such a momentous occasion, and for such an incredible, kind-hearted person. And shout out to my roommate, Joy, for setting me up to make the cake and assisting me along the way! :D