Introducing “Cake My Day” Cake Design Cookbook
This is a Fashionista Event and a promotional item was provided to me by Sweetworks. Hosts for this event are Still Blonde after all these Years and ModlyChic.
Introducing CAKE MY DAY by Karen Tack & Alan Richardson
This month Sweetworks sent us over a box filled with goodies and one simple mission – make a cake that’s inspired by a soon-to-be released book Cake My Day and utilizes some of the candies in the box. Challenge accepted!
UP Cake inspired by CAKE MY DAY
We flipped through the book, getting inspired and then went to work creating another kid-themed treat (like our Christmas Santa Hat Cake or our Halloween Eyeball Spiders). There is an amazing looking balloon cake in the new CAKE MY DAY book called Up, up and away, that started the ball rolling. Balloons are great but what do kids associate balloons with these days? The movie UP, of course. So why not go with that?
How to make the UP CAKE!
The creation is simple. Take a square cake, cut into the shape of a house and then decorated with colored frosting and plenty of Sweetworks candies to create the look and feel of a house. Make a dozen, or more, small cupcakes. Cover them in blue frosting and top them off with a large colorful gum ball. Attach some kind of stringy candy to the balloons and house to give it the floating feeling and Ta-Da, you’re done. Simple and totally do-able!
Special shout-out: Katy Rose of ModlyChic had her mother, Shirley Hinderer, create this cake for me. She is truly the hands of God, and I cannot thank she and Katy enough for their kindness.
The Chief Blonde Remarks: Bet you can’t wait to cast your eyes on Cake My Day, right?! Well, this book, which is filled with dozens of cake creations, comes out on March 24th. So mark your calendars. And to sweeten the pie, or cake as it may be, we’ve got a Sweetworks giveaway worth $50! One lucky winner is going to get a bunch of Sweetworks candy AND THE BOOK Cake My Day to get to work on their own cake creation. Use the rafflecopter below to enter!
Can’t Wait to Win it?
Buy it CAKE MY DAY at: Cake My Day
Buy the fabulous candies used to decorate many of the cakes in this book at Sweetworks
THE GIVEAWAY
Giveaway runs from 3-6 -3-27, 11:59PM EST 18+ US ONLY
THE PRIZE
$50 Total Prize= $15 Cake My Day cookbook + $35 in Sweetworks Candy
This Sweetworks and Cake My Day cookbook giveaway is exclusively hosted on our blog, so only those who enter here will win.
I really liked the ideas with pound cake.
They don’t talk about the book on that site. The only thing they have listed about the book is a chapter on using Sara Lee Poundcakes. The rest of the site is for their own contest.
It’s so full of color and energy and fun! I like the graphic in it because it presented the recipes just like a magazine layout.
I love the original ideas for cakes in the book
I like the entire chapter devoted to store bought frozen pound cakes like Sara Lee and how easy Cake My Day makes it look.
My favorite feature of this book is that it has so many funny recipes. I especially love the Abominable Snowman, my daughter is a huge Rudolph fan!
I love all the clear pictures, they make some of these seem so simple.
For one thing I love the abominable snowman on the front cover!!! What a cute idea. I am not a cake maker I usually buy them and that is so expensive. i would love this book to help me learn how to make these awesome cakes.
I like the creative decorating ideas that are easy to do.
Oh my gosh…the raggedy ann cake…an upright cake…how cool. Love the twizzler hair too.
I love how it really gives great in-depth instructions – I hate when I go to make a recipe and the author kind of “assumes” that you know what to do with a certain item. These recipes look great!
I love that this book shows you how to make the most amazing looking cakes, like the cake that looks like a toaster or the cake that looks like a pie, amazing.
I love the Sara Lee section for when I’m in a hurry! I also love the sixlet & pearls section because they are so pretty!
I love the full color pictures. I don’t like recipes without a picture of what it is supposed to look like. Very inspiring.
I would love to just flip through the book to see all the wonderfully creative ideas.
I like how it teaches decorating techniques like how to produce wood grain for a guitar cake.
I love the work boot cake and that it is made with prebaked pound cake
Me fave is the dazzling selection of decorating candies including PEARLS and SIXLETS in a variety of fashion-forward colors.
I like that there are such great amazing looking cakes. I love that they suggest buying Sara Lee Pound Cake, so that you have more time to decorate, plus a dense cake like a pound cake would take decorations better than a light and fluffy cake.
I like the chapter on Sara Lee pound cakes!