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.
The feature I like the most about this book is learning how to use pre-made pound cake.
I love how it shows you that you can decorate with candies and gat an amazing cake….
I love the fact that they give you a good cake recipe. I’ve been trying to find one for a long time. Growing up I didn’t know that cake could come in anything other than a box. I’ve been working on making a good cake for over 11 years of birthdays, the cakes are ok, but not amazing. This recipe looks like what I’ve been searching the internet for 🙂
I love that you can use pre made pound cake. Baking is ok but I love decorating more.
The cakes are perfect for my younger girls and grandkids.
I don’t know if it’s actually a feature of the book but the sliding penguins totally made me laugh:)
I like that they have some store bought cakes as base to make it easier
You did a great job on your cake!! I took a Wilton cake decorating course a hundred years ago, actually more like 35 years ago and my sister and I decorated cakes during junior high and high school for spending money. Some of cake decorating hasn’t changed at all and some of it is a world of difference. This book is so good and what imaginations this couple has to create all of this cuteness in cakes!! I love the pictures and step by step directions but I think the detailed product list is a tremendous tool to have on hand.
I think with this book I could make a great cake instead of a “Facebook Fail” cake! lol
I love the detail you go into.
I love all the cute,cakes. They actually look like,something I could make. Plus, they have their own awesome contest
I like that it shows you easier ways to decorate, like using the sixlets. Very nice for the pinterest-fail prone such as myself!
i love how creative the cakes are and i really love the title of the book…cute play on words.
I love that they have pictures helping you bake a better cake and showing you step by step how to cut it properly and which tools and items you will need for each step to keep it from a crumbled mess. It is quite detailed in the small bit I got to preview and I was impressed. The Cosmetic Surgery section is wonderful too, I think I will love the whole book actually.
I love that the ideas aren’t so elaborate that they become impossible!
I like that devoted a whole chapter on using a store-bought pound cake. I can’t believe that the boot is made from a store bouht pound cake.
I think it is awesome that they have a whole chapter about how to decorate a Sara Lee pound cake. That is great for people who don’t have an oven or baking equipment, like my daughter in a college dorm room.
I loved that they use Sara Lee product”s.This is so Awesome!! I’ve never made a cake, except out of a box…lol Thank you!
I love the idea of being able to try and make something that I could be proud of and be able to show my family and friends !!
I just love the whole book!