Grandma's Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Nana's Buttercream Frosting

Going through my nana's vintage cake decorating books 

"Magic for your table Cake table 

Food Decorating by Wilton"

Magic for your table Cake table 

Food Decorating by Wilton

I found this Recipe stapled to the inside cover page. She used to make it with mostly with Crisco to that it would hold its shape better.

It Reads:
1 lb or Powder Sugar
1/4 lb White Margarine*
1/4 cup Crisco
1/4 cup milk 
1 tsp vanilla - Flavoring

Beat 8 to 10 min

 *If you don't have white margarine or you live in a hotter climate you can just skip it and just double the Crisco to 1/2

Grandma's Secret Duncan Hines Remix Recipe

My Nana made all kinds of delicious cakes and this was one of her staple "Remix" Cake recipe's. 

Instructions: 

1 Duncan cake mix

¾ cup of water

⅓ cup of vegetable Oil

3 large eggs

Vanilla 1 tsp

Nana's Secret ingredient - Get a single serving of yogurt with the mixed fruit at the bottom (but only scoop out the top part that doesnt have any fruit on it… then throw the rest away)


Instructions:

PREHEAT oven to 350°F for metal or glass pans, 325°F for dark or coated pans. GREASE sides and bottom of each pan with shortening. FLOUR lightly. (Use baking cups for cupcakes).

BLEND dry mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl at low speed until moistened (about 30 seconds).

BEAT at medium speed for 2 minutes.

POUR batter in pans and bake immediately.

BAKE following chart below. Add 3-5 minutes to bake time for dark or coated pans. Cake is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. COOL in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.

for my Grandmothers Frosting recipe check out here:
http://songbirdcakes.blogspot.com/2016/06/grandmas-buttercream-frosting-recipe.html

BYU Cake - Airbrush BYU logo stencil how to

Check out this video on how I made this custom BYU logo using my Cricut! 

 

Hand Painted Cake with Wafer Paper Flowers

I made this cake for a Sweet 16 birthday Party, I absolutely love the way it came out. So completely girlie! To achieve this look: I stacked, layered and iced the yellow cake with White Chocolate and strawberry filling. Then covered the cake with my fresh homemade fondant. After that I airbrushed the 6in tier a baby blue color.

To create the Wafer Paper flowers I used my food safe "Cake Cricut" and since the cake Mats for the cricut are not sticky I taped down the outside edges and then had the cricut cut out the delicate petals. I then used my air brush to color the wafer paper

    *Tip: Use a vodka/water mixture with the airbrush colors because you want it to dry faster (if the wafer paper gets too wet it will disintegrate, if you just lightly get it wet you can get a more realistic petal formation) 

      *Tip: Use the left over outside edges of the wafer paper as a "color tester" before you actually start coloring the wafer flower petals

Then I pre mixed gel colors and used a layering technique to paint on the flowers.

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