Our friends Meagan & Keith were married this weekend & I made this cake & cupcakes for their celebration! It was so much fun designing this, especially the cake topper! Keith loves dirt biking, so this was a must! The dirt bike a rider came together as a set and the "bride" was actually a Tinkerbell doll. I cut her hair and her legs, made her a little white gown, painted her shoes and superglued a veil on her. They are riding over a pile of milk chocolate. The cake stand was constructed out of cardboard rounds and shoeboxes. A 14 inch and 10 inch round board which were duck taped to shoeboxes and a sheet placed around it all and over the picnic table.
The devil's food chocolate cake recipe is from Martha Stewart and can be found at http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/devils-food-cupcakes-book
The cake was decorated by first baking three round 8 inch layers of cake. The top of each cooled layer was shaved to be flat. I frosted between each layer and then applied a thin "crumb coat" of frosting around the entire cake and placed in the fridge to harden. (The "crumb coat" eliminates crumbs from appearing on the surface of the frosted cake.) Then I applied a lot of frosting on top and all around the cake. Once frosted, i heat up the spatula by rinning it under hot water and then wiping dry. The hot spatula will smooth the surface of the frosting. The stars were piped using a piping bag and tip #20. To place the bride and groom on top, my husband drilled a hole in the bottom of the bike and we fit a wooden skewer in the hole. We cut the skewer to size, so that the wheels of the bike would just be off the cake top. When we arrived at the celebration site, I placed the cake topper in the center of the cake. Voila!
Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting:
2 sticks salted butter (1 cup) room temperature
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
1/4 c. seedless raspberry jam
4 cups powdered sugar
to frost the cupcakes I used a piping bag and tip #104
work around the cupcake to make a flower design and then repeat a smaller flower in the center. I topped with a fresh raspberry.
I ordered the brown cupcake liners on etsy at
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