Last Week of 2011 and First Week of 2012

Happy New Year. It is time for a new year and a new year for baking. My baking resolutions are:

• Create one new recipe from scratch
• Bake a new cupcake every month

• MORE CAKE

The last week of December was my sister's birthday. I made her a 3-D owl cake. It was 8 circles of cake tall, cut in half, making the back flat and the belly round. The cake was a plain vanilla cake and vanilla frosting. The owl was covered in over 200 feathers! it turned out very well for my first scuplted cake.

Start the year off right with cake!