margarita, anyone?! i did the invitation below a few weeks ago and the client decided to have me create a centerpiece cake for the party. the invite featured peppers, but she didn't want a red cake. i'm not big on red either--a good red takes too much icing color, even with the tasteless version. so we came up with the idea to do a margarita in bright colors since that would work well with how they were decorating. there was a moment at the end of icing it when the cake almost broke--yikes!--but it came through in the end. i created the lime out of fondant icing and even "salted" the rim with sparkling sugar sprinkles! i covered the board with glassine paper from the new martha stewart line at michael's. i loved everything there, but this was the item that excited me the most. years ago i purchased a card making kit from the old ms online store that had a variety of glassine papers in it and i fell in love with them, but never found them anywhere else. after i ran out of that small collection, i came up with other good ways to cover my boards--pretty paper covered in cellowrap, wax paper, foil--but i'm so glad to have glassine papers as an option again! they are perfect for cakes because they are food safe and grease proof. and now that i don't have to hoard them, i can collect and replenish all the pretty colors and play with them in my paper crafting, too!
thanks for stopping by!
:) lexi
