Vintage LSU Tiger Cake

Since last Saturday was the "game of the century" against Alabama and we got invited to a party, I decided to do an LSU cake for the event.  I love the vintage LSU tiger and see him all over the place lately, so I decided to tackle him in fondant and edible marker.

It was not as easy as I thought it would be.  In fact, my first attempt was a complete disaster that I angrily crumpled and tossed in the trash.  I then made a simpler design for the top - a paw, but just couldn't stop thinking about how badly I wanted to do the tiger.  So, after a bit of rethinking my process, I gave it another shot and finally got it just how I wanted it.  It's the 1947 LSU Tiger mascot logo.

Here is the throwback/vintage tiger -



Here's my tiger -

Cake was purple velvet

Finished cake - tiger stripes on sides are purple fondant

And the cut cake!

WE WON!!! GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Pumpkin Cupcakes

Every year, my siblings and I host a very small get together - just us and significant others plus kids - and watch "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown."  I usually make cupcakes, but since I started decorating, I decided to kick it up a notch this year.

Got this idea on Real Simple, I think - maybe somewhere else. It's simply a circle of white fondant draped over an unwrapped dum dum lollipop.  The eyes are drawn on with edible black marker.  It was easy, but a little time consuming. Decided to make our top cupcake "Charlie Brown" is his overly-snipped ghost costume.  Cupcakes were orange velvet - frosting was chocolate buttercream.  They were great!