Easter Cake decorated with Cricut Cake

Tonight I pulled out my Cricut Cake, which I admit hasn't been used in quite awhile!  My daughter is having a cake walk at her school tomorrow so I volunteered to make an Easter cake.  Both the bunny and 'Happy Easter' are from the Easter 2010 cartridge.  I placed Eggies around the bottom of the cake (and ate way too many myself while I was decorating!!)  If I had more time, I would have recut the bunny a bit smaller (I used size 5) so it wasn't going over the edge of the cake, but it was around midnight when I finished and I have to get up early for work, so that wasn't going to happen! LOL!!  Happy Easter everyone!

My First Cricut Cake!

Here are some pictures of my first cake decorated with my Cricut Cake!  I experimented with some cupcakes last weekend and today I thought I'd do a cake for my mom's birthday.  I used Wilton fondant for the shapes and the cake is covered in a buttercream icing.  I'm thinking next time I'll try covering the cake in fondant.  The cartridge I used to cut the flowers was Elegant Cakes.

Cricut Cake - Cupcakes

My Cricut Cake arrived late last week and I finally had a chance to play with it today!  I made some simple cupcakes with chocolate icing and tried cutting both gum paste and fondant.  I found the gum paste was quite hard to work with, but the cuts turned out a lot nicer.  I mixed a bit of pink colouring with the Wilton gum paste and it was really hard to get it all a uniform colour, but it turned a pretty shade of pink after a lot of kneading!  The pink butterflies were made with the gum paste.  The green flowers were made with Wilton fondant.  This was so much softer and easier to work with, but the cuts didn't turn out as great.  It was fun experimenting though!

Cricut Cake On Its Way!

So.... I finally ordered the Cricut Cake yesterday!  I have been thinking about purchasing one for a long time, but wasn't sure, but the more I look at all the creations you can make with it, the more I wanted one, and now one is on its way!  I ordered the bundle through the Shopping Channel which comes with the cartridges Cake Basics and Elegant Cakes and some other bonuses including three packages of Wilton fondant.  I'm so excited for it to arrive!

Today, there was more exciting announced about the Cricut Cake.  There is a new Martha Stewart edition coming out, but it looks like it will just be available through the Home Shopping Network.  I'm not so interested in the machine (it's white, so I think it looks more like the Cricut Expression), but the new Martha Stewart cartridges look awesome!  Here are some pictures (posted on Cricut Cake Facebook site) of cakes, cookies and cupcakes that were created with the new cartridges.  Don't they look amazing?!