Recital Time!

Today is the DAY. The boys have their piano recital!!!

After the recital we'll have a small reception at church. Everybody will bring a dish to share.  This year, I didn't know what to make but I knew that I wanted to play with my Cricut Cake again.  I called Pilar and talked to her about baking together one more time, her kids are in the recital also.  So we put hands to work.  We are a good baking team. :)

I looked on line for ideas on "Musical Cakes" and  I got inspired by a picture posted at CakeCentral.com.  Here is our creation.

We used wooden dowels (5/16" x 36") to shaped the fondant and make it look like ribbons. If you are going to try, grease the dowels first with a little bit of Crisco before you roll the the fondant strips.

 I cut the music notes with my Cricut Cake using My ScrapChick file "Piano Players". Cute file!!

And here it's what I made with the leftover batter.  Cupcakes!!!

Using the regular Cricut, I cut a doily for the tray and made some wrappers for the cupcakes. I used some old music sheets from a book that I bought at Half Price Books.  If you need to do projects that involve music, it's the best way to go instead of trying to find scrapbook music looking paper.  (If I want the music sheets to look aged I used Distressed Inks).