1. Product Work Log
NameAlexandra Holt DateMarch 9, 2012
Product Cupcake and cake decorating .
Date/Time: Activity: Made Super Mario Cart Comment/Suggestions:
cupcakes for neighbor‟s 4th birthday
September 2 party. Water is great for
holding the fondant
3.5 hours pieces together.
5:30-8:30 Hurts my back from
doing all the little
detail.
Commentary:Baked the cake and
frosting all from scratch. Used a Check that it‟s flour
traditional chocolate and white cake you‟re using and not
cupcakes, both had plain vanilla icing confectioner‟s sugar.
but was dyed bright blue. Took the
first batch of chocolate cupcakes out Wash your hands
only to find that it was completely immediately after
melted due to the fact that I had mixed touching any sort of
up the flour and powder sugar bright food dye it stains
containers. First time I had ever your hands and last for
working with fondant; cut everything days.
out by hand. Used an Exacto knife to
do everything, and worked off a
picture. Made the characters that were
requested by my neighbor. I had no
black fondant for any of the characters
eyes so I used chocolate syrup to draw
the eyes on with a paint brush.

2. Date/Time: Activity: Made spaghetti and meatball Comment/Suggestions:
cupcakes for a friends
September 15 By far my favorite
cupcakes to date.
3
Very, very rich. Have
yet to see someone eat
a whole cupcake.
Commentary: I first baked the white
cake, and then the recipe had called Changed the original
for vanilla frosting dyed light brown frosting that was in the
to look like spaghetti. Since the sauce recipe from vanilla to
was a strawberry jelly I thought peanut butter. This
peanut butter would taste better with changed it to a PB&J
the other ingredients, plus it is a cupcake making it
natural color that looks like spaghetti. sound more appealing.
I took a plastic sealable bag, cut a
small hole at the corner and filled with Everyone loved them,
frosting. I then started to swirl it the cakes came out very
around to look like a pile of spaghetti. moist from than
After that, I took a Ferrero Rocher and compared to previous
rolled it in the jelly. Took a scoop of batch.
the jelly and the Rocher and placed it
on top of the cupcakes. Finally I took a Did not use any
square of white chocolate and with a fondant.
cheese grater I covered it in the white
chocolate shavings to look like
parmesan cheese.

3. Date/Time: Activity: Made Halloween cupcakes. Comment/Suggestions:
October 22-23 Looked too cartoony
and goofy.
4.5
5-9:30 Commentary: I began by making red Definitely hated these
velvet cupcakes, and cream cheese cupcakes.
frosting. I had dyed the cream cheese
frosting a bright orange color. I had Forgot to refrigerate the
left the frosting out forgetting to put it frosting so it was a little
in the refrigerator. I started to make runny.
my characters such as: a bat, spider,
ghost, tombstone, and pumpkins. I Fondant was gooey.
was modeling them after a picture a
friend of mine sent to me. I used a They all started to fall
doughnut to give them the shapes and apart after I had
covered it with fondant. I began to finished.
realize that I need a whole array of
colors to continue. I called my Cake part was
facilitator and asked what I should do. delicious.
She told me to put a small amount of
alcohol (the fondant will not absorb Not my best work.
any of the alcohol, it evaporates
within hours leaving no alcohol
content) into a small cup with the food
dye and to take a paint brush and
individually paint them. I began to get
frustrated with it but kept going. The
next morning I didn‟t mixed the dye
enough so it was thick on the fondant
leaving it to be gooey and sticky.

4. Date/Time: Activity: Made turkey cupcakes for Comment/Suggestions:
Thanksgiving
Day One: 2 Don‟t make the Pecan
Day Two: 3.5 Praline frosting.
Had to make a new
Commentary: I had decided that for frosting after the first
these ones I would make a pecan one melted.
praline pie flavored cupcakes, since
the stuffing for the turkeys was pecans Longest cupcakes to
I wanted to incorporate and pull the ever make.
flavors together. The cake part itself
was just a yellow cake and the frosting Extremely cute but
originally was going to be a praline very detailed.
frosting. I had made it and took it off
the stove, it was suppose to have Was hard to make the
thickened but it ended up just being turkeys look “full”
runny. So, I had to make a new
frosting, I ended up making a caramel The „lettuce leaves‟
flavored frosting since the body of the kept breaking off every
turkeys was rolled out caramel time I tried to put them
squares. I microwave the caramel on.
squares and rolled them out into a
thin sheet. I then cut it out into a circle Microwave the caramel
like shape but had a small crescent cut squares, it‟s easier.
out in it. Laid it onto the top of the
cupcake and rounded it out by beating
it with the back of the spoon. I then
took halved pretzel pieces and rolled
left over caramel into the drumstick
part. I used a small dab of water to
fuse the drumsticks to the bodies; I
then took the crushed pecans and
placed it into the opening of the
cupcake to look like stuffing.

5. Date/Time: Activity: Made two different Comment/Suggestions:
Valentines Day cakes.
February 12-13 Do not enjoy making
cakes.
Cake One: 2.5
One of the cakes fell
Cake Two: 1.5 apart.
Commentary: Both cakes were a Another one didn‟t
strawberry flavor with vanilla bake all the way and in
frosting. The first cake I spent more caved.
time on. I took a large round cake and
lined them up on top of each other The pearls got all over
and carefully cut out the heart shape. the place.
Turned out to be a bad idea, since little
crumbs got all in the cake. Frosting Hard to get evenness
this was difficult and got all over the on cakes if you don‟t
place. Cakes are hard to frost than have a cake stand that
cupcakes. I hadhand cut all the hearts doesn‟t spin.
and covered the sides of the cake with
pearl sprinkles one by one. I then took Cutting out the cakes
the big heart and the center and put into a heart shape was
small water droplets to places the messy and cake
pearls on. The second cake a friend crumbles got into the
wanted me to make for her boyfriend frosting.
for Valentines Day. She just wanted it
simple and to look like she was the
one who did it. So I just took a star tip
and did little dollops on the outline
and took some sparkled pink sprinkles
and covered the top part of it.