Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake

White cake with vanilla frosting. The hand, Mickey head, and foot are made with rice krispy treats and covered in fondant. As easy as it looks, this cake was kind of hard to make!

LV Purse

This purse cake came out great :) It was modeled after a LV purse, but the bride changed the initials to hers and her fiance's. The cake was white cake with vanilla buttercream and strawberry filling. The cake was covered in fondant and hand painted. I learned not to do a 3-D cake with a filling - hope the cake wasn't too much of a mess inside!

Cookies to match Purse Cake/theme

These are handpainted cookies to go along with the purse cake. TB is the bride's take on LV... Cute idea. I still don't know what I think of these cookies... I decorated them from midnight to 3:30 a.m.

Polar bear shower cake

For reasons that are my own fault, I came up with this cake very last minute... It was vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, and a painted fondant top. It came out a bit young looking for a shower cake, but cute nonetheless :)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Zumba Cake

This is a red velvet cake, iced in vanilla buttercream, and decorated with fondant accents. the "Dancing Kats" are hand painted on fondant. This was based off of an image for the Dancing Kats Fitness Studio.

Jane's Cookies

These are cookies for a friend who is running for the 119th district for state assembly. I had to do 225 individually wrapped cookies. Each cookie is glazed, and hand painted. A LOT of work, but fun once I got into a good groove.

Hannah's Gumball Cake

This is a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, and fondant accents. The cake was based off of the invitations, and was too cute!

Hunter's 1st Birthday Cake

This is a white cake with vanilla buttercream. It was a "Ball" themed party, and my last cake of the weekend!!!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Carrie's Wedding Shower Cake

This is a another wedding shower cake - lemon cake with raspberry filling and lemon buttercream. Such a good combo!!!

Wedding shower cake

This cake is white cake with chocolate butter cream filling, and dark chocolate fondant. I love the colors and I think the cake came out great!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Fishing Wedding Cake

This is a wedding cake I did this past weekend. It was not an original design (the bride had a picture for me).

The bride and groom are made out of fondant, and the whole cake is edible except the fishing line :)

The whole cake is white cake with vanilla buttercream. This was a very fun wedding cake to do!

Umbrella shower cake/ cookies

These are shower favor cookies to go with the cake. The cake is half white, and half chocolate, and covered in buttercream. The cake didn't photograph well for some reason, but it was cute.

Tinkerbell Cake

This is a tinkerbell birthday cake. It is a lemon cake with lemon buttercream, and a fondant top - which I handpainted Tinkerbell on. I was proud of myself for this one because one little mess up, and tinkerbell doesn't look like tinkerbell anymore...

Stack of Books Cake

Two books in this cake are chocolate, and one is white, covered in fondant, and hand painted. The coffee cup is made out of cake, covered in fondant, and hand painted. This was a challenge, but I like how it came out.

Party Cookies

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Hydrangea Birthday Cake

This cake was a chocolate chocolate chip cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream. The whole cake as well as decorations are done in buttercream.

chocolate cakes



The cake with the chocolate butterfly is a chocolate chocolate chip cake, with raspberry filling, and chocolate ganache buttercream.... yum

The other cake is a chocolate cake with a toasted almond and coconut filling... made for my husband's birthday

fish cake

This is a white cake with white buttercream covered in fondant, with fondant accents. I used a fish shape pan, which I typically don't do. I probably won't use the pan again, as the cake was only one layer - and I like my cakes to be higher, with 3 layers :)

Baby Boy shower



This cake was yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. The design was based off of the invitations, and were made using buttercream, fondant, and rolled buttercream.

The cookies were given as favors at the shower, and are vanilla sugar cookies with rolled butter cream decorations.

Valentine's Day Cookies

This is a tray of Valentine's Day cookies I made. Vanilla sugar cookies with buttercream frosting

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Welcome Baby Cake

This was a welcome baby cake, white cake, vanilla butter cream. I love the little baby frogs - they are made out of fondant as well as the lily pads and flowers.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Cake

I haven't posted in a while - had a little break in the action, but I didn't post my cakes from a couple of weeks ago. This is a white cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Christian Louboutin shoe cake

This cake was made for a friend's birthday. It is my first shoe, and it was a bit tricky! But it was worth it in the end. The shoe had a 5 inch heel - how do people walk!!! The cake was white cake with vanilla butter cream, covered in fondant and painted on. I made the shoe out of gum paste.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Mountain baby shower cake

This cake is a baby shower cake for a girl who lives in Colorado (hence the mountains). The bottom tier is white, the top tier is chocolate, and the mountains are made out of rice krispy treats and covered in fondant. The baby is supposed to be climbing up the mountains... I was a little concerned on how I would pull this one off, but I think it came out great - better than I expected.

Karen's shower cake

This is a snickerdoodle cake iced with cinnamon buttercream, and covered in fondant. It was for my friend Karen's baby shower, and she requested pink and brown, and she loves giraffes!

Sam's Pablo Cake

White cake, vanilla buttercream :) Pablo. Very cute.

Griffin's Monster truck cake

This was a cake done for a little boy who loves monster trucks! White cake, vanilla buttercream, and vanilla wafer dirt...

Meradith's Birthday Cake


This was two tiers of white cake made for my cousin Meradith's birthday.

Tabby's birthday cake

Here is a picture of Tabitha on her birthday, about to put her own touches onto her Hello Kitty Birthday Cake.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Baby Shower

This cake was for a baby shower 2 days after Christmas. The cake was based off the invitation which was very cute. The decorations on top were made out of fondant with buttercream accents.

Pretty little Birthday Cake

This was a white cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The roses are made from buttercream, and the stems are coils of fondant. I have been wanting to do a cake like this for awhile.

Mickey Mouse Cake

This cake is two tiers of white cake with white buttercream frosting. The decorations are fondant, and Mickey is hand painted fondant. I like the balance of this cake, and it was pretty fun to do. I have been wanting to do Mickey for a long time. His face is so easy, but very easy to mess up if you paint one thing "off".

Buzz Light Year Cake


This is a white cake with vanilla buttercream. Buzz is cut out of fondant and handpainted with food coloring. I like how this cake came out, but it was kind of challenging. Kids cakes always challenge me...

Chanel Purse

This is a chocolate cake made to look like a Chanel purse. The picture is not a good one - doesn't do the cake justice :) There is a chanel lipstick, a cell phone, and a compact sticking out of the purse.

Holiday Cookies

Here are a few of my designs this season. I LOVE the snowman cookies. They took forever, but were so cute!

Birthday Cake

This is a white cake with white buttercream for twin 18 year old girls. I struggled with the colors and design for some reason, but it sure tasted good.

Pregnant belly cake

This cake was made for my cousin Kristi for her baby shower. Cute cake, but the belly is a bit bumpy. I will work on that next time :)

Sunday, November 1, 2009

My very first cake disaster




It finally happened. I had my first cake disaster. This is a wedding cake for a couple who were so excited for thier Halloween topsy turvy wedding cake. I set it up, it looked great, and I left. Exactly 1 hour before the start of the reception, I get a call from the reception site, and am told that the cake just tipped over. I have no clue what I did wrong, but the supports clearly weren't right. The whole back side of the cake blew out. So off I went back to try and salvage what I could before the bride and groom got there. I think we (my sister helped) did a good job, and hopefully the bride wasn't too crushed. We had to cut the backside of the cake out, and I ended up putting a bucket in the back with a juice glass on top of it to support the top tier. I feel terrible about the whole thing, but live and learn I guess... The top image is of the fixed cake. The bottom image is what it was supposed to look like :)

Stegasaurus cake


This was a 3rd Birthday cake for a dinosaur fan. The cake is white cake with raspberry filling. The head is made of rice krispy treats as well as the tail and a portion of the top of the dino. In total, this cake was about 2 feet long! He is covered in fondant and hand painted.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Party Cake


This was my favorite cake of the weekend. It was for a party to celebrate a wedding :) The cake is white cake with vanilla buttercream. The bow was made out of gumpaste, and otherwise all decorations are buttercream. I thought this cake was so pretty.