Monday, February 27, 2012
SUPER HERO CAKE
When I asked what kind of cake the customer wanted for her son's birthday party, she said "Whatever, he likes, Superman, Batman, Spiderman. So, whatever you think" So, I couldn't resist doing all 3 in one cake. The Superman cake was a 1 layer cake with buttercream frosting and a plastic Superman piece on top. The Batman layer was double layered with buttercream filling and frosting. The bottom was covered with red paper and piped "web" with black frosting.
MONKEY BABY SHOWER CAKE
I had so much fun sculpting these little monkeys. The top & bottom layers were yellow cake and the middle was chocolate. It is covered with buttercream frosting with fondant monkeys all around. The trees were plastic cake toppers.
MACKENZIE CHILDS CAKE
This was a cake made for one of my lifelong friend's 30th birthday. She absolutely adores Mackenzie Childs designs so we decided this would be the perfect cake for her. This was a chocolate cake the PB chips and sweet PB frosting. It was totally covered & decorated with fondant. Below are the Mackenzie Childs pieces I used for inspiration.
NURSERY RHYME BABY SHOWER CAKE
This was requested by one of my child's teachers for a baby shower. The Mom-to-be was decorating the nursery using inspiration from her favorite childhood stories. I chose 2 of her favorites for this cake. The cake was completely covered in fondant as were the little characters, baby and baby blanket. Lettering was piped on with buttercream frosting.
SUPER MARIO CAKE
This cake was requested for a young boy's birthday. It was vanilla with buttercream frosting decorations and a plastic Mario Cake Topper.
IRON BOWL (ALABAMA/AUBURN) CAKE
I am soooooo much more fond of the bottom layer than the top on this one =) This was requested for an Iron Bowl/Birthday Party for a friend of mine. The top layer was Chocolate and the bottom was Vanilla with Strawberry filling. It is frosted with Buttercream frosting and I used edible printed sugar paper for the tiger stripes and houndstooth covering. The football was piped on with buttercream.
CHRISTMAS GIFT CAKE
This cake was ordered for an office Christmas party. The top layer was red velvet with buttercream frosting and the bottom was Chocolate with PB chips and sweet PB frosting.
FSU CAKE
This cake was a little hard to do for this Bama Girl, but I fought through it ;-) Requested by a friend for her Husband's birthday. It was a full sheet cake which he took to work @ Home Depot to share with co-workers on his big day. It was marble flavored covered with buttercream frosting and a plastic FSU football cake topper. The lettering was made from molded white chocolates.
CUB SCOUTS CAKE
A high school friend requested this cake for the Birthday Celebration of the Boys Scouts (specifically her son's Cub Scouts). It was a full sheet marble flavored cake with buttercream frosting, Cub Scouts edible image and white chocolate molded letters and symbol.
MUSIC NOTE CAKE
I made this cake for one of my piano students' birthday. It was a chocolate cake with sweet peanut butter cream filling and frosted with the same. The music notes were made using chocolate molds.
SUPER BOWL XLVI CAKE
I detoured from my usual 2 football Super Bowl cakes this year and did a basic sheet cake. This was a marble flavored cake and I used a licensed edible image for a nice clean look.
PIRATE CAKE
A co-worker of mine requested a pirate cake for her son's birthday. This cake was made with buttercream frosting and topped with a plastic cake topper.
ONESIE BABY SHOWER CAKE
This was made for a Cars themed baby shower. It was made of all buttercream frosting with a Cars plastic cake topper.
DROWSY POET COFFEE CUP CAKE
This was requested by a coffe lover. I obtained permission from one of his favorite coffe shops (Drowsy Poet) to put their logo on edible sugar paper to make this design. It was a Mocha cake covered in fondant and Buttercream sprinkled with cinnamon to give the appearance of whipped cream on top!
CAPTAIN AMERICA CUPCAKES
These were requested by a Mom for her son's birthday. He took them to school to share with friends =) Shield was made with Buttercream Frosting and a White Chocolate Star.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
THOMAS THE TRAIN CAKE
This was made for a 2 yr. old boy's birthday. All is edible except for "Thomas" =) All decorations are frosting except for the rocks which were made out of fondant.
Monday, November 21, 2011
SWAMP CAKE
This has to be one of my all-time favorites! Made for a little boy that loves bugs and swamp things. The cattails were made of tootsie rolls on toothpicks. The rocks were made of fondant. The frogs, millipedes, and alligators were made of molded chocolate and all other creatures were plastic toys.
BLUE ANGELS CAKE
Copied this cake from one I had found on Google. This was for a young man's birthday. He apparently loved the Blues so I made the cake accordingly. It was chocolate with buttercream frosting and the planes were made of molded white chocolate.
Monday, November 14, 2011
DONUT CAKE
I made this for my daughter's Donut Themed Birthday. It was Almond flavored with tan buttercream frosting for the donut and pink fondant for the donut icing. The sprinkles were little fondant pieces.
HAPPY FALL CAKE
This cake was made for a friend. It was almond flavored cake with buttercream frosting & fondant cut-outs of fall items
PINK FLOWER CAKE
This was made for a woman's 80th birthday (requested by her daughter). I thought it turned out beautiful! It was Vanilla cake with Strawberry Frosting.
BABY BOY'S 1ST BIRTHDAY CAKE
This cake was made to match the plates & napkins for a baby boy's 1st birthday. It was chocolate with buttercream frosting. Also made matching smash cake (not pictured) which was basically the same as the top layer.
HELLO KITTY CAKE
CHOCOLATE CANDY BOX CAKE
This cake was requested by a husband of a confessed "choco-holic"! He thought this would be perfect for her 40th Birthday Party =) The flavor was obviously.....CHOCOLATE. It was filled with Dove chocolates and homemade white chocolates for a touch of color.
FALL THEMED WEDDING CAKE
This cake was for a Fall-Themed Wedding dressed with fresh flowers. The top & bottom layers were Marble and the middle was Yellow. I love a beautiful basket-weave frosting technique!! =)
BUSTIER/CORSET CAKE
"Bride-to-be" loved yellow so I did that & threw-in some black & white as well. Cake was Chocolate with buttercream frosting.
TEAL & BROWN PROPOSAL CAKE
SHE SAID YES!!!!! The "groom-to-be" requested his girl's favorite color (teal). He also requested chocolate cake with a pineapple filling again being her favorite =)
PINK & BROWN 13TH BIRTHDAY CAKE
This customer requested a 13th birthday cake that was pink & brown. This is what I came-up with. It was confetti with buttercream frosting & chocolate/white chocolate number & flowers.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
COACH/VICTORIA SECRET CAKE
This cake was for a Bon Voyage/Bridal Shower. She & her soon to be hubby are moving to Hawaii after the wedding. I love being able to include different themes into 1 cake. The Coach Suitcase was Almond covered with fondant and the VS box was marble with buttercream frosting. Passport & License plate were made of fondant.
SEASHELL BEACH CAKE
I had so much fun making this cake. The groom requested the bottom layer be brownie since he doesn't care for cake (which I'm pretty sure is a sin) ;-) And the other 2 layers were Marble. The seashells turned out great!!
FLIP FLOP BEACH CAKE
This was for my daughter's 8th Birthday. We had a lovely swimming party @ a beach front condo IN THE MIDDLE OF TROPICAL STORM LEE!! I guarantee you the kids will never 4get it though! Per her request, the top was lemon and the bottom was Confetti. The flip-flops & starfish were made from white chocolates.
Friday, August 5, 2011
PINK & GREEN BIRTHDAY CAKE
This was a vanilla cake with buttercream filling covered in fondant. It was ordered by a young girl for her birthday.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
BABY SHOWER CAKE TO MATCH NURSERY
This cake was made with love for my best friend of over 25 years. I made it to match her bedding fabric for little Asher's nursery. Below is a picture of the fabric that it was matched to.
BABY SHOWER CAKE TO MATCH NURSERY II
This was a cake for my Best Friend's sister, who happens to be MY sister's best friend. Did you get all that? =) I made her cake to match little Liam's nursery as well. These sisters are due a week apart!!! Therefore this was a joint baby shower cake project =) Below is a pic of the Pottery Barn airplanes she is having hung which was my inspiration for this cake.
SMURFETTE CAKE
A lady ordered this cake for her niece's birthday. This particularly brought back memories for me growing-up in the 80's & 90's!!! =)
FATHER'S DAY REMOTE CONTROL CAKE
This was a Father's Day cake for a dear friend of the family. When I asked what he enjoys for inspiration for a cake, she mentioned relaxing in his reclinder as one. So since I wasn't sure about tackling a recliner I decided to suggest a remote control which usually coincides with a recliner =)
ATTORNEY CAKE
A Mother ordered this for her son's birthday who happens to be an attorney. The Gavel & other pieces are made of chocolate by using molds. This was a yummy carrot cake with buttercream frosting.
JUNGLE ANIMAL BABY SHOWER CAKE
The animals were all made of fondant as was the baby & blanket. The expectant mother had painted the nursery with grass on the bottom half of the wall & clouds on top so I iced the cake to match that.
WELCOME BABY CAKE
My friend Nikki "half" joked it would be nice to have a "Welcome to the World" cake for her newborn Millie when she came to visit me so we whipped this up one night while she was here. She's GREAT @ free-handing so she did the continents. It was chocolate per her request ;-)
ANIMAL PRINT CAKE
This cake was made for a teenage girl for her birthday. This cake uses a new product called "cake tattoos". The top layer was vanilla and the bottom was red velvet.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
9 YR. OLD GIRL'S BIRTHDAY CAKE
My friend's daughter had a specific design she wanted for her cake and this was it!! It was Confetti on the bottom with Mint Chocolate Chip on the top.
UWF CUPCAKES
These were cupcakes given to the UWF baseball team the day before they left for their 1st ever College World Series!!
GRADUATION CAKES
These were requested for 4 little Kindergarteners graduating together. The cake was Confetti with Buttercream Frosting.
Monday, May 2, 2011
GIRAFFE BIRTHDAY CAKE
Received a request for a 3 tier cake with giraffe print & a bright pink bow on top.
I loved the way it turned out!!
Friday, April 29, 2011
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