Quadruple Birthday Celebration

The same lady who ordered the rock-n-roll cake last weekend called me this week with an original (at least to me) idea.  Her family is having a group celebration this weekend for 4 different birthdays.  So, she ordered 4 cakes, each personalized for the respective birthday person.  I did 6-inch cakes.  Two are chocolate, and the other 2 are white.  All have a buttercream base, with fondant embellishments.

--May 2012

Old Time Rock & Roll Birthday Cake

Turning 80 years old calls for a celebration and an awesome cake!!  The birthday gentleman loves music, and his favorite song is "Old Time Rock & Roll."  With some input from his daughter-in-law who ordered the cake, I designed it with that in mind.  The cake is white on the bottom tier, and chocolate on the top, with a buttercream base and fondant and buttercream embellishments.  I hadn't done a lot of writing with icing in the past, but I got a lot of practice on this cake!

--May 2012

Gender Reveal Cake!

I was super pumped to be asked to do a gender reveal cake for a friend of mine.  She came straight from her sonogram appointment ... with the results sealed in an envelope ... and gave it to me!!  I love being the first to know secrets!  I tinted the white cake batter and the frosting {pink}, then covered it all with fondant, so you couldn't tell from the outside what the cake was.  She had a big family dinner and made the first cut, as they all found out together.  There's no way I would have the patience to wait, but I'm so glad she did and I got to make this super fun cake!

-May 2011

Lego Ninjago Birthday Cake

This cake was for a friend's little boy, who was turning 6 {I think, or 7}.  He picked out his favorite design from pictures his mom found online.  He was super thrilled with the Ninjago head, which I molded out of rice crispie treats! The cake is a 2-layer (one chocolate, one yellow), with a buttercream base and fondant embellishments.  I freehanded the "ninja" font and did the cutouts with a knife.  It took FOREVER!! but I was happy with the results.

-May 2012

My Little Pony Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday to my daughter's sweet friend Ella who just turned two!  Her mom picked a cake online, and I did my {best} to copy it.  Buttercream base with fondant accents and some buttercream details.  Her mom bought lollipops and a pony for the topper.

--April 2012

Baby Girl Carriage Cake

A very simple cake for a baby shower, made to match the baby carriage print of the paper goods.

--February 2012

Butterfly Birthday Cake

 This cake was for a sweet girl who wanted black and purple on her cake!  Her mom chose the butterfly theme, and we decided to add in a little pink as well.  Buttercream base with fondant accents, as well as buttercream details.  Oh, and some of the back detail on the butterflies is royal icing, which isn't ideal for cake decorating, but I had it made up for something else, so I decided to try it.  :)

--February 2012

Baby Girl Pink & Brown Cake

 This cake was for a friend's baby shower.  It has a buttercream base, with fondant accents.

 The fondant curlies were made ahead of time by cutting strips of fondant and winding it around a form.  I let them dry for a couple of days and then placed on top of the cake.

--February 2012

2nd Birthday Minnie Mouse Cake

Happy 2nd Birthday to sweet Kendyl!!

The bottom tier is buttercream with fondant accents.  The Minnie head is covered in fondant.  The Minnie ears and the bow are dried fondant.

--January 2012

Baby Boy Converse Cake

 I had so much fun making the little converse shoes for this cake.  (The feet cutouts weren't my favorite...I attempted to use cookie cutters, and they looked like alien feet!)

 The cake was a buttercream base with fondant embellishments.  Then a little buttercream detail on top of the fondant.  The brown icing and fondant is chocolate flavored.  Adding cocoa to the icing helps achieve the brown color without having to add a ton of color.

I used plastic shoe forms to get the shape of the converse, but everything else is fondant.  Edible ink pens helped me with the logo...one day I will get a food safe printer....one day!

--January 2012

Safari Baby Shower (the 2nd one)

 This cake was for a friend's baby shower.  She did her nursery in safari animals, so I wanted to match the cake.  But I decided to do a different safari cake than the one I did here.  

The bottom tier is a buttercream base, with Wilton Sugar Sheets overlaid for the zebra print.  In retrospect, I don't like the sugar sheets on the entire layer.  It's okay for embellishments, but I had to piece it together too much to cover the entire cake.

The top tier is all buttercream...I just freehanded the giraffe spots. 

All of the embellishments are fondant, with a little buttercream "grass" thrown in!  My friend was wowed and loved this cake!!

A closeup of the animals...

The back of the cake...lots of flowers and butterflies on the back.

--January 2012

Power Rangers Cake

 This cake was for a 7-year-old boy's birthday.  It was a little last minute, so his mom made it easy on me by buying the power rangers figurines.  The cutouts are fondant, the icing is buttercream, and the cake is a 2-layer vanilla cake, made rainbow style!!

I tinted the icing red/blue/green, then swirled and layered it into the pan.

One last cool thing...

I made my lightning bolt fondant cutter out of a coke can!  And...I didn't cut myself!!

--November 2011

Minnie Mouse Cake

This cake was for my sister-in-law, who just turned 1 in August.  My mother-in-law wanted to do a Minnie Mouse party, since Alana had been to Disney World 3 times before she turned 1!!  

The cake was a 2-layer chocolate, with pink fondant icing and fondant embellishments.  I used a "sports ball" pan for the mouse head, and did the ears out of fondant. 

Her smash cake was a giant cupcake, iced with buttercream.  It took her a little while to get into it, but she finally dug in and enjoyed the cake with the rest of us.

Thumbs up!!  I think she approves!

--November 2011

Princess Cake

Happy birthday to a cute little princess!!  The birthday girl wanted a princess crown that she could wear for her birthday, so that made the planning of the decorations fairly simple!  The cake is a 2-layer golden vanilla, with fondant icing.  The embellishments are buttercream, with light pink pearls.  I've still got some practicing to do on my scripting...

--October 2011

Army Cake

This cake was for my nephew's birthday party.  He had planned to have a sleepover with a few of his friends, and play "Capture the Flag" with them.  So we decided an army cake would be fun.  (Turns out his dad surprised him by hiring a laser tag company to come out, and he and his friends got to play laser tag - coolest birthday party ever, huh??!)  

This was one of the easiest cakes I've done.  I wanted the icing to look like mud, so I didn't have to worry much about getting it smooth and neat.

I decided to make the cake "camo" inside, using a chocolate batter, and a vanilla batter tinted army green.  (I didn't get a good pic of the cut cake, however.)

The icing was a chocolate buttercream.  I tinted part of it army green, and part of it a darker chocolate, to get the gradient I wanted.  And of course my nephew had plenty of army men to decorate it with!!

--October 2011