Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Baby Shower Cake - Boy

Mike and Sandy's Baby Shower Cake hosted by Gina and Jessica. This 10 inch double layered french vanilla cake had butter cream filling and was covered in fondant. The rope border was also made of fondant, with the bow being made of gumpaste. The colors used here were baby blue, and white.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Private Eye Briefcase Cake

Kale's Birthday Cake - This cake was made up of four 10 inch square cakes, cut to make the shape of briefcase. It consisted of red velvet cake and butter cream filling due to Kale preferring not to go with the traditional cream cheese frosting. The cake is covered in fondant, and gumpaste makes up the decoration. The cake was airbrushed with edible silver coloring. As, a special surprise, his "real" birthday money was hidden inside the cake protected by a zip-lock bag.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Santa Claus Cake - Christmas

Bronwen Weber from Food Network hosted a class and this is my first stand up cake figure. He stood about 18 inches tall. He was made up of white cake with butter cream filling, and fondant and gumpaste. The entire cake is edible except for the structure, but really only his body has cake. The colors used here are red, leaf green, edible gold, baby blue, white and black.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Anniversary/Dessert Cake

Mitch and Susie's 11th Anniversary Cake - This is an 8 inch double layered pineapple cake with chocolate butter cream filling. The cake is frosted with chocolate butter cream, and then glazed with chocolate, with chocolate finely chopped as a topping along with chocolate covered strawberries. The border can't be seen here, but was done in chocolate butter cream dots.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Baby Shower Cake - Boy

Amber's Baby Shower Cake hosted by her sister Angie. This is exactly the same as the pink baby shower cake except the bow had a stitching effect on it. The colors used were baby blue, white and black.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Beer Cake

Nathan's 21st Birthday Cake - This cake was made up of four 10 inch round cakes, with butter cream filling, 2 of the cakes were chocolate, and the other 2 were pineapple. Cake covered in fondant, with poured sugar and gumpaste decorations. Beer bottles made of solid chocolate and airbrushed with edible coloring and decorated with fondant for the beer labels.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Kid Painted Birthday Cake

Nancy's Birthday Cake - This was a 10 inch double layered pineapple cake with butter cream filling. It was covered with white fondant and painted with edible colors by Kendall for her mom on her birthday. The decorations were all made using fondant. The flowers on the side can't be seen, but are 2-D blossoms. The colors used in this cake are medium blue, orange, green, yellow and white.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Pittsburgh Steelers Helmet Cake


Daddy's Birthday Cake - This 3-D sculpted cake is slightly smaller than an actual helmet . It was made up from about four 8-inch round cakes. It is lemon pound cake, with butter cream filling and fondant covering with gumpaste and fondant decorations. It features #39 Willie Parker.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Baby Shower Cake - Girl

Nicole's Baby Shower Cake hosted by Jessica. This is a 10 inch and 6 inch double layered french vanilla cake with butter cream filling. This cake is covered with fondant, with decorations consisting of both fondant and gumpaste. The colors used here are pink, white and black to match invitations.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Boy's First Birthday Cake and Smash Cake

Cole's Smash Cake! This was a 6 inch white cake, with butter cream filling, covered in light blue fondant, with decoration done in various primary colors also in fondant. The cake also has a royal blue rope in fondant as a border.
Cole's 1st Birthday Cake to accompany his smash cake. This was a 10 inch chocolate cake, filled with chocolate filling, and the cake covered in vanilla butter cream, overall cake was covered in light blue fondant, with the decorations being made also of fondant in various primary colors. The cake also, has a royal blue rope fondant rope as a border.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Birthday Cake

Danny's Birthday Cake, 10 inch 2 layer white cake with butter cream filling with ivory fondant, with gumpaste brown bow and fondant rope border brushed with luster dust.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Ariel Birthday Cake

Emma's 2nd Birthday Cake! This is a 10 inch, and 6 inch double layered french vanilla cake with strawberry filling. This cake is mostly light blue colored butter cream, with the ocean blue waves being made of fondant. The decorations on the cake, consisted of gum paste figures, and some plastic toys. The top layer is decorated with sugar pearls throughout the sides, and is also the border on both tiers.