Dog cake and cupcakes

A friend's daughter decided that she wanted to do a dog theme for her birthday, but she wanted chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Her mom thought that was way to much chocolate for everyone so instead of another cake or convincing her daughter to change her flavors she decided to add vanilla cupcakes! Great idea, and thanks to a friend (thanks Allie) who told me about these great cupcake books I had the perfect design!

Baby Shower

I have wanted to do this cute baby cake forever, but people always had their design picked out already. So finally I was asked to do a cake and they gave me free reign to choose whatever design I wanted, I was so excited! But with my excitement came some problems also, one being my forgetfulness on how much fondant it takes to cover a cake this big. So if you notice the flesh tones to be a bit off.......well I tried my very best to match. The other is the bubbling problem I had with the fondant, not really sure what happened this time but the fondant I have done since then has worked perfectly. So I guess moral of the story is.......don't get too excited until its done!!

Tiki Cake

This cake was super fun to do it was really easy and playfull. The whole thing is cake, the face is just stacked and filled cakes on top of another cake for the base. The whole thing is covered with buttercream with fondant decorations.

Pokemon Cake

Another day care provider ordered this one from me for her son. I had this great idea to cut the flames from fondant, and to airbrush them to look like flames for the border on the bottom. Well......it didn't work. So instead I decided to just use the buttercream and then swirl it together with the different colors, and it turned out so much better than I thought it would. For the Charizard and the words on the top I used colorflow so it would dry hard and I could just place it on the top. The little boy absolutely loved it!

Willy Wonka

This year for my daughters birthday party they decided to do a Willy Wonka theme, great idea I don't know why we never did it before! Normally for their party I am so busy getting everything ready that I just throw together a cake at the last minute which means unfortunately for them its not a very good looking cake. But not this year, they finally got a good one!! The hat is white cake, the pink layer is chocolate cake with buttercream filling, and the bottom layer is strawberry and vanilla cake swirled together with a strawberry cream filling. The whole thing is covered with mmf and store bought candy, speaking of candy how is a candy store completely out of round lollipops?? That was the only thing missing from the cake. But it turned out great anyway!

Spongebob

Spongebob! Very proud of myself, this was all freehand. The girls have a big pillow that is shaped like Spongebob so I just used that as a reference. The whole thing is done in buttercream exept the legs, shoes and arms are fondant.

Spring wedding

And finally my masterpiece!! This was a wedding cake done for some friends from church, the only request they had was to make it springy. All three tiers are different flavors with different designs but all were covered in mmf. The flowers are silk flowers. I found that easier than trying to find the perfect, non-pesticide, in season, affordable real flowers in Alaska. It turned out beter than I could have hoped, I actually shed a tear or two when I finally finished!

Mad Hatter

All right with this one please dont pay any attention to the mess surrounding the cake! This cake was one of my few meltdowns. Our friends daughter was having an Alice in wonderland 15th birthday party. So she wanted a chocolate mocha cake for the hat and then the bottom was a basic white stacked cake filled with buttercream. So the bottom turned out awesome, then it was time to make the hat. I found an awesomely yummy recipe for a chocolate mocha cake that I baked in different shaped pans and then stacked with the mocha cream as the filling. So to make a long story short this is the third attempt at the hat after the first one collapsed and then was thrown on the floor, then after being re-baked again it was not tall enough, so finally a third batch was perfect! The brim of the hat was made from gum paste which unfortunately cracked when I added the cake to it, then my first time airbrushing had the purple way darker than I had intended. But thank goodness the party was on Halloween night which made the cake seem perfect!!

Graduation

A very good frien of our graduated from college so his wife had me make this for a surpriswe for him. The cake is actually chocolate chip banana bread that I baked in this shaped pan instead of like a loaf, then frosted with chocolate ganache and used buttercream for the details. It was sooooo good!

First Communion

This one is another awesome carrot cake but this time I did the cream cheese frosting underneath the fondant. This was also a shaped pan and I just had to put the details on.

Strawberry Shortcake

So everytime I do these type of vakes I feel like I am cheating. But on the other hand they go so quick and turn out so cute and I dont have to trace or cut anything! It is a shaped pan that I just have to fill in with buttercream frosting. This one just happened to be a strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Roller Skates

A friend of mine works with a lady who does roller derby so they asked for a cake for her for her birthday. The cake is the best carrot cake ever made (from scratch by me of course)! The frosting is cream cheese frosting which is not the easiest for decorating and making completely smooth. The skates and stars are made from fondant. For the skates I made a pattern from wax paper that I traced from the internet. The laces are also fondant that I halfway mixed different colors together to make them rainbow colored.

Hannah Montana

This one was pretty fun to make. All I did was find a big picture of a guitar on the internet and then I used wax paper and traced the shape from the computer. Then I baked a half sheet cake and cut it using the wax paper pattern I traced. Super simple! Then I used a regular 9x13 pan and cut it and peiced it together for the neck of the guitar. Then covered it in mmf and added all the details. The name on it doesnt say Hannah because I wanted it to say the little girls name. I used a piping gel tranfer to copy the way Hannah Montana is written and then just changed the letters. She loved her cake!

Wrestling

This one was sort of my first themed cake. The top and the words on the side are mmf and the black sides are buttercream . The ropes and the corners of the ring are from an actual toy wrestling ring so they are not edible.

Basketball

This was pretty fun to make, it is a half sheet cake frosted with buttercream and then brushed with a pastry brush with some brown food coloring to give it the wood floor look. The ball is a half circle pan covered with tip #5 buttercream circles. Super easy and looked just like a real ball!!

Releif Society

This was another one for a church activity. It is marble cake covered in mmf. The designs and the words are piped with buttercream and then brushed with the lustre dust to make it gold. The hearts are fondant.

Space

This one was so neat in person. The space ship is an oval shaped cake that I put onto a square cake. The whole thing is covered with mmf and then airbrushed with the lustre powder to make it look sparly like space. The planets are actually styrophome balls covered with the fondant and then painted. The smoke and fire are buttercream.

Car crash

I had a lady call and tell me that they were having a party because they totaled their car. Kind of strange I know, but it was an older car and they were happy to be rid of it and get a new one. So for their party I made them this one. The car itself is cake that I cut and shaped into a car and then covered it with mmf and crushed in the side of it and colored it all with buttercream, then I put the car on a regular 9x13 cake and made it look kind of like an icy road.

Girl Scouts

One of my neighbors was a troop leader and asked me to do a cake for a ceremony they were having. This one I had a hard time covering the whole thing with the fondant, so I had to improvise. The top is chocolate mmf with buttercream for the picture, the sides are buttercream and then I pressed into it chopped up chocolate chips. I think it looks like a big ice cream sandwich!

Butterfly

I used a half sheet cake and then cut it in the shape of the butterfly then covered it with mmf. Then I airbrushed the whole thing with the lustre powder to make it look sparkly . All little girls like sparkle!

BumbleBee

Okay I know youre thinking "yeah right that thing is not a cake!" Well it is not ALL cake but it is all edible. It was actually a lot easier than you might think, my genious of a husband came up with the great idea to use the bumblebee mask that you can buy at the store. So I covered the mask with gumpaste and let it harden, then I took it off of the mask and placed it over the cake and added all the detail out of mmf. This one truly received the jaw dropping response I hoped for!

Pirate

I think this one was super cute! It was a marble cake covered in chocolate buttercream, which is sooooo good by the way! The sand is crushed up chocolate chip cookies, the coins are mmf that I cut with round cutters and then indented the letters to make their names. The words, chest, boy and trees are all color flow that I made a pattern from and just filled in with the icing. It looked so awesome!

Wedding Cake

This was my very first wedding cake. Not the picture I had in my head but everyone loved it just the same. It is completely covered in mmf and the flowers are made from buttercream.

Slumber party

This is one of my favorites! It was a last minute order for a slumber party.
For the little girl I used mmf and shaped it into her body and then covered with mmf that I colored and cut it into squares to make the quilt. The hair is also mmf that I cut into small strips and braided together. The flowers were done using a flower cutter.

Las Vegas

This was my first really big order and was so fun to make. My sister was in town so I had her helping me and she was very stressed out and nervous, but she was a great helper!
All three tiers are covered in mmf, the dice were cut with small cookie cutters and painted with food coloring, all other shapes were cut using a pattern that I made and then painted, the dice were just hand shaped into squares, and the cards were made from colorflow icing.

Lighthouse

This was done for a church group, they gave me one of their invitations and I copied the picture that was on the front. This one is all vanilla buttercream, with brown sugar on the bottom for the beach.

Jersey

This cake was huge! It was 2 half sheet cakes put together and then cut into shape. The orange and blue is vanilla buttercream and the numbers and the name are marshmallow fondant.

Guam Seal

This was the Guam seal done for a friend for his birthday. It is yummy ganache, with white buttercream covering a marble cake.