Welcome and Enjoy!!

Happy New Year!! This has been a great cake year for me and I am so glad that I have been able to share them with all of you. Some through just pictures and some through actually eating and enjoying the cakes. This year my goal is to improve more, help more, teach more, learn more, and keep getting better and better to eventually do cakes full time! Fingers crossed! I hope you all have sweet dreams and happy goals to chase after and conquer this year. Always remember.............its because you deserve it!




Monday, June 13, 2011

Earth Worm



This cake turned out so super cute! The little boy was turning one and they call him wiggle worm so I had to make a worm cake. I used a fluted pan then cut it in half and covered it in fondant, it was perfect because the lines were already there in the body I just had to make them deeper. Then I used crushed up brownies for the dirt.

Shark Cake

I got a phone call from a mom whos son wanted a shark cake for his birthday, but not just any shark it had to be a Tiger Shark! So I had to cut out stencil from cardboard and airbrush them over the body to make the tiger stripe look on the sides. The fins are all made out of gumpaste that I airbrushed then stuck into the body. He loved it!!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Hello Kitty


Another Hello Kitty, this one a little different though. The last one I use the star tip to cover the whole thing, yes my hand almost fell off, but this one I covered with fondant and then covered that with sugar crystals to make her look sparkly and a little more girly and fun.

Mickey Mouse


In Kloudias social studies class they were doing a fake trip across the country, in her group their trip started at Disneyland and it was the last day of school before Christmas break so I made her a Mickey Mouse cake for her class. The sizing and dimensions are a little off but for some reason this was the day I needed to be up early to finish and my alarm chose not to go off so the picture is a little rough and it is not as great as I wanted it to be but for having about 2 hours I think it looks pretty awesome.

Piano


A friend of ours teaches piano so for the recital for her students she asked me if I could do a piano for her. This is just a basic cut out that I used a pattern that I copied from the internet onto wax paper, then used fondant for the keys. It was really short notice which I was super bummed about because I really wanted to do a big stand up piano but there wasn't enough time.

Tree of Life


On Prasila's baptism day she decide she wanted something with the tree of life. So we found this fake plant that we spray painted gold and tried to arrange to look like a tree. Then I made a little girl out of fondant to look like her holding to the iron rod walking down the path to the tree. We wished we had some dry ice or something to make the black side look just a little more dramatic but it turned out great anyway.

Triangle cake


This was just a basic cake I cut into triangles, I think you can buy triangle shaped pans though if you dont want to chance the cutting. I cut out a pattern using wax paper to follow, then I covered it with the big sugar crystals to make it look sparkly and added the silk flowers. Perfect for the winter season.

Iron Man


This was the easiest ckae ever! Sounds crazy I know, but I think it took me only about 4 hours from start to finish if thatt long. I got this really neat cake pan for Halloween that is a skeleton head, so I just used that pan and filled in the face part to make it smooth and then covered it with fondant. I had to mix a couple different colors and then airbrush it to get the right red color which is not exactly right but the parents and the little boy loved it. The little boy actually cried because he wanted to know where his cake was! His mom had to cut it to prove it was really his cake!

Running Shoe


This cake was probably one of my most difficult for some reason,it was for one of my daycare parents who coaches track at the high school. This was for their banquet at the end of the season. I didnt know exactly how to make a shoe but I thought it turned out well, I had to stack some cakes up then cut and kind of smash it together after I had it covered with fondant to give it that sort of worn used look. The logo on the side is actually a logo that one of his students had drawn himself so I was very nervous that the student wouldnt like how that part turned out, frosting is much harder to draw with than a pencil. But in the end thay all loved it!

Sesame Street


When I was researching what to do for this cake I came across a new technique, well new to me anyway, it is called frozen buttercream. It was the funnest thing to do, it is just like colorflow except you are using your regular buttercream to outline and color in a pattern and then you stick it in the freezer. Once it sets up hard you put it on the cake but as it warms up it softens out just like regular frosting so you can still eat it will the cake. I thought it was an awesome technique and couldnt believe I havent come across it before. The characters on the cake are the frozen buttercream, the rest is all fondant.