Princess Cake

The perfect cake for a princess. Her mom wanted something simple but really sparkly, you cant really see it very well in the pictures but both tiers were airbrushed with silver shimmer to make them super sparkly. This turned out to be one of my all time favorites, I love how girly and dainty it seems!

Halloween Cake

 This little boy had his birthday party on Halloween, so his mom wanted to do a total Halloween theme. She found this online and sent me the picture so I could duplicate it. It's not exactly the same as the picture (minus a topper she was unable to find) but all the kids loved it!

Baby Bum Cake

I absolutely love these cakes! They are also surprisingly easy to make also, all you do is bake the top cake in a bowl instead of a pan! The legs and feet are of course shaped with fondant, but they are so versatile and can be made for either boys or girls.

Poker Cake

This cake was for a friends dads birthday. He is a huge poker player so we thought it would be fun to have his picture put on some of the poker chips!

Baby dress

I had a tough time with this cake, this is the second version I did.  They had given me a napkin from the baby shower and wanted the dress to match, the first one I did matched perfectly but was just not good enough for me. So the second time around it still matched, with just a little more girly details and special touches.  This was the ever propular white cake with strawberry cream filling.

Ocean/Jellyfish Cake

Luckily for this cake I had the beginning of blue fondant from another cake I was working on, my daughter decided on this design for her cake the morning of her party!! It turned out to be really easy though and looks so cute!

Zebra Print Cake

My first ever ice cream cake! Delicious! White cake with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream covered in buttercream and zebra striped with chocolate fondant. The star shape needs a little improvement I see now from the picture (stars are always my weakness). But the birthday girl loved it and it was a big hit at the party.

Wow Wow Wubzy Cake

Wow Wow Wubzy was this little guys favorite show, so I tried to capture all the fun and playfullness!

Penguins Cake

 A delicious red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, chopped walnuts around the sides and super cute little penguins on top. This was a last minute morning of added on to another cake order I was already doing. Surprisingly these little penguins were so easy!

Camera Cake

 This was for a very dear friends birthday. I was experimenting with the sugar to look like the glass for the lens and the viewer, it didn't quite turn out as clear as I wanted but it was still pretty good! Both the camera body and the length of the lens are cake.

Zebra Print

This one turned out really great, she gave me a napkin from her theme and I just copied it right onto the cake. The colors are all airbrushed and matched perfectly!

Lego Star Wars

This is one that I wish everyone could see in person. The background was airbrushed with silver shimmer so it looked like sparkly stars in space and then the faint red behind the characters was a deep sparkling red it was super pretty. The characters were pieced to gether and detailed using gumpaste and their light sabers were real glowsticks that would glow for the party. This cake was also a new flavor, chocolate cake with bavarian cream filling.

Lightning Mcqueen

Lightning Mcqueen did not exactly turn out like l would have liked, but he still looks great. After I made the chocolate cake and froze it I was able to carve out the shape. Unfortunately he is a little shorter than I wanted. It was still more than enough cake to feed the party though, so that makes it a success!

Mater Cake

This was a Cars sort of week. This was for one of my daycare kids, sort of last minute it took forever for him to make up his mind about what he wanted. So finally on the day it needed to be done he chose Mater! Surprisingly easy if you can believe it, it just sort of fell together. Its chocolate cake that I put in the freezer for an hour or so then it was much easier to carve out and cover with fondant, then airbrush and put the details on.

Missionary Shirt

A really nice lady wanted to celebrate her son coming home from his mission. This was a super yummy white cake with strawberry cream filling and covered with buttercream and fondant. It's pretty simple, but they loved it!

Frog Luau

This cake was so fun and pretty to make. A little girl was having a frog luau party for her birthday so I just kind of copied the napkins and plates to make the cake match. The frogs are made from frozen buttercream and the flowers and leaves are made from gumpaste.

Road of life cake

This cake was for a fellow daycare provoder whos husband was retiring from the Air Force. She wanted to do special moments throughout their life to highlight and share with their friends. She brought me some picture that I had printed out on ediblae paper and then put them onto dried gumpaste backgrounds to look like billboards along their road to retirement. The shape was pretty difficult but thanks to my super talented husband and the internet I was able to carve it out and make it look great!

Hunting cake

This cake was done for a little boys first birthday. His dad was big hunter so she wanted some thing camo with animals. Unfortunately I havent mastered the modeling yet so the animals are plastic toys, but the leaves and everything else are gum paste.

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!!

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.

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!