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.