Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Red Flourish Wedding Cake



This 3-tier cake was for a fall wedding and is covered in my homemade marshmallow fondant and decorated with red buttercream flourishes and brown fabric ribbon. The monogram on top was provided by the bride. The sheet cake was designed to match the tiered cake, however it is covered in buttercream icing.

Purple & White Wedding Cake




This bride wanted each tier of her wedding cake to different. All three tiers are covered in my homemade marshmallow fondant. The bottom tier has the quote "You had me from hello", the middle tier is covered in buttercream dark purple flourishes, and the top tier has a royal icing dark purple monogram and is topped with a dark purple fondant tied bow (although in these pictures it is difficult to see). All three tiers have buttercream bead border.


Polka Dot & Butterfly Baby Shower Cake


This 10" baby shower cake was so simple, yet it turned out to be one of my favorite cakes! It is iced and decorated (the bead border and polka dots) with buttercream icing. The butterflies are made out of fondant and their bodies are sugar pearls.

Commander Cody Cake


This helmet (which is approximately 10" tall) sits on top of a 10" cake. They are both covered and decorated with my homemade marshmallow fondant.

OSU Helmet Cake


This is the top view of an OSU helmet for a rehearsal dinner. This cake stands approximately 9" tall and is surrounded by homemade candy buckeyes. The cake is covered and decorated with my homemade marshmallow fondant.

50th Birthday Sheet Cake


This sheet cake is covered and decorate with buttercream icing.

Black Flourishes


This 6" cake is covered in my homemade marshmallow fondant and decorated with buttercream icing flourishes and black fabric ribbon.

Bicycle Cake


This 10" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing. The birthday girl was getting a bicycle as her gift, so the cake was meant to coordinate with that!

Buddy/Dinosaur Train Cake


This 8" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing. The birthday girl loves the show Dinosaur Train and Buddy is her favorite character!

Fly Fisherman Cake


This 8" cake is iced and decorated in buttercream icing. The birthday boy loves fly fishing!

Red & White Wedding Cake


This 3-tier wedding cake is covered in my homemade marshmallow fondant and decorated with red fabric ribbon and a fondant bow. The monogram on the front is made from royal icing and is edible.

Construction Cake


This 10" round cake is covered in buttercream icing and the construction banner, road, signs and boulders are made from my homemade marshmallow fondant. The trucks are Matchbox trucks that the birthday boy got to keep!

Hotdog Cake


This 2 foot long hotdog was mage for a hotdog themed party! It is covered with my homemade marshmallow fondant and the "ketchup" and "mustard" are buttercream icing.

Graduation Sheet Cake


This full sheet cake is iced and decorated in buttercream icing. This high school graduate was voted most likely to wear sweatpants every day, so her mom wanted a pair of sweatpants on the cake!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Guitar Cake


This guitar cake is covered and decorated in my homemade marshmallow fondant and the guitar strings are buttercream icing. It measures approximately 18" long and at it's widest is 10". I made this for my uncle who plays guitar!

Sugared Strawberries Cake


This is an 8" cake covered in white chocolate buttercream icing and decorated with shell border, sugared strawberries and white chocolate flourishes. I made this for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day and she loved it!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Purse Cake




This is a sculpted cake (it measures about 9 inches long, 5 inches tall and 5 inches wide) and is covered and decorated in my homemade marshmallow fondant. It is entirely edible! This is my new favorite cake (I really love the zipper!) and my client was thrilled! It was for her mom's birthday and her mom really loves purses, especially Coach.

Indians Cake


This 10" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing for a Cleveland Indians fan!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Giraffe Cake



This giraffe cake was for my godson's first birthday. Yes, I know it doesn't have a long neck, but it was meant to be a cutesy, baby no-neck giraffe based off of one of his stuffed animals! This cake was sculpted and is covered and decorated in buttercream icing and his ears, horns, and tail are made from my homemade marshmallow fondant.

Boy Dinosaur


This dinosaur cake was for my nephew's first birthday (that's his smash cake in the background!). They are both covered and decorated in buttercream icing and the spikes and the number 1 are both made from tinted white chocolate.

Girl Dinosaur


This dinosaur cake is my most requested cake and this was for a little girl's birthday. It is covered and decorated in buttercream icing and the pink spikes are tinted white chocolate.

Lego Cake


This 9x12 cake was for a boy's 4th birthday and he loves Legos and Lego video games (especially Lego Indiana Jones) so they wanted this set of toy legos on top of the cake. I added an extra little hill of cake for an action scene and "sand" from graham cracker crumbs. The sides of the cake had chocolate chunks pressed into the chocolate buttercream icing because he loves chocolate!

40th Birthday Cake


This 9x12 cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Grandma's 90th Birthday Cake



I made this cake for my Grandma's 90th Birthday Party. The 12" and 10" tiers are both covered in my homemade fondant and have turquoise ribbon border. The roses, petunias and primroses on the top are made from royal icing with buttercream leaves.

Pink & Black Wedding Cake


This is my first wedding cake! The layers are 16", 12" and 8" and all covered in my homemade fondant and have silver fabric ribbon borders. The "W" is made from royal icing and sprinkled with edible glitter to give it a little sparkle. I made the cake topper too which are silk Gerbera Daisies.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Elmo Cake


This 10" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing. I think Elmo's face turned out adorable and the yellow background contrasts nicely with Elmo's red fur!

Fancy Cupcakes


These were the cupcakes for the adults at my niece's birthday party! They're topped with my chocolate buttercream icing and toasted coconut.

Mickey Cupcakes


I made these Mickey Mouse cupcakes for my nieces for their birthdays. They're topped with buttercream icing and the Mickey heads are made from my homemade fondant.

Rose Cake


This 6" cake is covered in my homemade fondant and decorated with buttercream roses. The purple border is fabric ribbon.

Flourish Cake


This 6" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing with flourishes and a bead border.

Violet Cake


This 6" cake is covered and decorated in buttercream icing. The tiny violets are made from royal icing, so they harden as they dry, but are still edible.

Italian Flag Birthday Cake


A 10" cake covered and decorated in white chocolate buttercream icing. It has a shell border with a tiny star between each shell.

30th Birthday Cake


This 30th birthday cake was made to look like the 40th cake I did in October. It's a 10" cake covered and decorated in buttercream icing.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Tinkerbell Cake





This cake was made for a girl's fourth Tinkerbell themed birthday party and is one of my new favorites! The cakes are 8" and 10" and the mushroom on top is also cake which I cut freehand. All of the cakes are covered in fondant. The white ribbon is fabric and the shapes on the cakes and the daisies and ribbon roses are all fondant also. The Tinkerbell figurine on top of the mushroom was provided by the party host.

Camouflage Cake


I was really pleased with how this camouflage cake turned out! It is an 8" cake covered and decorated with buttercream icing. The camo was done with a star tip and has a bead border.

Bowling Cake


This cake was made to match the magnet on the cake board for a family bowling event. I cut the bowling pin cake out by hand which measured about 13" tall and the bowling ball is a 6" cake. Both are covered and decorated in buttercream icing.

Polka Dot 1st Birthday Cake


This cake was made for a girl's first birthday party. The bottom tier is 10" and the top tier and the smash cake are 6". All the cakes are covered and decorated in buttercream icing.

Halloween Cupcakes


My Halloween Cupcakes! The Great Pumpkin: pumpkin cupcake with vanilla buttercream, Cakenstein: chocolate cake with almond buttercream, and Mmmmmmummy: white cake with white chocolate buttercream.