Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Happy New Year cake


This is a butter cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Yellow roses


This is a vanilla cake with buttercream icing. The decoration is all buttercream. I need to practice a little more on my buttercream roses.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Wine Bottle in crate cake





This was my first attempt at the wine bottle. This was a german chocolate cake with coconut and pecan filling, chocolate ganache and chocolate butter cream icing. This was constructed out of two cakes the first was cut into a wine bottle shape and then covered in green fondant. I painted it using a blue and green food coloring gel and vodka. The label was made out of gumpaste. I uses a edible marker to write on the label. The 2nd cake was cut into a box shaped, then covered in fondant. I painted the brown and white marbled fondant with brown food coloring gel and vodka. The straw was made out of gumpaste and the cigars were made out of fondant. i need to work on my bottle shaping a little better next time and not make the crate cake so big.

Christmas Wreath cake


This is a vanilla cake with with white and green butter cream icing. The berries where made out of fondant, dipped in syrup and colored sugar cystrals. The bow was made from gumpaste and fondant.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christmas tree cakes




One tree is chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream filling and chocolate buttercream filling stacked and covered in chocolate ganache and piped in green colored buttercream icing. The other tree is vanilla cake with pineapple and strawberry fruit filling piped in buttercream icing as well. The ornaments were made out of fondant. I painted them with karo sugar and then dipped them in edible glitter and colored sugar sprinkles. I made the presents out of
rice krispies and covered them in fondant.

Tiffany box cake




This is a chocolate 6in square 2 layer cake with white chocolate buttercream filling, iced in chocolate ganache and chocolate buttercream and fondant.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Small hat box cake







This was a vanilla cake with pineapple fruit filling and buttercream icing.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Purse and pearl cake





This is a german chocolate cake with pecan and coconut filling, covered in chocolate garnache, chocolate buttercream icing and chocolate fondant. The other decorations on the purse were made out of gumpaste. The pearls were made with fondant and painted with pearl dust.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Carnival cake and cupcakes



This is a 3 tiered vanilla cake w/ almond flavoring and buttercream filling. Covered in buttercream icing with fondant and gumpaste accents. The topper was made with rice krispies and covered in gumpaste. The cupcakes are vanilla cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents also.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Ming Ming Cake


I started out with a 1/2 sheet vanilla cake and cut it out in the character Ming Ming. The cake was iced with buttercream icing using the grass tip. The mouth and feet where made out of rice krispies and then covered in fondant. The other decorations where made from fondant.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Cherry Blossom Cake


This is a golden yellow cake with chocolate buttercream icing covered in fondant. The twigs and cherry blossom flowers are made of fondant.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Football & Jersey Cake





I have done this cake several times. This is a white, almond flavored cake with buttercream icing. The top in pipped to look like grass. The football was carved out of a 2 layer chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling covered in chocolate fondant. The jersey and other decor was made of fondant and gumpaste.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Church Financial Class cake




This is the begining. I have been trying to start this blog for sometime now and I'm finally doing it. Yea!! One thing down and 50 more to go.
This cake was done for a church financial class graduation. I was told to come up with something nice for the class members and this is what I came up with. This is a 1/2 sheet white cake w/ almond flavoring, buttercream icing with gumpaste and fondant accents. This cake was designed to be a reminder of what the participants learned in class. That God will provide us with his blessings but he expects up to be good stewarts by giving back in the form of tithe, to save and to follow a budget.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Happy Birthday Daja

This is a white cake w/ almond flavoring covered in buttercream icing. The flowers are made of fondant.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Twins Birthday Cakes




I did these cakes for my goddaughter and son. They are both white cake w/ almond flavoring with buttercream icing. The balls on the sport cake was made of fondant.

Happy 50th/ Casino Night



This cake was for a male 50th birthday. It's a 1/2 sheet 2 layer white cake w/ almond flavoring,buttercream filling and icing with fondant accents. The border is covered in hand made pearls dusted with black and blue luster dust. The cards, dice and pocker chips were all made of gumpaste.

Rattle and Bow cake

This is a white cake w/ almond flavoring, iced in buttercream with fondant accents.
The bow was made out of chocolate fondant but the rattle was made out of gum paste.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Pearls and roses cake


I made this cake for my friend Mira and her friend Happy. This a vanilla cake with almond flavoring, strawberry fruit filling and buttercream icing. The pearls and flowers are made of fondant painted with edible luster dust.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Falling Leaves


This is a 1/2 sheet cake 1/4 white and 1/4 strawberry, covered in buttercream icing. I used cookies cutter in various leaf shape to mark the shape onto the cake. I outlined the leaves in chocolate buttercream and use piping gel in various colors to paint the leaves.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Polk-a dot Cake

This was a 1/4 sheet 2 layer white cake with almond flavoring covered in buttercream icing w/ fondant polk-a- dots and balls, cut out into the number one.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

Basketball Team Cake

My friend's daughter played basketball for the YMCA. This was the cake I did for their end of season award celebration. It was a 1/2 sheet white cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Designer shoes and shoe boxes



I was asked to make a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. This was my first attempt in making gumpaste shoes. The shoes were placed on top of 4 shoe boxes made of white and chocolate cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Transformer Cake



This was 1/2 sheet white cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents. The transformer character is made entirely out of fondant, patched together and outlined in buttercream icing.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Jewelry Party Cake



My friend was having a jewelry party and wanted a cake. This is what I came up with. I used some of the jewelry she was selling as my inspiration. This was a 1/4 sheet white cake with buttercream icing. All the jewelry was made by hand with fondant and then painted with luster dust.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

1st Birthday Cake

This was a 3 tiered cake, vanilla cake with buttercream filling, chocolate cake with chocolate moouse filling and strawberry cake with strawberry fruit filling, iced in buttercream with fondant accents.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Wedding and Groom's Cake



I did this cake for a friend's wedding. The wedding cake was white with almond flavoring, buttercream filling and icing. Fresh flowers were used to decorate the wedding cake. The groom's cake was chocolate cake with vanilla fondant and fondant accents.