Saturday, December 6, 2008

Merry Christmas!

This cake was actually for a birthday. The recipient loves ornaments. So I decided to make a cake that displayed all different kinds of them. The cake is a butter cake with buttercream icing and covered in marshmallow fondant.


















Happy Thanksgiving!

I had an order for a Thanksgiving cake. This was for a repeat customer that always gives me free reign with the decorating. She gives me the theme and I get to be creative. I had a lot of fun working with this cake. Both layers are a butter cake with buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant.






German Chocolate Cake

I do not consider myself a baker, but I do enjoy baking. When I got an order for a German Chocolate cake I jumped at the opportunity. The first thing she said was that she didn't need a "pretty" cake, but I could not give her a cake that was not at least a little decorated.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Happy Birthday Hallie!


My sister-in-law turned 14 years old today!! She is a cheerleader for her school's football team so I made the cake with a sports theme.
It is a butter flavored cake with buttercream icing and covered in marshmallow fondant. I made some footballs, pom-poms, and batons to go around the cake.

Spiderman Protects the City

My son's birthday was this past week. We celebrated by going to Chuck-E-Cheese! We usually go there just as a family, but he had mentioned he would love a big party there. Even though we went to CEC, he said he wanted a spiderman cake. I did some browsing and saw a white fondant covered cake with spiderman crawling on a web over the top. I thought it would be cool to put a city on the side so spiderman could be doing what he does best-protecting the city!




Here is my handsome son!

Friday, November 21, 2008

"You're the reason for the tear drops on my guitar..."

All day long I have had Taylor Swift's song on my mind. It could be because I was working on a guitar cake. I guess it was fitting. I only know that one line so singing it over and over again began driving me crazy and I had to turn on some other songs to help my sanity. The funny thing was that as soon the music stopped, that song popped back into my head. I think I will have to listen to all of it so it won't be just a one liner in my head anymore.

This is yellow cake with buttercream icing covered in fondant. I painted the "wood finish" on with a paint brush using icing/food coloring.


Thursday, November 13, 2008

Batter Up!

This cake was made for one of my students that I taught my very first year. I had a lot of fun making it. I think the next time I do this, I might try making the field out of fondant. The inside of the cake is chocolate and it is covered with buttercream icing.

Present Cake with bow

The inside of this present is white cake with buttercream icing. It is covered in marshmallow fondant.


Monday, November 10, 2008

Every Heart Beats True for the Red, White, & Blue!

I had an order for some cupcakes that were to serve a dual purpose. They were going to celebrate Veteran's Day, but also her son's birthday. This is the first year her son has been in school on the day he was born-Veteran's Day. She also wanted me to put something on top of them for the kids to take with them. I figured a flag was the perfect thing.


Saturday, November 8, 2008

Auburn Cake


For those of you who know me, you know making this cake was extremely hard for me. I am a huge Alabama fan and to top it all off, I was finishing the cake while we were losing the game to LSU. Thankfully we won! It made me feel a little better about making this. So for those of you who are Auburn fans, I am capable of making a cake for you. It will be hard, but I will be able to do it.

Friday, November 7, 2008

A Movie and Popcorn

This cake was so much fun to make!! The thing I enjoyed the most about this one is that it is my own design. When I was asked to make a cake with a "going to the movies" theme, I knew immediately what I wanted to do. There had to be a movie reel, some popcorn and some movie tickets on it. I tried to make the tickets look as close to a real ticket as possible. The cake is butter yellow with buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant.

Customer Comments: "Hey Cake Queen! My sister saw Chloe's cake and had a fit. ....Thanks again for Chloe's ~ It was more than I hoped." Lisa

Present with a bow

I made this cake for a sweet friend. Her daughter is turning eight. The cake is chocolate with buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Baby Shower

This cake is for a very special person. I made it for my cooperating teacher (the teacher that taught me so much of what I know now about teaching). Every cake I ever make her has to be chocolate. So when her baby showered was planned, yep- I made it chocolate. The baby was formed out of fondant and is laying on a "blanket" of fondant.








Curious George

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Dracula! aah, aah, aah, aah




My neighbor found out that I make cakes and asked if I would make some cupcakes for her son's birthday party. He wanted a Halloween theme. I suggested Dracula, ghosts, and jack-o-laterns. Dracula won.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

For Aidan!

My nephew just turned two. We were going to have a party for
him a few weeks ago, but the Friday before the big day he ended
up having to have some surgery. So my family finally got together
today and I was able to make him this cake. I found my inspiration on
my favorite cake blog: The Pink Cake Box. It looks so much better
than this, but I have a lot to learn. I am still very happy with the
way it turned out. My nephew loves to play with bouncy balls so as a
gift, I filled the dump truck up with all kinds of them. I ended up buying too
many. The ones that wouldn't fit in there ended up being his favorite!
Happy Birthday little guy!
The fondant that I make is really soft. So I am doing an experiment
to see how long it needs to air dry to do the things I would like to do.
For example, the cake I was imitating had the back of the dump truck lifted
off the cake in dumping mode. The fondant was too soft so I couldn't do that.
I will see if I can fix it or I might have to find a new recipe.






Go Seminole Indians!


I don't know if you will be able to see this one well or not.
My sister had her twenty year class reunion and she
asked me to do the cake. I used my overhead projector
to pipe in the Indian head. I know my free hand is
still little to be desired, but practice makes you better.
I am still working on it.

Baby Shower Cake


This cake was made for one of my friend's at school. She loves chocolate cake! So I granted her wish. Her daughter's initials are on the top of the cake.


Saturday, October 18, 2008

Misc.

A teacher at school requested a wedding cake. As you can see there were special instructions. It needed to look 40-50 years old and be crawling with little nasties. I put little spider webs on it with spiders all over it. There are candy mice crawling on and in it. The students later added the gummy worms. I also added green food coloring to the butter cake so when they cut into it, it looked molded. What can I say, YUM!! Okay, not so much!
My best friend was having a cake walk at her church's fall festival. She requested a pumpkin cake. I did my best!


A friend of mine is a teacher and she teaches a unit about Egypt. At the end of her unit she presented her class with an Egyptian pyramid filled with chocolate goodies! They loved it! This is butter cake with buttercream icing sprinkled with brown sugar.

This cake was for my in-laws anniversary. I had never made a three layered cake before. Needless to say, I learned my lesson with this one. I did make each layer a different flavor-white, chocolate, and strawberry.


This was one of my first attempts using my cake overhead projector. The next cake I made had ballerina slippers in each corner and the words in the middle. You learn something new with each cake you make.

birthday cakes

Chocolate cake with buttercream icing.Good ole Tigger!

R2D2


My best friend's son had a bowling party so only bowling pins would do!



Batman Cake: buttercream icing with fondant decorations.


Who doesn't love Scooby Doo! I used my airbrush machine on this one. It is also covered in buttercream icing.





I just started using the air brush machine. My goal was for everything to just look smooth and not blotchy.


This was my second attempt on making fondant bows. I had a lot of fun making this cake!

When I started carving cakes, I started simple. I used buttercream icing, my airbrush machine and some fondant for the wheels and axels.

This cake was for my boss at school. It was my first attempt at making fondant bows. When she got the cake, she made the 5 look like a 3. She didn't want to admit that she was turning 50!



My sweet sister-in-law celebrated her birthday this year and she picked this cake out. It is buttercream icing with fondant decorations.


This is my second attempt on carving a cake. This was my first attempt at layering colors using the air brush machine. It was completely covered in fondant. It took me awhile to finish it, but it was worth every minute. I learned so much.