My 1St Whimsical Cake

My first attempt at a whimsical cake. I learned a LOT and my fondant skills leave much to be desired, but not a single thing went wrong with the delivery, etc and my friend LOVED IT! That was the best part :) Chocolate cake, chocolate BC filling, covered in ganache then MMF. The wire thingys at the top were all squirrely - I fixed them after this photo!

Craps Cake

All buttercream with fondant dice and poker chips.

Big Kahuna Volcano Cake

Whew. This was my last big cake before going into semi-retirement to have my baby last year. The cake is on a 21"x21" plywood base. The cake is stacked rounds, from 12" up to 6" rounds, covered in choc. BC. RI lava, pretzel/RI palm trees, totem pole is RKT covered in fondant, detail in RI. Obviously dry ice for the volcano smoke. Why the Dixie plate for the sign? I had a gumpaste "shield" that replicated the invitation (see photos). But my DH, in trying to help me set up the dry ice, spilled boiling water all over the yellow gumpaste shield which was decorated in RI. It melted and I didn't have another. So we whipped out a dixie plate and used the only (yellow) icing I could salvage to write "Happy Birthday". It was the one and only cake disaster I've ever had, and it broke my heart. Oh well! TFL...

Bowling Lightning Mcqueen

My son's 5th b-day party was at a bowling alley, and he designed the entire cake. He told me what he wanted, and I did my best to create it. LM is a toy car, the pins and ball are fondant, and everything else is BC.

Penny Poker

My great-aunt is the QUEEN of Penny Poker at her assisted living home, so I needed a cake fit for the queen! Buttercream cake with fondant playing cards and pennies.

Hula Girl

10" round, all buttercream covered in light brown sugar "sand." Fondant palm leaves on pretzel rods for the trees.

John Deere Tractor Cake

10" round, all buttercream decoration with plastic cake toppers. The child wanted a toy he could play with after he ate the cake!

Black, White, Red And Silver

This was my adaptation of a Collette Peter's cake in her book Cakes to Dream On. I made it for my great-aunt's 95th birthday. She loves to play penny poker and I thought the design was reminiscent of the suits in a deck of cards. She loved it! The top two tiers are 5" and 8" cake dummies, and the bottom is a 10" white almond cake with strawberry bc filling. Covered in fondant with RI topper.

4-Wheeler Camouflage Cake

This little boy loves all things camouflage and riding 4-wheelers, so that's what I gave him. 8" square cake.

Minnie Mouse

I've loved jaklotz1's Minnie Mouse cake so much, and have always wanted to do it. So when a friend asked to make an all-BC Minnie Mouse cake for her daughter, I knew I had to try it. This is an 8" round with 4" round ears. If I do this again I'll try a slightly different approach. Oh yeah - this was also my first attempt at writing in the Disney font. Ha!

Dr Seuss Ccc

40 filled cupcakes in the CCC, all buttercream.

Cinderella Doll Cake

My first wonder mold/doll cake, using a real Barbie chosen by the child - she wanted Cinderella to be a brunette like her.

The Roman Coliseum

This is my very first groom's cake order, and boy am I nervous! Birthday parties are one thing - but 200+ people are gonna be looking at this! It's all buttercream. The groom is from Rome, and they wanted the Coliseum iced on top of a cake. Cake is carved from a 16x12 oval.

Cupcake Ccc Template

Please pardon the crudeness of this template, but this is how I arranged the cupcakes for my CCC in the shape of a giant cupcake. TFL!

Giant Monster Truck

This was one of my favorites to do so far. Cake base is plywood, measuring 20"x24". This thing weighed a ton! Wheels are styrofoam covered in MMF. Undercarriage is painted wood, which was screwed down to the base. The truck is all cake covered in MMF. They're 8" square cakes stacked and carved on top. Chocolate cake with oreo cookies 'n cream filling.

Cupcake Ccc!

The theme for this little girl's first birthday was pretty cupcakes, so I made her a giant cupcake-cupcake cake! All buttercream with a giant fondant cherry on top.

Cars Race Track

Two 8" rounds carved and stacked together to form figure 8 track. Half sports ball pan on top, with tunnel carved through the middle for car to race through. All buttercream.

Snow White Old Witch Halloween Birthday

This was for a little girl whose birthday is on Halloween. She loves Snow White so we went with the Old Witch from the movie. "Go on dearie...take a bite!" :)

Pirate Map

all buttercream

Pink Cupcake

10" round chocolate cake with 4" round oversized cupcake. Covered in fondant.

Rubber Duckies

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - View2

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - View1

This was a real labor of love! Thanks so much to mmichelew for your help, and to all the other MM clubhouse cakes out there for inspiration!

Pink And Black Baby Shower

Man thanks to cakesbyallison for her beautiful cake photos and inspiration! Cake is white almond with fresh strawberry filling. All fondant decoration. 6" round stacked on 10" round.

Thomas Train Cake

Thank you so much to jorem for your photo, ideas and instructions! This was a fun cake to make. I carved mini loaves into the tunnel shape. All buttercream with fondant birthday sign and wooden trains. My son loved it!

Dumbo

All buttercream