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Hmm...structure. Something I'm not so great at. Yes, I see it bulging on the side...and it dipped in the back too, but oh well. Some times you just have to do your best right? The design was cool, and so it gets posted. Hope you like it!
So, I like to think I'm cool, hip, with it. But then my 20 yr old niece..or maybe she was 19 at the time, I can't remember. Anyway, she said, "Aunt Aubrey? I want Lock, Shock and Barrel on my birthday cake." Umm....who?? Well now I know! The three little kids in Nightmare Before Christmas. How did I not know that? And how did I not know that you could paint so much detail with chocolate?!?! And all in four colors! (OK, yes, I'm sorta tooting my own horn. But come on, I used toothpicks to paint some of this!!) Insert big cheesy grin here. =->
Sooo...really I'm uploading all these pics to CC because I always come here to look for ideas and I thought, "I should give back a little." Hopefully some of my cakes will inspire others. This pic is two years old and I was up till 4 in the morning working on it.. =-< Fast forward to now and my son has requested another, skylanders cake. =-/ This time I have to do Spyro. I'm not doing a figure, I'll tell you that! =-P I think I'll to something easy. Butter cream transfer, here I come!!
Have you ever read the book Whimsical Bake House? So inspiring. That's where I learned how to do chocolate transfers. Love that book!
So I finally had a girl...which means I finally get to make a girly cake!! Woot! "Rainbow Bright! See the shining light! Starlight's looking for Rainbow Bri-i-ite!" Do you remember that song? I'm not even sure that's how it goes. But that's what I remember in my head. =-> Yes, that's her dragging her finger in it. Grandpa was giving her the whole cake! "Wait! I haven't taken a picture yet!"...besides she has her own smash cake. See? =->
Some cute candy corn cookies to go with my Halloween birthday cake.
Another Halloween birthday cake for my little guy! My husband said about the ghost's mouth, "If you were trying to draw a whale, it's the best whale I've ever seen." Ha!! Do you see it? I do. ;-P Loved this cake too. Wish I would have put even more candy on it though. The kids at the party loved getting the suckers.
This cake turned out so cool! Even the board was awesome!! My friends thought it was a center piece! The only thing I forgot to do was vein the leaves. Drat! I used pumpkin cake pans for these. Yes, I know it's cheating,...but look how neat it turned out! =->
One of my sons has a Halloween birthday. He's very proud of this special day, but he doesn't like scary stuff. So I'm always on the look out for cutesie Halloween birthday cake ideas. Here's Frank, kickin' it in the leaves. =->
OK, I must first say that before cakes, I had the artistic talent of a preschooler...Hmm...nope. I think preschoolers still drew better than me. But now?!? I don't know where it comes from. Poof! I can draw, I can paint, I can, well, make cake! This one was for my hubby! =->
Ma ha!!! THIS figure is awesome!...well, compared to some of my other figures anyway. This looks just like my husbands Silvari character in Guild Wars. Happy face! =-> <------ there it is. ;-P
Yeah, so the monk is leaning a bit. Still haven't mastered figure making all the way. ;->
Man did I almost give up on this cake. This was my 2nd attempt. I didn't dowel the first one correctly and it ended up sliding off the cake board into my fridge. =-< So after I called a cake store...crying...for a quote. I said, "No way am I paying that much money for a cake I can do myself!" Sniff. And I did it again. This time, the right way. =->
Harry Potter cake for my son's birthday. Images are chocolate transfers...you can tell because his scar is on the wrong side. Doh! ;-P
Top is a cookie. Ash and Pika at the bottom are a piece of hand painted fondant. Cake is mostly buttercream with fondant accents. For the cookie, I just printed out a picture I liked, then cut it out with a butter knife, tracing the picture around the dough. And of course I bake sticks in it so I can easily put it into the cake. =->
One of my sons was born on Halloween, so I thought this was a cute idea for his first birthday. The little haunted house is his smash cake and all the figures are chocolate. The rest of the cake is buttercream.
This was a fun cake. She's covered in fondant. Her head is a cake dummy but the rest is all cake. She has the smash cake sitting on the side and it has chocolate transfers all over it.
A cake for my niece's birthday. It's Edward and Bella in the meadow scene. I wanted to break away from the traditional book cover cakes. I think it turned out pretty cool.
Buttercream with Chocolate transfers.
Cookie plaque and fondant covered treasure chest.
The side of the cake. Chocolate stars and buttercream.
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