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Royal icing on gingerbread cookies for my daughter's second-grade gingerbread-themed class party.
For the third grade St. Valentine's Party
I got an order for princess cupcakes, so this is what I came up with. (Similar to previous Valentine cupcakes I've done.) I baked the cookies on lollipop sticks so the cupcake could support them.
My 6-year-old daughter requested a flower fairy birthday party. This is what we came up with for her cake. It was inspired by the fairy castle cake in the Wilton 2008 yearbook. The birthday girl did most of the work on the 3 little fairies herself. She's a natural with fondant! With as much as she gushed over how much she loved her cake, I would definitely lose another 3 nights sleep in a heartbeat to do this for her again. For anyone else...I would need to charge at LEAST $500. It took 20+ hours to do and has probably close to $100 in materials alone.
My son's 8th birthday party was themed around his favorite computer game -- Wizard 101.
I used the wrapping paper as my inspiration for this design. Buttercream and fondant.
The inspiration for this cake came from the pattern on the Groovy Girl's dress that my daughter gave to her friend as her present. Very fun cake! One of my favorites!
A bunch of us threw a "clothes" shower for a friend of ours. I love to design clothes, and I love to make cupcakes. This was the best of both worlds!!!
For our Ladies' Bible Class luncheon.
Cupcakes for a breast cancer fundraiser.
Fancy Nancy cake for my 5-year-old daughter. Excessive?...sure. But is she worth it? Every minute!!! 6", 9", 12" with all fondant decorations.
I used toy figurines on a cake decorated to look like the landscape of the planet Tatooine, complete with twin suns. Thanks for looking!
Thiese are gluten-free, soy-free cupcakes for the birthday boy to take to school. The little boy's little league team is the"Red Sox." The buttercream icing was made of all butter (no Crisco), so the icing was almost too soft to decorate with. I used fondant decorations. Thanks for looking!
This was my first attempt at a gluten-free, soy-free cake. The little boy's little league team is the"Red Sox." The buttercream icing was made of all butter (no Crisco), so the icing was almost too soft to decorate with. I used fondant decorations. Thanks for looking!
Gingerbread cookie baked on a lollipop stick to help it stand up. Cookies iced in royal, buttercream on the cupcake, fondant rolled roses.
This is what I came up with for a little boy who loves Elmo and whose birthday is in December. Elmo is actually a candle that I modified. (Elmo was holding crayons that I cut off and standing on more crayons that I covered with "snow.") The cake is iced in buttercream with fondant snowmen and royal icing covered sugar cones for trees. Thanks for looking!
This was for my favorite sword-yielding dragon slayer's 5th birthday.
I'm pulling some pictures out of the vault. This was from my first cake decorating class. I had just learned the Viva paper towel method as well as gel transfer technique.
This was from a Wilton Idea Book, the 2004 or 2005 book. I wish the picture hadn't been so dark and showed more of the details from the bear. This cake was for my kids' polka dot birthday party.
This was from my advanced class -- first attempt at a tiered cake, first bow, and my first royal icing flowers. I should have taken the picture right away, but I waited until the next day, and my purple buttercream "cracked."
Buttercream with fondant accents.
I'm pulling this one out of the vault. I did this one about 3 1/2 years ago, early in my cake-decorating pursuit for two little cousins who love horses. I tried to make the bottom borders look like rope. I used too much green dye and didn't mix it well enough. Maybe someone will take this idea and execute it a little better than I did.
I made this cake before I found Cake Central. There are much cuter Dora cakes on here, but I wanted to add it to the collection! Buttercream with Fondant accents. Dora candle.
I found this set of cookie cutters at a garage sale for 25 cents! I couldn't possibly let them go to waste! I used buttercream icing, but next time, I'll use royal.
This was the centerpiece for my son's Kindergarten Thanksgiving feast. The idea came from the Wilton website, using their leaf cookie cutter set. The cookies were baked on lollipop sticks. The beak was a candy corn, purchased royal icing eyes. The kids "gobble, gobble, gobbled" it up! hehe...had to say it!
Buttercream with fondant flowers and drapes. I tried to match the cake to the candle I found. The fondant drape over the buttercream was harder than I expected! I think next time I'll cover the whole cake with fondant then to the partial fondant drape over another layer of fondant.
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