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These are Key Lime cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream and toasted coconut!
Red Velvet and Vanilla Bean cupcakes filled with Chocolate Ganache and topped with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting, adorned with a gumpaste Magnolia
I was asked to make this cake for a 40th Birthday slumber party...yes, you read that right...40th! How fun to have a girlie slumber party as an adult! The whole theme of the party was the Princess and the Pea.
I made this cake for a very musical family that we know, for their son's wedding. It was designed after the Taylor 914 Guitar. Everything was edible except the strings, the wooden dowels that hold them at the tuning end, and 6 toothpicks which I used to stick the tuning keys in the sides. The bottom layer was chocolate, the top layer vanilla and I used chocolate cream cheese frosting for the "dark" areas. The mother-of-pearl inlay was a true experiement of mixing several differnt types of decorating gels and swirling the appropriate colors in with toothpicks....it took a little bit of time, lol. I carefully cut out a "pattern" out of newsprint paper to keep the dimension of the guitar correct, just making it smaller than the actual guitar.
Lacey had a wedding true to her name. Victorian themed, complete with lace up lace covered boots, bridesmaids carrying lace parasols...it was lovely! The cake need to compliment this "lacey" event, so we found this design and opted to go with these colors, as they were the colors her bridemaids wore. It took quite some time to do this lace effect, as it called for over layering many times with different effects.
This was a simple, elegant design, and I think it turned out just lovely. Rather than placing it directly on the table, I lifted it up on a 7 inch tier and placed tulle all over the table and underneath. This gave the cake more height and a very light and airy effect.
This was for a small wedding that was to be held on the beach. I used a candy mold for most of the shells (and Marshmallow Fondant). I hand molded the Sandollars, and re-worked the starfish to make them individually different. I sprinkled cookie crumb topping around the base for "sand".
I made this cake for my best friends daughter. The roses are molded from Marshmallow Fondant and brushed lightly with edible glitter. The entire cake was chocolate and covered in Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting, then sprinkled with chocolate curls
I made this cake for my Niece's baby shower. The bottom tier was chocolate, the top tier vanilla. They were alternately iced in chocolate buttercream and vanilla buttercream. This was a super simple cake to put together, as the decorations were minimal, but I really liked the cute simplicity of it.
I made this cake for a friend's "boy" baby shower. The toys and socks were not fondant, but real. It saved me some time and work, but in the end I think I should have made them with fondant. The airplane design was taken from the bedding she purchased for her crib.
My friends daughter loves sunflowers. For her 19th birthday I was given "free reign" on making this cake with any sort of sunflower theme. I chose the flower pot idea. The cake is a 2 layer chocolate 10-inch trimmed to 8 inch at the bottom. I scooped out some cake from the top and crumbled it to make "dirt". The flowers are parts of cupcakes. The petals are made from a 50/50 fondant/gumpaste mixture and the centers are chocolate chips.
My friends daughter will be going to college on a basketball scholorship...so this was the perfect idea for her graduation cake. The bottom portion was comprised of 2 separate cakes: a 4 in. chocolate, and a 4 in. vanilla (comprised of 2 in. layers). They were trimmed to narrow at the bottom to form the "net" shape, and iced in chocolate buttercream. The ball is vanilla and iced in buttercream. They were pretty happy with the cake! Whew. :)
This is the first fondant figure I've ever made. I've been researching and testing out ideas for a month or so now, and here she is. Her body and head are made of a very fine rice krispy treat mixture. I shaped and molded them while warm and set to dry, then covered in tinted gumpaste. I have to thank EVERYONE on here who has ever posted a photo or an idea on how to do this...this is where I learned 99% of it. I was having trouble finding the type of face I wanted, and I saw a few adorable toppers on youtube, so I did my best to copy that look. :)
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