KHalstead
KHalstead
Course 1 Final Cake
These were my very first buttercream roses that even closely resembled a rose...they were the whole reason I took the Wilton course 1!! I can make roses out of anything except buttercream...as soon as the instructor showed up...it clicked in my brain and out came BC roses!! I couldn't believe it I have been struggling with these buggers forever it seems. I know I need to keep practicing but I"m just glad they resemble roses now LOL
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
Wolf Cake
My step-daughter requested a wolf cake but wanted flowers on it too.....so this is what I came up with. The cake is small 6" because it's for her 3rd b-day party...yes 3RD one with her mom, one here with us, and now one with my inlaws in the Pocono's!! Anyhow, it's a strawberry cake with buttercream frosting, the wolf is a buttercream transfer and the flowers and leaves are all MMF Thanks for looking.
KHalstead
Spiderman/venom Cake
Another spiderman bust cake, only my nephew requested a venom cake which I guess is Spiderman's nemesis.....however I was not doing an all black cake since I don't own an airbrush and didn't want to have to use 20 jars of coloring, so I found a comic book cover where half the face was Spidey and half was venom so I settled on that, don't know yet if he liked it.....I'm sure he will though Thanks for looking! Oh it was just 3 cake mixes yellow, white with confetti, and chocolate shoulders and buttercream
KHalstead
KHalstead
Bottle Cake
When my son was turning one, since he couldn't pick out his own cake....we tried to think of what he loved the most and being a chubby lil' thing, we thought his favorite thing was his "baba" that he was going to be forced to give up soon , hence the cake....it was just carved out of a 9x13" pan and frosted with buttercream piped on with stars, nothing fancy
KHalstead
Horse Cake
I made this cake for my son's 3rd B-Day...I just made it using two pyrex bowls one smaller than the other....covered in buttercream, carrot is fondant with a sprig of fresh parsley for the top....fruit by the foot for the bridle, the eye was just layered pieces of fondant and the ears and neck were scrap pieces cut off the sides of the bowl shapes so they would fit together more snuggly.
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
Valentine Cookies
no fail sugar cookies with antonia74's royal icing on sticks for cookie bouquets......bouquets are 3 different colors......brown and blue, brown and yellow (bumble bee themed), and brown and pink......blue is for a male teacher , pink are for the female teachers.....yellow is for a best friend who collects bumblebees all will be put into color coordinating pots
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
Princess Castle Cake
This cake was done for my daughter's 1st b-day. She had already attacked the cake causing one side to start falling before we could get a good picture of it. It was fairly easy to make although time consuming, I baked cake inside of soup cans for the towers with ice cream cones on top. Fruit roll-up mote, graham cracker drawbridge. The inside is just a drawing I made on a sheet of paper and lined the back with wax paper for easy removal.
KHalstead
KHalstead
KHalstead
3-D Flower Pot Birthday Cake
I made this cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday!! She loves flowers, it was my first time making gumpaste flowers, it was tons of fun. The cake is just a pound cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. I used crushed oreos for the dirt and fondant for the outside of the flower pot. The butterfly is not edible though, just a store bought silk butterfly.















