Winter Wonderland

This elegant cake was made for a Valentine's Day wedding. It featured a satiny gumpaste bow and a satiny skirt around the bottom cake tier. The cake flavors were red velvet with cream cheese and vanilla with praline cream. The bride provided the cake topper and brooch for the bow.

Oreo Birthday Cake

Thanks to everyone on CC for their pictures of Oreo cakes! You were my inspiration. I made this cake out of a 12" round chocolate cake (split in half) and an 11" vanilla cake (of which I only used one half). The cake was filled with cookies and cream buttercream and covered in both vanilla and chocolate fondant. I used chocolate royal icing to pipe the details.

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake

This cake was for a 1-yr old girl. Minnie Mouse was made out of cake and Rise Krispie treats - her head, arms and legs were Rice Krispies. The inside of the cake was a golden vanilla cake filled with fresh strawberries and lightened pastry cream.

Sugar Vase And Flowers

This cake topper features a sugar bowl filled with gumpaste flowers, leaves, ribbons and a royal icing dove.

Mad Hatter Birthday

This was my first "topsy turvey" cake. Many, many thanks go to BKeith who wrote an article on "How to Build a Whimsical Cake" - it was my bible as I made this! I made it for my nephew's 21st birthday. The cake was red velvet filled with white chocolate buttercream. All of the decorations were made out of royal icing floodwork. Except for the chocolate coins - they were real. He works at a bank and I thought they would be fun!

Starry Night For A Sweet 16

This cake was for my cousin's Sweet 16 birthday. Her theme was Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting. I painted the cake freehand with food color and copied the painting as best as I could. I've never painted anything before, so this was quite an accomplishment for me. The bottom tier was was chocolate cake with raspberry cream and chocolate chip filling; the other tiers were chocolate cake with mocha cream and chocolate ganache filling.

Sitting Atop Roses

This cake was all about the flowers! I made the cakes (only one tier was real, the others were styrofoam). The florist did a wonderful job arranging the flowers in between the tiers. The real tier was the 14" round, 2nd from the bottom. It was chocolate cake with raspberry cream filling.

Lightening Mcqueen

This was for my son's 3rd birthday. Many thanks to Natalia - "How to Cakes" - where I found the directions on how to make this cake. The cake was chocolate filled with silky vanilla buttercream. I used a larger oval cake for the base. The kids went wild over it!

Andrea's 30Th

Calla Lily Birthday

Safari Birthday

Gabrielle's Communion Cake

Dominique's Butterfly Communion

Halloween Wedding

This cake is for a very small wedding (12 people) on Halloween. The bride and groom and all of the guests will be in full costumes. Unfortunately, the order was only given to me 3 days before Halloween, so I couldn't spend the time I normally spend on a wedding cake! The cake is chocolate butter filled with mocha buttercream. I covered the cake with chocolate fondant dyed black and made the ghosts out of fondant. The webs are royal icing. I purchased the sugar decorations due to the late notice.

Purple Iris Wedding

This cake had a square bottom with 2 round tiers. It was covered in fondant with royal icing piped on in a lace pattern. The florist made the flower arrangement. The inside was coconut cake with lemon cream.

Tied With A Bow

The favors for the wedding were the inspiration for this cake. The bride and groom gave away small pink boxes tied with raspberry and green ribbon. The favors were displayed on a table covered in wheat grass. We thought it would be neat to copy the favor in the wedding cake and have it too displayed on wheat grass. The cake was pink fondant and the ribbons and bow were also fondant. It was a snow white vanilla cake filled with chocolate mousse and raspberry mousse.

Football Dinner

I had to make a cake for a local high school's annual football dinner. It was supposed to be for 300 people. (Turned out to be much less!) I made 4 half sheet cakes and put them together with the Wilton football cake in the middle. It was frosted with buttercream (the special tip that makes grass and hair, forget the #) and the team's mascot was royal icing floodwork. The numbers were also floodwork. It was vanilla cake with coffee buttercream.

"anything Goes" Playbill Cake

I had to donate a cake to the NJ Performing Arts Center for a charity fund-raiser. The event coordinator sent me a postcard of the playbill as inspiration. I duplicated it out of royal icing floodwork. The cake was vanilla with white chocolate strawberry buttercream. It was covered with buttercream.

Swags And Roses (View 1)

This was my first wedding cake. I made the flowers out of gumpaste. The swags were fondant. The cake was covered in fondant with royal icing piped on and brushed like embroidery. It was a snow white vanilla cake with chocolate mousse filling. The top tier was chocolate cake with chocolate mousse. I'll never forget the feeling of accomplishment when I finished it!

Black And White Wedding

This cake was a duplicate of the bride's gown. She wore an off-the-shoulder white gown, a-line, which was totally plain except for a wide black sash which tied around her waist into a big bow in the back. The ribbons on the bow fell all the way down to the floor. The cake was covered in fondant and the ribbons and the top bow were made of black fondant. It was a snow white vanilla cake filled with caramel buttercream.

Fresh And Simple

This was for a 50th wedding anniversary. The pearl borders were made with the CK Pearl Maker. The florist provided the flowers which I arranged on the cake. Covered with fondant, the top 2 tiers were snow white vanilla cake filled with raspberry mousse and lemon cream; the bottom tier was chocolate butter cake filled with white chocolate buttercream and raspberry buttercream.

Butterfly Fantasy Wedding Cake

This cake was for a bride who LOVES butterflies! It was covered in fondant with fondant ribbons. The butterflies were gumpaste. Two of the tiers were red velvet cake with cream cheese filling, one tier was almond cake filled with raspberry mousse, and the top tier was a very strong rum cake.

Kate's Cake A La Martha Stewart Fall 2005 Wedding Issue

This was a challenging cake to make. The fondant was topped with chocolate transfer sheets. Tricky because you have to try to match up the seams as close as possible. I'm sure that if you do this frequently, it won't be a problem. The ribbons are fabric (per the bride's wishes). The inside was chocolate butter cake filled with white chocolate buttercream.

Princess Baby Girl Cake

Here is the baby shower cake for the broken tiara. The tiara on this cake was one I made 1 hour before delivering the cake. Obviously, the royal icing didn't set up, and when I took it off the wax paper, it bent and broke. I salvaged one large piece and put it on the cake. Everyone loved the cake and nobody could tell! I did like the rest of the cake. It was buttercream frosting with fondant flowers & leaves.

Tiara For Baby Girl Cake

I used the template I found under "tiara". I used royal icing and overpiped it twice. I dusted it with "cotton candy" dust and added the dragees. It was the focal point of a baby shower cake I made. I took this picture about 1 hour before I had to deliver the cake. I had carried the tiara around my house for 3 days without incident. As soon as I finished taking the picture, I bumped into the table and it broke! I tried to fix it, but the more I fixed it, it kept breaking! Joys of decorating...

3D Fireman's Helmet Groom's Cake (Side View)

Thanks to Debbie, aka, the cakemaker, for her directions on how to make a 3D fireman's helmet! This was my first such cake, and without her instructions, I could not have done it. The Springfield NJ Fire Dept. wears yellow helmets and I put it on top of a chocolate "firehouse" just for presentation.