Fish Bowl

My son spotted this cupcake in the Hello, Cupcake! book and wanted it for his fish themed birthday party. I did them after icing an actual cake for the party and kind of wimped out on them. They still turned out cute. I love the idea of them. They are chocolate surprise cupcakes iced in SMBC and covered in MMF. The goldfish are Honey Graham Goldfish crackers and the "rocks" are fish sprinkles.

Fishing For Fun

I made this for my sons' birthdays - they are turning 3 and 1. The figures on top represent them fishing for their number. (The 3 is upside down because the 3 year old insisted it be that way. I decided it was his cake...) The top tier was baked in a ramekin that had been buttered and sugared to give it a "sand" look. It's a chocolate cake and a yogurt sponge cake iced in SMBC and accents are MMF. Thanks for looking!

Annika Angel

I made this for my friend's daughter's first birthday with a coordinating smash cake. It's a vanilla yogurt sponge cake with Bavarian Cream SMBC and MMF accents. I've only got boys and love it when I get to do girly cakes!

Lt. Colonel Promotion Cake

I made this cake for my friend's husband's promotion to Lt. Colonel. The top is his beret with the new insignia. (Big thanks mj26 to for the inspiration and tips!) The cakes are pina colada and chocolate covered espresso bean covered in MMF.

Giant Cupcake With An Olive On Top

I made this for my husband's coworker who jokingly said the only things she doesn't like on cake are olives and ketchup. It's a lemon cake with cream cheese filling iced in SMBC. The olive and jimmies are MMF. The cupcake "liner" is Merckens candy melts.

Out Of The Freezer

I'm getting ready to move and trying to use up as many things out of my freezer as possible. Everything on this cake had been made for another project and I just put them all together. It's a Hershey chocolate cake with raspberry cream filling and brown sugar vanilla SMBC. The flowers were left over from practice and the green was just a little I'd had left from a different cake. I think it turned out really nice for just being thrown together.

Poinsettia Rum Cake

I was looking for an easy way to dress up a rum cake and had some poinsettias l had left over from showing a friend how to make them. This cake was SO easy to decorate.

Snowflakes

This is a WASC with strawberry filling iced in SMBC. The snowflakes are RI.

South Carolina Baseball Field

This is a WASC with strawberry filling covered in SMBC. The gentleman I made it for was from South Carolina and loved baseball. So I did a baseball field with palmettos. I felt like this cake was missing something. I was super tired when I did the writing, so that didn't turn out as nicely as I would have liked. I think it needed more color - and a SC and US flag, too. Any suggestions as to what would have made it look "finished" would be much appreciated!

Calogero's Baptism

An Italian Cream Cake with coconut filling covered in MMF. All accents are MMF. The letters are painted with gold pearl dust. I forgot to take a picture before I delivered it (hello?!) so the customer was kind enough to send this one to me. It's based on a photo given to me by the customer.

Fall Cookie Wreath

Colored NFSC with fondant bow. It's held together by royal icing. Inspired by a picture seen on this site - sorry! I don't remember who! I also saw one in a Country Living magazine.

Stained Glass Pansy

This was a chocolate zucchini cake with chocolate SMBC. I pieced together MMF for the pansy and used black royal icing painted with silver pearl dust for the "leading." It was my gift to my MIL for her 50th birthday.

Retiring To The Beach

A darn good chocolate cake with mocha filling covered in white chocolate MMF. I made this for DH's boss who is retiring and moving to Florida. It's my first time modeling with fondant. DH is taking it to work in the morning. I've taken off the trees, but please say a prayer that it arrives in one piece.

Library Appreciation Day

I made this for a Sunday School Library Appreciation Day. It's a WASC with chocolate cream filling and covered in chocolate MMF. They requested a brown book. Since I've recently had a second child and have a toddler, too, I kept the design simple...I think this turned out pretty well. If my creative juices had gotten flowing a little earlier than as I was decorating, I would have made a library card sticking out of the top...

Farewell Suitcase

This cake did not turn out like I wanted at all...have you ever had one of those cakes where your children just won't stay out of your hair until you are so frustrated you can hardly work? That was this cake. It was for a lady in DH's office who was moving. Chocolate cake with chocolate filling and chocolate mmf. I did really like how the tag turned out, though. TFL

Dinosaur

A birthday cake for a teen who liked green and blue and loved dinosaurs as a young child. Red velvet iced with my grandma's red velvet icing (which was a pain to work with). The scales are fondant and the the accents are royal icing. I used a wonder mold pan for the body and carved the head and tail.

Pupcakes

I made these for my son's 2nd birthday. He's so excited to actually get to eat icing! They were inspired by an article in Family Circle. I followed their directions for using various candies, but next time I would just use royal icing and fondant for the accents. They were very fast to do - and easy.

Angel Food Cake With Fondant Bow

I made this for a man who has been on a diet. I just lightly glazed the angel food cake and added a fondant bow. My first fondant bow! It didn't turn out too badly. Thanks for looking!

Wilton Course 3 Present Cake

Christmas Trees

These were inspired by the many gorgeous Christmas cookies on this site. Just a sampling of over 100 made for a children's Christmas party this weekend. NFSC with rolled buttercream and Antonia74's RI.

Snowflake Blue

A variation of another snowflake cake I did. A butter pecan cake...yum. Thanks to everyone on this site that posts photos. They're so inspirational!

Christmas Wreath

A lemon buttermilk pound cake covered in a lemon glaze. RI holly leaves and berries.

Soft Peppermint Sticks

Inspired by cakes seen on this site. A chocolate fudge cake with peppermint mocha buttercream.

Practice Snowflake Cake

I was testing out new recipes and techniques with this cake. Inspired by Cricket8923's birthday cake photo (gorgeous cake!). Italian cream cake with BC. Lots of lessons learned while making this cake...TFL.

Gingerbread Cake

I needed a quick/easy cake for a bake sale and was inspired by Denise's adorable "Mr. and Mrs. Gingerbread get married" cake. My first time working with fondant. Yellow cake with gingerbread BC. Fondant and gumdrop accents. Gingerbread men are nfsc with fondant. TFL!

Martini

Thank you to lkuptain for posting such an inspirational cake! (Your's looks much better, though. ) Chocolate with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream. Martini glass and olives made out of rolled buttercream.