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This is a display cake I made for the Wilton Elegant Fondant Class I taught last month. It was a lot of fun, although I learned that styrofoam is really hard to cover with fondant.
THis was for a boy scout court of honor thing, and the theme was future/space. I got this idea from someone on cakecentral, but I can't remember who, so if it was yours, please make yourself known, and thank you!
This cake was for a little boy who loves matchbox cars, and I think they put a few on the cake at the party.
This was for my brother, who is very interested in environmental work, running, and his new truck. Decorations are in fondant, and the trees are in buttercream.
This was for a friend's kid's pool party. I got some good ideas from some cakecentral folks, so thanks!
This cake was a little bit of a fiasco. Two chocolate tiers, two white chocolate, covered in fondant. Thanks for all the posts on putting fresh flowers on, it helped a lot!
I actually started out trying to make that cute valentine's cake with the pink monster that says "wild thing" but that was a disaster. So I scraped off all the pink icing and tried to make this from the Childrens' book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (the birthday theme was "wild thing").
This was for a baby shower today. This is a design I've been working on and wanted to do ever since I started doing cakes! I love sheep. It finally materialized, and that was fun. A friend of mine, Cami, joined me to learn how to decorate, and she did the stars and moon and helped lay the MMfondant.
This was my monster cake on Saturday! I've never done anything this big, and I am so relieved it's over! The bride picked this design - and at first I thought it would look a little wierd, but it really grew on me. Her colors were brown and ivory. This is a view from the back
Here's a closeup of the giraffe, made out of MMF. Sorry again it's so fuzzy - it's this painfully slooooow dialup that makes me crop the life out of these pics! Hope you can still see it.
I did this as a gift for my friend's baby shower today - she loves giraffes, and her nursery is decorated with them and with daisy-ish flowers. She really loved it, and that made me so happy! :)
This was my first time using gumpaste and doing a bow. Next time I don't think I'll use white "glue" for the bow, but at least it was fun to practice!
My DH works for the school district as a counselor/psychologist. His co-workers have been asking for a cake for a while now, so this seemed like the perfect chance to do it. They all work so hard, they deserve a treat now and then!
This was a gift cake for two little girls - sisters whose birthdays were a few days apart. This design was a copy of their party plates and napkins, and they just love butterflies. It's iced in bc and the butterfly and flowers are fondant. The butterfly body is cake. I couldn't decide whether to refridgerate it, but it was SO hot that I had to with the bc - so that's why there's some condensation. But of course, the kids loved it anyway.
Here's another shot I took and the lighting is a little better... This was for a reception tonight, and it made it without any major glitches! What a miracle! :)
I just finished this one today for a children's class at church. Their challenge was to bring their scriptures with them every week to church, and this was their reward! The theme was to "feast upon the word of Christ." LOL! This was my first time making chocolate fondant and using gold lustre dust. The lettering was a little hard to get right, so I had to try a few different ways, but now I've got it!
I just finished this cake today, for a baseball team party. I was so nervous delivering it, I was sure the baseball would roll off - even though I dowelled it like crazy. Whew! These were chocolate and yellow cakes, with cookies and cream filling. The baseball was iced in fondant, and the dirt was brown sugar.
This was for my Mother's wedding a few weeks ago. She wanted something simple and small, and her favorite color is this vibrant blue. The hydrangeas are her favorite, from her own garden, placed on waxed paper. The cake was white chocolate, with chocolate-hazelnut (nutella) filling. We had to transport this cake 4 1/2 hours away, and it got a little beat up in the process (the top layer is a little crooked, it wouldn't go straight), but still intact!
This is just a crazy idea I had. The cake is covered in fondant, the stars are made of piped chocolate, and the piping is buttercream. I guess this could be used for any occasion!
This was for valentine's day.
Can you tell I was testing out a lot of their cakes? The colors on this took a long time! I don't like eating colors this bright, but it was fun anyway.
This was inspired by Kaye and Liv Hansen, (Whimsical Bakehouse). Buttercream.
This was a get-well cake for a friend. The picture's a little dark.
This was for a church function, where the theme was on children's books. I didn't have a book pan, so I used a 9x12.
This camera angle is a little wierd, but this was for my son's first birthday party. Noah and the animals are in melted chocolate in the style of Kaye and Liv Hansen (Whimsical Bakehouse). And I used an upside-down football pan.
Take Two on this one too - This was for my little sister's birthday - I used a wondermold, and the bees are buttercream (fondant would have been better, but oh well). I put some yellow cake sparkles on it.
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