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This year he wanted a jungle theme cake with a waterfall and these animals. His mom really likes the name on a sign. So I just piled a loaf pan on an 8 inch round on top of a 12 inch square and did a little carving. I then poured Hershey's chocolate frosting over the entire thing(it hardens nicely and held everything together in transit. All the green is buttercreme piped on with mostly the grass tip. The animals and trees are plastic, the sign is fondant, the fence is pirouline cookies and boxed pastries. The cake was a huge hit with children and adults.
This year Evan wanted an alligator birthday cake. Now, I know that gator's don't have spikes but the one on his party decorations did, so the cake did as well. His eyes were cupcakes and the left one kind of got droopy on the journey to the party.
My oldest niece asked for an ice cream cake shaped like a bathtub with the concession that if I couldn't do it, it would be ok. YEA RIGHT!! She loves pizza, bubble bath and is prone to making messes. She wanted the tub to be silver with blue and green swirls, too. So there are almost 200 one inch black and white fondant squares on the floor ,lots of fondant bubbles and a pizza box with her name on it. It was also filled with ice cream that got pretty melty, but she thought it was awesome anyway.
Request by a friend at college for an end of the academic year event. It was my first time working with such a large fondant piece and it broke in a couple of places. Overall I was pretty pleased and he was happy, said everyone loved it. I would like to try this again sometime.
The middle of three boys, this was Spenser's third birthday cake selection. I did use a 3D pan for Blue, but I did some additonal sculpting to give him more dimension. I also added the birthday hat.
This was the cake that my sister wanted for her daughter's third birthday. She got the idea from a cake on CC. It is covered in BC, with fondant flowers, ribbons and curly-q's. All the colors are natural, which we were both very excited about. I used 8 and 6 inch pans.
This was one of two cakes used in celebration that were practice for the main cake for my niece's 3rd birthday.
This is the smash cake that survived the delivery. The larger main cake, which was a larger version of this cake, collapsed in delivery. It was salvageable for consumption but was a visual disaster.
Very quick cake I made for family dinner. The feathers were made using a leaf tip. Yes, I used the Wilton 3D ducky pan, but the batter did not rise so it was a 2D cake instead.
My neice's 2nd birthday and she loves her "Henry" silkie blankie, as well as Backyardigans. Her mom decided on both for the cake. I had planned to make the decorations from fondant but mom likes the look and taste of buttercream much better. The colors came out bolder than I had intended but that was great. BTW, Tahitian vanilla is much better tasting.
When my widowed grandfather decided to get remarried he asked me to make the cake. I said "yes" then found out that he was giving me one week to decide on the cake, plan it out and get it made. It was supposed to be covered with fondant but I had problems so used buttercream. The couple was happy, everyone liked it and my cover-all is that it tasted good. This is the first wedding cake I have ever made.
Red velet cake with buttercream frosting. My gray on the cave rock got kind of droopy. All of the scales were piped on and then the dragon was dusted with silver luster dust. This was a request by my 14 year old neice for her birthday, so I did what I could. She was happy, so I was happy.
This was a short-notice cake for my sister. I usually like to have a couple of weeks to plan a cake thoroughly. This one I did very little planning for and decorated rather quickly. I would like to perfect this idea tho.
Everyone seemed to love it.
this was for a 4 year old boy's birthday and he loved it. It also seems that children and adults alike are attracted to the grass. 3D train pan on two 12 x 12 squares. All chocolate cake and buttercream frosting.
This was for my nieces first birthday. It is homemade chocolate cake and buttercream frosting. All the flavors and colors used were natural. There are no dyes. If you can't tell what is in the stream, that is Pooh and Piglet in an upside-down umbrella. That was the inspiration for the cake. This was my first foray into all natural food colors, that is why the water is purple instead of blue. The gazebo was the baby's smash cake.
I did this for a girls 17th birthday. It was homemade red velvet cake and everything except the candle was edible. The only things I did not make from scratch were the candle, the fruit chew used for stems and antenna and the black piping on the butterfly. It was a big hit.
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