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For a boy who loves the Chicago Bulls, and Michael Jordan especially. It was his 9th birthday, hence the 9s on the bottom.
For a friend who loves the Louis Vuitton Speedy 30 purse and the red-soled Louboutin shoes - the really tall ones
My husband had an Asian-themed potluck at work. I decided to go with something a bit off the norm, and I loved the colors and designs of the Thai Yaksha demons. The "jewels" are piping gel.
The topper is RKT covered in fondant. The eagle turned out a bit more parrot-ish than I would have liked, but I didn't have time to redo his head. The top tier is supposed to be the collar of the dress uniform.
For our friend Jacob's birthday. It's hard to see, but Godzilla is ripping into the cake & the Froot Loop Treat buildings. Since it was for her friend, my DD made the baby Godzilla. Everybody is fondant, though Godzilla is built on foil.
A friend's son desperately wanted Curious George and/or a fire truck. He looked around in his are and could find plenty of simple fire trucks, but no George. So, he asked me if I could do something. The cake is sculpted to look like the one on the book CG & the Firefighters. Red buttercream (I hate buttercream) with fondant accents. The water is sugar on wires, which helps support George playing on the hose.
It's actually an engagement cake for a friend who just got engaged to his Taiwanese girlfriend. His mom wanted a cake that would be meaningful for her at a surprise engagement party. The dragon and phoenix are traditional Chinese wedding symbols, as is the Double Happiness character. Red is good luck, and is the traditional color of Chinese weddings. The character, dragon, and phoenix are all color flow.
I got a call Thursday for a birthday cake for Saturday. It was my DH's boss, so I had to do it. ;) She just said her daughter liked fairies, purple, & pink. All fondant.
For a friend who graduated with degree in biology. I don't vouch for the historical accuracy of the figures. ;) The primordial ooze is blue Jell-O, and the goo around the edges of the ooze is because I didn't think about the fact that the main ingredient in Jell-O is water, and it melted my fondant. Looks pretty cool though, I think. :) Figures are fondant, pirouette cookies around the sides.
A closeup of the bride and groom on my Hokie bridal shower cake. I'm pretty proud of them, especially the groom's Navy uniform. The bride also has a French twist with pearl combs in the back.
The bride didn't want a traditional shower, but her mom didn't know exactly what she wanted. Both the bride & groom were soon to graduate from Virginia Tech, and the groom was joining the Navy. So, I just used those two ideas. The water is piping gel, and the figures are all fondant. The flag says, "USS Hokie"
My DH wanted a Simpsons cake to take to work, preferably with a nuclear plant theme. I got the idea for the topper from a lava lamp, but I didn't have time to make Lenny, Carl, & Blinky. The donut icing is very thin RI, and the rest (including the sprinkles) is fondant.
This is my (much smaller) version of Colette's Caprice de Jaques from Cakes to Dream On. It's for my friend's mom.
For my DH's birthday. Not the greatest technically, but it's a fully playable D&D board. All the parts are separate. The figures are fondant representations of the actual people that get together to play. It's supposed to be a sea palace, so I also made Poseidon, crabs, fish bones, and the skeleton of a previous adventurer. There are mermaids in a pool in the back modeled after the daughters of the players. They're silver to make them look like metal. They had fun playing it!
This was fr a girl celebrating her 13th birthday in the hospital. When the hospital staff talked to her about what kind of party she wanted, she said she wanted a cake with a crown. She also mentioned that her Nana had died the year before, and that they all called her Queen Bee. The granddaughters were all Queen Bees in Training. It's hard to tell in the picture, but there is a bee shape in the middle of the tiara, and little fondant bees around the top of the first tier.
The back of the beehive. Some of the flowers broke a bit, but this is my favorite cake picture ever. It was my first non-class cake.
The first non-class cake I made. Cake is an upside-down Pampered Chef mixing/baking bowl with coils of fondant to make the ridges. Bees, flowers & leaves are RI.
My 7yo DD's entry for the Mid-Atlantic cake show. She won 3rd place in the 8 & Under category. It's a garden, with fondant flowers and cupcake toadstools.
This is the teapot I made for the MId-Atlantic Cake Show. The tea and "glass" baubles are sugar. The platter is covered in fondant and painted to resemble Willow Ware
This is my Alice in Wonderland teapot. That's the Dormouse's bottom. the Dormouse is chocolate. The teacup is a mini cupcake covered in poured sugar, all wrapped in fondant.
Noah actually in his ark. Everything is fondant.
This is Noah with his animals. You can't see them all in the Ark picture.
I did this for a friend's 25th anniversary. The bouquet is the one that she carried in her wedding. I made the sugarpaste bouquet on the top to match. The cake design is based on one from Spectacular Cakes by Mich Turner.
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