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Buttercream icing - chocolate transfers for some of the birthday girl's favorite things. The detail on the chocolate transfer of the girl on the front of the cake had to be painted with a hat pin dipped in chocolate - couldn't pipe that fine with a tip.
Made this cake as a thank you to the staff at my daughter's school at the end of the year. I had been wanting to make a Dr. Seuss cake for a long time - so I took this opportunity. All buttercream with chocolate transfer characters.
I made this for a friend's 60th birthday. It will be a total surprise to her, but I really wanted to do it because she is the one who got me started in the cake business. I owe her a lot! I used my kopykake projector for the design.
Just a side view showing the wing draped over the side of the cake.
This cake sets a new record for the LONGEST decorating time for me. Took me most of the day. 10" heart cake with buttercream icing and decorations. The wings are made from a very small leaf tip. The face is painted with luster dust. Can't really tell here, but I put iridescent sprinkles on the cake. It is kind of hard to read at this angle, but I put an angel prayer on it.
Cornelli lace (sort of - kind of tight and squiggly - but I wanted it that way). Buttercream piping for Genevieve. I used edible markers for her face. I am not quite sure why, but this is not my most favorite cake that I have ever made, although I do like the way it turned out. The 12 Dancing Princesses theme is just a really tough theme to work with.
1/2 sheet cake. Simple Superman logo - iced and decorated in buttercream.
8" white cake with white buttercream. The roses are also buttercream. This is actually a thank you cake for a friend, but the wedding/bridal shower category seemed the best place to put it. My friend didn't care how it was decorated as long as I used buttercream with LOTS of flowers (so there would be LOTS of extra icing on the cake)!
I tried to make this cake look like a princess dress. The characters are chocolate transfers and the tiara is royal icing made from the instructions on carrielynnfields tutorial (thanks so much Carrie for the wonderful tutorial!) My daughter insisted the tiara must be painted gold with blue jewels. I think she was right!
I think this was the most fun of all the spongebob cakes I have done. 1/2 sheet cake. buttercream icing and decorations.
17" sheet cake covered in chocolate syrup frosting and then decorated with buttercream. The trees and animals are from a kit. I really dislike using plastic pieces on a cake, but this one really kind of called for it. The water is blue and green buttercream and the rocks are edible.
I made this cake for my daughter's surprise birthday party. She LOVES to read, and to be read to, so I made a cake representing some of her favorite books. The characters are all chocolate transfers. The books represented are Frankenstein makes a sandwich (the phantom of the opera from the book is on top), I'm Gonna Like Me, Albert the Bear, What Mom's Can't Do and What Dad's Can't Do and the Magic Hat.
All the credit for this cake HAS to go to Eight! After seeing her cake I knew I HAD to find an occasion to make it. This is for a friend of mine - her company logo is on top and the names of their clients are on each of the buildings. The buildings are chocolate transfers. The cake is a 14" white, 10" chocolate, 6" strawberry and 1/2 ball on top was chocolate. Each tier is only one layer. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Eight, for such a wonderful design!!!!! I had SO much fun with it!
I made this for my 7 year old grandson. It was kind of big, but I needed the room to put Yoda and not have him crowded. Chocolate cake with chocolate syrup frosting and choc./choc. chip filling. I put a VERY thin layer of blue buttercream over the chocolate for the background and then used my kopykake projector to fill in Yoda. his face was pretty hard because I couldn't see it very well over the green icing, so I had to look at a picture, but even still it does RESEMBLE Yoda.
I made this cake for my 1 year old Grand-daughter! It is a 6" white cake. I wanted to do something a little different, so I used my swiss dot impression mat and filled in a line of daisy's and a line of dots alternating. I really had fun with this design!
10" square and 6" round chocolate cake with choc./choc.chip filling. Chocolate Syrup Frosting. Spiderman and the city skylines are all chocolate transfers.
I know, I know, this is a COLLEGE team and not NFL, but I think they deserve their place here! 1/4 sheet chocolate cake with chocolate syrup frosting/chocolate chip filling. Iced in buttercream. All decorations are buttercream. It is a for a 50th birthday.
A good view of the top of the cake. These were the most fun chocolate transfers I have ever done! Well, except for maybe the dinosaurs, but I still think I like these better!
Just another view. Chocolate transfers for all the characters.
This is my daughter's Scooby Doo birthday cake. The top tier is white, the bottom is strawberry. Chocolate transfers for all of the characters. The mystery machine is actually on the back of the cake. It turned out GREAT, but I didn't realize until after it was completely dry that I have forgotten to reverse the image and so the writing on it "the mystery machine" was backwards. Oh well!
This cake was for my daughter's 6th birthday - it is her cake for her "home" party. I had intended to use chocolate transfers of the scooby doo gang, but after she saw the cake decorated like this, she wanted to leave it just like this and use the transfers on her other cake. The bottom tier is a dummy cake, the top is chocolate. She was VERY specific that her "home" cake be chocolate and her "party" cake be strawberry.
You can't tell very well in this picture, but the cake is a powder pink. The flash on my camera was washing out my picture. I'm not steady enough to use the camera without the flash - too shaky. Anyway, this is a white 1/4 sheet cake with buttercream frosting. I used my swiss dot impression mat - the dots are pink, yellow, green and blue. I then striped my bag with all of those colors and used a grass tip for the fringe.
The 5 year old birthday boy came up with the design for this cake. He was very specific in that he wanted Spongebob to be throwing Krabby Patties at Spiderman and Spiderman to be throwing a web at Spongebob. It took a bit of thinking to make it work on paper and on the cake! I absolutely LOVE the way kids think! This was LOTS of fun to make! Maybe I should have kids design more of my cakes! This is a 1/2 sheet cake - 1/2 white and 1/2 chocolate - buttercream frosting.
This is the "before" picture for the Southwest Tapestry Suitcase cake. Again, I liked this MUCH better as is, before all the stickers and hardware went on to it!
This is the 2nd of 2 suitcase cakes I made for a retirement party. Lots and Lots of piping!!!! Two 1/4 sheet white cakes stacked with vanilla buttercream frosting. All decorations are buttercream except for the edible image travel stickers.
This is the "before" picture for the suitcase cake. I liked it much better just like this - but the client wanted it to be a suitcase. So I just took this picture for my portfolio. Carrot cake (two 1/4 sheets stacked) Cream Cheese Frosting.
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