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Inspired by the opening credits of the anime, "Polar Bear's Cafe"
Cake to celebrate hubby's undying love for cheese and stop motion animation.
Birthday cake for cast member in the play, "Picnic".
A math game app for iPod and iPad was my son's choice for his 6th birthday cake.
Commissioned birthday cake for a mother/son pair of gardening enthusiasts, and my first attempt at making gum paste flowers. Inspired by http://cakecentral.com/g/i/2354708/chocolate-cake-fondant-and-gumpaste-flowers-and-pool-ball-rocks-we-are-billiard-players-so-it-fit-her-she-loved-it/
From the movie "My Neighbor Totoro"
For a 6 year old girl who loves sharks. Had this been for my own son it would have had the mouth open and ready for business, but the little girl in question is more into the aesthetic nature of the shark rather than its ferociousness. The big dilemma for me was in how to make it as realistic as possible while still having manageable dimensions. For its diameter, the shark should have been at least half again as long, but it would have had a tremendous frosting to cake ratio. The downside is that it now looks somewhat more dolphin-like than shark-like.
For the past couple months I'd been trying to get my son to make up his mind what theme he wanted for his 18th birthday cake. When he drew a blank I threatened to make him a My Little Pony. Finally, a week before his birthday he decided on a monster from Dungeons and Dragons. By that time I was seriously considering really making him a My Little Pony cake. I decided on a compromise: a D&D monster being slayed by a pony. This was my first time using an airbrush to paint a cake. Not a horrible job, but I wish I'd practiced more first. I don't have a good feel for for flow rate and haven't figured out fine lines. Also I made an error in scale, and consequently lacked either a cake board large enough to accommodate the cake or enough fondant to cover it, so it had to be presented on the butcher paper. Vegan chocolate with fondant and gum paste
Plethodon glutinosus (common name northern slimy salamander) for a herp enthusiast's 20th birthday.
Cake made for my son's 5th birthday. I followed a tutorial by Fancy Topcake.to make the mermaid out of gumpaste. My son said he wanted a shark swimming around the mermaid's island, and when I sketched plans for the cake with only a shark's head and dorsal fin emerging out of the cake base he shook his head and insisted he wanted a WHOLE shark. I figured the only way to do that was to embed the thing in Jello. After some experimentation I determined gumpaste would not work as over time it dissolves in gelatin, but modeling chocolate remains intact with minimal color bleeding. I went ahead and made some gumpaste starfish to go in the "water", though, as the slow dissolving made for an interesting effect on something that didn't have to stick out partway.
The beaver is hubby's totem animal, so I decided to make him one for his birthday cake. Experimented with a different technique for fur.
Birthday cake based on the book "Matched" by Ally Condie
From Roald Dahl's "The BFG". Sophie secrets herself away inside a nasty slimey snozzcumber to hide from the not-so-friendly giant.
5 layer brownie with fondant and gum paste.
Brownie cake balls dipped in Wilton candy melts with gum paste Sophie perched on top, sitting in a puddle of snozzcumber juice (lime jello). I made these as a birthday treat for my daughter to take to her class. just finished reading Roald Dahl's book The BFG.
Cake made for participants in 4th of July Dragon Boat Races in PIttsburgh
OK, so the dollar store had these cute Halloween ice cube trays. Now I'm not a big one for specialty ice cubes, but hey, thinks I, these would make awesome cake pops! There were some bone ones, too, but they look kind of bleh.
Making these was an education. I now understand why there were so many pics of fondant angry birds and none of cake pops. Inside they are red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
My first fondant cake.
My 19 year old daughter wanted a cake made of her favorite Pokemon, a shiny scrafty.
Vegan chocolate and orange cakes with marshmallow fondant. Marzipan and gum paste highlights. Head is cake on a wooden platform with RKT rounding out the bottom.
Helix aspersa snail birthday cake for a girl who looooooves creepy crawlies. Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. Marzipan eyestalks and foot.
50 years adding color to each other's lives.
Pig cake made for a barbecue with a pig roast. 5 layers, 3 of vegan chocolate and 2 non-vegan yellow cake covered in marshmallow fondant. The cake was intended to be taller (specifically the body) but the yellow cake was not holding up to the weight well, and I had no dowels or separators for support between layers.
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