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Our beautiful first born daughter graduated High School earlier this month ... it would be very bad form if she didn't get a cake really. Conveniently, both her High School and her University colours are Maroon and Gold!
10" vanilla with raspberry jam and white chocolate buttercream filling 8" gluten-free chocolate with milk chocolate buttercream filling So I haven't posted in a while but I have been caking ... this was from today after an absolutely crazy week, I made this cake from scratch Friday am and delivered it barely 24 hours later. Luckily, I had had time to make the flowers and the bee-bodies on Monday! Cake was covered with fondant and 'grass' & honeycomb added last night then finishing touches were put on this morning before we headed off to a swim meet.
My friend's Mum was turning 70 - they held a surprise 70th birthday party for her on Friday. The brief included a shoe and some flowers on an ivory cake inspired by the table setting for the party - top tier 8" Gluten Free chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling. The bottom tier 10" vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling.
A friend-of-a-friend wanted this cake for a baby shower - baby Mason arrived 9 weeks early but is doing well, his shower was yesterday. Unlike most of my cakes which are for friends and neighbours, this one had to travel about 40 minutes and the box was too big to rest on a lap - it made it safe and sound though! 10"x10" vanilla cake, 8"x8" chocolate cake, 6"x6" vanilla cake.
For a friend's son for his 9th Birthday - he designed the cake after watching Cake Boss - the primary requirement was that the balls should spin. I used a small display turntable and balls made like giant cake-pops set on a styrofoam covered 'fake'cake' to keep the weight down.
A cake for a friend's Mum and Dad - theme to be purple - she wanted quilting, streamers and a happy birthday banner. Had some issues with the purple cracking but she was happy with the result.
I don't normally write a huge blurb about my cakes - I am a hobbyist as MD laws mean that it's practically and monetarlity prohibative for me to make cakes out of my home for money. This cake was for today ... the funeral of one of my middle daughter's closest friends and a band mate of my older daughter. Both have been deeply affected by his death. Alex chose to take his own life - a tragic result of a deep depression that he saw no way out of. As I see an entire Sophomore class as well as a Scouting organization and a high school band across the grades try and come to terms with Alex's passing I also see great strength in our kids and I wish that they come out of this with an understanding that being the life and soul of the party doesn't mean the same is going on inside, that depression is more often than not a silent illness and that you should always speak out if you are worried about a friend. They asked me to make a cake for today's reception - white, a picture of Alex and a splash of his favorite colour - green. So In Loving Memory of Alex from my girls, be at peace young man <3
For a friend for her son's 9th Birthday!
A neighbor has her daughter's 8th birthday cake from me last weekend (karaoke theme) and this weekend her son turns 10 and is celebrating tonight with friend watching the Superbowl - this cake was in homage to both teams (with a slight bias to the Broncos who Colin was supporting!)
For a friend's daughter on her 8th birthday!
I was given the bedding that was ready for this baby and asked to make a cake in the same theme. I made this before I discovered Tylose powder to make fondant set like gum paste so I had some issues with tree-breakage but the cake was super-cute anyway!
This cake was 2 years later and with much more experience under my belt. We still had the cupcakes to go with it but many more animals on the cake in and around the Jelly 'swamp'. This was super-fun to make - all the graduating kids had their name on a leaf around the bottom of the cake.
My two youngest kids went to a pre-school that have the same theme to their graduation party each year. I think the hardest thing to do is to decorate a second cake with the same theme and make it different. I was told by the teachers for the second cake that the cupcakes were a must so they stayed the same - I will post the 2nd cake in a sec!
Each year we host a costume party around Halloween. The party is themed, this theme was famous partners and the dessert table had a Hollywood theme to it. The decoration went all round the cake but I'll be darned if I can get more than one picture to upload to a post so this was the front of the cake!
My daughter promised her friend's Mum (who also happens to be my first-grader's teacher) that she would bring a cake for her friend's birthday - I had 2 other cakes to do that weekend (given that this is not my business, this is an expensive hobby) it was a lot for me in one weekend, needless to say the kitchen looked like a bakery and we ate out!
This cake was for a friend who moved away from our neighbourhood but came home to her parents for her daughter's birthday. She asked for something girlie but not princesses. The butterfly was on a spring so it 'bobbed' over the cake like it was dipping into the flowers!
A girlfriend asked me if I could make Olaf in a barrel holding his head off - of course I can LOL!! This cake was chocolate. She asked for a mint-choc-chip cake so the buttercream was mint-flavoured and the filling was buttercream with chocolate chips!
For a dear friend's daughter's Bat Mitvah. Candy themed party with pink, purple and white colour scheme.
This was a fake cake made for a school fundraising auction to show an example of what the "winning" bid could order.
This was a fake cake made for a school fundraising auction. It was used as an example of what could be ordered by the "winner" of the auction.
This cake was for my oldest daughter's 16th Birthday. My daughter wanted to help so she actually piped all the buttercream flowers on the top tier - hopefully I am instilling a love of cake decorating in my kids as my Mum did in me!
A girlfriend asked me to make a beer mug cake for her hubby's 40th birthday. I had never made a barrel cake before but I'm always up for a challenge. I did make a trial barrel cake (that ended up being in celebration of the birth of a friend's baby) and this was my offering! I found that covering the cake in ganache (courtesy of a fabulous tutorial by Inspired By Michelle Cake Designs) instead of my usual buttercream made it very sturdy to hold the fondant but it also made it costly to make because I only use Girardhelli in my baking!
So I'm English, living in America. I've had 2 kids here but until this year, I had never heard of a "smash" cake. For those of you unfamiliar with what it is ... let me enlighten you! It's a [typically] small, like 6" cake made for a child's 1st birthday the purpose of which is to be "smashed" by the kid while the parents (or pros in the case of this cake) take pictures of a cake covered toddler! Not sure how I feel about making a cake simply to smash it up but this was an ask for a friend (and I made the party cake for the adults to enjoy too!!)
I was asked by a friend to come up with a 50th Wedding Anniversary cake for a couple of die-hard Ravens fans!! How do you combine class with Football - with team-coloured flowers of course!
A girlfriend asked me for a cake for her son's first birthday, no guidance as to what she wanted so I had fun with some animal cutters/embossers I already had, bought a train cutter and cut my own carriages. . You can't see on this pic (and for some reason my uploads freeze on additional pictures) but the carriages extend around the cake with a different animal in each carriage I had some issues with the blue fondant covering the 6" cake for some reason not settling on the cake so well but hey, he's one ... he was happy!!
My youngest daughter wanted an art themed party for her 7th birthday. She actually drew me a design for her cake so this is the result!
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