Christmas Cake

I love this time of year, so when I get an order for a Christmas themed cake, I just about jump for joy. This time around I made a raspberry mascarpone filled cake.

The reindeer was handcut and I handpainted snowflakes and the words Ho, Ho, Ho with food gel coloring.

I sprinkled a little edible glitter on the reindeer's antlers and on the red holly berries.

Merry Christmas!

Minion Cake

This cake makes me laugh and smile at the same time. The cake was all chocolate with nutella buttercream filling and frosting. Everything is covered in fondant and everything is edible. My husband crafted the base so that Bob, the Minion, would not go falling over! I wanted to capture the scene from the movie, where Bob is walking towards the pool in nothing but a towel and a red thong. Doesn't he have the cutest butt cheeks? lol

Doc Mcstuffins Cake

I've been just dying to create a cake in the theme of Doc Mcstuffins, so when the client came to me with this, I was very excited. I used fondant to model the figures and the cake was chocolate and banana with cream cheese frosting.

Penguin Cake

Can you believe that in the five years I've been making cakes, that this cake is the first penguin themed creation I've made?! I had a fabulous time making this cake and was pleased with the outcome of the penguin topper. I had the very last minute idea to make a cupcake stand and use that as the holder for the penguin. I made the stand from gumpaste and let it dry, then painted it and sprayed it, and finally gave it a gloss by using a little corn syrup with water.

The cake was for a little girl's birthday celebration and the cake flavors were mint chocolate chip with mint buttercream. The penguin I made with fondant and I used a new brand that I felt took a long time to dry. I textured the front of his body to look like a heart with an arrow through it. The balloons were sugarpaste. One lone snowflake sits between the cupcake stand and the top tier of cake. I finished off the cake with little bows and ribbon at the bottom of each tier.

Winnie The Pooh Chalkboard Cake

I'm extremely proud of this creation and am so excited to share it with everyone. The cake was to celebrate the life of a child who struggles with a rare genetic disorder called Achondroplasia. I was so honored and delighted to be chosen to make it for this delightful child and her family.

The different tiers of cake were carrot cake with cream cheese filling, red velvet with cream cheese frosting, Nutella chocolate with mocha buttercream, smores with chocolate buttercream, and oreo cookie with praline buttercream. 

All of the designs were hand painted free hand on the cake to make it look like chalkboard painting, and represent the different scenes from the beloved tales of Winnie The Pooh. 

Cat Lady Cake

There are few times in a cake decorator's life that they can make a cake for themselves instead of always making them for everyone else! This was one of those rare times, in fact the only time in the five years that I've been creating cakes, where I decided just to make something for me. I didn't really want to make a huge cake so I made a cake that was a little bit of cake and a little bit of rice krispie treats. The result is a cat lady surrounded by her feline friends, knitting away after a nice relaxing bath. And no relaxation would be complete without little bunny slippers.

The cake board was covered in fondant and then given the effect of wood flooring by hand painting it with gel. The armchair is also hand painted.

Fairy Cake

Another double barrel cake with a little custom made fairy on top. Cake was lemon with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream.

Watercolor cake

Both tiers were double barrel cakes with chocolate ganache and white chocolate ganache.

Several new techniques were used - the top tier is covered in gold sugarsheet and the flower is made from wafer paper. 

Bottom tier was handpainted. 

Strawberries and Whipped Cream Cake

Sometimes a simple cake with just some classic piping is the best thing.

White cake with homemade whipped cream and strawberries from my own garden. Yummy!

Dumbo Cake

Cake made from the story of Dumbo, who joins the circus and learns to "fly". Cake was made to look like the big top circus tent with Dumbo on top.

Dumbo was made with sugarpaste to give him firmness, especially his very large ears. 

Spongebob Cake

Spongebob Squarepants cake made with a mixture of fondant and sugarpaste for the cake toppers as well as the pineapple house that Spongebob lives in. All of the figures are of course hand made. This was for my husband's birthday celebration. Yep, my husband loves cartoons and never fully grew up. :)

Alice in Wonderland Cake

Alice in Wonderland themed cake for a birthday party. The Alice figure was made with sugarpaste and as well as the tree stump. The remainder was all fondant. The cake was chocolate mocha with hazelnut buttercream frosting.

Bridal shower Cake

Just a simple cake for a bride and groom's combined bridal shower. The original design was for just the initials on the cake, but I decided to add the topper to give it a little something special. The cake was vanilla with chocolate buttercream.

Retirement Cake

Another cake for another retirement party at work. So many folks are leaving! The cake was a decadent chocolate with chocolate mud.

Birthday Sheet Cake

How to Train Your Dragon Cake

This cake I made for a friend’s little boy who was turning four and wanted to have a cake themed after Hookfang from the How to Train Your Dragon movie.

I’m not very skilled at making cakes that are 3D, but this was for a friend so I relented. :)

The face gave me fits because the rice krispies weren't quite sticky enough and I made his lower jaw too heavy so the face started to sag and crack. I had to completely redo his face and neck and I"m glad I did because it came out soooo much better.

The cake was marble with vanilla buttercream frosting. I airbrushed his body with a mixture of reds and yellows.

Snow White Cake

This is the second cake in my Disney Princess Shoe series. I used the same method as I did for the Princess Tiana shoe.

Cake Series

I decided I wanted to create a series of cakes featuring a different princess shoe based off of some Disney memorabilia that I own, and this is the first cake in the series.

This first cake is from the movie the Princess and the Frog and is the shoe worn by Princess Tiana.

A tutorial on how I created the shoe is below.

I initially had thought of using a shoe template I had found online, but upon looking at my vast array of shoes I had at home and realizing that there were a few pairs I didn't wear anymore, I decided to cut the sides off an old pair and use that as both template and drying rack for the base!

You will need the following items to create the shoe:
1. Gumpaste
2. Tylose powder (optional, but helps speed up the drying time)
3. Exacto knife
4. Edible Glitter
5. Edible Luster Dust
6. Glue ( I used a combination of water mixed with a little bit of gumpaste)
7. Shoe template

Step one
Cut out the template for the base of the shoe and let it dry at least overnight, but ideally for 24 hours.
I also modeled the heel of the shoe at this time so that they could both dry at the same time.

Step Two
Roll out a ball of gumpaste making sure to taper one end. Let dry.

Step Three
Once completely dry, attach the heel to the base of the shoe using whatever glue you've chosen to use, and let those both dry for a little bit before starting to attach the other pieces of the shoe.

Step Four
Using a template, cut out the sides of the shoes as well as the top strap that goes over the toes. Attach once dry enough and then follow the same for the strap and the heel of the shoe.

Step Five
After everything is assembled and has dried, dust the shoe with the desired colors of luster dust and then go over the dust with the edible glitter.

Viola! A shoe is born. Now if only I could actually wear it!

The First Cake I Ever Made

This was the very first cake I ever made. I made it for a friend's 30th birthday and I had no idea at the time just how far this cake thing would take me.

I think I've come a long ways from then. :)

Monster's Inc Cake

This is one of my favorite cakes I've ever made. This was for a little girl's 3rd birthday party and she just loves the original Monsater's Inc movie. Mike was made from sugarpaste as well as the number three, which I had to hand cut out because I didn't have a letter big enough.

The bottom tier of cake was lemon poppyseed with lemon buttercream and the top tier was a 6 inch banana cake with banana filling and cream cheese frosting.