Shower Curtain

So this is really the first cake order that had no specific requests at all. They didn't even care what flavor the cake was. I was excited but intimidated because I'm really not a super creative person. I was looking at my fairly new shower curtain the other day and loving how cute it is and thought, "Hey, that would make a cute cake!" I'm happy with how it turned out although I really need to work on my writing skills.

Halo Cake

I decided for my husbands birthday cake, I would try out some of my new toys. One of them, I've already mentioned, is my edible ink and paper printer. I'm able to copy pictures or download from a computer or camera. Now in this instance, it made the cake look a little cheesy but I just wanted to show some of the stuff I can do now. Okay, next is my air spray gun-freakin awesome! It'll take a lot of practice but I loved coloring on the fondant instead of coloring fondant and I liked doing the fading technique. My last toy is my clay extruder. It pretty much just saves me a lot of time and makes my work look cleaner but it pushes fondant out in rope or any shape stencil I use. So cool!

Cowboy Cake

This request was a cowboy cake for a baby shower specifically with the little bear resembling the picture and "Baby Justin" written out. I tried first to make the bear out of fondant and that was too difficult with the amount of detail the bear had. So I panicked a bit and printed out the picture with my new printer with edible ink on edible paper (thanks mom!). It actually turned out really cool but I of course had to try to create the bear with clay. If that didn't work, I had my back-up picture. Not my best work but I thought it looked cute enough and looked enough like the picture to use on the cake. My favorite though, is the cow print and bandanna blanket. So fun!

My First Wedding Cake!!

Finally! My first wedding! As simple as this cake sounded-3 tiered, ivory cake with white flower's around each base-it was extremely time consuming. Yes, I sat a made each of those roses. Of course I left most of it until last night and then underestimated the amount of roses I needed and scrambled a few more minutes before the event. Thankfully I made it with time to spare. I hope it was what the bride was looking for. Thanks for trusting an amateur to make your cake! :)

Giant Cupcake

Here it is with the candle, cute huh?
My baby sister turns 16 today-very hard to believe! She loves many things and one of those things happens to be cupcakes so how appropriate to do a giant cupcake for her birthday. It was also very convenient for me as this is a very simple cake and I have been making cakes up the wah-zoo this month. I was also able to use leftover material which made it even easier-yeah! We're going to put a giant birthday candle on top for when we sing to her tonight. I will post a picture of it later because it's pretty dang cool. I love you sis and congrats on the big one-six!

Bridal Shower Cake

I have been looking forward to this cake for weeks! When I think I've learned a lot on one cake and don't think I could learn much more, I do. I think I discovered more ways to improve with this cake than any other I have done so far. This order was to include a two-tiered square cake with some of the same features as my last baby shower cake but using the colors lavender and plum and it needed to be more elegant than "cutesy." Definitely a different kind of cake than I'm used to. I had a blast and like I said, learned a ton. I really appreciate the practice. I still have a ways to go but I'm getting there. :)

Stars

So one might think this cake was for a child...it was actually for my mom. I didn't mean for it to turn out so childlike but she loves this color combo and loves stars. I have been wanting to use some of the bright green (it's me fave) for a while now. I wish I didn't have so many distractions during this cake so I could have done a little cleaner of a job but she still loved it. I love you so much mom and I hope you have a great birthday!

It's Game Time!

Yeah for the Cardinals! For this momentous occasion, I made some football cookies and a cake...
I have an order for a square cake this month and I haven't done one yet-I didn't even have square pans! I thought what a perfect opportunity to get some practice in. I've been told that square cakes are more difficult than circle and that theory proved true but I did okay for a first-timer. :) Go Cardinals!

Whew!

What a night! So around 7:30pm, my husband asks if I could make a cake for a coworker whose last night is tonight. He has to leave at 9:30pm which gives me 2 hours to bake and decorate a cake and also put 3 toddler's to bed (I'm babysitting my nephew for the night). I was so happy to pull this off and have enough fondant for it (I'm running really low). The picture isn't that great because it's dark and the flash ruins it but here it is. I sort of stole the idea from a book since I didn't have time to really think of one but I think it came together okay.

Non-Fondant Hawaiian Cake

So my dad didn't want a "fondu" cake which was a bummer since I would have loved to do a Hawaiian fondant cake. Oh well, butter cream is cheaper and easier but you can only do so much so I made a cute cake topper to "cute'n" it up a bit. I got into sculpting clay when I was a teenager and thought it would be cool to include it with my cakes. For instance, I think I could do some wedding ones. We'll see. Happy birthday pops!