Happy Birthday Katy!

Brent Graduates!!!

I made this cake for a wonderful person graduating from high school! He plans on being a music teacher!

Happy Birthday Zina!

This was a fun cake to do for a Luau themed birthday party!

Graduation Time

This is an order of cupcakes and a cake that I did for two high school graduates that had their party together! Tons of fun creating special occasion cakes - I almost feel like I get to be apart of their celebration!

Kaity's 7th Birthday

My daughter helped me make this cake for our cousin Kaity's 7th birthday! She had a luau theme. I had a ton of fun teaching my daughter many different techniques used in this cake! I thought she did a great job!

Madison's Birthday

2 tier round cake with buttercream frosting and fondant flowers

A Boingo's Party

This is a cake I did for a sweet little girl's 6th birthday party held at a local restaurant called Boingo's. We made the cake to match the invitations. So fun and sooo cute! Vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant!

Marshall Wedding

This is a wedding cake for a good friend of the family. 3-tier squares stacked with roses in each layer. The topper wasn't there when I set up the cake :( All vanilla cake with buttercream icing.

A Cousins Birthday

These are 2 cakes that I did for cousins who had their birthday parties together! They wanted the cakes similar but not identical. So this is what we came up with :)



And then we did cupcakes to match :)

Babyshower for Alyssa

This is a cake I made for a friends baby shower. Lots of fun and oh so cute!

October Wedding

This is for a wedding of a friend. The flower lady put the fresh flowers on after I left so the cake doesn't really look all that good right now :( I will get picture of the finished cake and post. Fresh flowers will be put on along with leaves made from fondant that you can see beside the cake. The branches are made from fondant.

Along with the 3 tier cake the bride wanted sheetcakes to finish feeding the guests. This is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and candied carrots for garnish.


Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and mini pb cups for garnish.


Lemon cake with a lemon frosting and candied lemon zest for garnish.


And for all of the non-frosting lovers (is there really such a thing?) chocolate cake with raspberry topping and a dollop of cream.

Another Lost Photo

I ran across a folder on my computer today with a couple of photos of a cake I did back in December. This was for a wedding. We did white buttercream with detail work on the sides with black ribbon. The accent was red cranberries on the top layer. It turned out very nice.

McWilliams Wedding Cake

This is the first wedding cake I've done in a while that was not accompanied with cupcakes! Everyone lately has wanted cupcakes. I enjoy doing them but it was a nice change to do all cakes. For this particular wedding we did a three tier cake and then three additional sheet cakes. The three tiers were all decorated the same with ribbon around the base of the cake with little dots on both the top and the bottom of the ribbon. I put some artificial flowers in bunches around the cake and there you have it. Pretty easy :) I think it turned out nice.

Jori's Wedding Cake

In addition to the 120 cupcakes Jori wanted we also did a three tier funfetti cake with buttercream frosting and fondant. It was an outdoor wedding late in the afternoon and so of course my first concern was how the cake and frosting would hold up in the heat. I never bake my cakes ahead of time and freeze them because I want them to be as fresh as possible, but I was tempted this time simply to help keep them cold in the heat. Instead of freezing them, though, I just kept them refrigerated unless I was actively working on that individual cake. Unfortunately, the heat still got to the cakes and they started to droop a little. I had put wooden dowels in each layer to help support it but they still leaned some. These pictures are before I fixed the leaning.

This is a picture of all of the cakes and cupcakes awaiting frosting.

This is a picture of the whole cake before I fixed the leaning. You can also see the cupcakes scattered around the cake table.

The bottom layer had light and dark blue fondant stripes with a shell border on the bottom and royal icing flowers the same as on the cupcakes.



The middle layer had a layer of dark blue fondant cut into the shape of waves with a smaller layer of light blue fondant waves put on top. Again we put the same shell border with royal icing flowers.


The top layer was the same as the bottom using light and dark blue fondant stripes with the same border.

50th Wedding Anniversary

This is a tiered cake I did for my great grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. It was in December so the colors were red and gold with poinsettias. I made poinsettias out of royal icing but was very displeased with the way they turned out. It is so hard to achieve "red" flowers in frosting. I did some embroidery designs on the sides and used red ribbon with gold accents. I used the wilton candle cake holder but instead of using candles I put big bows out of matching ribbons on each of the 4 candle holders. Since the cake stand sits about 4 inches above the table I put white Christmas lights wrapped in gold toulle under it and it had a beautiful glowing effect.

And Still...More Cakes

This was my first attempt at fondant. It was okay but I really wasn't convinced of its purpose in cake decorating. I was all about the buttercream frosting :)

This was a cake I did for my papa's 70th birthday. This was my first big challenging cake on my own. And I had a blast. It was so fun using techniques that I had only read about. You can't really see in the pictures but on each of the letters of the words "happy birthday" there is a little candle made out of frosting. This is all made out of buttercream.

This is a cake for my cousins bridal shower. We used artificial flowers. The lighting in the picture isn't very good so you can't really see much of the detail on the cake. I used decreasing sizes of dots and they went up the sides of each tier.

Just another fun attempt at freehanding. If I had known about Ace of Cakes I would have attempted to shape the entire cake like a cell phone but this is what you get for a beginner :)

This was a wedding cake. The roses were light blue and dark blue. The coloring does not show up good at all because the only picture of got of this cake was a polaroid :(

Cakes

I took the cake decorating classes through Michael's. This was my first attempt at a tiered cake.












I really enjoy making birthday cakes. I don't seem to stress as much about those :) This was a really fun one for my cousin. I used a coloring book and cut out the patter of Spiderman and traced the image onto the cake with a toothpick. I thought it turned out pretty good for my first attempt.












This was another cake for my class. I learned how to do the basket weave and I love it. I think it is really fun and really sets off a cake.










This is a baby shower cake I made for my cousin. For the flower stems on the sides I took uncooked spaghetti and broke them into various lengths. I used a large round tip and put it in a decorators bag with green royal icing. I would take the piece of spaghetti and push it through the opening of the tip into the frosting and then squeeze it back out and the spaghetti was covered with royal icing. After they were dry I attached royal icing flowers to them and made flower stalks.