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.

Craig's 35th Birthday Cake

I decided to test my decorating abilities and freehand a golfer. My husband loves to golf so this is what I came up with. I think it turned out pretty good and if you know my husband you will definitely be able to see the resemblance :) Unfortunately I wasn't brave enough to do the bag in frosting so I just used a scrapbooking decal but other than that I think I did pretty good for a newbie :)

Tyler's 3rd Birthday

I was sick on my husband's birthday so instead of getting a cake from me, he ended up with a Baskin Robbins cake. So about a month later I decided I would surprise him one day and make him a "birthday cake". I was going through a bunch of pans I have and was going to do something fun, maybe a football, and then my 3 year old got his hands on the Thomas pan. So, low and behold, my husband ended up with a Thomas cake a month after his birthday :( He still liked it. That is his cake on top. About a month later it was time for Tyler's birthday and he still remembered the Thomas pan. Yep, you guessed it, that's his cake on the bottom. We had a bunch of people coming over for that party so I put the Thomas cake on top of a half sheet cake. Tyler also helped with the coloring of the frosting so that is why Thomas ended up with a black face instead of a gray one. Tyler didn't care, it was still Thomas.

Brooklyn's First Birthday

This was my niece's first birthday cake. We went with a Princess Castle since she is the only girl. I used an 8" round double layer cake. Frosted it with pink buttercream frosting. Put on a star border with little round designs made out of stars and a door on the sides. I then added white and pink gum balls. The spires on the castle are regular ice cream cones with the bottoms shaved off to make the different heights. I filled them with buttercream frosting so they could handle the weight of the sugar cone on top. I tried putting the cones on the cake first and then piping a star border around them, but realized that it would have been easier to pipe the border on first and then stick the cone into it. It was a little tricky to get my hand and the bag of frosting on the parts of the cone where there was another cone next to it :) And of course since it was her first birthday she needed her own cake. I made her a cupcake and decorated it with one spire like her cake.

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 :(

More Cakes :)

Once again I was trying out the technique of applying designs to cakes. This one I did freehand. My handwriting has become more natural looking instead of the writing here.

This was a cake I did for my husbands friend. I used cookie cutter to put the imprint of the flowers on the cake and then filled them in with stars.

Of course you can't decorate cakes and not do a doll :) This was just for fun.

This was one of the first cakes I did after finishing my classes. I used a half sheet cake for the bottom. For the bee shape I used the football pan for the body and the 3D soccer ball for the head only using half of the pan. I decorated it with stars. The wings are just tracing paper. Once again I used the uncooked spaghetti for the antennas.

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.

First Day On The Job

About 7 years ago my little girl was turning 5 and wanted a Monsters Inc cake for her birthday. I went all out and ordered one from Save Mart and thought I was going to get this really good cake. It was store bought, it had to be good, right??? Wrong!!! The cake tasted like the freezer and the frosting had no flavor at all. I had spent all of this money on the worst cake ever thinking that I was doing such a good job. I vowed never again to buy another store bought cake. Well, I must admit that there have been times I have purchased a store bought cake but usually just from Baskin Robbins :) Most of the time we have yummy home made cakes. So in the last 7 years I have definitely learned a lot from experience and from other people. I love to make cakes and just desserts in general. I do it all for fun!!! I've had quite a few people asking lately about my cakes and cupcakes so I thought I would start a blog. Hopefully that will make it easier to keep pictures updated and I can share some my ideas with my readers. Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions :)