A Baby Shower Cake

I made this cake for my friend's baby shower....she is having her first girl!  : )
The cake was buttermilk devil's food cake with Bavarian cream filling, covered and decorated with marshmallow fondant with a gum paste flower.

Belle of the Ball

Mia wanted a princess cake for her 5th birthday and she chose Belle!  She was made of strawberry cake, vanilla butter cream and marshmallow fondant.  I made her dress a little more modest than it normally is.  : )
 

Tea Party Birthday!

We had a service auction at church and I offered to make a cake. I was super excited when the winner of that auction said she was having a tea party theme for her daughter's birthday because I've always wanted to make a teapot cake. I had trouble with the spout - I had one all sculpted out of fondant and it kept falling and the skewers kept poking through so I scrapped that and invented this funky spout made with balls of fondant. I wasn't thrilled with it, but I was running out of time and didn't know what else to do. I was happy with the rest of the cake though.

The cake was sour cream chocolate cake with buttercream frosting, covered in fondant.

My Baby Turns 3!!

For my daughter's birthday she requested a "baloo pincess tate". Or, in other words, a blue princess cake. I used candy coating for the bodice of the dress, and didn't quite match the color of the frosting to that of the candy, but that's o.k., just this once. :) I also used blue and silver pearl sprinkles for a little something extra on the skirt. :) The cake was a white confetti cake with vanilla buttercream.

Cake at Tiffany's

I made this Tiffany Box cake for a friend of mine for her Bunco party.
The cake was Devil's Food with vanilla buttercream, covered in marshmallow fondant. My hand was totally shaking when I piped the words, and I didn't make them very straight or uniform in size. :(

Megan's Baby Shower Cake

I made this cake for my sister's baby shower. It was a vanilla cake frosted with strawberry butter cream and covered and decorated with fondant. We decorated the room with clotheslines full of some of the new clothes for the baby, so I copied that idea onto the cake.  The box, toys, shoes, etc on top are all hand made out of fondant and gumpaste. This cake was really fun to make.

Puppy Cupcakes

My daughter LOVES dogs, so it was easy to pick a theme for her 2nd birthday party. Puppies!!! I got the inspiration for these cute little cupcakes from the Hello, Cupcake book.
These were chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream.

Vintage Hat Cake

I made this cake for Enrichment night at church. The theme was H.A.T.S. (Have A Taste of Service) and we decorated with vintage hats and other cool vintage things. Most of the people thought this cake was a real hat. What a compliment! : ) This was really fun to make, and it was pretty easy, too. It was a three-tier cake - the top and bottom layers were chocolate and the middle layer was vanilla. It was frosted and filled with chocolate frosting and I covered it with marshmallow fondant. The flowers were "fantasy flowers" made from gum paste.

I trimmed the edge a little, on the rim of the hat after this picture wa taken.

I originally decorated the back of the hat with "buttons". But I had an extra blue flower so I changed it to this.....


Which one do you like better?

Carrie's Birthday Cake

This is the cake I made for Carrie's birthday. She's going to be a docent (tour guide) at the Molly Brown house, so of course I made a Victorian doll cake. : )

Amelia's First Birthday Cake!!

This is the cake I made for my baby Amelia's first birthday! It was a white chocolate cake with fresh strawberry buttercream. Yum!!!

Surprise Birthday Cake

I loved this cake, because it was a surprise for one of my good friends. It's also frosted in some of my favorite colors, which happen to be her favorites, as well. This was a buttermilk devil's food cake with buttercream frosting.