60th Birthday Cake

This is the 60th birthday cake I made for a friend's grandmother who just got in from out of the country. Cake was vanilla with strawberries and cream, covered in fondant. Also my first attempt at a gum paste rose, and I must say it wasn't as hard as I thought. I had fun doing them and I love the gum paste I bought from, CK Products, it's the best, very pliable and easy to use. Too bad I didn't get much from them, next order I will go all gum paste. Anyhow,I have more coming up this weekend, looks like a wedding cake and a butterfly/daisy cupcake tower as well. Keep posted for more pictures, thanks again!

Dominique's 19th Birthday

Here's my niece's last minute birthday cake. I really don't like doing last minute cakes because they never turn out right but I guess it turned out good. The most important thing is she liked it! I have to admit I did make a huge mistake.....funny she's really 19 not 18 I don't know what I was thinking but I was off a whole year. Anyhow the purse was made from rice krispies covered in fondant and all the makeup is chocolate.I have to say I really like those chocolate molds and have never really used them until just this weekend. I have so many of them too. Looks like I'll be using more chocolate accessories from now on, it's much easier than gum paste. Flowers were made from gum paste. She loves chocolate so the cake is chocolate cake with Oreo cookie filling iced in vanilla butter cream. Hope you like I have another cake I'm working on for this weekend so keep posted. Thanks!

Eva's cake

Not entirely what I was going for, but I guess it's what's gonna do. I was going to use Eva's invitation picture on the cake. So, I went to my scanner, downloaded the picture and print. To my surprise my dumb printer is out of ink, I ended up with colorful lines all down the whole picture...yeah... not for Eva. So....my scrap booking head kicked in and I started cutting out flowers, circles and stripes. I was shooting for turquoise and lime green and eventually I did some purple to match paper underneath the cake. I was pretty frustrated that I ended up with scrap page cake and no picture.....but where was I going to get ink at the last minute? Anyways, this was her graduation/birthday cake in one. She just graduated from CVCA and it's also her birthday. I was so proud of her she always strive to do her best and was always helping her brothers at the same time. She really is a good girl and know she will do whatever she sets her mind to. Congrat's Eva! She wanted a red velvet cake with cream cheese. I have to say it's my first, I tried a scratch recipe...never again. That was the most dog gone awful cake I have ever tried. So good ol' me made it from a box. That was a different story and much better. It must be something from the south. lol Anyhow it turned out, just have to hear from her to see how they liked it.

I want a fondant cake tomorrow!

I really wasn't in the mood for a last minute cake but I did it anyways. Hey...sometimes you just have to do these things. In my situation I think I can be lying in my death bed and still get up to make a cake. lol Anyhow a friend called me last minute and decided she wanted a little fondant cake for her birthday. She'd always wanted a fondant cake, she told me when when she went to order a cake for her wedding in the catalog she requested a certain cake (not to big) then when she picked it up it wasn't what she had ordered, at least not fondant. Anyways this is what she wanted this is what she got. She was happy. Marble cake with fresh strawberries and cream covered in marshmallow fondant. All decorations and accessories are fondant. Keep posted I'm working on 2 cakes and they are both sports jerseys.

The result of disaster.

So here's what came from the fallen cake. The party was that day and I had no time whatsoever to make another cake purse, at least made of cake that is. I could've done a rice crispy one but just didn't have the energy. So I was left with crown from the "Kathy" purse, and she really wanted that to be a part if her cake. So I made a pillow out of rice crispy made a trim and stuck the crown on top. Decorated the oval cake with zebra stripes and added a few flowers around the pillow and this is what I ended up with. It's alright, she liked it, but I was really looking forward to the purse. Maybe next time.