Sweet and girlie baby shower cake!

A new baby is always a great cause for celebration!  

The requests were pastel colors, cute and girlie...with a small, subtle bit of zebra striping...  

Tiny delicate baby booties to match a delicate ribbon...

Rose buds for a baby girl...

Striping to pull it all together...

Sweet, cute and girlie...

Top tier is Red Velvet cake filled with cream cheese frosting and covered with a cooked vanilla buttercream...combining both traditional icings for a Red Velvet cake.

Lower tier is Chocolate Buttermilk Fudge filled with vanilla custard and fresh raspberries and covered with vanilla Swiss buttercream.  

All decorations are a mixture of sugar paste and modeling chocolate.

Air Force Insignia cake!

She wanted to provide something different for a retiring co-worker--something bold yet simplistic. 

 I think we nailed it!

The insignia was created using the Frozen Buttercream Transfer technique.  The biggest challenge was in achieving just the correct shade of blue.  It was a delightful change to work on a cake that allowed me focus on the basics of decorating rather than the trial and error of carving, building and molding.

Almond flavored white cake filled with vanilla custard and covered in vanilla Swiss buttercream.  

Worst Pie in London!

My dearest niece and her besty adore all things Tim Burton and especially the movie "Sweeney Todd".  When I was asked if I could come up with an appropriate birthday cake my warped brain started churning.  We went with a rather gruesome recreation of a meat pie...

Of course it had to contain a body part...or two...

We couldn't just leave it as a simple cake...there had to be an element of surprise...so we made it "bleed!

Fresh made strawberry sauce was lurking in the middle and the whole thing worked just as we planned!  The birthday girl was delighted, over joyed and ecstatic!  

Cake is chocolate fudge with mini chocolate chips, filled with vanilla custard, covered in chocolate buttercream and wrapped in modeling chocolate.  The "finger" is a mixture of modeling chocolate and gumpaste and hand painted to give it a gruesome corpse look. 

So much fun to plan and to create!  

40th Birthday Cake!

I was delighted when I received a request for a cake to celebrate a husband's 40th birthday and she didn't ask for all black and tombstones!

Birthday's are happy occasions and I love making the cake reflect that.  

A very festive cake for another milestone!

Cake is chocolate fudge filled with vanilla custard and fresh strawberries and covered in vanilla buttercream with gumpaste accents.

Wine Glass!

I was asked to create a cake to celebrate a special person's 21st birthday.  Then came the challenge of a 3D wine glass...

A few of the birthday girl's favorite things...

The cake is 100% gluten free and %100 edible...with the exception of the wood dowel running all the way through.

The glass is vanilla white cake and the base is chocolate.  Both are filled with chocolate Swiss buttercream and covered with fondant.  The charms are hand painted gum paste.

A delightfully fun cake to celebrate one of our cultures rites of passage!

Cowgirl cake...

When she was only a few months old,  Hannah used to come stay with us during the day 

when her mom went back to work. 

I got a little teary eyed thinking about all of our little ones growing up so fast!

She's in love with horses so I gave her a white horse to match her birthday party napkins.

Chocolate Buttermilk Fudge with vanilla custard filling and vanilla buttercream icing.
All decorations are chocolate.

Fit for a princess...

When I asked the birthday girl what she wanted for a cake she replied, "flowers, lots of flowers, a princess crown and a castle, and flowers!"  She didn't even notice I left out the castle...

White almond flavored cake filled with vanilla custard and covered in vanilla buttercream.  All decorations are chocolate and topped with a custom designed chocolate tiara.  What more could a four-year-old princess ask for?

100% cake. 100% edible. The only thing exploding is a waistline or two!

 Thought I should clear that up...you know, just in case anyone from 

Homeland Security stumbles onto my little ol' cake blog! 

A law enforcement friend is retiring after 31 one years on the force.  And the past 10 years on the bomb squad.  The man deserved the finest send off we could give him!

Gray cake:

Chocolate fudge cake with cookies and cream filling.  

Vanilla Swiss buttercream icing with fondant and chocolate accents.

Black cake:

Almond buttermilk white cake with vanilla cream filling and covered in fondant.

Emblem is painted white chocolate.

Both delicious! Both "disarmed" with enthusiasm!

Surprise!

A sweet friend of mine just celebrated the last of her four children's birthdays for the year.  Her birthday is the day after her son's.  She deserved a cake all of her own!  She was confused when I walked in to the party with two cake boxes...

Red Velvet cake with Whipped Icing.  This was my mom's recipe and the first time I've attempted it.  I have to say, I was pleased with the results!  The recipe itself was more work than I'm used to in a recipe, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.  I love the frosting and will definitely add it to my repertoire of confections!

Bowling cake!

Nathanael wanted a bowling party for his 5th birthday so his mom requested a bowling themed cake and they were both delighted with the results!

Bowling ball is Chocolate ganache filled Butter Nut Vanilla, covered in vanilla buttercream and homemade fondant.  Pin and base are Chocolate ganache filled Chocolate Fudge cake.  Base is covered in Chocolate buttercream and the pin is covered in Vanilla Buttercream and homemade fondant.

Noah's Ark!

One very crowded ark for one very special boy! 

Giraffes are the birthday boy's favorite animal so he got an extra one for his own cupcake! 

 Cake and cupcakes...vanilla buttermilk with chocolate Swiss buttercream filling and icing.

Animals are homemade fondant and modeling chocolate.

So much fun to create...even better to eat!

Chevy truck!

 2011 Chevy Silverado...

Chocolate buttermilk fudge cake--yes, this is all cake!

Chocolate Swiss buttercream throughout, covered in homemade chocolate fondant with a little bit of silver pearl dusting for shimmer on the chrome.

Castle "pop up" book!

Castle cakes for twin girls!

Vanilla sponge cake rolled up with chocolate Swiss buttercream filling, covered in homemade fondant for the castles.

Book is vanilla cake filled with the same and covered in chocolate buttercream with fondant accents.

Rainbow Cake...

Chocolate Fudge Cake on top with a yellow butter cake for a base.

Swiss buttercream, whipped buttercream and homemade fondant.

One delightful 7-year-old!

Princess Fairy Castle...

Pumpkin applesauce spice cake with whipped cream cheese frosting, covered in homemade fondant.

Firetruck cake...

Chocolate buttermilk fudge cake covered with vanilla buttercream, homemade fondant and white chocolate accents.

Millennium Falcon...

Chocolate buttermilk fudge cake and vanilla butter cake covered with chocolate buttercream and homemade fondant

Boy monkey cake...

Vanilla and chocolate poundcake covered in vanilla and chocolate Swiss buttercream and homemade chocolate modeling clay accents.