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.