Cinderella's Carriage!

When my very own wee princess requests Cinderella's pumpkin carriage for her birthday, how can I refuse?

A carriage made out of almond cake and covered in modeling chocolate and adorned with ribbon roses and chocolate vines...

The wheels were gumpaste covered in melted white chocolate for a "vine like" texture.  The entire creation was liberally painted with eatable silver luster dust for that special princess shimmer.

The birthday girl declared it Perfect.

Tow Truck!

This birthday boy has been working his way through all of the rescue vehicles.  He's had police cars, a firetruck, an ambulance and now...

A tow truck! 

Modeling chocolate safety cones held the candles once the cake was all set up.

Layers of chocolate fudge cake, filled and frosted with chocolate buttercream.  Covered in fondant and modeling chocolate.  Even the broken down car was cake!

As you can see...100% eatable!

He's already put in his request for next year--a Rescue Helicopter.

Luau!

The original conversation went a little like this:

So...I need to talk to you about a volcano cake

Sure! Are you thinking "human sacrifice" or "Luau"?

You know, she'd be delighted with either one...but how about we go with Luau?

Okie dokie!

I lost count of how many layers of chocolate sponge cake  I stacked up for the volcano.  But it was a lot of chocolate cake all held together with chocolate ganache.

Surrounding "island" is vanilla cake, more ganache and crushed up graham crackers for "sand".

Modeling chocolate and gum paste trees, thinned out orange buttercream frosting for the lava and swirling buttercream waves finished out the cake.

The mom sent me an inside view.  A special inside lava surprise! 

Baby shower Barn yard!

A very special family is welcoming a baby boy in a few short weeks.  His nursery layette is farm themed...so, of course, his shower cake had to follow suit.

Six layers of chocolate cake, filled and covered with vanilla Swiss buttercream.

Baby cow and chickens are molded from modeling chocolate.  For the recordI do not recommend working with modeling chocolate in August!

The barn is covered in fondant and a chocolate roof.

Almond "haystack" cupcakes to round out the display!

So much fun to create!  Even more fun to hear some of the party goers confess they didn't realize the barn was cake!

Thanks, D and A for allowing me to be part of your special day!

Princess cake!

The birthday girl requested a princess in a pink dress.  Emphasis on the Pink Dress.

No princess is complete without her crown.

And lots of ruffles under her dress.

A very regal, very pink princess cake!

Lots and lots of ruffles!

Cake is eight layers of vanilla and almond white cake, filled with vanilla buttercream.  Ruffles are gum paste and the dress is all pink modeling chocolate.  Everything but the doll herself is eatable.

Celebration cake!

Allow me to brag for a moment...my eldest nephew graduates from high school next month.  But he's skipping graduation because he was also accepted to perform with the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corp! 

Since he'll be away from home for his birthday I made him a cake to celebrate everything!

Two layer cake...one chocolate and one vanilla.  Filled and covered with vanilla Swiss Buttercream.  Decorations are frozen buttercream transfers.

Superhero cake!

A birthday cake for a superhero named Zachary...

Of course, he couldn't pick just one...so Batman and Spiderman showed up too...

I didn't get to meet the birthday boy but his mom was delighted with the results!

 Top layer is Chocolate Fudge cake, bottom layer is vanilla yellow cake.  Both are filled with vanilla buttercream.  The entire cake is covered in fondant with buttercream "webs".  The "Z" superman emblem is done in color flow.