Mom's Birthday

I made this cake for my Mom's birthday. It is a double layer 8" round WASC filled and iced in buttercream. Covered and decorated (roses, leaves & drapes) in fondant. Butterflies & roses on sides are royal icing. All is edible except for the butterfly antennas.

Phineas and Ferb

This cake is for an adult friend's birthday. Apparantly, she is a huge fan of Phineas & Ferb so I made this cake for her. The cake is an 8" yellow WASC iced & filled with an experimental version of buttercream. The fence & all figures are gumpaste & fondant.

When I was working on the figures my 3 1/2 yr old grandson came over & immediately called out "Phineas & Ferb, Grandma!," I was pretty pleased that he recognized them. I hope the birthday girl enjoys them equally as much! There is a camping tent on the cake because my friend was going camping for her birthday where she was going to be suprised with the cake.

Batman

The little boy that celebrated last year's birthday with Lightning McQueen rang in his 4th year with a Batman theme! This is a chocolate wasc cake (12" & 8") filled & iced with buttercream and dusted with silver luster dust. All decorative accents & figures are fondant & gumpaste. Batman himself was a real challenge; however, I don't think I did too bad (for a third try). The first picture makes the cake look lopsided but that is the photographer's fault, not the baker's (yes, I suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder).

Next week I get to make a Phineas & Ferb cake for another friend's birthday!

Thanksgiving Cake & One More December Cake

I told you guys I would probably be posting cakes out of order. I finally got my Thanksgiving cake out of the trusty ole 35mm. Again, hats off to my Executive Sous Chef (he totally deserves a raise!) for helping with all of the small details. This cake was a two layered red velvet, filled with cream cheese filling , iced in white chocolate ganache & covered in fondant. All of the decorations are either fondant, modeling chocolate or gumpaste.  Boy, we learned a lot from this cake!

This was a last minute cake we made for my Mom & Pop-in-law. They were hosting a dinner for their church (where he is the Pastor) for Christmas. Mom wanted poinsettias but sadly the humidity was our enemy that week & we couldn't get anything to dry. I didn't have time (or energy) to do anything fancy; however, it was made with the same amount of love as all of the others!

I also made a gingerbread train that same week but will not post those pictures as the icing wouldn't set & it ended up very losided!

Well, that's all for now. Again, Thanks for looking!

December Cakes

It's me again. I am posting three cakes that I made for my Mom to give as Thank You gifts to her doctors & the staff at her apartment building. I have a Thanksgiving cake to post, but sadly it is trapped in my 35mm camera so as soon as I finish taking the 11 photos left on the roll I will post that cake.

The first cake was for her General Practioner. It was a yellow cake with buttercream icing covered in fondant with gumpaste accents.

This next cake was for the staff at the apartment building where she lives. Again, this is a yellow cake with buttercream icing covered in fondant with fondant accents. My Executive Sous Chef made the bow and, as always, helped me with the logostics.

Lol, I just realized that I forgot to remove the tissue from the bow before I took the picture. Oh well, still a pretty cake & I promise, the bow stayed fluffy when I took out the tissue.

I really do not like to duplicate cake designs because I like for each cake to be unique; however, I made these three cakes in one week while working full time and, as a result, I made the first cake again with a few adjustments. This cake was for my mom's Nephrologist.

And because the nurses there are super nice & always treat my mom with respect I made a few extra treats for each one of them. My grandmother sent me a few books on candy making when she found out I was designing cakes so I thought I would put them to good use & made each nurse a candy bar with their name on it.

And then wrapped them up in individual boxes.

Well, Thank You for looking! I will hopefully post my Thanksgiving cake soon.

Crate & Barrel Giveaway

There is a cool blog called Half Baked - the Cake Blog that is hosting a giveaway for $100 gift card to Crate & Barrel. Check it out http://www.thecakeblog.com/2009/12/crate-and-barrel-giveaway.html

Bell Cake

Sorry it took so long to post a new cake, I'm slow but sure. I made this cake for my mother-in-law's birthday. She collects bells so I thought this would be unique & special just for her. It started out for a small gathering & kept growing until it reached 100 people. So, my idea of a simple small bell large enough to feed family & friends grew into a monster bell to feed 100+ (note to self, next time change the theme & design of the cake to reasonably accomodate the servings). I also made a sheet cake (no picture) because I wasn't sure if more people were going to show or if the cake wasn't cut right it would never feed that many people. My sous chef is a life saver, he definitely deserves a raise! This cake stood about a foot and a half tall & was 10" at the bottom & 6" at the top. We had a time covering this beast in fondant, it took us approximately 9 tries to get it even close & still wasn't as neat as I wanted (hence the wrinkles & different piping on each side). At 5 AM I was in tears & the cake was due at 11 AM. We finally got it on there with a minimal amount of tearing (thank goodness for decorations like piping- it covers MANY mistakes!). We learn something new from each cake.

Keep checking back for Thanksgiving & Christmas cakes. There will be at least 3 cakes for Christmas; however, not all with Christmas themes. Thanks for looking!