Train Party

This is for a 2 year old's birthday celebration! I was very pleased with how it came out. This cake is mostly buttercream with a few fondant accents.

Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes

Saw these on-line and HAD to do them for the holidays. Pumpkin spice cupcake with cinnamon cream cheese icing with the fondant topper.

Rocket to Space

This is a replica of the Saturn V. This is the same little boy that I did the Space Shuttle Endeavour last year!! The cake is all buttercream except the shuttle which is fondant.

Football Birthday

This was for a 10 year old's birthday party. Buttercream with fondant accents (lines, fleur de lis and jersey!).

Fleur de lis

I had the joy of having two groups of family come in town for the week! We had a celebration with the whole group this past weekend and I made this New Olreans inspired cake for the dinner.

The cake is an Golden Almond cake - one I do not make very often, but is a quite tasty recipe! The icing is real buttercream flavored with butter-vanilla and raspberry. The fleur de lis pieces were fondant. There are dragees placed on the sides - gold 8mm beads and pearls.

Flowers Abound!

This is Amanda's 6th birthday party cake. We went with a floral themed invitation (pictured above) so I thought I would recreate the invite in cake.

Amanda and I had so much fun making this cake! She helped me "decide" where to put the fondant flowers. The cake was a almond white on the bottom and devil's food on the top covered in buttercream with fondant accents.

I am so glad she was my client! I doubt I would get to make this cake for a regular client - it was quite bright and obnoxious! But, it made me smile every time I looked at it!

Baby Shower Camo

This was a baby shower cake with a pink camo theme. The bib is fondant with impression pattern printed along the edges and for the word "Baby".

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6th Birthday

This is Amanda's 6th birthday snack cake for school. Cookie cake with a pink camouflage theme. Looking forward to making her party cake next week......watch out for the pictures!

50th Birthday Party

This cake was for a surprise 50th birthday party. Black and white themed party.

...the neat part is the guest of honor was going to be the only one in colored clothing! I am sure it was fun!

This is an almond flavored white cake covered in buttercream with fondant accents. The 50 is a gumpaste/fondant mix. There is a crystal garland around the base to add some bling!

Ducky Baby Shower Cake

This is a cake I made for a co-worker. She was throwing a baby shower for a close friend. I was inspired by a cake I found on the web that featured rubber ducky style fondant figures around the first layer and larger fondant/gum paste ducks on the top. The sides have geometric designs on the top and quilted fondant bordered by buttons on the bottom. There are fondant bead border on the base of the cake.

Camo Cake for the Husband

So, today is Paul's birthday. Besides being a chef-extraordinaire, he is also an avid hunter, fisher, outdoorsman. He would probably love to have more time to play with the wildlife. I hope he loves this cake. (Amanda even helped me make it!!)

The cake is butter vanilla white decorated entirely with buttercream. This was my first attempt at camo - I know how to make it even better next time!! The design is borrowed from the Louisiana Sportsman magazine. I love fleur de lis patterns!

Giant Cupcake Cake

This is for a 2 year old named Brock. His mom has got to be one of the best party planners.....I have to admit that I would have loved to be a guest at their party! The theme was Mickey Mouse Playhouse - and, boy, was Mickey everywhere!

Mom decided to do cupcakes in lieu of a cake to make it easier to pass them out and have a giant cupcake as the focal point.

The cake is butter vanilla white cake with buttercream icing. The orange section of the cake is a chocolate shell made from the cake mold. It was a new technique that I recently learned and I LOVE IT!! The name, number 2 and the colored "sprinkles" are all fondant accents.

Thanks to Jennifer (and Brock, of course!) for having me decorate a fun cake!

*** Addendum: Thank you to Jennifer for letting me borrow her picture of the cupcake set-up!***

Wedding Shower - part deux

And, my other favorite cake to make.....again. This one is really fun because of the clean lines. I hope to make it again soon.....

Christening Dress - part 2!

You may recognize this cake. Yes, we are on for a second round! And, was I thrilled. I love this cake. It is fun to make, is pretty and (from what I hear) tasted great!

Featured is a 9"X13"X4" carved vanilla white cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents.

Baseball and a Wedding

These two cakes were for a co-worker. She was celebrating her boyfriend's birthday and threw in a wedding celebration on the same weekend! Congratulations to the happy couple!

The baseball cake is a devil's food cake with buttercream icing and a fondant plaque.

The sheet cake was vanilla white cake with buttercream icing featuring chocolate buttercream accents with chocolate fondant rosettes.

Three-in-One

So, my neighbors celebrated three birthdays last weekend. Dad and two of the kids had a party. Fun was had by all. It was a great party!! They had a huge waterslide that the kids enjoyed.

The cake was a three tiered monster. The bottom cake was devil's food with a fishing theme for dad, the professional bass fisherman. It featured a hand painted and molded big mouth bass coming out the side of the cake. It was caught by a hand molded fishing pole with fine gauge wire for the line. There were fondant rocks and bobbers on the cake.

The second cake was for the four year old. She wanted lady bugs....so, lady bugs she got. There were large lady bugs with sunflowers on the base of this layer with smaller lady bugs crawling along the top of the cake. This was a vanilla butter white cake.

The top was for the one year old. Mom asked for butterflies for the little princess. So I topped the cake with a collection of flowers and two hand painted butterflies. Also a vanilla butter white cake.

I was so happy with the outcome. It came together as one cake with three themes instead of three cakes on top of each other. I learned some valuable lessons about putting together a tiered cake.

Princess Buttercream

This is a vanilla butter white cake with buttercream icing. It is a spin-off of the cake I did for my niece but with accents from the brithday girl's party theme.

This cake is still a fav of mine! It is a fun cake and the little girls love it!

Fondant First Birthday

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I always forget to come over here and add pics. Facebook has taken all of my time lately!

This was a cake from June. White vanilla butter flavored cake with vanilla fondant.

Sarah is a daughter of an old and good friend of mine from high school. She was absolutely adorable at the party!

Christening

Christening dress made of buttercream icing with fondant accents. Cake is a vanilla cake with buttercream filling.

Mandeville High Graduation

Cake made for a local high school graduation. White cake with vanilla flavor, buttercream icing with fondant accents.

First Communion Time

So, we are in the middle of a three weekend First Communion festival. These are two cakes I did for last weekend.

The first is an open book themed cake I carved out of a rectangular double layer cake. Buttercream icing with icing filling and a white almond cake. Fondant flowers and tassel with buttercream decoration.

The second is a stained glass window theme. The cake is actually the same as the first. I added a cardstock plaque with the little girl's name, "First Communion" and the date. It was affixed to the front of the cake. She absolutely loved the cake!

What a blessing to be able to make such cute cakes for such sweet children!

This is our Easter cake. It was inspired by Martha Stewart's Citrus Celebration Cake in one of her wedding cake books.

It is a yellow butter cake with lemon simple syrup, lemon curd filling, vanilla bean buttercream icing and topped (and served) with candied orange slices.

It really did taste lovely.

New Baby on Board

So, now it is Maria's turn for a new arrival.

The clinic I work at has to hold the record for the number of babies born per fertile female ratio. There must be something in the water!