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.