Something Blue...

I made this for a wedding shower.

This is two circular cakes - almond white cake with vanilla fondant. The dress is fondant with buttercream accents. The border is made of fondant balls.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy V-Day! This is a double layer brownie snack I made for the kids in Amanda's class.

Yum, yum, lots of sugar to get them bouncing off the walls!

Quilt/Bed Cake

This is a birthday cake for my grandmother's 91st birthday. She has, for 75 years, made quilts from hand. So, I thought I would make her a cake in honor of her work.

I also learned that it is harder than I expected to do a quilt based cake. The fondant dries before you can play with it. Never fear - I adjusted my original idea and I still liked the outcome.

The cake was vanilla cake with vanilla fondant. The chocolate colored fondant is dark chocolate fondant and there are silver dragees in the cross hatches on the white part of the bed. The "headboard" is a piece of cardboard covered in wood grained fondant and attached to the head of the bed.

ICES Day of Sharing

So, I was able to attend the ICES Day of Sharing in Alexandria last week. There were about 60 people there. It was a nice daya dn the learning was wonderful too. We learned how to make a camo chake, a tree stump, a ice cream sundae cake, puddle faces, and a gumpaste gardenia.

I liked the camo cake and the tree stump cake the best. I can see many applications for the two of those. The gardenia was beautiful, but I do not have the patience for that kind of flower.

I am hoping to be able to attend the next DOS.....depends on work.

Roadrunner Cake

Meep! Meep!


This was for the staff at Amanda's school. They hosted a Staff Appreciation Luncheon as part of their Teacher Appreciation Week.

It is a fondant roadrunner on a vanilla buttercream iced vanilla cake with pineapple filling.

This is a huge cake - the board is a 14" X 19". The cake is 4 inches tall. Very heavy!

Artist's Palette

So, this is a devil's food cake with chocolate buttercream icing covered with vanilla fondant. Alaina was having a painting party for her 6th birthday - maybe we will have the next Picasso on our hands??

Space Shuttle Cake

This has to be one of my favorite cakes that I have made so far. It came together better than I expected. It really was a huge cake but I did not feel it.

The cake is vanilla with white buttercream and vanilla fondant. All was edible.