Baptism cake

I was asked to make a baptism cake this weekend for three siblings that were being baptized at the same time. Their dad asked me to make a cake in the shape of a bible and I agreed.

Here it is! This cake was a french vanilla cake with a whipped cream frosting. The wording, cross, and bookmark were all made of fondant.

Thanks for looking!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

The majority of the time, I love baking and decorating cakes and cupcakes. Sometimes it's just plain hard to do though.

A close friend of mine asked me to make a birthday cake for her nephew who was turning 3. He was having a mickey mouse birthday party so she wanted his cake to have Mickey's clubhouse on top. I thought it would be a piece of cake (ha!) . Little did I know, how hard it would actually be. Part of the issue was that this was my first time carving something out of rice krispie treats and adding it to a cake. The second was that this was the first time that I've had a part of my cake collapse onto itself. It had to happen eventually right? I'm glad i've gotten it out of the way!

After a second batch of baking, here is a picture of the final product:

This cake was a confetti cake covered in vanilla buttercream. Everything was edible with the exception of Mickey who was a candle. Mickey's clubhouse was cake and his head and foot were made of rice krispie treats and covered in fondant.

I definitely learned alot from this one!

Happy Valentine's Day!

When I think of Valentines Day, I think of Red Velvet. Apparently I'm not the only one since I was asked to make them by a few friends. 5 dozen cupcakes later, this was the end result... all packed up and ready to go!

These were red velvet cupcakes with a whipped cream cheese frosting and a gumpaste heart for decoration.

Happy valentine's day everyone!

Happy birthday Mom!

I know that lots of people say something similar, but my mom is the best there is! She has such a huge kind heart and really does whatever she can to make sure that those around her are happy and comfortable. We all are so lucky to have her!

She always makes sure that our birthday's are special to us kids so we decided that it was time for her to have a wonderful day! We decided to throw her a surprise birthday party this weekend. We didn't have an invite or specific party decor for me to model a cake off of so I spent quite some time thinking about what kind of cake to make for her. Ultimately, I decided on a purple, black, and grey present cake. Anyone who knows my mom knows that she is the present wrapping QUEEN! She has an obscene amount of wrapping paper and fancy bows. Oh, and her favorite color is purple.

I decided to do a multi loop bow this time I did it this partly because I wanted to try something new, but also because it's just something that my mom would love!

So here is the cake I made for her. It was a white almond cake with a strawberry filling. I covered it in fondant and then added the multi loop bow that was made from a fondant/ gumpaste mixture.

Here's a bit of a closer picture of the bow and details on the cake.

What do you guys think of this new bow?

Happy birthday Mom!

More swirls and bows

My neighbor enjoyed the first cake they ordered from me so much that they ordered a second cake for their other daughter. It makes me happy to know that they liked the first one so much.

My neighbor was having some trouble coming up with what she wanted the cake to look like since she wasn't doing a birthday theme. I showed her some of the past cakes that I've made for inspiration and she loved the swirly one that I made for my friend's niece. I asked her if I could change the colors up a bit for the sake of my "rule" (which I suspect is going to have to go out the window soon) and she agreed. She even said that I could do whatever I thought was best. Fine with me!

So, here's the cake!

This cake was a french vanilla rainbow cake with a strawberry filling and a vanilla buttercream frosting. The bow and the lettering are made of fondant.

Happy 2nd birthday, Amy!

Gamer's Cake

My brother turned 23 this past week and we celebrated his birthday this weekend. I wanted to make a special cake for his birthday but wasn't able to think of something that was completely him. We visited him a couple weeks ago and being the gamer that he is, he was playing x-box.

X-box! The perfect cake idea for him! I set out to figure out how I would go about making an x-box cake. Since my immediate family were the only ones going to dinner and celebrating, I decided that making a replica of the controller would be my best bet. I didn't want to end up with too much cake afterwards.

So, this is what I was able to make for him!

This was a chocolate cake with chocolate chip cookie dough filling and covered in fondant with fondant details. Here's a view of the inside:

Happy birthday Mike!

Another present cake!

One of my co-workers is turning 25 this weekend and asked if I would make her birthday cake. I was honored! She wanted a hot pink present cake with a black bow on it. This is what I was able to come up with for her:



This cake was a red velvet cake with whipped cream cheese and walnut filling. It was covered in fondant with a fondant/gumpaste bow. Don't mind the wax paper rolled up under the bow. I put those in there to make sure that the bow survived delivery. I'll let the birthday girl take those out when she is ready. What you can't really see is that the hot pink part has a happy birthday imprint with balloons.

The bow that I made for this cake was different than the bows that I usually make. I thought it looked more realistic even though it's made of a fondant/gumpaste mixture. What do you guys think?

Happy birthday Lee! I hope you have a fabulous day!