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!

Introducing Rainbow cupcakes!

I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about how I made the rainbow cake. Sorry guys, but it’s my little secret! Thanks for all of the support though! The rainbow cake ended up being a HUGE hit!

I invited my family over for dinner this weekend for a surprise birthday dinner for my cousin, Jasmine. Jasmine has helped me with my cakes before and always has nothing but good things to say about my cakes. I figured it would be nice for her to have her own cake and not just a slice of someone else’s.

She LOVED the rainbow cake that I made last weekend so I thought it would be nice to make her one for her birthday. I think they turned out pretty cute!

Here they are!

The cupcakes were white almond cake with a french vanilla buttercream frosting. The party hats and flowers were made of fondant.

A picture of them on my cute little cupcake tree:


And a view of the inside!


Happy Birthday Jasmine!

Neon rainbow cake

Recently, my best friend asked me to make a birthday cake for her daughter's surprise party. Of course I accepted. I've said it before, and I will say it again, I love making kids cakes!

She sent me a picture of the party set that she purchased and asked if I could match the cake to it. Here is what she sent me:

I was pretty excited to get started. We threw some design ideas around for quite some time before finally deciding on what it would look like and what flavors it would be. Her daughter isn't the biggest fan of cake (crazy huh?) so I decided it might be nice to make a rainbow cake. I thought it would be really cool and was anxious to try it out. She agreed. We ended up deciding on a white almond rainbow cake with strawberry mousse filling and fondant decorations.

Here was the final result:

A side view of the cake:

And the rainbow surprise inside! Those of you who know my personally can guess how excited I was about this!

A picture of the whole cake:

What do you guys think? I had a ton of fun making it!

Happy Birthday Jely!

I guess rules really are meant to be broken....

I have a rule that I don't make the same exact cake twice. There are too many styles and techniques out there that I need and want to explore!

I ended up breaking my own rule a few weeks ago. My cousin and I were talking about the cake that I was going to make for her wedding and she really loved the previous wedding cake that I made. How could I say no? It's a bit different than the last one.... it has an extra tier, different color roses, a different topper, and just a bigger cake overall.

Half of this cake was chocolate cake filled with a chocolate mousse. The other half was a french vanilla cake with a strawberry mousse filling. What do you guys think?

Here's a closer view of the top tier with the cake topper.

Congratulations Carlos and Kristina on your marriage! I love you guys and wish you the best!

Michigan State

My aunt and her family traveled all the way from Michigan to spend New Years Eve with us. We all love when when we get to see her, my uncle, and my cousins.

My aunt thought it would be nice for me to make a Michigan State University cake. My cousin currently attends there and my uncle is a big fan ;-). It ended up being really fun to make.

Anyway, here is the cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, iced with vanilla buttercream and decorated with fondant accents. My aunt LOVES chocolate.