Monday, May 6, 2013

FSU Graduation Order


1 dozen FSU graduation cupcakes, Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing.

Complete with little diploma toppers.

2 tier graduation cake, Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, fondant details, and "Sixlet" candy borders.
Graduation cap cake topper, loved how this turned out!

Garnet and Gold dots and stars were scattered on both tiers. This cake was very festive!

Tooth Cake- Dentistry Graduation

Graduation cakes are fun, this is a twist on the usual though- it's for Dentistry! Had so much fun with this cute little tooth!
Since the cake was pink, I thought it would be fitting to have a little "teeth" border.
 
Made a shiny silver pick and mirror.

No dentist can work without a mask!

Little graduation cap for our "tooth graduate"
Toothbrush and diploma details too! Congrats to the graduate!!

Pink Baby Shower Cake & Cookies

Tiered yellow cake with pink buttercream, with mmf dots, bows, and lettering.
This order was for a BIG baby shower, I made 5 dozen cookies and a 3 tier cake.

Little pink onesie cookies, with an "A" for Addison.


Bottom Tier detail. Tiny bows went around the cake, with this sparkly name plate for Ms. Addison.

Middle tier detail. Cake was surrounded with multicolored dots.

Top tier detail. Onesie outline, I later added the baby's monogram, but forgot to snap a picture.
Top detail.

To complete the story- unfortunately this cake was delivered on a day when we were experiencing road work (on our mile long dirt driveway) and rain for several days in a row. All the jiggling and jostling did not allow the bottom tier to survive the mud bog that was necessary to leave my house. I was able to salvage the top 2 tiers without a problem, and the good news is that there was plenty of cake at the party- there were even leftovers! 
*Lesson Learned. Cakes taller than 2 tiers will be assembled on site when at all possible.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Baby Shower Cake- Averi

A Baby Shower cake for Miss Averi Byrd, for her Mommy's baby shower. Can't wait to meet her soon!
 
Yellow Cake, Cream Cheese Icing, Royal icing stars, fondant cutout "A", and candy Sixlet trim.
The letter, paint splatters, and stars all came from the shower invitation.

First "Belly Cake"

I was super excited, and a little nervous for an order for my first belly cake, complete with pink Realtree camo on the 'shirt'

This is also the first time using fondant to completely cover a cake, it worked out really well- not as scary as I thought
Covered the torso separate from the base cake, let it set, & painted the camo with food-coloring before adding to the base.
I really like how the bow turned out too.

Ta-dah! Pregnant Belly Cake. I am looking forward to having more orders for these!


Pigs in the Mud Cake

The birthday twins requested yellow cake with my Nana's chocolate cream cheese icing for their birthday, well there is only so much decorating you can do with brown icing. haha. Here are their "Pigs in the Mud"

Added 'grass' on the sides of the cake for a little more color, the icing was soft so it ended up a little on the "seaweed" side.

One silly pig with his tush in the air, peeking out of the mud

Pig #2 floating on his back in the mud puddle

There was debate over which pig was which twin, I had to tell them to decide. :)

Owl Cookies

Owl cookies to use as baby shower favors

I made the cute little owl transfers separate and placed them on the wet cookie icing.

And one "Thank you" cookie per bag.