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| My first ever gender reveal cake! Will it be for a boy or girl? |
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| The parents already knew the gender, so their son got to cut the cake! |
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| Everyone is excited for the news!!! |
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| It's a girl, YAY! |
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| A lot of pink in that cake! I wanted to make sure it was dramatic enough, haha. |
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| Merry Christmas!!! When deciding on a design for Christmas cookies this year I found this wonderful Poinsettia idea over at Sweet Sugarbelle. I absolutely love how they turned out! |
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| "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas...", I was surprised by how many of my family members didn't know this song! This is a sample of a set made with more stockings and hippos. |
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| I really like how the chocolate sugar cookies make the royal icing colors pop! |
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| Got an order to make personalized Christmas gifts for a friend to give out around her office. Made a baker's dozen for each person, and made the gift a little interactive by making a snowglobe that can have the scene changed before eating it! |
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| Sugar cookies with Royal Icing |
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| Love the melty Snoman letters! Found the perfect sprinkles to make Christmas lights! |
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| Really enjoyed the textured Christmas trees! :) |
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| There were so many letters in Danielle's name, I had to make some originals for her. Like the "N" and second "E" |
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| A birthday cake, designed like a Christmas gift (to blend in at a Christmas open house, as a surprise for the birthday girl). |
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| My first fondant bow!! The "wrapping paper" is covered with Royal Icing poinsettias. Under all that wrapping is a Spice Cake. |
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| Happy Birthday to Granny!! |
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| Ok, so I am not sure what "Dirty" and Fairys/Butterflies have to do with each other. But I am just the cake maker, I don't have to ask questions like that. Ha ha. |
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| The inside is pink! Strawberry Soda cake, with Cream Cheese Icing |
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| Covered the cake with a technique called Cornelli Lace, for "vines." Added a fairy figurine, she is not edible. My attempts at a fairy were unsuccessful, so she was plan B. |
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| There were several sizes and shapes of butterflies on the cake. They were much more sparkly in person. |
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| Added some yellow 'sweet pea' flowers, just as butterfly bait. :) |
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| I would love to say this was my idea, but it wasn't- the client had the design elements all planned out, and what a great idea! |
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| The tombstone looked very plain with just the "40" so I added scrollwork, like how the marble turned out too. |
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| Normally I would warn against black icing, the amount of food coloring needed tends to give it a funny taste. However, I suggested to start with a chocolate cream cheese icing, that didn't take much color to go from brown to this lovely black. That's why the writing and other elements also have brown incorporated. |
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| A Marshmallow Fondant Buzzard. Yes, I made a buzzard out of sugar...didn't think that would happen so soon in my career. haha. Love how he turned out. |
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| "Aren't you happy it's your birthday?! Got any dinner for me?" |
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| This is the invitation used as the inspiration for a baby shower cake |
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| Made a pink, marshmallow fondant little baby dress on a hanger, similar to the one on the invitation. |
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| Finished cake, with silver pearl border, pink pearls sprinkled over the cake, and the pretty little baby dress. |
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| Yellow Cake, Cream Cheese Icing, MMF Petals, M&M Ladybugs: Sunflower Cake! |
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| I love how this cake turned out, it is pretty high on my list for favorite cakes. It's silly but I also love the "woody" texture of the 'stem', that was a whim decision, very happy with it. |
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| This is going to be my new business card image. Cropped a little, but get ready for it to show up! :) |
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| Created the petals with two different sized cutters, added the lines and hand shaped the curve. Piped the center with a star tip. |
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| There were about 7 little ladybugs crawling on this cake, painted M&Ms with food coloring for these cuties. |
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| I decided to make the cake 4 layers high, the finished cake was 8x4", I went for decorations more than size. |
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| Handmade each leaf & petal for a bushel of flowers: White Roses, Purple Peonies, and a 'Pink Perfection' Camellia (My Nana's favorite). |
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| Gardening gloves. With stitches, patterning shown on the "top" of the right glove and the nonslip palm displayed of the left glove. |
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| Sprinkled some oreo "potting soil" around the chocolate bushel made from a mold. |
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| I created "seed packets" to display on 3 sides of the cake. Each was hand painted with food color "paint". |
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| Packets were for Sunflowers, Tulips, Bleeding Hearts {previous 2 photos}, and Pansies |
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| Made yellow Sweet Peas to trail around and up the cake sides. |
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| Here is the completed cake. Yellow Cake, Buttercream Icing, Marshmallow fondant gloves, seed packets, & flowers, a chocolate bushel- everything edible except the thin wires securing the flowers to the cake. |
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| Here is my cake at the fair, 3rd place! :) {a little worse for wear on that left corner, probably got grazed moving it into the case, pretty good for 2 days after delivery} |
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| This is the Second Place cake, I love it! The little cupcake people on the Ferris wheel is genius (there is a battery pack that lights up the center, not sure if it was supposed to spin, but still- pretty cool). There are cute little prize winners (a cow, a pumpkin, I think a chicken...). Overall, I am happy to be beaten out by this cake- it is precious and very fitting. :) |
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| This, however, is the First Place cake. *I am trying very hard to be gracious in the issues that I see {and would like to point out} in this cake, in an effort not to appear to be a sore loser. Make your own judgements- I will just say "pizza box" and shake my head quietly* |
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| Here are the 3 finalists together. Hopefully when I pickup the cake next week I will be provided with a score card of some sort. |
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| A pink, farm, first birthday cake for Ms. Madison. Yellow Cake with cream cheese icing. |
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| A mini-corn field with a little family of chickens enjoying some kernels. |
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| A pond, with lily pads, cattails and a little duck family. (Yes, the girl & baby ducks' heads shouldn't be green, technically...but they are prettier this way...) |
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| A little piggy in his favorite muddy wallow. |
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| I knew if I kept making everything a family there wouldn't be room for them all on the cake, so I just had to make the single animals extra cute... :) |
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| Sweet little moo-cow, I love how he turned out... Obviously too big for the pink barn...but hey, I never said it was to scale. |
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| Overall I was SO happy with this cake, and got a fantastic review from Madison's Mommy. :) Pleased to say also that everything on this cake is 100% edible, even the corn stalks, cattails, and cow's legs- they just contain noodle supports. |
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| Ms. Madison's Smash Cake, tried to keep the fondant to a minimum so she could eat as much of the cake as possible without fear of any "small parts". Hope her Mommy posts pictures of her getting into this one. :) |
