This cake was all real cake, chocolate with chocolate buttercream. YUM!! It was super heavy. As simple as it was this cake was so very elegant and just beautiful. It was very fitting for a wedding at Christmas time.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
60th Birthday Party
The assignment was to not make this too much like a little girl's cake so we couldn't decide what colors to use. This is what we decided on and it turned out really fun.
Snowflake Cupcakes
These cupcakes were so fun to make. The sanding sugar on the snowflake cutouts and the crystal sugar on the cupcake made them seem very wintery... :o)
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I'm going to be on TV!
Set your DVRs again my friends... I'm going to be on Arizona Midday next Wednesday the 23rd. The show is live from 1-2 p.m. on Channel 12 and we will be making cake pops! Fun and De-lish!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Barn Cake
I only had a couple days notice to make this cake but it turned out just like I envisioned. She said they were having a barnyard theme party and it was up to me to decide what kind of cake went along with that. I thought that the barn was a super cute idea and went to work. The walls and roof were impressed with a woodgrain pattern to make them look like wood slats and shingles. And the animals were made out of fondant. But one of my favorite things about this cake was the hay bundles at the corners of the barn.
Lots of Dots Wedding Cake
The bride designed this cake. She was very sure about what she wanted and thank goodness because it turned out very cute. It actually turned out cuter in real life than I had pictured in my head. She originally wanted real ribbon around the bottom tier that was the blue with the white polka dots but I refused to do it. I have this thing against real ribbon on cake so I made it out of fondant and then just piped the little dots on it and it turned out so much cuter than if we had just tied real ribbon around the cake. I'm such a cake snob... :o)
Rainbow Trout Cake for Grandpa
This cake was for my husband’s Grandpa. He is a huge fisherman and so we had to make him a fish cake. I made it so late at night and there was so much more I wanted to do with it but I just didn’t have time. I could have worked on this cake for another couple of hours but when it hit 1:30 in the morning it was time to go home. But it was still super cool and for sure the most fun birthday cake he had ever had in all his 88 years.
Christmas Cake
This is a demo cake I made for the Taste of Chandler event in November. It was so much fun to make. People kept asking me if this could be made in real cake and the answer to that is that the first 4 tiers probably but the top one would be a little precarious. :o)
Artsy Wedding
This cake was so very cool. It was for a wedding at the Phoenix Art Museum. It started out as 3 white tiers and then I airbrushed the black and silver on it to get the faded effect. I had to “wash” it three times before I finally got the color and fading right. The topper was also very cool. It was like a brushed aluminum or something. It just made the cake that much cooler.
Elmo Birthday
This cake was so fun to make! It was for my niece's birthday. She loves Elmo so we had to make her a cool cake. I had her mom, my sister, cut out the Elmo, which was so very fun for her I'm sure. She's a cop and cake decorating is not her thing but she so graciously helps me when I need her and in return I helped her make this super fun Elmo party cake.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Colorful 40th Birthday Cake
This cake matched the decorations of the party perfectly. The table that this cake sat on was probably the cutest table I've ever set one of my cakes on. The candy bar behind it all matched and the cupcake tower with matching cupcakes that I made just made it look like a fabulous colorful party for a woman who is absolutely still fabulous at 40!
Purple Butterfly Cake
This cake was so much fun to make. I love the more artsy cakes that come from a great idea. I made the rose on top out of red fondant. It's much more difficult to make flowers out of fondant than gum paste but I couldn't bear the 
thought of coloring gum paste red and the fondant came that way. The branch was made out of black fondant and the silver butterflies and dragonflies just made it look so magical and whimsical in a dark sort of way. The black and silver airbrushing on this cake just give it that extra depth and character that you just can't get any other way. LOVED this cake! We also made butterfly cookie favors for her to give to her guests at the end of the party!
Princess Tiara on a Pillow
This cake was inspired by a dream that her mom had for this cake. The ivory base and all the trim were painted with antique silk luster dust and the tiara was embellished with edible pearls. The "pillow" was trimmed with fondant ropes and tassels that, no lie..., we made with a play dough extruder (never used for anything but fondant I swear). It was such a darling cake. We also made little crown cookie favors for the party guests.
"Love Nest" Wedding Cupcake Tower
300 cupcakes and a cake for the top of the tower took much longer than I could have anticipated. Being the perfectionist that I am I had to add all the little details that take time to do but make a HUGE difference in the finished product. The theme for the wedding was "Love Nest" hence the nest with eggs on the top of the cake. The cupcake flavors were chocolate with chocolate buttercream, white cake with lime topping, and pumpkin chocolate chip with cream cheese frosting.
Tooth sugar Cookies
These cookies were for an open house for a dentist office. These were so much work to make!! I completely underestimated how long it would take to make 160 tooth shaped cookies with smiley faces. I couldn't find a cookie cutter that was big enough for what I wanted so I made my own out of stainless steel stripping, a cardboard cutout of the shape, needle-nose pliers, and a wooden dowel. It was crazy but we got them done! Yeah!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Las Vegas Theme Engagement Party
This was a super fun cake to make! The sign was super time consuming but was worth every minute. I thought it turned out really nice... But now that I look at it the letters are a little bit not straight. I thought they looked straight when I did it... I guess that what happens when you are going on very little sleep. Something funny about this cake... I had to deliver the previous cake to Fountain Hills at 2 and this one wasn't due until 6 also near Fountain Hills, so I took them both at 2 and then left this one in the walk in cooler at the Basha's Bakery and then picked it up when it was time to deliver. When I was walking out with it somebody said, "wow, I didn't know Basha's made cakes like that!" :o)
Black & White Wedding Cake
I LOVED making this cake. I got a new stencil set and they are so fun. Usually I would have done the dark on the light but I really liked the reverse effect. I saw a cake similar to this one on TV and loved it so much I had to make it, thank goodness the bride agreed and liked it too or that would have been awkward...The quilting on this one took forever... I made it really small because it just looked so much more sophisticated, and then I put the tiniest silver dragees at the corner of each quilting mark and that was a ridiculous challenge. They are so small you probably can't even see them in this picture but they are there and they made the cake look really great in person.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Halloween Wedding!!!!!
This cake is one of the coolest cakes I have ever made. People were freaked out about the thought of a Halloween wedding cake but I thought it was awesome. I actually got married on Halloween 9 years ago but I didn't have a cake so I loved every minute of this one. This cake was so much work though. I swear we used every tool in our arsenal. Of course the airbrush makes this cake. It just wouldn't have been the same without it. Also, I painted on this cake which I had never done before and I actually quite enjoyed it. Then we made the skulls out of white chocolate, we just forgot to color the eyes black, oh well. Then I made the grave yard scene out of gum paste. And of course you can't have a Halloween wedding cake without the Corpse Bride on top right... I was told that the bride got choked up when she saw it because she loved it. That is why I'm in the biz, to make people happy. As hard of work this week was it is still so rewarding and still kind of like craft time. I just love what I do so much.
Scary Face Pumpkin
This cake was the most fun thing to make EVER... It was for an 8 year old boy. The airbrush just adds so much dimension to the cake. I actually feel like a real artist when I make cakes like this one. I forgot my camera this day so this was taken in the fridge with my blackberry so it's not the best picture but you get the idea... :o)
Happy 50th
This was for a surprise birthday party for a 50th birthday. The party was decorated with a masquerade theme and she wanted a fun cake with Phantom of the opera and Paris themed items on it. So... I made the Arc De Triumph, the Eifel Tower, the Moulin Rouge windmill, and the phantom mask out of gum paste and the rose out of fondant. This cake was no joke. All three layers had a different kind of cake and filling. I hope a ton of people came to this party because this was a TON of cake.
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