Babies & Monkeys

Okay, let me just tell you that square cakes are insanely difficult.  But this cake was so worth the effort!  Is it wrong to be in love with your own cake that you made?  This was a last minute request but I couldn't pass it up.  I had to do the baby blocks!  It was worth getting up at 1:00 a.m. to work on it all night to get it done before my cake class started at 8:30.  When my husband got up to go to work he said "that's a really cute bear."  It's not a bear, it's a monkey!  The ears are a little big and mouse-like but overall I thought it was a dang cute monkey... :o)

Baby's First Birthday

This was a little take off my niece's birthday but we made it way more sparkly.  It's hard to see it in the photo but the flowers and all the polka dots, and the 1 are all covered with pink edible glitter.  I love the 1 on the top.  I just had to add it.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

The guy who ordered this cake has to be up for the husband of the year award!  Listen to this... He bought her a Juicy Couture Charm Bracelet and had me build it into this cake!  The box was kind of long so we had to make the cake 3 tiers high to fit it in.  I couldn't believe that it all lined up and that it worked perfectly.  We did a little take off the wedding cake I did on Jan 3rd and mixed up the colors (and made it much smaller of course) and came up with this.  I thought it was FABULOUS!  Jenn, you're a lucky girl!  Keep that guy around.  :o)

Baby Boy Shower

This cake was for a baby shower on Sunday.  I know it looks kind of purplish but I swear it was light blue when I mixed it.  This happened to me another time except in the other direction.  No more Fondex for me.  It's Satin Ice only from now on.  :o)

Go Cardinals!!!

This photo has a little too much light on it but you get the idea.  It was for a party that I went to so I didn't go too all out, not like their logo is very extravagant but...  Sometimes I like the simple elegance of getting straight to the point and nothing else.  Too bad we lost the super bowl.  :o(

Another Fun Wedding!

This was a super fun cake to make for a backyard wedding.  As much as I like traditional wedding cakes I LOVE the non-traditional.  Does it get any more fun than this?

90th Birthday Party

90 is definitely a mile stone to be celebrated.  I hope she loved her cake.  Nothing like chocolate with chocolate mousse filling with chocolate fondant...  YUM!!!  This cake was a derivative of the last flowery cake that I did.  We just modified it with a big pink bow.  I think it turned out famously.

Tiffany's Box

I have found out that a "simple" gift box is much harder than it looks like it should be.  Square cakes are way harder than round to make them look good.  This bow was my favorite!  But... just before it got picked up my darling 2 year old son grabbed the bow off and started to eat it!  I just about died!  He also left a few nice finger pokes in the cake as well.  I had to rush to make a new bow but it had to sit up right because it didn't have time to dry.  We managed to patch it up pretty good and Mike was so gracious about the whole situation.  Thanks for your understanding Mike!!!

Strawberry Shortcake Colors

This cake was for a 7 year old's birthday party.  There was a Strawberry Shortcake theme for the party but we didn't really want to put strawberries on the cake so we just did it the strawberry shortcake colors.  I think it turned out dang cute!  The lime green bows and the bling were fashionable additions to this little cake (it was 8in, 6in and 4in tiers.  I have come to realize the the smaller the cake the more difficult it is to work with and cover with fondant...

Another Traveling Wedding Cake

My other little brother got married this weekend in Colorado.  They told me that they wanted the cake to be "playful and crazy" and that "the only rule was that there were no rules."  Being that it was a wedding and I didn't want to do something so crazy that I might jack it up beyond repair I stayed a little on the conservative side.  My sisters didn't want me to do black tiers but I couldn't help myself.  The wedding was in a small town and the guests at the wedding had never seen anything like it before.  They were blown away that something like this was even possible with cake.  Oh, the bike...  They are HUGE bicycle fans and there were bikes all over the place so we had to put one on the cake too.  :o)

Romantic & Vintage

I always ask a customer to choose the 2 words that would describe the way they want their cake to look and she chose Romantic & Vintage.  The decoration at this wedding was over-the-top FABULOUS (Great job Tam & Kara)!  I hope the cake did the rest of the decor justice.  I haven't done very many cakes with piping so I was very nervous about this but it turned out great.  I was up till 3:30 am working on it.  It took me so long because I had to keep scraping off piping that wasn't good and redoing it until it was perfect, but it was totally worth it in the end.  I thought this cake was Gorgeous!  Oh yeah, it was really tall.  Each tier was 6 1/2 inches tall!

Bella's 3rd Birthday!

My baby girl turned 3 on Saturday.  I can't believe it!  The first cake I ever made was for her 1st birthday and now I've made more than 70 in the last two years and it just keeps getting busier.  She couldn't decide on pink or purple so we did them both and of course she is  little princess so we had to the theme the cake so.  She LOVED it!

Shipped a Wedding Cake to CA

I finally got the picture of this one!  Yeah!  I made the tiers and boxed each one up.  They put them in a rigged-up cool chest to keep them cold without getting them wet, all while keeping them level..... and they made it!!!  I couldn't believe it!  It was a happy new year's day wedding.

Something totally different

When Molly asked for this cake for her wedding I thought to myself, "seriously?"  Then after looking at the picture a few more times I thought it was fantastic.  Then after I made 1/2 inch ruffles for 9 hours I really grew to appreciate it.  I also questioned the apples, but once the flowers were on the cake and it was sitting on the apples I fell completely in LOVE with it.  It was just so simple and organic for this outdoor wedding.  It's a good thing that other people have great vision because without them I would be way less creative.  Thanks Molly!!!

60th Birthday Party for a woman this time

This customer asked for pretty and elegant.  That's not usually what I do but I decided that I had better incorporate some of that into my repertoire if I want to broaden my horizons.  I loved doing the pretty cake instead of the funky cake for a change.  The only thing I would have changed was the bow on top.  I wanted it to be the other direction but it wasn't quite dry enough so we had to sit it the more stable way.  But it doesn't matter, it was fantastic.

60th Birthday Party

Rich is a huge Steelers fan so we had to make him an appropriate cake for the occasion.  I thought that this logo would be a piece of cake... no pun intended, but it was a little difficult with the tiny lettering and the fine little points on the logo.  Anyway, he LOVED it!

1 yr old's Favorite Flower

My niece was turning 1 and my sister said her favorite thing was this huge pink flower light in her room so we decided to make big pink flowers for the cake.  Since my sister didn't really care about colors that much I just used the olive green left over from the cake the week before.  I think it worked out famously.  The baby LOVED it.  Nothing like pure sugar fondant flowers to snack on... for get the cake...

Babies once again

This is a repeat of another cake I had done a few weeks ago.  We just changed the mint green base to ivory.  I just can't get over this HUGE bow.  I love it.  It makes me want to put it on every cake.  :o)

Rice Krispy Cake

Ha!  This "cake" is made out of rice cereal treats.  It was for a display that had to sit out for 2 days and cake would not have survived that.  It worked out quite well.

1 Year Anniversary

The instructions I got for this cake was to make it olive green and black and then I had creative control from there.  I saw a picture similar to this one online and I couldn't help but create it.  The crazy part was that it matched the tablecloth almost exactly and it was by pure coincidence.  It must have been fate.  It was unbelievable.  This cake seems simple but was way more work than I imagined.  You can't really see it but the ribbons around each tier were made of black fondant and were all folded up to look like satin fabric and it took a very long time.  Then doing the bows on their sides was another challenge.  But I absolutely LOVE this cake.  It now rests very high on my favorite cakes list.