Elmo

This is an Elmo cake I made for my nephew's 3rd birthday. I used Wilton's Elmo pan and all buttercream piping.

Sweet 16

Here's the Sweet Sixteen cake I did for my cousin/Goddaughter's birthday.
It was a friend party so I was instructed to make it cool and not too girlie.
Hot pink and black seem to be hot colors with the teen crowd so that's what I went for and did a trendy zebra and argyle print. Her name is Lauren so I did a monogram L on all 4 sides and a 16 on top.

The humidity and heat in the midwest this week has been INSANE. After 3 days of drying in my air conditioned house under a fan, my '16' fondant cake topper STILL was soft and sticky, but they said it held up for the party. Yay!

Zoo Animal Cupcakes

I was asked to make some zoo animal cupcakes with fondant faces for a 2nd birthday party. It took a long time to cut out all the features, (especially the 96 eyeballs!) but I think the results were worth it. The cupcakes are topped with buttercream grass and a fondant animal face.

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5 Hours, 3 Cakes

Being organized and multi-tasking really does pay off sometimes. Some how I really cranked through these three cakes today, despite having allotted two days to the project. I guess now I have my Friday free. :)

The first cake is a domino cake I made for my Family Reunion on Saturday. My family plays a lot of dominos and cards so I thought this design would be simple, yet appropriate.



Next is a birthday cake for a friend who requested a 'hippie flower' in her favorite colors of orange and yellow. I hope I got it right.



Finally is a simple 6" round for a small 50th birthday. I'm still getting the hang of buttercream piping. I was a little off center and nearly sliding off the edge on this one.

Buttercream Roses and Basketweave

A friend asked for a chocolate buttercream basketweave cake. Apparently she just gets hypnotized by the basketweave design and thinks it's the coolest, so I of course obliged her. This is my second basketweave cake. My hands were a little shakey as I did this cake at 11pm after 2 full days on my feet of baking and decorating. This was my first time making buttercream roses. I only did one pratice rose before doing the 3 on the cake. The first one I had the tip in the wrong direction so quickly figured out what I was doing wrong and TADA!

WORLD CUP SOCCER CAKE

Finally, a sports themed cake to make! This is a birthday cake requested for a 10 year old who wanted a World cup cake. I made a field with a soccer ball (piped buttercream) busting through a fondant field with the FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP logo. Piped a grass border around the ball and base of the cake. Also added red, white and blue stars around the sides of the cake as Team USA was his favorite team.

Phil's 40th Fiesta

We have a Mexican inspired theme for this 40th Birthday party, so I decided to do a Chili Pepper Cake, a Sombrero cake and some fondant maracas.

The Chili Pepper was done using the Pasiley pan, covered in white fondant and sprayed with red spray color mist. This was my first time covering a cake in the color mist. It made a nice, deep red on the fondant when it dried. It worked great for the top of the cake, but I found it to be a tad runny on the sides and left a couple blochy spots. Didn't work well at spraying vertically.

The maracas are all fondant.

The Sombrero I made using a 12" round with the Wonder mold pan stacked on top. I should've had more layers in the middle to make the crown higher up. I think it ended up looking for like a safari hat than a sombrero, but oh well. This was my first attempt at doing a basketweave so I was very happy with how that part turned out. Especially since I was doing it on a curved surface which made it more difficult to line up the weave lines.