My Birthday!

You know what's great about doing cakes? I can do anything I want for MY birthday. I love purple and pink. The brighter the better. I wouldn't exactly wear it, or paint it on my bedroom wall... but I love it. So I get to play with my cake. This is what I came up with for my own birthday cake. :)

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Don’t you just love those fun, bright colors? There’s something about this cake that just makes me happy. Maybe it’s because I would have LOVED a cake like this when I was younger? Maybe I would love it now! All the same, I think it’s just so fun. My client sent me a photo of a cake she liked and asked me to make it the top tier of a 2 tier cake. I had to make a few modifications but in the end the birthday girl did love it, and that’s what’s most important to me! The cake is vanilla pound, covered in buttercream and fondant and decorated with fondant accents.

Tip:

Want to know how to easily get a scalloped edge on the bottom of a cake? Get a round cookie cutter, cut out some fondant circles, then cut those in half with a pizza roller and tada…. Put them side by side along the base of the cake. What a nice neat border, and you didn’t have to spend any money on fancy tools!

Rapunzel Tower cake

Some cakes I just have so much fun with. Probably because I’m still a kid at heart and LOVE watching cartoons with my daughter. These cakes will keep me young, since I get to ‘research’ for each cake. As I’m sure watching Rapunzel about 15 times was necessary for the preparation of this cake.

The cake is vanilla pound. The client is going to add a Rapunzel doll on the right hand side. I wish I had a picture of the cake with the doll. I always test my accuracy with my daughter. I don’t tell her what I’m making. In fact, most of the time I only start after she goes to bed. So when she wakes up I ask her to come see something. I wait to see if she can tell me what it is. In this case, I probably should have told her, because this is how the reveal of the cake went:

Me: Hey Mia… wanna come see a cake I made?

Mia: Yaaaa!

We walk into the kitchen…

Mia: Awwww Mom…you made me a Rapunzel cake, and a Rapunzel tower for my Rapunzel doll….thanks Mom! Is it my birthday?

Me: No Mia, it’s not your Birthday. It’s for another little girl.

Mia: But Mom, there’s a number 3 on it, just like how old I am.

Me: Mia I’m sorry, it’s not for you.

Mia: Sniff…sniff…sniff…

Tip:

If you want to add a 3d element to a cake, try making a batch of rice krispies squares and shaping it into what you want to make. I use ¼ cup vegetable oil, heat it, add 1 pkg of mini marshmallows and once they’re melted (over low heat, stirring frequently) add about 5 cups of rice krispies. Remove from heat and stir stir stir. Let it cool until you can handle it, then grease your hands with a bit of shortening (or else you’ll have rice krispy square hands) and shape it as you want. Pop it in the fridge to set and tada… just ice it and decorate.

Cupcakes

I don't normally do cupcakes but I thought it would be fun for a change. I made a variety pack with lemon, vanilla, chocolate, marble cupcakes covered in vanilla buttercream topped with fondant accents. This was for a group of Mom's of multiples, for their mother's day gathering. Hope they enjoyed them!

Happy 40th - Friends being supportive

This was so much fun. I had received an email looking for a 'fun' 40th birthday cake. I found some cute ideas but this one wasn't in my surfing... instead the client asked about the 'bra' cake. So after a bit of googling I knew what she meant and was excited to get going. Bra is made from gumpaste. Cake is vanilla covered in vanilla buttercream. While I was doing it I had the following conversation with my daughter:

Mia - What's that Mommy.
Me - A bra.
Mia - What's a bra?
Me - Big girls wear them to cover their boobies.
Mia - WHOA big girls have boobies big like my head?

--Perhaps I made the bra a bit too large?

 

 

Pink Baby bum

This cake was a surprise for a client of mine. She's expecting a little girl in April and her coworkers ordered a baby bum cake for her. It's vanilla pound with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents. Hoping that she enjoyed her cake and wishing her all the best in the coming days of her pregnancy/delivery.

Another Cupcake

This was a last minute order but I'm glad I did it. It was great getting back in the swing of things and the birthday girl was VERY pleased. That is the main goal as always! It's peanut butter pound cake with peanut buttercream filling and covered in vanilla buttercream with fondant accents. The customer sent me a photo of what they wanted and this was my 'recreation' of it. Mmm mmm.

Mermaid cake - Tough customer

This was a big order. Not only was it my first order of the year, or 10 days after having a baby. It was for my daughter who must have been telling me she's wanting a mermaid cake for at least 6 months now. Lucky for me she was VERY pleased with the cake. I'm pleased with it too, given we had a newborn in the house!

First Birthday Cake

This cake had many 'lives' before it became what it did. Chosing a first birthday cake for your little one isn't always easy. :) The mom sent me 2 photos to sort of bring together to make 1 kdfCREATION especially for her little girl. The cake is vanilla pound with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents. The smash cake is the same, with a fondant bow.

Slumber Party

Now this cake was fun. The research was fun, the sketching was fun, the thought was fun and of course the making of it was FUN. There's something to be said for watching a lump of marshmallow fondant shape into a nightstand, or a bowl of popcorn, or a pizza! I'm really pleased with this cake and I'm hoping the birthday girl will be just as happy!!! Cake is red velvet flavor, but with a multicoloring... rainbow of colors actually, pink, blue, green and yellow. It's covered in buttercream and then fondant. All accents are made of fondant.

Dora the Explorer Castle

A cake any young girl would like! Dora the explorer and a castle cake! My daughter thought it was the best cake ever and insisted that it should be hers. It's my first castle cake...I was pleased with it. It's chocolate fudge cake. The turrets were made of rice krispies, the top steeple is an ice cream cone. It's is completely buttercream. Birthday girl apparently loved it!

Cake for a Princess

This cake was lot's of fun to make. Bottom layer is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, top layer is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, all covered in fondant, with fondant accessories. Crown is made from gumpaste. All is edible, minus the wire holding the stars. My daughter Mia LOVED it and wanted to try on the crown. :)

First Birthday

This was a great cake to work on. It was a collaboration of designs that the birthday girls parents chose. It was vanilla pound, with vanilla buttercream and marshmallow fondant. The accents are all fondant except for the "1" which is modelling chocolate.

Fun Birthday

I was asked to do a fun 'younger' bday cake for someone who didn't want the cake to dictate their age. :)

It's a mocha cake with chocolate buttercream and fondant accents...

Minnie Mouse

Here's a Vanilla pound Minnie Mouse cake I did for a little girls second birthday. The ears are made of chocolate and the rest of the cake is vanilla buttercream and vanilla pound. I was so excited I used a new method to get my buttercream smooth and it worked really well. I used a paint roller!!!

Mermaid

Birthday girls favorite colors are pink and purple. She decided on a chocolate mermaid cake with vanilla buttercream. Barbies are real, Mermaid tail/fin is fondant along with all other accessories. Hope she loves it!

Tinkerbell

Have I mentioned I love doing kids cakes? They're so fun. I love knowing that it's the kids FAVORITE and they're going to be PSYCHED when they see the cake. Well this one I was really excited because it was a Tinkerbell cake but it was for a girl who was in her 20's. How fun is that? Yay for her friends for getting this cake. Now that's thoughtful! The cake is vanilla pound with vanilla buttercream and marshmallow fondant. The Tinkerbell is a candle I bought. Hopefully the birthday girl will get excited just like she would if she was turning 6 instead of 26. :)

Have a great weekend!

Tiers and Flowers...

A client ordered her own birthday cake based on a photo of a cake she liked. This is what I did. Bottom tier is Coconut cake with coconut buttercream, middle is chocolate chip swirl cake with chocolate buttercream and top tier is fake. Flowers are fondant/gumpaste and "R" is chocolate. :)

I'm pretending that this is my cake in the meantime, since my cake is a disaster! I've been able to turn it into something I'm pleased with but it's nothing like the photo I posted. So let's all pretend this is my birthday cake and R stands for.... Rockin' 30's. :)

Nail Polish

This one was fun! It's a fudge marble cake Nail Polish Bottle. The top black part is rice krispy treats and the bottom is 3 layers of cake. Hope the birthday girl likes it!

From my cakes

Last Night in Singles Shoes

I was asked to do a Sex in the City themed bachelorette cake. It's red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. The recipe made a massive amount of cake and icing. Hopefully the girls will be hungry. Everything you see is edible. All of the 'accessories', like the shoe, hand bag, martini glasses and even the city skyline are made of chocolate modeling cake. Much more tasty than fondant. Hopefully the girls will be pleased.

From my cakes

A few closeups of the details...

From my cakes

Have a great weekend!