Showing posts with label fondant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fondant. Show all posts

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Neutral Baby Shower

Gender Neutral Baby Bum cake for a Baby Shower
 
 
 Baby's name will be Bentley no matter boy or girl
 


 

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Baby Bum

I got to TWO new things for this customer!
This cake was for a baby shower, expecting a baby girl. The customer requested a Cinnamon Roll cake for one of the tiers which I hadn't yet done. It turned out pretty amazing tasting!! The second thing she wanted was a baby bum cake decor. The baby bum is entirely edible, made out of marshmallow fondant.
 



Monday, July 29, 2013

MJ turns ONE

For my son's first birthday I choose a Sock Monkey theme. I designed his smash cake to match the invitation we sent out, a sock monkey on the top and argyle on the side in red, blue and brown.
 

 
Love this color scheme!
 
 
Not so sure about frosting....or cake.

 
For the cupcakes:
Mini Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Regular size Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla and Nutella Swirl Buttercream
Topped with handmade marshmallow fondant Sock Monkey's


 
The Aftermath

 

Friday, July 26, 2013

Bow Ties & Staches

A Little Gentleman's first birthday party isn't complete without mustaches and bowties!!




Monday, July 15, 2013

Guess How Much I Love You

This is probably one of my favorite cakes I've made so far.
 
The theme was from the children's book "Guess How Much I Love You".
 
 
I actually painted this cake!
It's all hand painted.
I used the gel colors, water and paint brushes.  
Lucky for me, my son has this book so I was able to use it to find a good scene to paint and use lines from the book to quote around the sides.
 

 
Smash cake of Little Nutbrown Hare.
 
 


Monday, June 10, 2013

Gender Neutral Baby Shower

I had the pleasure of making one of my cousin's a cake for her baby shower. Sarah is due with their first child the middle to end of June and decided they wanted to wait to find out the gender of Baby Drey!


For a neutral themed cake, I incorporated both blue and pink along with green, brown, and orange with bows, buttons, and stripes.
The beautiful mama-to-be, the grandma-to-be and the cake lady.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Minecraft Take Two

Minecraft is much more popular than I thought, kids love this game!

Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, covered in Marshmallow Fondant

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Pig Cupcakes

Birthday Pig Cupcakes
These are Fresh Strawberry cupcake with a Strawberry Buttercream frosting adorned with marshmallow fondant for the snouts and ears.
So cute! 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Greg and Anna's Wedding

Another wedding in the books!

Our friends Greg and Anna finally tied the knot!! The wedding was over St. Patrick's Day weekend. It was an absolutely beautiful wedding ceremony and very fun reception, photo booth and great DJ included ;)

The bride and groom had a yummy dessert table with delicious cake pops from Urban Sugar located out of Des Moines, IA in an assortment of flavors, along with cream cheese mints.

They wanted their own small cake to cut for the cake cutting. Their colors were dark grey and true red with damask print on their invitations. So for their cake Anna requested a dark grey fondant covered cake with red damask print.

Two of the bride and grooms close friends also had their birthday's on their big day so they wanted to do something special for them. They requested their own birthday cakes to help celebrate their birthday! Isn't that so cute?!

Hot pink and grey zebra print fondant cake with hot pink and light pink fondant border

Assumption High School "Flying A"

Greg coaches at Assumption, Chad coaches at West....they thought it would be funny to give Chad his rival high schools logo :)

All three cakes

Grey fondant covered cake with red damask print

The newly married couple cutting their cake!

Congrats again Greg & Anna!!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Under the Sea

"The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?

Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea"

I just love "The Little Mermaid". When I think of an Under the Sea party this song pops in my head and plays over and over.

I had the pleasure of making little Miss Gracyn's birthday cake again this year. Her favorite Disney princess is Ariel! So for her birthday this year she had an Under the Sea birthday party theme and her mother requested the most perfect cake for her...


An aqua blue ombre ruffle cake!

It was my first time making BOTH fondant ruffles and using the ombre effect. I watched a couple tutorials on YouTube for tips then tried it out on my own. I love how it turned out.

 Up close ruffles, my favorite picture :)

The cake is made from a 4-inch round top tier and a 6-inch round bottom tier. Both tiers are chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream covered in marshmallow fondant. In order to get the ruffles to stick up and not break, I mixed equal parts fondant with pre-made white gumpaste purchased from my local craft store.


Better Than Sex Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting and Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream.

Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

I love looking at this cake!

Minecraft

I have to admit, I had no idea what Minecraft was or that it even existed when I was asked if it would be possible for me to make a Minecraft themed cake.
Apparently all the cool, young kids are playing it...which mean I'm no longer cool nor young.
If you're like me and don't know what it is either, all I can tell you is that it's a game you can build different levels in....actually I'm still not very sure what you do in it!
It looks like this  

I was asked for something that was just simple but that you could tell was from the game. Since the game is very pixelated (is that even a word?) I decided to use different color squares.


I started off making 1-inch squared but they were too big to give the affect I wanted so I cut each 1-inch square into fourths. It worked out perfect!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Sports Cake

I love when clients come back! I was lucky enough to make Charlie's first birthday cake, an Iowa Hawkeye theme found here. This year he had a sports ball theme, including basketball, soccer, football, and baseballs. I included all four into one cake!