SPIDEY

I made this cake for a 4 year old little boy's birthday.  The cake was vanilla filled with 1/2 Bavarian Creme and 1/2 icing.  It was iced with buttercream.  The buildings were airbrushed, and spiderman was a frozen buttercream transfer that I piped black webs on after it was flipped.

WHAT?!? YOU WANT ME TO MAKE YOU A HORSE HEAD?

This was a last minute cake I was asked to make yesterday.  I was asked to make a cake with a horse's head on it.  So after thinking hard about how I would make a horse head appear, I came up with making this head from a frozen buttercream transfer.  Problem was, I didn't have a print-out of a horse large enough for a 11x15 cake.  So, I took a poster board and I drew this horse out first before piping it for the cake.  Originally I was going to cut the cake in the shape of the actual head, but I figured that since it was going to be served at a bar, I should probably leave it whole for more pieces!

"GIRLY" BIRTHDAY CAKE

Today I made this cake for a little girl's 9th birthday.  Her mother asked that I make something "girly" and left the design up to my discretion, so this is what I came up with. Black, White and Turquoise Zebra Stripes.

Both layers were vanilla cake, iced with buttercream and homemade fondant.  The bottom layer was filled with Bavarian creme, while the top layer was Banana creme.  This was the first time I've used fondant curls to decorate with, and I think they turned out nice!

LIGHTENING MCQUEEN

Today I made this half-sheet buttercream "Cars" cake for a couple of 3 & 5 year old brothers.  I made Lightening McQueen using a new technique I had never tried before.  I made the car itself using a technique called frozen buttercream transfer.  It is essentially piping whichever design you choose, over a saran wrapped piece of plexiglass, setting it in the freezer and placing it on the cake then peeling off the plastic wrap.  I was satisfied with the results.  More importantly, the boys and their family were.

The cake was vanilla, filled and Iced with 3/4 buttercream.

CONGRATULATIONS GRAND ISLE HEADSTART CLASS OF 2010

Today was Allison's Head Start Graduation.  This is the cake I made for them.  It was a vanilla cake, half filled with Bavarian Cream, and the other half was pineapple.  It was iced with 3/4 vanilla/almond buttercream.  It was delicious if I do say so myself!  (Getting a little better icing the cakes too)

ALL CAKED OUT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER & PAIGE

DAX'S FIRST BIRTHDAY MICKEY GUITAR AND SNARE DRUM

Last night was the mother of all marathon cake baking nights.  These 3 cakes were ordered for birthday parties for the same day, same time.  Let's just say that I didn't get to go to bed.  The final touches were put on the last cake one hour before the birthday party. 

The Hawaiian cake was for the birthday party of Allison's classmate/s Peter and Paige for their 5th and 6th birthdays.  The cake was vanilla filled strawberry and lemon with vanilla/almond buttercream.  The only inedible parts were the tiki hut, trees and umbrella.  The seashells were made from fondant using a chocolate moulde.  Flowers were fondant, Peter and Paige and large flowers were modeled from gumpaste.  The "sand" for the island were crushed graham crackers.  This cake was fun to make, and relativly quick to put together.  They both loved it.

The guitar and snare drum was for a little boy named Dax's first birthday.  The guitar was a vanilla cake, filled strawberry and lemon, while the drum was chocolate cake, filled with chocolate, iced with tinted buttercream.  A total of 10 1/2 hours were spent on these 2 cakes from very start to finish.  In the end, I was pleased with the way they came out.  Although I think that the cakes were much more pretty in person than in these pictures. 

The drum/smash-up cake was one of the first total iced buttercream cakes I've made, as you can see I'm not up to the supergenius level when working with buttercream YET :)

I tried to give the guitar realistic touches, such as piping the strings the same way as a real guitar is strung with larger strings at the top, going smaller towards the little e., and making the fret board with the star fret finders, tuning keys and "ivory" bridge.

MISSION: BIRTHDAY CAKE IMPOSSIBLE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLISON!!!

Today was my little girl's 5th year birthday party.  She wanted a little mermaid / under the sea themed party, so I made this little beauty.  When I say that just about EVERYTHING went wrong while making this cake, I mean it.  For starters, It was raining outside, (winds were blowing a hurricane, about 50 miles per hour) and the humidity was through the roof which messed with the fondant, making it sticky.  All the layers were baked, filled and ready to decorate when the electricity went out.  I was in the middle of airbrushing the blue on the cake when it went out, so I moved on to making all the fish and critters while Allison held a flashlight for me.  With food cooking on the stove and the electricity out, it started to get HOT inside!!  So hot it started to MELT all the pieces I had made, and the buttercream.  I finally got the airbrushing finished by using an extension cord from my husband's truck with a power inverter and the cake was saved!!!
I was never happier to be finished with a cake than today!

The 10" bottom was a vanilla cake, filled with fresh Louisiana strawberries with light almond-flavored buttercream.  The 8" middle was Chocolate fudge cake with Chocolate buttercream.  The "Rock" was Vanilla, with Chocolate.  Despite everything working against me, it was a DELICIOUS cake!!! (And Allison loved it too!)