WAY GIRLISH to WAY BOYISH!

Today I made two cakes  for both a Mother and Son who were have birthdays a day apart.

This one is a 6" Chocolate Round, filled with chocolate, iced with buttercream frosting.  The flowers and leaves are made from fondant, which I then pearlized, and studded with pearl dragees.

Iron Man - This cake was made for a 4 year old's birthday.  It is a vanilla sponge quarter-sheet, filled and iced with buttercream.  The iron man was a frozen buttercream transfer I did.  Prior to today, I didn't even have a clue what Iron Man even looked like!

This cake ended up as a bonus cake... I made the Spiderman plaque with the intention of joining him with Ironman, but unfortunately they did not both fit, so I decided to place Spidey on a small 6" square chocolate cake as a leftover.  The customer saw it, and took him home as well. 

GIDDY UP COWGIRL!

At the beginning of the month, I made this cake for Kolbie, which was a chocolate 1/2 sheet, filled chocolate.  The horse and girl was done as a frozen buttercream transfer.  Rope border and paisley print added to match the party supplies.

DUCKS and ALLIGATORS

Happy Birthday Mason & Dominick!

This cake was made for a couple of little boys who were turning 4 years old.  They are twins who both wanted something different!  One wanted ducks and the other wanted alligators.  So, I took those two ideas and made this one cake.  It was a vanilla cake, filled 1/2 Bavarian creme, and 1/2 banana filling.  It was frosted with Buttercream icing which was then airbrushed on the sides and top.  The lake, and grasses on the side are buttercream, while the ducks, alligators, lilypads, flowers, and cattails are all made of fondant.  The cake is completely edible with the exception of the toothpicks as the cattail stalks.  The Ducks and alligator were sculpted out of fondant, then hand painted with food grade coloring.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDEN & ROSS!!

HAPPY 34th BIRTHDAY BUDDAH

I thought to myself, "What would Branden REALLY like for a birthday cake?" The answer came pretty fast.  A B-I-G Hamburger cake!  So that was exactly what he got.  The cake was made in 3 vanilla layers, which were all filled.  The buns were filled with Bavarian creme, frosted with buttercream icing then airbrushed brown, while the burger patty was filled with Strawberry filling, frosted with buttercream then pressed with oreo cookie crumbs.  I made the lettuce, tomatoes, cheese & sesame seeds from fondant.  This was one of the best tasting cakes!  He loved it.

HAPPY 33rd BIRTHDAY NONK ROSS

One of our friends Ross, is also born on July 1st as Branden, so being an absolute fan of the bayou-only staple, the FISH & CHEESE, and while sticking with the food theme, I had no doubts that this was the cake I was going to make for him.  The large rectangle "fish patty" on the bottom was made with Red Velvet cake, iced with white chocolate-cream cheese frosting.  The top "cheese" rectangle was vanilla cake.  The whole cake was iced with the white chocolate-cream cheese frosting and then crumb coated with crushed up vanilla cookies.  He was stunned by it.  He said that was the best cake he's ever had.

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!