200th post! 1st birthday, Weekend wedding cake, bulldog cake

I can't believe this is my 200th post!

Here are a few cakes we did over the weekend, plus one we completed tonight.


1st birthday cake:

(strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents)



Two tiered wedding cake (this cake went to a reception that was at the Ballpark in Arlington, pretty cool!)

The bottom tier is vanilla chocolate chip and the top tier is strawberry.



This bulldog cake was made for a young boy's birthday! This was a special cake in that the customer has purchased expensive cakes in the past and been disappointed. We're hoping we can be the ones to make them happy! This cake is supposed to resemble one of the family's bulldogs, hopefully we did the dog justice!

This entire cake is real - the head is made from Rice Krispy Treats and the iPhone is fondant! We had a good time with this cake!



Close up:

iPhone, graduation cakes, cherry blossom wedding, groom's cake, hamburger cupcakes, shrek cake!

These were on the agenda this week! It's definitely been a crazy one!!











Wedding of the week:



The bottom tier is vanilla with strawberry buttercream, the second tier is vanilla with black raspberry buttercream, third tier is vanilla with whipped lemon buttercream and the top tier is fake!



The groom's cake is triple chocolate with amaretto buttercream filling, chocolate buttercream on the outside and chocolate covered strawberries.





These are vanilla cupcakes split in half, brownie "meat patties," fondant lettuce and cheese, royal icing mustard and ketchup!



Rodney did such a good job carving this Shrek face out - it was seriously scary having it in my house it was so realistic! All vanilla cake with fondant, RKT ears. Loved this one!

iPhone or iCake?

This was made for two of Rodney's co-workers. Every year when it comes to June, I have a hard time coming up with a common theme for these two dudes. They are very different people! One thing they do have in common though is that they both have an iPhone (along with everyone else at good ol' Charlie Uniform Tango) and a love for things Macintosh (again - along with everyone else at CUT).

The idea of this cake was simple enough and the actual design was not difficult. The "buttons" are what were challenging. Challenging and time consuming.

Rodney cut out each individual square and did we both did some work on each of them. Specifically, he made the highway sign, the text message box ( I piped it ), the phone, the iPod and the compass. I did all of the piping (both the stocks and the settings buttons were piped entirely with buttercream), the calculator, the notes button, the clock and the flower.

The cake is triple chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate buttercream (tinted black). The silver parts of the phone are fondant painted with brilliant silver luster dust.

I'm pleased with this cake. I think my words could have been piped a little cleaner but it was hard to gauge how much space I had when I was piping them. I really enjoyed making the buttons for this cake. It was a lot of fun to use the two different mediums to create what I was going for. I think they came out pretty good too!

Close up's and one extra shot!