Dora Cake

I had a ton of fun with this cake! The mother wanted something that incorporated Dora for her daughter's second birthday. We agreed on a design similar to this one. This was a white cake with strawberries and sweet cream in the middle and white chocolate buttercream. I had a few scraps left over from leveling the cake and I have to say, this was one of the best cakes I've made.

I used a plastic Dora - mostly because I knew this cake was for a 2 year old and if someone was eating Dora...well, that might not have gone over well. Plus, I thought it would be cute for her to have after the cake was gone. Everything else on the cake is edible. I use prezel twists for the tree trunks and bubble gum to make the roses and the stars name plates. The pathway and the rocks are Bunch-a-Crunch.

I really had a good time decorating this cake. Kid cakes are the most fun!

Baby Shower Cake #3

This cake was for a baby shower yesterday. The invitation colors were white, baby blue and mint green. I tried to get the icing as close to that as possible! On this quilt cake, I added the fringe at the bottom and because my icing was giving me so much trouble, I took the star tip all the way down and around the cake. I'm probably going to get carpal tunnel soon.

The blocks on top also gave me some trouble. I cut them out of a square cake but when I went to ice them, things just weren't working out. I decided to whip up a batch of rolled buttercream and cover each cake with that. I also had to add little cardboard squares to the bottom of each cake so that they would stand appropriately and not bleed onto the bigger cake. (icing is greasy!)

I liked the way this cake turned out - I especially liked the fringe on the bottom! Hopefully they liked it too!

Cookie Cake

This cookie cake was made for Tango, for Valentines day. Four chocolate-chip cookies, stacked, smoothered with cream cheese frosting. The inspiration for this came from an awesome poster on cakecentral.com and wilton.com, she's one of the greatest decoraters I've ever seen!!

EASY and DELICIOUS cake. It ended up being very moist and cakey - not hard or doughy.

Bubble-gum flowers for decoration!

Bubble gum roses

Started experimenting with my gumpaste kit. Not using gumpaste though. I made these flowers out of double bubble. I like the idea of making things that are enjoyable to eat. Gumpaste isn't exactly good but bubble gum roses...now that's something I can get behind! Not to mention, it's fairly quick and easy in a pinch. I also started experimenting with starbursts and tootsie rolls!

Stars Cake

This cake was made for someone at Charlie Tango (co-worker of Rodney's). This cake was made out of 4 sheet cakes. Two stacked in the middle and two split (two that were stacked on one another) in half to form each side (the arms).

This cake was pretty hard. Just trying to get the design right and the colors down took forever. You never really realize how intricate things are until you try to duplicate them. It probably would have been much easier to use fondant - but I happen to hate the taste of fondant. I've made a batch or two of marshmallow fondant (which tastes SOOOOOO much better) but I haven't worked with it enough to actually cover a cake this big yet.

Double credit on this cake - Rodney definitely worked overtime. There has to be 500 piped stars on that cake.

I wasn't completely satisfied with the cake - I was unhappy with the arms and how you can't really tell they are seperate from the body of the jersey but everyone loved it (including the birthday girl) and that always makes me happy!

Cookie hell

These are pictures of the 300 cookies we made for a hospice supplier. It literally took 3 days almost non-stop to complete this order. After this order I realized that my prices are WAY too low and I will NEVER, EVER again do cookies on a stick. These cookies happened to be slightly on the larger side and wouldn't fit any cellophane bag that I tried. We ended up having to buy a giant roll of cellophane and cut 300 squares. We then had to individually wrap each cookie and tie a bow on it. I had lots of help with this order - my husband was awesome and stayed up all night with me, every night to get them done. I would have never finished if it weren't for him. I also would have never finished if it weren't for Amy - she came over and watched Rylee so we could concentrate on cookies. Thanks P!

Superbowl Cupcakes

Made these to take to a super bowl party. Simple and quick - the toppers were free-handed with candy melts.