The world needs love.

I was asked to make a cake for a girl who loves peace. She is a free spirit. So I free handed this cake for her birthday. It's the world with love written on it. She loved this cake too. Woohoo!

Emily's Birthday cakes!

She had to have the purse, and the castle. Who knows what she will want next year!!!
I loved making the castle. I think I will do variations of it later. I saw where one person used the pan as a white chocolate mold so they had a 3-D castle perched on top of the cake. That was awesome! Fondant pressed in the bottom sounded cool too. I'm whipping up ideas all the time!

Thing Cupcakes!

Emily's kindergarten teacher needed cupcakes for Dr. Seuss day so I came up with Thing Cupcakes! I drew hats on the cupcakes, filled them in with red and white then write Thing 1, Thing 2, etc. until I had enough for the whole class. They loved them!!

This year, for the twin's birthday, I made Thomas the Train and Snow White. I used the actual doll and train on the cakes because it was part of their present! Everyone loved the cupcakes and it was so easy!! A lot easier than Tow Mater!! I used the Wilton pan for Snow White. They were a hit at their party!

The Truck Cake

I made this truck for an 8 year old. He likes trucks. Any kind of trucks....So I made the Wilton car and built it up into a truck looking thing with icing and then starred it with a 16 tip in dark green, brown, black and light green. I took a spatula and tooth picks to smooth it out into this camo look.
The base is chocolate with a few chocolate cupcakes broken up and messily iced over the top of it. I sprinkled some chocolate sprinkles on it too. I had so much fun making this cake.
Next time I will make the tires out of cookies to it looks more "jacked up"....lol.

Care Bear Cake

A friend of my mom's found this design online and wanted it for her daughter. She contacted me and sent me the picture through facebook. I saw it and thought it was the most adorable thing ever, and pretty easy compared to some of the ones I had already tackled...The slide was the hardest part. I had to use fondant strips and supported them with a cardboard cut out with dowels under it. I really loved this cake!! So did the mother! I have a few more cakes to make for her this year....
One of the cakes was chocolate, the other butter, and then I made the big cake a marble. I made cream cheese vanilla icing in a huge bowl then colored my icings, iced the cakes in blue. Made the clouds, then put the rainbow together. I cut the stars out of yellow fondant and let them harden a little in the air before placing them all over the cake. They put the Care Bears on the cake when they got it home. So much fun!!!

The guitar cakes

This is the art work I made this cake from....This cake was an epic event. I was forced to level up with this birthday. My sister asked me if I was I could help out a friend of hers for her son's 18th birthday. I asked her what he liked to do and was told...guitars. Then it came out that he had a drawing on his wall that he had done for art class and that it would be great if it could be reproduced on a cake. I thought...ok....sure. I can do that. I'll cut it out from the drawing and recreate it. Well that's just what I did.

I started with a chocolate cake for the large portion of the cake and then I made little cake with the one guitar.

The drawing for the small cake looked like this...


I painstakingly mixed colors until I had the correct color icing to match the drawing. I had little bowls of different colors covering my countertop so I could hold them up the the original drawing. This isn't fondant. It's icing.

Here is the chocolate portion covered in it's icing.
I had to divide the picture into 2 cakes...one reason - because he wanted his own kind of cake (red velvet) and the second reason - because the drawing was larger than my biggest sheet cake. It worked out well and everyone inhaled both cakes so that makes me happy!!

Once again....go back to the top and look at the art work. I made these cakes from that drawing. I'm still pretty proud...

The twins second birthday...

My other friend, Sam has twins. They like what they like and that's it. I was confronted with a problem.
Her son wanted Tow Mater from Cars, but, alas, Wilton didn't have a cake pan for him. I didn't know if I was up to the challenge of putting together a cake from scratch, but Sam said "Whatever you do will be perfect." So I trusted her.

I created Tow Mater with a 13 by 9 cake pan, some candy, fondant, and creativity. It was soo much fun!

Sam's daughter had to have Tinkerbell. Luckily there was a Wilton pan for this little fairy. The only challenge was that I had to make both of these cakes on the same morning so it helped that I had frozen the cakes ahead of time and then just had to decorate them the morning of the party.

The bridal shower

Since my first cake attempt turned out so well, I borrowed a friend's Women's Weekly magazine and offered to make another friend of mine a cake for her bridal shower. I thought that it turned out really well. I used real flowers rather than edible ones, but the cake turned out so beautiful. Fondant was interesting to work with but I loved creating a cake that was elegant and perfect for the occasion.

The first cake

My sister needed a cake for her son's birthday. He LOVES Spongebob. I hadn't ever taken a Wilton class, but I thought, what the heck! I can do this!, and I did!! I was pretty impressed.

Cakes

I have had a passion for baking since I was 12. I just recently combined that passion with my need to create. I have stayed busy the last year making all kinds of cakes. I wanted to start a blog so I could keep them all in one place and have a touchstone to send people to when they want me to make them one of my unique homemade inspirations. I hope everyone enjoys!!