Jo's Cakes

Nerf Gun Cake

2011-10-03T14:41:00.000-07:00

The gun is rice crispy treat molded with fondant over it and then all the details added. I have to admit, I am very proud of this one. I had fun putting all the little details of the gun on it. The ammo sticking out of the cake is just fondant ammo on skewers.

Monopoly Cake

2011-09-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

This cake was for an 11 year old boy. He wanted to use board games as his theme. So his mom had a great idea to make a Camopoly cake(his name is Cameron. It was so fun to make! And quite delicious if I do say so myself ;)
I made the game pieces, dice, cards and label beforehand out of fondant. The colors on the squares were fondant, but the lines were done with black Wilton frosting, along with the trains. It's not full size, I made it with a 12x12 square pan. So I had to pick and choose which squares to put on it.

It's been awhile since I did a cake, this was a good one to start up with. Not too terribly difficult, just time consuming. I have another coming up this weekend. I think this next one will be a challenge - stay tuned!

Bazinga Cake

2011-09-20T15:55:00.000-07:00

This was a cake for my brothers birthday. We are all big fans of The Big Bang Theory.

Simple yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting(made with dark chocolate cocoa- making it heavenly) with "Bazinga! "carved out of fondant.

Paisley Shaped Cake

2011-07-11T21:14:00.000-07:00

This was for my sister-in-laws surprise party. It's a 3 tiered paisley shaped cake. I will say those pans were nice to work with. The bottom one is pretty big, but manageable, unlike some large pans. to get an even big layer I used the flower pins upside down(2 of them) it worked wonderful. I frosted it with buttercream, vanilla for the top and bottom, raspberry for the middle to go with the vanilla cake and raspberry filling. The top was Banana spice, and the bottom Devil's food. I made 140 different flowers a few days before out of fondant. I probably only used 120 of them.

Bowling Party!

2011-06-26T08:45:00.000-07:00

Another cake for the 13 year old. We had a bowling party with some friends the next day. I bought a bowling pin candy mold, so the pins and balls are made from chocolate. The day was hot(same say as the Farm cake) There were 3 bowling pins on top, but two of them melted :( So imagine 2 more pins on wire sticking out of the bow, if you would. This was the same as her floral 13th birthday cake, chocolate, strawberry, chocolate.
This was a fun, fun day! I let the kids go at this with forks ;) They loved it, lots of laughs.

13th Birthday!

2011-06-26T08:40:00.000-07:00

This was a special cake, my daughter turned 13! I will admit, it did not come out how I wanted. I think it's because the green wasn't the green I was hoping to get. But still funky and fun!

She wanted 3 layers, chocolate, strawberry, chocolate. With strawberry jam in the middle. It's frosted in buttercream, with fondant flowers. I decorated some of the flowers with white dots. The black border is store bought frosting.

Farm Themed Birthday Cake

2011-06-26T08:29:00.000-07:00

What a crazy weekend! Friday was my daughters 13th, we had family over, then she had a friend party Saturday, but before that we had the last T-ball game, and I had another cake. A friend of ours asked if I could do their little boys first birthday cake. I wanted to SO bad, I'd had the chance to do his brothers first birthday cake too. She had the cutest cake she wanted made. I spent the week prior baking a total of 8 cakes, -16 layers total between the 3 cakes I did this weekend.

This little haystack was for the birthday boy, it's just a 3 layer, 6" round cake, carved to look like haystack.

The barn on top gave me some trouble. It was a hot day and the fondant and icing knew it. The barn is fondant, the pig and cow are buttercream with fondant accents. 10", 8", and 6" round layers. I was SO nervous driving this to the party. I was by myself, and I could see that cake jiggle every time I hit a tiny bump. I should go into business, and buy a car suitable for cake transportation and write off the vehicle :)

Sugar and spice

2011-06-23T21:14:00.000-07:00

...and everything nice. A simple baby shower cake based off of the Carter baby shower theme.

I threw the shower for my friend, Serina. It a 3 layer, 10" round white cake with chocolate mousse in the middle. I got a lot of compliments on the flavor. I'd never actually used pudding in the middle. Not that I hadn't thought about it, but it just hadn't appealed to me. And unless I can ensure it will be chilled, it seems like it would be yucky. I'll have to try a new flavor next time. All the color is fondant, the white is buttercream. I've been having trouble with the buttercream tasting different, still good, but not as good. I'm still not sure what the problem was. Since then I bought more Crisco, and a new butter flavoring, and it seems to have helped. I know the taste of bad Crisco, so I'm thinking it was the butter flavor, does that stuff go bad?! Huh, might have to look into that.

Yo Gabba Gabba Birthday Cake

2011-06-12T17:38:00.000-07:00

This was the largest cake I've made. We were trying to figure out how many hours it took me. With baking time of the SEVEN cakes, it was about 16 hours. Crazy huh!? It was fun to do once I had the cakes baked and the fondant/frosting thing figured out. I wanted to use buttercream for all the cakes, but the red frosting, although red, looked funny. It looked separated, like it might if the frosting got hot. So it went under the fondant. I don't like to cover cakes in fondant, I don't like to give someone a cake where they have to eat so much fondant. And I just don't like covering the cakes, I'd rather frost it. But, for the look I wanted, fondant was the best choice for this particular cake.

All the cakes together, at home. I couldn't assemble it until I got to the party.

A picture of the assembled cake at the party, with a cake topper

The three tiers are a 12", 10" and an 8" round cake, the bottom and middle were 2 layers, top was 4 layers. The individual cakes were for the birthday boy and girl. They are 2 layer 6" round cakes. I was able to use frosting for most of the little cakes(I love the little green monster).

Another Pink Skull Cake

2011-06-11T19:41:00.000-07:00

Reese is Serina's niece, she's a sweet girl. We used to see her a lot when her and Teresa went to the same school. She saw the pink skull cake I made and wanted one for her 10th birthday. I was happy to do it. I'd never really duplicated a cake before, so this was kind of fun. For one, it was simple to do, since I'd done it before. And fun to try and make it a little unique for Reese. She wanted white cake with strawberry filling. I made a 3 layer 10" round cake (boy was it tall). Most of it was buttercream with black store bought icing. The skull on top was fondant.

First Birthday Cake

2011-05-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

A friend asked if I could make a cake for her daughters first birthday. A girly first birthday cake, of course!

Seussical Cast Party Cake

2011-05-28T22:48:00.000-07:00

The junior high just finished putting on Suessical the Musical Jr. They did such a fantastic job. Of course, I had to make them a cake, or two. The first one is the cat's hat, it's 5 layers of chocolate cake, red is fondant, white is buttercream. Sounds easy, it wasn't ;) The second cake is a 3 layer sheet cake(strawberry and vanilla) I thought it would be fun to put everyone's name on it(WHAT WAS I THINKIN?) It took me about an hour to get all the names on it. I think there were close to 70 names. They were fun to make, and the kids loved seeing their names.

I bought the Wilton premade frosting in a tube to get the red and black,
it's the only way to go, especially since I can put the tips right on the tube.

This one is all frosting accept the red of the hat, that is fondant.
It took me a whole 1oz jar of food coloring to get all this red.

What's black and white and...a little red?

2011-05-19T16:08:00.000-07:00

A bridal shower cake for one of the teachers at the school. Not my favorite, I didn't have a lot of time to do this one. I always make a chocolate cake for the school, you just can't go wrong. But this time I added a little raspberry filling in between the layers. I went with an 8" square pan, 3 layers. On top is an 8" round cut into a square. The roses are just rolled fondant and the black ribbon is fondant with a little lace top piped on.

Twin girls baby shower cake

2011-04-13T14:47:00.000-07:00

The ladies at the school asked if I could do a baby shower cake for twin girls, in pink and black. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. I actually had it one way, and decided to redo part of it. To make it more fun, each tier has 3 layers, chocolate, pink, chocolate. I still just used three cake mixes, making the layers a little smaller.

Here are the fondant baby bears up-close

Turtle Baby shower cake

2011-03-28T11:09:00.000-07:00

This was for a very special occasion. My sister-in-laws baby shower. We're so excited to meet this baby boy. But in the mean time we had to party and shower her with love and gifts. They themed the nursery with turtles. It's the most adorable room. Turtles are one of my brother's favorite animals, I did a turtle cake for him a couple years ago. Anyway, so naturally the invitations were also themed with turtles. So this is the cake I did. I love it, it came out just how I wanted it to. I recieved a few new tools for decorating, and it makes things so much easier. Loved it.

fondant/gum paste turtle topper

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The cake at the shower

Sushi Cake

2011-03-17T09:19:00.000-07:00

I was making a spice cake with cream cheese frosting for my dad's birthday. But what do you do with cream cheese frosting, it's not something you can decorate with. I remembered seeing a sushi cake, it was going to be perfect, since we were taking him to Shogun, a teppanyaki place, for dinner.

It was really fun to do, and so simple. The cup has a silicon cupcake cup, cut short, with corn syrup and black food coloring. We bought the chopsticks at World Market. The rest was fondant and rice crispy treats. If I had more time, I would have made a cool bamboo looking border for the bottom of the cake, but time was very limited.

Another Baby shower cake

2011-03-01T09:30:00.000-08:00

This is funny, because I had two baby showers using the same napkins. But this time it was just for a boy, so I left out the pink. I didn't have as much time to do this one, so it's not as detailed.

2 layer Baby shower

2010-11-21T17:28:00.000-08:00

My sister-in-law was throwing a shower and found these adorable napkins, so we modeled the cake after them.

The bottom layer is a 3-layers, 8" round. The top is a 2-layer 6" round. All devil's food chocolate cake, with white buttercream frosting. The dots and stripes were fondant (with a hint of peppermint extract). The little duck on top was fondant.

I will admit, I really love having a napkin or plate to model the cake after. It makes it so fun to do, and I think it's fun for the host and guests to have coordinating party stuff.

It was a crazy weekend, I feel like 10 tornadoes went through my kitchen, one at a time, and I cleaned up after each one. I baked 3 cakes this week. One for Wednesday, this one and then one for Teresa and Hannah today. While finishing up yesterdays baby shower cake, I started to make scalloped potatoes and ham casserole for a dinner with the in-laws. I am a little glad to have the weekend coming to a close, but the chaos has just begun. We head to St. George, UT on Wednesday for a Family Reunion and Thanksgiving. Have a great Holiday!

Halo Warthog Cake

2010-11-06T19:17:00.000-07:00

This was a grooms cake for a teacher at Teresa's old school. It is the vehicle from the Halo game. I'm not going to go into detail, it's too exhausting. I will tell you I baked 2 8x8 square cakes, and 3 15x11 cakes - 8 cake mixes - yes, I use cake mixes. I did that twice. I had to know it was going to be sturdy enough for the day of, so I made it twice :) I started decorating it this morning at 9am and didn't finish until 1:45pm

So here it is, I drew the Halo symbol in the corner of the cake board.

Front view

Back view

The tow hitch with it's horns, giving it the warthog name

The gun and ammo

I will be honest, it didn't turn out how I had hoped. There were things I had to rush, because other things didn't go as smooth as they should have. But over all, I think it came out nice and I'm sure the groom recognized it and appreciated that his bride wanted to surprise him with this cake. Plus, I was pretty excited to be part of such a special event.

Birthday Celebration!

2010-10-11T12:16:00.001-07:00

This cake is for a 50th birthday celebration, but also a celebration of life. She recently finished successful chemo too. Another one for a teacher from Teresa's old school. I was told colorful and given the words it should say.

It's a 2- layer 10in round triple chocolate fudge cake with a 2-layer 6" round on top. All the decorations are fondant. It's frosted in buttercream.

Bridal Cake

2010-10-06T14:19:00.000-07:00

I got a call from a friend at Teresa's old school asking if I would be willing and able to make a cake for two brides at their school. YAY!!! I was thrilled to have another cake. I've been working on a groomscake, which will be really cool, but it's difficult. This was going to be fun! Sometimes it's nice to get exact instructions on what people want, but this time it was nice to be able to do what I wanted.

It's a 3 layer cake, chocolate, white, chocolate. With chocolate buttercream frosting. The bride is fondant, and the veil is glaze.

The idea came from a bridal shower invitation

In record time

2010-08-31T11:58:00.001-07:00

I know, haha, I'm so funny. But really, I had very little time to make this cake (of a record label). Things were/are busy around here.

It's nothing fantastic, but personal. It's the label of one of his favorite albums. He started collecting vinyl's about a year ago. So we thought it would be fun to do a record. But to do the whole thing was going to be a lot of cake, so I settled for just the label.

Guitar Cake

2010-08-13T16:23:00.000-07:00

I offered to make Teresa's best friend a cake for her Birthday. She wanted a guitar, so we thought it would be really cool if it looked like the actual guitar that she wanted, and was getting, for her birthday. Then I saw the picture and my first thought was - No way! I can't do this. But Jonathan saved me and offered to paint the picture on for me, using water and food coloring. He did a great job, and I'm so thankful for the help.

So here are the photos

The base of the guitar is the cake, the neck is made out of rice crispy treats. That was interesting too, I have used the rice crispy treats before, but didn't like how they came out. This time I took freshly made fondant(still warm) and wrapped the rice crispy treat, filling in the cracks with fondant. Then I wrapped it again in the desired color. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. Connecting the neck to the base didn't go as nice as I had hoped, but it still worked out fine. All the little details are made from fondant.

Peace of Cake

2010-07-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

This was another quick cake, which I'm finding quite fun, bake it one day decorate it the next. Partly because it's fun to do cakes and the quick ones can't be too complicated. So I get the chance to make a cute, fun, yet simple cake. This was for a 10 year old girl.

Just a simple 2 layer 8" Lemon cake with pink buttercream frosting.

The peace sign is a marble green and purple fondant. The flowers, name and border are also fondant.

Race Car Cake

2010-07-18T13:49:00.001-07:00

This cake was so much fun to make. I saw a "2" like it online, and thought it would be perfect for a friends 4 year old. He wanted a race track with 2 cars. I used a lot more fondant that I usually like to. But it was needed to get a cute cake. This is one of my favorites.

Diego Safari Cake

2010-07-12T08:31:00.001-07:00

This cake was for Nathan's 4th birthday. We had the party at a place with a jungle theme, so we through Diego in there as something familiar. This was pretty simple, 3 -6" layers of chocolate cake, frosting with chocolate and then fondant trees, leaves and animals(eyes too). The Diego is a candle I bought at Party City.

Cupcake Birthday Cake

2010-07-12T08:24:00.000-07:00

This was for Teresa's 12th birthday. I didn't purchase the pan, I just stacked layer after layer. I learned some valuable lessons, lemon cake can't be carved or stacked, it just isn't sturdy enough(I was also told not to attempt it with strawberry). I should have bought the pan, or borrowed it. But it was fine. We got pictures before the party. (it ended up falling) And we were still able to serve it. It was modeled after the party invitations we made.

Pool Party Cake!

2010-06-12T12:01:00.000-07:00

I was asked to make a cake for a 6th grade pool party today. It took me a long time to decide what to do. Originally, I thought it would be cool to make a swimming pool cake, but I couldn't think of anything that wasn't going to look cheesy. So this was the outcome. Nothing fancy, just simple and cute. I'll admit, it's not my favorite, it didn't come out how I had hoped. But it tastes so yummy. I think I'd call it a lemon cream, just because it's not a very strong lemon flavor. I took 2 white mixes and added one lemon pudding mix. Then I made 1 white cake mix and took the white and used it as a marble for the lemon. Then the buttercream has lemon extract in it, just enough to make it oh so yummy!

It's a 4 layer 10" cake (very tall)

It says "Splash in to Summer"

6th grade Grad cake

2010-05-25T09:57:00.001-07:00

Today is Teresa's big 6th grade party. I offered to do a cake for it. Here it is, they are the Rosedale North Roadrunners. I really like the way it came out. I thought it would be really fun to put all the kids names on it.

So here are the 4 sides with all 84 names on it

It started out as a 16x16, 2-layer cake, but 2 of the sides fell because I didn't get it level enough. It's hard to level such a large cake. I spent most of yesterday baking, frosting, and fixing the cake - oh and making the cake board(it's 2 layers of cardboard ducktaped together, then wrapped in paper with clingwrap over that). I spent about 2 1/2 hours this morning putting all the decoration on it.

Animal Cakes

2010-04-27T12:01:00.000-07:00

For the carnival cake walk, I had to do some cakes too :)

These are very simple, I used an 8" round for both, with the top of a cupcake as the snout. The giraffe was cut smaller and ears cut out. Then I used a star tip and some dark brown fondant to do eyes, noses and mouths.

Since it was just for a cake walk, I went super easy.

Rainbow Cupcakes

2010-04-27T11:51:00.001-07:00

I saw this in a magazine while at the orthodontist with Teresa. We thought it would be really fun to try for the carnival cake walk.

It was easy to do, just time consuming. We chose to do 5 colors. I seperated the cake batter in 5 plastic cups(for easy clean-up). Then colored them. I used the liquid coloring and it was really easy to get the darker colors. Then you just layer it. It was interesting because the cupcakes baked in the metal pan looked tie-dyed on top. The ones baked in the silicon pan(in a glass pan) came out just red on top. The kids loved them, we thought they were very cool. We'll have to try different things now, I think camo cupcakes would be cool.

Here's the finished product

Our carnival theme was jungle, so we picked up some plastic animals to top the cupcakes

Yellow Roses Birthday cake

2010-03-14T21:13:00.000-07:00

I had a woman who works at Teresa's school ask if I could do a birthday cake for her sister. All she wanted was white cake with lemon filling and yellow roses. I don't like to do roses, not because they aren't pretty - I think they're just so overdone. You go to the store to buy a cake, it's going to have roses or balloons. But I figured it would be simple enough. But then I decided to take the opportunity to practice making gum paste roses. They take more time than buttercream flowers, but they look so nice. This was a fun, no stress cake to make. Even if the gum paste flowers didn't turn out, I could do the buttercream ones. Plus it gave me the chance to test a lemon filling recipe I had.
I think it turned out nice. I probably could have done a few more flowers

Just a close up of the flowers. They aren't too difficult, just time consuming. I think I'll be practicing the flowers.

March 12, 2010

Masculine Birthday cakes

2010-03-01T09:27:00.000-08:00

I recently made two different birthday cakes for guys.

One was for Jonathan's birthday. His was supposed to be made with optical illusions - one on top, one on the sides. But that morning I started to get sick, so I decided to skip the top one. It didn't come out to look like the optical illusion, but it did turn out to be a nice birthday cake. Just simple and masculine.

2 layer 10"round marble cake with buttercream frosting and fondant design

This one I made for Teresa's Principal's birthday. I don't know him very well, so I couldn't make it personal. I had to settle for simple. But I like it, it came out nice. Teresa helped me cut the dots, I had to get up early so I could get Teresa and the cake to school by 8am. We managed :)

3 layer 10" round chocolate cake - with a 2 layer 6" on top. Buttercream frosting with fondant dots.

Bridal Shower Cake

2010-01-24T09:02:00.001-08:00

I did a cake for my sister-in-law who was throwing a bridal shower. The colors were pink and silver. We decided to use the napkin as inspiration.

Specifically these two designs

The flowers are fake with curled ribbon. You can't tell, but I made the little silver balls with grey fondant and then used silver pearl dust to make them look silver. I dusted the design with the dust as well. If I were to do it again, I would make a lighter gray. When I was coloring it, it seemed really light, but when I put it against the pink, it was much darker.

It's an 8" round 4 layer devil's food cake with buttercream frosting. I tried something different, and flavored the fondant with cherry this time. It probably made it a little sweeter, but added a flavor - not necessarily noticeable as cherry

Sports Themed Baby shower cake

2010-01-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

This cake is for a baby shower at Teresa's school. One of the teachers is having a boy and they wanted the cake to have a sports theme.

It's 4 chocolate cakes mixes

It gave me some trouble, but I think it will do.

Dual Birthday

2009-12-21T16:27:00.001-08:00

I made a basketball cake for my nephews 10th birthday(Dec 20th). They are here from Utah, so it was really cool to be able to make him a cake.

It's just a 2 layer square chocolate cake with chocolate pieces in the center. The backboard and balls are fondant. It was fun to make.

We were also celebrating my sister-in-laws Birthday (which happens to be today). Her theme was chocolate. This was a chocolate cake with chocolate chips. On top was a white chocolate cream and the whole thing was wrapped in chocolate. They call it a chocolate collar. The white dots are white chocolate the light brown dots are milk chocolate and the rest is dark chocolate. It was the first time I'd tried something like this, so it's a little messy. And I didn't have the right paper to use, so the collar has a few wrinkles. I will definitely try this again.

The aftermath of making 2 cakes in one day is not pretty. My kitchen won't recover completely until tomorrow. But well worth it :)

Sugar-Free Chocolate Cake

2009-11-14T07:42:00.000-08:00

For my mom's birthday I make her a sugar free cake. It's usually spice cake, because I have a great recipe that works with splenda quite well. But Chocolate is her favorite, so this year I decided to try chocolate again. It was pretty good.
Here's the link to the recipe
http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/4398/Recipe.cfm

Chocolate Birthday Cake

2009-11-06T10:34:00.000-08:00

Just a little cake for one of the ladies on the School PTC with me. She turned 30 yesterday and we're having lunch and cake to celebrate ;)

It's a 2 layer 8" round Devil's Food cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and Chocolate Creme Pirouette cookies around the sides and a ribbon to finish it off.

Those cookies look cool, but it turns out they don't have a great flavor. I was dissapointed!

I created a Monster...

2009-10-29T19:40:00.000-07:00

No really!

He's a cute little monster. He's a 3 layer 6" round carrot cake. We are having a Trunk-or-Treat at school and the families who decorate their trunk will have the chance to win one of 3 cakes, this being one of them :)

Halloween Birthday Cake

2009-10-24T20:41:00.000-07:00

Halloween Birthday cake

I made this cake for Teresa's friends birthday party. It was a super intense cake with a lot of stuff on it. But really fun! And I broke it up so I wasn't doing it all in one day. (plus a super fun costume party - Teresa was mother nature and I was a scarecrow - check the family blog after halloween for a pic)

It's a 3 tiered cake, with a 2 layer 10" Devil's food round, with chocolate frosting in the middle and buttercream on the outside. The middle layer is a 2 layer 8" round, and the Jack on top was made using a small pyrex bowl.

This is the back

Close-up of the spider and pumpkins. I had originally planned to do 7 spiders in different parts of the cake, but after making 1, I decided 2 would be enough. They were pretty tedious to make. But cute!

Close-up of the cat and a jack-o-lantern

Close-up of the witch with the moon behind her.

And the Jack-o-lantern with a spider on top. This is covered in fondant.

Wizards of Waverly Place

2009-10-17T13:42:00.000-07:00

This cake was for a friends daughter who wanted a Wizards of Waverly Place party(it's a Disney show). Only trouble is, the show doesn't really have any 1 item that represents it. So the end result was Merlin's hat(used in one episode - that I watched, btw) and Alex's wand, with spells from the show piped on the side.

It's a 3 layer white cake, with a little surprise orange frosting in the middle. I wanted to marble the inside with some orange, but for one, I forgot :P and I wasn't sure what color it would be after I cooked it. I'll have to experiment on a different cake. The hat is a sugar cone wrapped in fondant and the wand is just fondant with a yellow fondant star and yellow sugar sprinkles to give it a magical look ;)

This ones for you

2009-09-13T17:48:00.000-07:00

A 4 layer cake alternating chocolate fudge and marble chocolate chip, with chocolate buttercream in between the layers covered in white buttercream. YUMMY!

I made this just because, so we get to eat this one :)

(It was yummy - or "lummy" as Nathan put it)

First Birthday Cake

2009-09-07T14:03:00.000-07:00

I did this cake for Bennett's first birthday. The design was by Cindy, his mom. It's the combination of two ideas.

The middle layer is a 3 layer 8" round with buttercream and fondant stars and ball border.

The bottom is a 10" round cut to look like blocks. I used buttercream as the base and the colors are MM fondant.

The top is a jumbo cupcake, with fondant wrapped around it and buttercream on top.

Turtle Cake

2009-08-29T21:53:00.000-07:00

This is a 4 layer lemon cake shaped into the turtle, covered in lemon flavored fondant

Made August 29, 2009

Baby Shower Cake

2009-08-22T21:23:00.000-07:00

This is the baby shower cake that Michelle and I made for Serina

Fiesta!

2009-08-15T13:34:00.001-07:00

I did this cake this morning for a little Fiesta this evening.

It's a 12" square on the bottom and an 8" square on top. The bottom has a lime glaze in the middle and the top has lemon buttercream in the middle. The stripes and maracas are fondant.

Made August 15, 2009

Chess Anyone?

2009-08-14T13:26:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my dad's birthday. The chess board is a peanut butter cake with chocolate peanut truffle filling and chocolate buttercream. The white squares on the board are fondant and the pieces are dark and white chocolate, made using a candy mold. (which I have, if someone local wants to borrow it)

Made March 2009

Wilton Cake Class Course 3

2009-07-27T08:55:00.000-07:00

This class had 2 cakes

This one is our first fondant covered cake

This one had to be fondant covered and 2 tier. It was November so I went with a fall theme. Plus I learned how to make chocolate fondant (it tastes like a tootsie roll). I also learned NOT to use Marshmallow creme. It makes a very soft fondant, that breaks very easy. But I managed, I had made my leaves out of it and some were breaking, but you can't tell.

This is Serina's cake. I had to post it, because it came out super cute. I'd love to make this cake sometime :)

Made November 2008

Wilton Cake Class Course 2

2009-07-27T08:39:00.001-07:00

In this class you make all of the different things each week and in the last class you decorate 1 cake

Made October 2008

Wilton Cake Class Course 1

2009-07-27T08:27:00.000-07:00

I don't like these, but I have to post them. They are the cakes you do in course 1.

This one is using a cookie cutter to imprint a shape on the cake and then using a random tip to fill it in.

This one was ugly, the colors are too bright and there were so many flowers, but they were the flower we'd learned to make.

This one isn't too bad. A simple cake with roses on top

All of these cakes were made in April of 2007

Books

2009-07-10T10:05:00.001-07:00

This was Teresa's birthday cake

After it started to fall...

And our solution to a falling cake

It says "TDH & M detective Agency: The Birthday Mystery"

Made June 23, 2009

Thomas The Tank Engine and Sir Topham Hatt Cake

2009-07-10T09:55:00.001-07:00

This one was fun making because Nathan requested a Choo-Choo cake months ago. It wasn't easy though. The 3-D cakes are much more difficult than a round or sheet cake. I know, duh, obviously they are more difficult. I just haven't mastered them. At least this one didn't try and fall :)

Made July 8, 2009

More Birthday Cakes

2009-07-05T17:58:00.000-07:00

The dots and stars are fondant, everything else is buttercream. I don't like to cover cakes with fondant if I don't have to. (Sept. 2008)

The gift and the hat have cake under the fondant (1/2009)

Just a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and crushed peanut butter cups on the sides
(3/2009)

The candles are fondant (1/2009)

A lemon cake with raspberry filling - Yum! ;P (1/20/2009)

Cakes using a star tip

2009-07-05T17:51:00.000-07:00

These are just your typical star tip cake.

I had a pan for the bus, the other two I drew on the cake

Taz was made Sept. 2008

Bus was made probably 2003

The Crown was made Dec 2007 I believe

Hamburger and Fries Cake

2009-07-05T17:41:00.000-07:00

I made this for my husband's birthday this year.

The bun is 2 8" round yellow cakes with chocolate frosting and fondant over that.

The patty is a brownie

The tomato, lettuce, bacon and cheese are all fondant

The fries are just yellow cake cut with a crinkly pastry cutter

The condiments are tube frosting from the store

Made February 2009

Pink Skull Cake

2009-07-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

I modeled this one off a Mylar balloon.

The skull is fondant, everything else is buttercream.

It was a lot of fun to make.

It is a 2 layer 10" cake

Made March 2009

Graduation Cake

2009-07-04T00:39:00.000-07:00

The graduation cap, tassle, and the red and blue beads on the bottom are all fondant.

(I made the black myself. It takes a lot of food coloring. I basically dip the fondant in it a few times to get the nice black color, smearing my hands with lots of Crisco before).

Made June 27th, 2009

Firetruck

2009-07-04T00:36:00.001-07:00

I bought the fire truck pan and followed the instructions on the back :)

Made July 2007

Daisies and Pink

2009-07-04T00:31:00.000-07:00

This was designed by T for her 9th birthday.

Made June 24 2007

Yes, Plastic Flowers

2009-07-04T00:27:00.000-07:00

This is a 4- layer homemade spice cake(2 - 8" rounds cut in half) with cream cheese frosting, chopped walnuts on the sides and plastic flowers. I love the ease and beauty of this one.

Made January 2009

Under the Sea Cake

2009-07-04T00:18:00.000-07:00

A cute little under the sea cake I found on M&M's site. It was fun to make and really cute

Made June 2008

Anniversary cake

2009-07-04T00:11:00.000-07:00

I made this small cake for my parents anniversary. The idea was to create a small wedding cake. Pretty basic, the flowers were made ahead of time using royal icing.

I made another for their anniversary, one special for my mom. It was sugar free. The cake is a spice cake recipe substituting Splenda and the frosting was cream cheese, pudding and cool whip. It's not very pretty, but the consistency of the frosting is more pudding like, then frosting like.

Made October 2008

Sackboy Cake

2009-07-04T00:06:00.000-07:00

This is the Sack Boy from the Playstation game Little Big World. This was fun to do. All the parts are cake, minus the globe, it's just a large piece of fondant. The zipper and it's parts are fondant as well as the eyes and mouth. The stitches are done with small lines made to look like a knitting.

Made March 2009

Transformers Cake

2009-07-03T23:54:00.000-07:00

The transformer is made using little dots. I usually draw my pictures on paper before I do them on the cake. But this one was giving me a hard time, so I think we ended up printing a picture to trace the outline on the cake. I used different colors to get the shadows right.

Made August 26th 2008

Fondant Baby Shoes

2009-07-03T23:46:00.000-07:00

I made these with playdough first. Then I carefully took the pieces apart and traced them on to cardstock. Then I just cut it out of fondant and put it all together. Water makes an amazing glue for fondant

Made September 14th 2007

Miniature Wedding Cake

2009-07-03T16:47:00.000-07:00

It seemed fitting to start with my most recent cake. I did it this morning.

This is a 2 layer 8" with a 6" and a 4" on top. The frosting is buttercream and black store bought frosting. The red roses are fondant.

Maybe...?

2009-07-03T16:27:00.000-07:00

I love browsing galleries of cakes, and knowing how they were made. So I thought it might be fun to make a "gallery" of my own.

It's going to take some time to get them all on here and write how they were made. I'm not sure I could remember all of them. Maybe what I'll do is start with the pictures and as I have time, add how they were made.