Bridal Shower Cake

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.