Monopoly Cake

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

...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.