Chocolate Strawberries!!

I have never made a cake like this before.  It was definitely was a challenge for me.  What I did was cover the cakes in butter-cream frosting.  Then I took the chocolate covered strawberries and stuck them to the cake with royal icing.  Then to make sure that the strawberries would not fall off I pinned them to the cake.  This cake was so fun and different. I thought it had a very elegant feel to it. One of my favorite parts of this cake was the toppers.  What I did was make two strawberries look like a bride and groom.  One was dipped in white chocolate and the other was dipped in white and brown chocolate to make it look like it was wearing a tuxedo.

She's Legal!!

This cake was for my sister's 18th birthday. She wanted something really girly and fun.  So we decided to go with polka dots, stripes, and flowers! Perfect right?  I loved seeing her expression when she saw the cake finished. She loved it! It was exactly what she wanted. She had an amazing day that day and I am so glad that I got the chance to help make that day perfect for her.

GO COUGARS!!

This cake was so much fun to make! It was for a girl turning sixteen, she is a cheerleader at South Fremont High School, so that was the inspiration for this cake.  I made the bottom tier look like the design on the cheerleader's skirts.  Then designed the top with cheer megaphones, that said GO, FIGHT, WIN.  This cake was different than any other one that I had made before.  I used sugar paper, and absolutely fell in love with it.  It is so much fun to work with.  I will definitely be using sugar paper again on cakes to come.

SURPRISE!!!!

The day is finally here, a beautiful girl become a teenager! It’s such an exciting moment in life.  What a better way to celebrate it than with a cake!  This cake was kept a secret until the last moment.  Her mom called me and asked me to do it for her daughter who was turning 13. 

For this cake I took white fondant and placed it around both tiers.  Then I took pink fondant and made strips going down the bottom tier and orange polka dots cover the top tier.  Then I made fondant balls that I placed where the two cakes met.  The cake was a very bright, happy, girly cake.

I love doing cakes for all different occasions.  Part of why I love it is because you never make the same cake twice.  You always have to coming up with something new and different. It is always exciting, there’s never a dull moment in the kitchen. 

What To Do?

Decisions, decisions! When you are planning a wedding there are a lot of things that you have to plan.  You have to get a dress, a tux, a place, food, your cake, flowers and a lot more.  Everyone wants their wedding to stand out. They want people to walk away and say, “Wow, that was a really great wedding!”  So, how do we do this? Do we pick outrageous colors? Serve something that no one else has thought of? Well, for this particular bride and groom they decided they wanted cupcakes served at their wedding, but they still wanted a traditional cake to cut into.  They decided to have a one tier cake that would be set on a pedestal higher than anything else and then have cupcakes all around the cake. 

Their cake was definitely one that stood out.  It was covered in fondant then purple ribbon placed along the middle of the cake.  I took coral buttercream frosting and make a swirly line across the cake and two curved lines in the corner.  For the top of the cake, we placed two silver hearts that were joined together.  We placed a silver R in front of the hearts. The cake was perfect for the occasion, and accomplished exactly what it was supposed to.

BABY TIME!!

Oh baby!! What’s a better way to celebrate a new life coming into the world, then by having a cake.  This was my first baby shower cake, and I was very pleased with it.

For this cake we wanted something that was pretty and simple.  The colors that were chosen were pink and green.  What we decided to do was a confetti cake covered in delicious buttercream frosting.  Then I made pink daisies out of gum paste and added edible glitter to them.  By doing this to the flowers it added texture and gave the flowers more depth.   Then I placed the flowers on the cake with royal icing.  I added a sheer ribbon around the cake where the tiers met.  I then took the same ribbon and made a bow with it and placed it on top of the cake.  It was perfect for a baby girl’s shower.

The Bigger the Better!

“We want it to be big!” says the bride and groom of this cake.  They wanted it as big as they could get it and that’s what they got.  This cake had a base of 16 inches in diameter.  The top of this cake was 10 inches in diameter which in most cases is the center tier of most wedding cakes. To make this cake even bigger if was four tiers instead of the average three.   The decorating of this cake was challenging, but so much fun to do.   The design was to have a diagonal zigzag going up the cake.  First I covered the cake in white fondant and then cut diagonal lines.  I then covered the cake with hot pink fondant where there wasn’t any white fondant.  After that I got my fondant on the way I wanted it, I started doing the piping.  I started with the black buttercream frosting and piped the swirly design on the pink fondant. I then added light turquoise dots to the white fondant.  Then to join the two fondants together I piped the edges of where the fondants met with the turquoise frosting.  Flowers were added to the corners of where the fondant sloped.  By doing this is it tied the whole cake together, and gave it the flare that it needed.  

This cake was fun, beautiful, and perfect just like the bride and groom!