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.