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! 

Every bride wants their cake to be different than the rest.  She wants the cake to stand out and show off the personality of her and her groom.  There are many different ways to do this, by the shape of the cake, the flavor of the cake, the color of the cake, and ultimately the design of the cake.  The Bride  and I showed off their personality perfectly with the design and colors that they chose.

This cake was a square confetti cake, with chocolate filling.  The bottom tier and top tier matched, covered with purple fondant, diagonal scoring, and edible pearls where the diagonal lines met.  The middle tier was covered in smooth purple fondant. When I stacked the cake I turned each tier asymmetrically.  I then added a sky blue ribbon to the bottom of each tier, and added white roses to the corners of the cake.  For the topper on the cake I added a big, silver “D”, and then added white roses around that also to tie the topper into the rest of the cake.

This cake was perfect for this couple.  It showed off their fun, spunky, and sweet personality.

From Paper to Cake!

This cake was so much fun to make.  I was so excited when the bride asked me if I would make her cake.  When we had our first cake meeting, she handed me a picture that her and her fiancé drew.  I looked at it and knew that this cake was going to be fun to make. 

What I did was start with a round cake and covered it in white fondant. Then I took a deep aqua blue ribbon and placed it in the middle of the tier. I then took black frosting and drew swirls on the bottom half of the tier.  I did this for all three tiers. Then once at the reception, I stacked the cakes and then placed roses, daisies, and baby’s breath down the side of the cake.  For the finishing touches I added a Royal Icing plaque that added the bride and grooms initials on it.  This gave the cake a very personal touch, by the bride and groom.

I loved making this cake! It was so much fun! I loved how it challenged me in a way that I had not been challenged before. And everybody knows how I like a challenge! J