I Saved the Flop!

This is kind of hard to see but I looked pretty cool.  The side and top of the top tear is embossed with a Happy Birthday print, with balloons and curly streamers.  This was for a couple of friends of mine who had birthdays back to back so we did one big ladies lunch for them.  I cannot even believe this cake turned out like it did, because IT  WAS  A  MESS!!  If anything could go wrong, it DID with this cake!  Many times I wanted to call and say we are just going to have to go buy one, this is a flop!   But in the end I was able to pull it out.  The bottom tier is a white cake colored the same blue a purple as the fondant (the Birthday Girls' favorite colors).  I learned NOT to do a yokeless cake when it will need to be carved.  The top tier is dark chocolate and both have dark chocolate butter cream (that I had to make 3 batches of, because the first separated and the second clumped) and the fondant was some chocolate and some regular.   Another problem I had was trying to make that chocolate fondant!!  It was a very rainy and "humid" day (for Nevada, anyway) and I tried to blame the troubles on that, but I don't really know for sure what the problem was.  It just crumbled like dried out cake and I had to toss the whole batch of chocolate fondant.  The second batch just wouldn't get as dark as I wanted it to.  Like I said before, in the end, it turned out pretty...OK for my second topsy turve cake, anyway.  Now it tasted wonderful, so really that made up for the other flaws, I thought. ;-)~

February, 10 2010 

Give the gift of flowers to someone you LoVe!

This is my quick happy birthday gift.  It can be made is any flavor but my fav is the chocolate with fudge.  The white flowrer cake was a white cake with strawberry filling (by request).  The others were a dark chocolate cake with a fudge filling.  The card gives instructions to revome the flowers and place upside down on a microvable plate.  After heating, it kind of becomes a lava cake!  Yummy!  You can even eat the fondant flowers (that I am still perfecting).  It can also be filled with icecream!  $25.00

My BFF turned 30!

My best friend turned 30 this year.  I wanted to do something special for her.  This was my first attempt at a topsy turvy cake.  I don't know if it can even qualify as that!  But it was fun to do and cover with things that said Jennie!  Like: The theme song to her favorite TV show and a common phrase from me to her "thank you for being a friend" Then our favorite TV show Friends.  Her last name when I met her was Anker.  She honeymooned in Jamaica when she changed that name.  I get the centers and she always get the corner brownie.  She is a major dog lover and was born and raised in NV and has an awesome view of those mountains.  I taught her to crochet but now she is way better at it than I am.  She has 2 beautiful children and I incorporated thier names along with her husband's name by making their letters an acronym.  It was fun and I love her very much!

This was chocolate on chocolate all the way around!! Even the fondant was mostly chocolate.

January 2010

Purses 1 & 2

In an effort to try and get all the past cakes I have done on this blog I am combining a few.  These are both purses.  They are totally different events and times.

Purse #1

A while back this guy that works with my Mom needed a cake made that  described his new wife.  She is a Mom of many but still like classy things.  He wanted a "Coach" purse with "Mom" things falling out of it. Well me not being a very "classy Mom" I had no idea what a Coach purse was, so I had to do a little research. Then I just thought of what falls out of my own purse as a Mom of many!  The cake was a white cake with strawberry filling (as requested) with mostly butter cream frosting.  Each of the C's (that partially define a coach purse) are painstakingly hand painted on with butter cream frosting. The phone, lip stick, crayons, pacifier and fish crackers are all made from fondant, as well as the "COACH" tag and pure handle. This was definitely the beginnings of my fondant work. Oh what a door that opened for me!

This was only the 2nd cake I was paid for and still very unsure what to charge for it. I think Mark did the math for me & I made something like less than a dollar an hour for all the time I put into it.  But that didn't matter to me at the time.  I just had so much fun doing it!!  He recently called me back and ordered a baby shower cake (and gave me a MUCH larger budget).  Keep checking the blog to see that one at the end of February.

September 2009

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Purse #2

This cake was more recent and was for a VERY good friend of mine. It was her baby shower and the cakes were intended to look like the invitation. These were all chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream under that pink and green fondant. These were SOOO YuMmY!!! I hope all the cakes I have made for people taste like this one did! Again there was a lot of learning done on this cake but I still liked how they turned out. I cant wait to hold that baby!!

February 2010

Kendra's 5th Birthday

When my baby girl turned 5, I cried!  Ok not really but it did make me sad to see her hold up all five fingers when asked how old she was.  We do birthday up big around here so she was able to have 2 parties, one bubble gum party with 5 of her little friends and the other a Care Bear party with of our family. 

Both are white cakes, tinted light purple and pink and covered in butter cream frosting.  However the gumballs are fondant.  The cup cakes around the Care Bear are heart shapes an decorated by the birthday girl herself with a little help from her brothers.

October 21, 2009

Hamburger or Cheesburger?

We had a few bar-B-ques to go to last summer.  I did a Hamburger for the first one and it was such a hit.  But Mark said he wished it had some cheese on it.  So I did a Cheeseburger for the second.  Both came with a small order of fries and a side of ketchup.
The buns are yellow cake and the meat is chocolate cake.  They are covered in butter cream and have real sesame seeds on top.  The lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and cheese are rolled out and flattened large gum drops, as well as the fries.  The ketchup and mustard is just butter cream frosting.  This was all in fun!

September 2009

Baptisim

My nephew Jackson was turning 8 and was getting baptized while we were there visiting for Thanksgiving, so I took the opportunity to try and add a little something special to his very special day. He loves "camo".  So it was a gluten free, (for the benefit of another nephew that was there) camo, CTR shield, and a baptismal font with his own personalized towel.  He kept the fondant figure of himself and his Dad for a few days.

Thank you, Jackson for sharing your day with us!  We love you!

November 2009

Nerf

This was for a friend of mine, well actually for her 10 year old son's Nerf birthday party.  I really had fun with this one!  She brought me the toy gun and it sat around for a few days while I thinking of how to do this cake.  My boys thought it was the coolest toy ever, because we have nothing even remotely gun related in this house.  The bullets are made of fondant and totally edible. The cakes are done in butter cream.  The gun is chocolate cake and the target is a white cake, colored to match the patter of the icing. (does that make sense?)  When you cut into it, it was 3 different colors.  I had fun with this cake.

November 2009

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Scouts!

These cakes were actually for a set brothers, just done at different times. The Cub Scout (Bobcat cake) was for one of my Cub Scout boys, as a gift from me to him.  His mother liked it so much she highered me to decorate the top of a Costco cake she bought for her older son's court of honor. Both caked are done solely in butter creams.

October/ November 2009

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Soccer Ball

This cake was for Kendra's first end of season soccer party. It was an ice cream cakes with fondant, and the grass was tinted cocoanut.

June 2009

T 'n' T They are DYNAMITE!

This was Travis and Trevor's #2 birthday. "TnT" We had a dynamite time! The boys each got their own jumbo sized cup cake. They loved it and made a twin sized mess!

May 2009

Pixar Cars X2

This was for my sister's kid, on his 3rd birthday. It was all butter cream and the rounds were white and chocolate cake that looked like a checkerd flag when you cut into it. That part was a huge hit and one of my favorite fun surprises. She gave me all his little toys cars to add to the cake. The plaid was ribbon I got at the craft store. This was my first experiance with black frosting and I soon learned to...dislike it VERY much!

May 2009

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Someone that works with Mark saw a picture of Kayne's cake and wanted something very similar.

December 2009

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The Boat

This cake was for my Father-in-law. He is a VeRy special man to me! His birthday is at the end of the summer and we had spent some good times out on the boat that year, so this idea came to me rather easily. I made the boat out of yellow lemon cake (at his request), Kendra helped with the water and sand (also lemon) and Mark cut me the piece of real ski rope and game me tips on the shape of the motor and added the PVC pipe to the back of the boat. (My husband knows that boat like the back of his hand!) Oh and we barrowed the Lego men from my nephews. So this cake was a real "family event". Happy Birthday Bob! I love you!

September 2009

Flip Flops

This was the first cake I was ever paid for! A friend of mine that has awesome talent and takes great pictures of my family called me and asked if I would make a cake for her daughters 4th birthday. She sent me a picture of what she wanted and this is what she got. On the plates I sprinkled brown sugar, to look like the flip flops were in sand, but forgot to take a picture of that.

July 2009

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Camera Cake

This cake was for my Grandad. He has been quite the photographer my whole life (and his).

This was a dark chocolate cake with an orange chocolate butter cream under the black fondant. It was not easy to get the fondant to a true black color. I think "black" is my least favorite color for a cake and honestly it is not that appetizing of a color either, if I do say so myself.

Hope it tasted yummy Grandaddy! I love you!

                                                                                                                                               Dec. 6, 2009