Skater Cat

This cake was made for a friend's daughter for her skating birthday party.  I had previously made a roller skating puppy and we thought a skating cat would work in this case.  The cat was white cake, with a modeling chocolate covering.  The cat was shaded using petal dusts and a lot of patience!!  For the roller skates I pulled out an old pattern I had for a baby shoe and modified it to be a 'hi-top'

 

 

                                             

Natty Light Groom's cake

The groom requested a beer bucket cake like a picture he'd seen.  The cake was chocolate with chocolate icing beneath fondant that was airbrushed silver.  The beer  logs were all edible images.  The cans were made from pound cake and covered in fondant and airbrushed as well.

Bubble Guppies

This cake was really fun to make.  I found some coloring book pages of the characters and made those in advance.  After those were done, putting together the cake was much easier.  I was really proud of the little letters I made for the birthday girl's name.  LEAH.  Each one was cut by hand and decorated with a sea theme.  Cake was marble  with buttercream icing and fondant decorations. 

I hope Leah loves it as much as I did.  Happy 1st Birthday!!

21st Birthday

Lone Star Beer Cake
Used an edible image for the symbol.

Safari Party

This cake was for a sweet little girl's safari-themed party.  All the characters had to be 'girls' of course.  

A Rhino for Ryno

This cake was for a boy named Ryan who is nicknamed Ryno.  He asked for a Rhinoceros cake for his birthday.  Given the amount of servings needed I decided to just make the head of a rhino for the cake.  This one was a challenge!  I used a black rhino as my example and you can see the rhino has a pointed lip just like the real deal.  I know that real rhino horns are not 'ivory color' but I didn't have the heart to cover them completely with gray (so, so much gray!!) so I just dusted them with some gray and brown to mute down the ivory a bit.    This cake was carved by hand and covered completely in modeling chocolate then dusted with petal dusts to bring out the wrinkles.  The cake inside was red velvet.  The eyes were gumballs I colored black with food coloring markers.  I think everyone was pleased with the end result. 

Tennis Anyone?

This cake was for my fake cousin Angie.  Her husband, my fake cousin Alan asked me to make it for her birthday and we surprised her with it.  She loves tennis so of course her cake had to be tennis related.  This was modeled off of her actual Wilson tennis racket.  This cake was covered, not in fondant, but modeling chocolate.  This is a new medium that I've been learning about.  The chocolate is a little less tolerant of temperature changes but it's way better tasting.  The tennis balls are sugar cookies covered in buttercream and then a layer of modeling chocolate.

Ice Cream Birthday Theme

This cake was made for a girl's birthday party.  The ice cream cone, scoops and cherry are all hand made from gumpaste.  I loved the colors on this one.  I think it turned out pretty well!

 

Bachelorette Party

I made some cookies featuring some special 'nightie' wear.  Cookies were made in buttercream icing !

Lion Grad

This was requested by a coworker who'd seen a similar cake on my blog.  (Yay, it's working!!)  Her son attends Granger High School and is graduating this year.  The mascot symbols are made of gum paste and hand painted.  Granger's colors are purple and gold.  For some reason the picture came out looking very blue though in person, it's true purple .

Trying something new

This cake was for the birthday of a long time customer. :)  I was given free reign on what to do decoration wise, so I tried out an hombre technique that I'd seen on a video.  The roses are hand made from gumpaste using another new technique.  Got brave on this one.

Duck Grad

This cake was for a graduating senior from Taylor High School.  Go Ducks!!

John Deere Cake

This was for a friend whose son loves his John Deere Gator.  The cake was shared with his classmates at school.  I think he liked it cause his mom got a HUGE hug from him after the party!!
p.s. big shredded wheat makes pretty good looking hay bales.

Sports lovers

Here area few sports related projects.  One was just a simple Broncos cake and the other was a helmet with a Thorndale Bulldogs Logo. I was also asked to make some simple baseball cupcakes for a baseball party.  Gotta love sports!!

Under New Management

This was an engagement cake for some folks at work.  I had been watching some videos on creating figurines so I tried my hand at it on this cake.  If you can't tell, the 'groom' is wearing handcuffs.  HA!
The figures didn't exactly look like the people but I got close on the groom.  The bride was much prettier than my figure but it was the best I could do after one lesson.

Congrats to them both!

Skylander's Swap Force

This was a cake for a big Skylander Swap Force fan.  I made the 'portals' and mom provided the figurines for the top.  I think they turned out pretty nice.  Just wish I had a picture of the cakes the toppers to see the 'final' final product.

Ahhh Spa!

This was a cake for twins who were having a spa day party.  I enjoyed making the little extras to go on top of the zebra print cake.

Baseball Baby

This was a cake I was asked to make for a Mommy to be.  She asked for a baby shower cake with a Texas Rangers theme.  The baby's nickname was LJ, so I created the initials with a little extra baseball flair.

Doc McStuffins

Here's a cake I made for a friend and longtime customer!!  Her daughter wanted a Doc McStuffins cake and some cookies to go with them.  I tried a new technique of tracing on and then painting fondant to create the character. 

Flower Power

Here's a cute little daisy cake I did for a friend's mom.  It was her birthday and I saw this design and wanted to try it out. 

Elmo

This was a cake I made for my hairdresser Alex.  Her daughter Hollis turned a year old and I had the honor of making her very first birthday cake!!  She loves Elmo so I broke out the gumpaste and sculpted one for a topper.  Oh and we couldn't forget to include Dorothy!!

Babies are a HOOT!

Here's a cake I was really proud of.