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.