Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday!

Cupcakes are vanilla cake with lemon filling and icing.   Head is red velvet cake with vanilla filling/icing. 

Christening Cake

 This is my first Baptism cake.  It was for my friend's baby and I was honored to make this cake for him.  It is Vanilla Cake with Strawberry filling and Almond buttercream.  Cake is piped buttercream and buttercream roses. 

Star Wars; R2D2

Birthday cake for a 4y old boy.  Part chocolate/part vanilla cake with fondant decorations.  Our week long power outage ruined the birthday boys party :( and my original design, but they still wanted a small cake for his actual birthday. 

Halloween Birthday!

 Halloween Birthday Cake for our niece/nephew.  Chocolate cake with yummy oreo cookie filling and buttercream.  The ghost is make out of rice cereal treats covered in fondant.  All other decorations are fondant except spiders are piped buttercream. 

Princess Birthday!

 This is for a 5 year old girl who wanted Princess themed Cake and Cupcakes for her party.  They are vanilla and chocolate flavor cake with vanilla buttercream.  Cake is covered with fondant and decorated with fondant flowers.  Crown is piped out of Royal Icing and painted with pink pearl dust.  Cupcake decorations are made from fondant.  The first crown I made broke so this is my 2nd attempt and it broke into 2 pieces but was able to be salvaged. 

Doggielicious Cake!

This cake is for our niece's 6th Birthday.  She wanted a dog cake so this is what I came up with.  The dog is made out of pound cake, covered with butter cream and fondant ears, nose, eyes, tongue.  The bowl is made out of rice cereal and covered in fondant, the food is candy.   The big cake is chocolate cake with strawberry filling and covered with the grass tip in butter cream.  The dog bones are fondant. 

90th Birthday Casino Cake!

This is my biggest cake to date!  It was so heavy that I could barely lift it!  I have to give much credit to my dad who helped me tremendously on this cake.  He built the base (added a back support to the base piece) and helped me with delivery.  This cake is Vanilla with Chocolate Fudge Filling, Vanilla Buttercream and covered and decorated with fondant.  My dad thinks it was at least 40lbs.  There are about 10 or so layers of cake/filling that I carved to the shape of a slot machine.  It took a lot longer then I thought to complete but as long as the birthday girl likes it then it is all worth it! 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

Two year old twin girls requested a Mickey Cake.  So I decided to use a new stand and make three separate cakes incorporating Mickey Mouse Clubhouse icons.  All cakes are Vanilla and Vanilla Buttercream and fondant/gum paste decorations.  The "Toodles Cake" is filled with cherry filling, the "Clubhouse Cake" is filled with cream cheese buttercream, and the "Mickey Cake" is filled with chocolate and crushed Oreo's.    I had a blast making this cake and the most difficult part was figuring out how to make Mickey and the archway stand up.  It took a few tries to sculpt Mickey out of fondant.

Chocolicious Birthday Cake!

This Birthday Cake is all Chocolate cake and buttercream.  The bottom tier is filled with chocolate mousse and the other 2 tiers are filled with raspberry preserves.  The border is Nonpareil candy... the birthday girls favorite! 

My 1st Wedding Cake!

I made it through my 1st Wedding Cake!  They are way more anxiety provoking then other cakes. Smoothing the icing and transporting were the most difficult parts. It feels so good to be a small part of someone's wedding. It was for 170 people so I also made a large sheet cake that serves 80.  This cake is Vanilla with Kahlua Infused Chocolate Mousse Filling and Cream Cheese Buttercream. Tiers are 12', 10' and 8'.  The Bride provided the topper, ribbon and flowers...she has good taste..reminds me of my wedding cake!  Congratulations to the Bride and Groom and thanks for giving me my 1st Wedding Cake order :)

McQueen Car!

This is my first sculpted car cake!  The car is pound and the track is vanilla velvet cake with chocolate mousse filling.  This cake took a lot longer then I thought but it was a lot of fun.  Everything is eatable except for the spoiler which is cardboard covered in fondant.

Penguin Says Happy Birthday

This is my mother-in-law's birthday cake.  She loves penguins and daisy's.  The penguins are out of fondant and the flowers out of gum paste.  Again, it is vanilla cake with strawberry filling. Happy Birthday Grammie!

Cousin's Baby Shower Cake

This is a cake for my cousin who is having a boy!  The blocks are cake covered in fondant and the babies are fondant as well. This is a vanilla cake with strawberry filling. 

Hawaiian Anniversary Cake!

I made Hibiscus flowers out of gum paste to decorate this Hawaiian themed 40th anniversary cake.  This is vanilla cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream.  I made the topper out of gum paste as well. 

Ellen's Birthday Cake!

Birthday Cake for my little sister.  It is a vanilla cake with strawberry filling and chocolate buttercream topped with gum paste daisy's.  Love you sis!

Twin's 60th Birthday Cake

My Dad and Uncle's Birthday Cake.  Peanutbutter cake with chocolate mousse and chocolate buttercream, very yummy flavor combo!  

A Pirate's Treasure

This is a birthday cake for our 4 year old nephew.  One layer of vanilla, one layer chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling.   The last picture was my first attempt at the ship, obviously the cake was too soft so I ended up making and sculpting rice cereal treats, then covered in fondant and decorated.  The treasure chest is also sculpted from rice cereal treats.  The colored treasure is ring pops and the clear silver I made from isomault sugar...they were clear and diamond like when I made them but a few days later they turned cloudy.  The sail is gum paste and the pirate/flag is lego toys.  The pirate head is chocolate that I was experimenting with.

Anniversary Cake

40th Wedding Anniversary Cake.  This is an almond cake filled with 3 layers of raspberry filling and almond buttercream!  Yum, the raspberry cuts the sweetness of the buttercream.  The flowers are made from gumpaste (my first attempt at gum paste roses) and this is also my first attempt at piping a swag design.  This cake is traveling 6 hours in the car so I really hope the couple likes it!

I have decided that piped writing is now my biggest challenge....well, other then getting a smooth finish with buttercream.

Big Sister's Birthday Cake

Vanilla Cake with Chocolate mousse filling and vanilla buttercream. 

Froggie Says Happy Birthday!

Birthday cake for a special 1 year old!  The cake is Vanilla Velvet with Chocolate mousse filling and Vanilla Almond Buttercream. Decorations are made with Fondant and Gum Paste.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

These are Vanilla Velvet Cake with Whipped Chocolate Ganache filling and Vanilla Almond Buttercream. 

Graduation Cake...Cinderella Style!

This cake is in honor of my husband's cousin who graduated from E. Granby HS this week!  It is a chocolate cake with chocolate filling/icing.  The glass slipper is made from white chocolate dusted with eatable pearl dust. The bird is made from fondant, hat top is gumpaste and stairs sculpted from extra cake and covered in fondant. 

Monkeying Around!

This is a Italian Fresh Fruit cake with Whipped Cream Icing.  I made a sponge cake layered with fresh strawberries and peaches.  Because the icing is cream it is not as smooth or sturdy as buttercream.  The Birthday girl likes monkey's and butterflies, both are made out of fondant.

Rubber Duck Bathtime

Baby Shower cup cakes, vanilla and chocolate.  Made the ducks with chocolate and they are taking a buttercream bubble bath. 

Topsy-Turvey Birthday Cake

This is for two 1 year old boys.  This cake was a challenge and required some carving and careful stacking but for my first time I think it turned out alright.  The bottom layer is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, middle layer is red velvet and top is vanilla and vanilla.  Whole thing is covered and decorated in fondant.  The two smash cakes are vanilla and chocolate.  Delivery was interesting but we made it there without any damage!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

1st Birthday Party.  The head is Red Velvet cake with Cream cheese icing and the cupcakes are white cake with lemon filling and lemon buttercream, topped with fondant fruit that the Caterpillar ate through.  The cake is covered with fondant and then I brushed on food coloring to get the bright red color.