A 40th Birthday

This is one of my favorite flavors, yellow butter cake with a yummy chocolate frosting. The pink flowers I made with my vanilla  buttercream recipe. What’s your favorite cake?

90th Birthday plus a few others

    

2 tier 6″ & 10″ yellow butter cake with vanilla buttercream basketweave. Flowers and wired stars were fondant.          

Marble cake, vanilla buttercream and bright colors of hot pink,lime green and black.

Yellow butter cake, vanilla buttercream with fondant flowers. The horse head was also cake.

Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. Side design done with a small rose tip to give a ruffle look. Flowers and butterfly were fondant.

Cupcake Day

No wedding cakes today just cupcakes,  a baby shower and a birthday. The shower cc’s (3 doz) were for a baby girl all done with pinks and dainty designs. The flowers and frosting were buttercream the cake flavors chocolate and yellow butter. Here is just a sample .

The birthday cc’s (1 &1/2 doz) were also a combo of chocolate and yellow butter cake  iced in the birthday boy’s favorite color,  neon green, with a few sprinkles added. 

Shower Cupcakes for a Baby Boy

This is just a few of the cup cakes I made for a baby shower, there were 30 of them. Flavors were yellow butter cake with vanilla butter cream. The butter cream decorations piped on the tops were rattlers & booties in yellow,  blue and white with a touch of green.

Close up.

A Princess Birthday Cake

Princess cakes are so much fun, you can make them as “girly” as you like with lots of frills. This one, a 10″ classic yellow butter cake with vanilla butter cream.  I made  bright pink roses in varing shades, wrapped the base of the cake in pink ribbon to match the roses and piped dots on the sides with touches of lavender here and there. The wand was handmade from fondant, the star I cut with a cookie cutter and was brushed with silver dust, the handle rolled and brushed with gold dust, a small silver bow added to the handle. The Tiara was purchased.

  Note: The Mother was so pleased when she saw the cake saying “that’s exactly what I wanted, a very girly cake” and of course that made ME a very happy cake decorator.

A little mermaid

This was made for a little girls 4th birthday she  wanted her cake to be pink and with a mermaid. Cake flavor was yellow butter cake with vanilla butter cream. I made lots of fondant flowers in many colors and fashioned an open shell of fondant to hold a pearl to go along with the mermaid figure i found in my local Dollar Tree store. It was a big hit with the birthday girl and everyone at the party.

Babies First Birthday

Pink and white was the theme for this babies first birthday cake. I baked a 10″ 2 layer yellow butter cake, iced it  in vanilla butter cream. The tiny pink and white flowers and hearts  were made from fondant. I also fashioned a number one  from fondant and inserted a wire in it’s base so it would stand up.

This cake a single layer 6″  was made just for the baby girl so she could experience the taste and texture of her first cake.

Looking back and ahead

2008 has been a memorable year, i  created this blog, there have been loads of cakes and I’m glad to say, many satisfied cake customers. The cake photos fill the memory of my computer and I have posted many of them here. Now the first day of 2009 has started out just right, with a cake to decorate, my first one this year. The cake, a classic yellow butter cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, decorated with fondant fall leaves and a cute Doctor figurine. Really very simple but the lady loved it. It’s so nice to start out a brand new year on a positive note.

Wedding cake- Vine design and a grooms cake

This Thanksgiving i barely had time to taste my turkey.  On Friday I had a grooms cake then on Saturday the wedding cake.

The grooms cake a 10″ 2 layer yellow butter with vanilla butter cream frosting had a hunting theme and was topped with a wooden duck and placed on a wooden disk. The grass was handcut using fondant.

The wedding cake a 6″-9″-12″ yellow butter with vanilla butter cream frosting. Decorated with a leaf/vine design, each tier was separated with columns. Finished off with babies breath and red gerber daisies and an ornament for the top. 

Closeup of ornament and design