Christmas Poinsettia Cake

I made this cake for a friend's cookie exchange party - I like the festive colors!

This was my first time doing any kind of "drapey thing" down the front of a cake...so that was interesting to figure out. :) I did it in white modeling chocolate, and it was losing its flexibility when I started folding it, so I had to take the whole thing off and do it again, and finally got it to lay right. :)
The poinsettias are also modeling chocolate. I hand-piped the snowflakes and decorated them with edible pearl nonpareils.

Thanksgiving- Pumpkin Cupcakes

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes from scratch with cream cheese icing and nutmeg...mmmmm!!!

Bridge Cake

Some of our friends recently celebrated the completion of a new bridge across their creek, and asked me to make a "bridge cake". :) They sent me pictures of the bridge, and I did my best to replicate it in rice krispies and modeling chocolate...;) with piping gel water and cookie crumb gravel to top it off.

PT Cruiser

 The Chrysler PT Cruiser: Chocolate cake stacked and iced with buttercream, then covered in white and dark modeling chocolate. I painted it with icing color and luster dust to give a metallic look.

The sand was flour and brown sugar. This combination works better for two reasons - it doesn't clump like pure brown sugar, and the flour makes it the right color for sand on a Florida beach. :)
Sorry I didn't get better detail shots! I had another cake to do at the same time, and I didn't have the chance to get more pics.

Elijah's 8th B-Day - Puppy Camping

My brother Elijah just turned 8 yrs. old, and he wanted to have a "Puppy Camping Birthday". He has always loved Beanie-Baby puppies, and with his big imagination he loves to play that they go camping and off-roading, and have really big adventures! :) So for his birthday cake, I bought the four-wheeler (it's remote-controlled) and made a puppy-campsite, complete with cookie crumb gravel, ice cream cone trees, a fondant tent and grass. I topped it all off with a modeling chocolate sculpture of his favorite puppy, "Frisky". :)

Pickin' and Grinnin' ;)

This font is one I got on the internet - it's called "Cowboy". I love to copy and design fonts for cake writing!

The guitar strap is made from modeling chocolate. I engraved it with gum paste tools to look like the real guitar strap. The strings are spaghetti noodles dusted with silver luster dust - in the assembly of the strings I made the all-important discovery that corn syrup is the perfect glue!! :) Rice crispies form the base for the neck - they're also covered in modeling chocolate...mmmm!!!

Punkin' Baby Shower :)

Michael Buble ;)

 This was a very last-minute surprise for a friend of our family who dearly loves Michael Buble. :) Her daughter (who's also my friend) challenged me with the idea of painting his picture on the cake somehow...:) So, I took a piece of white fondant, rolled it out, cut it in a circle, and painted it with a fine brush and food coloring. It was definitely a challenge! I did enjoy it though, and think it didn't turn out too shabby...your thoughts?

I piped some of the lyrics to his song "Everything" around the sides, and added some red icing hearts. :)
Listening to his music was excellent inspiration as I worked on this project, I might add...<3 ;)

Better Pics of the Motorcycle

Toy Story

 The top pic shows the true colors better, but the pic below gives you an idea of the size and shows the chocolate cow patches I put on the sides. Bullseye, Woody, and Jessie were cut-out fondant pieces which I painted on to give a slight 3-D effect - kind of like a flannel graph. :) Takes me back to Sunday school, years and years ago...;)

Victory Run for the Son :)

The story of a cake...the evolution of a motorcycle

I made this cake for a benefit concert our church hosted for CMA - the Christian Motorcyclists Association. My model was a beautiful Victory bike owned by friends of ours who are members of a local CMA group.

This cake was a challenge, but I LOVED building it - start to finish.

I really enjoy the process - I hope you enjoy watching! :)

Zebra stripes, Hot Pink, and SpongeBob...:)

This weekend I did two cakes for the same day -

A zebra-striped, hot pink bordered baby shower cake: the bottom tier is chocolate filled with decadent ganache, (MMMM! The kitchen smelled a-MAZ-ingly chocolatey all day! ;) ) and the top tier was yellow filled with buttercream- which I colored hot pink. :)

On the outside, those stripes are made of modeling chocolate, a new modeling compound experiment - it works well in place of fondant, and tastes like the inside of an m&m.

The pink curly-cues on top are made with fondant.

And SpongeBob...LOL! I had so much fun making this one!!!! I based the design loosely on the SpongeBob show logo - but with a 3D twist - SpongeBob is his own piece of cake sitting on top - with a cute fondant hand! ;) SpongeBob is so funny to draw! I loved doing the lettering- that is one of my favorite parts of decorating, in addition to drawing. I am a calligrapher of sorts, and love to study and copy fun fonts in my free time. 

Cutie Pies ;)

Our church had a fellowship dinner last Sunday, and I wanted to make something fun and summery, so I thought - why not pies? I got the pie idea from a picture I saw on the Hello Cupcake blog, and thought of the filling/topping myself.

They are vanilla and strawberry cupcakes - the vanillas are filled and topped with apricot filling and buttercream; the strawberries are filled and topped with strawberry filling and buttercream (same as the vanillas).

Yummy! :)

Fillings I can do include those mentioned above, as well as Raspberry, Blueberry, Chocolate Ganoche, and many more to come. . .