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. . .

"Up"

For my brother Elijah's birthday last fall, I made an "Up" cake- because that's one of his favorite movies. It is gluten-free, because he is on a gluten-free diet right now. That's another one of my "specialties" - I can do gluten-free cakes.
I also l-o-v-e doing kid's birthday themed cakes- like Disney, Pixar. etc. or just anything fun. Well, actually, it's all fun to me! :)

Couldn't figure out how to turn this pic right-side-up,

but you get the idea. :)