A Timeless Classic

This Marilyn Monroe cake is a simple, yet elegant take on this classic. A photograph, with added embellishments, of her sits on a handmade plaque and made to look as though Marilyn, herself, signed this cake. The edging on this cake is made to look like the ruffles that you would see in her photographs wearing her iconic white dress. Enjoy the memories made of whipped cream frosting and devil's food cake : )

 

Hand piped with chocolate (it gives writing and details a cleaner look)

Tween's Birthday

This red, white, and blue cheer leading themed cake is F-E-A-R-C-E! It is made with whipped cream frosting and made with handmade gumpaste/fondant accents and hand piped detailing. The sheet cake itself was based of the American flag with the red and white strips and the cheerleaders megaphone was layers of cake shaped to look like that. Awesome, right!?! There are many bows, confetti, and a pair of pompoms that this little tween cheerleader wanted on her cake. Overall, this red, white, and blue themed cheerleader cake fit the theme for this tween's birthday party to a "T".

 

 

 

Corvette Cake

This Corvette themed cake is made with a handmade gumpaste/fondant Corvette logo, checkered board design, racing strips, and a printed photo of the birthday man's prized Corvette! I created this one layer, whipped cream frosted “fast” cake by making all the decorations to fit the birthday man. I received a photograph of his beloved Corvette and printed it. I created a plaque out of gumpaste to glue the picture on. Unfortunately, this technique makes this accent inedible, but otherwise awesome : ) The checkered board and racing strips were very simple, I just rolled out black and white fondant/gumpaste (50/50) mixture and cut into the specified measurements. On the other hand, the Corvette logo was tedious, but well worth it in the end. It makes the cake (No pun intended) : ) Overall, the look of this cake would make any man proud of his "baby."

 

 

See, it is totally worth it : )



 

"Colorful" Penguin

This adorable penguin cake has a colorful secret . . . its center is the rainbow! Inside this penguin’s belly is a vanilla flavored cake (two layers total). One layer was dyed orange, yellow, and red; the other, purple, blue, and green. (It is done this way prior to baking; one just divides the batter into sixths, dying each section till the desired color. Once this is done, pour three colors [similar to what I did to make it more cohesive] into a pan, DO NOT STIR! Tap the pan if there are air bubbles, and then bake regularly.) Believe me, it is awesome. : )  Take a look for yourself:

 

 

 

Once I baked the cakes, I filled the layers with whipped cream frosting and cut it into my desired shape, and then finished icing the cake with the whipped cream.

 

 

 

 I know I have said not to use whipped cream and fondant together because it makes it mushy, soft, and not so pretty, well . . . I did it again, but remember it seems to work best when it is 50/50 fondant and gumpaste mixed together. After covering the cake with the fondant/gumpaste mixture I added the finishing touches and whala! An adorable, “colorful” penguin cake : )

 

 

 

Pretty Princesses

Every Princess deserves a “princess” cake. This little girl’s mom picked out a similar design on the Internet and asked if I could customize it to fit her design and color theme. The accents on this cake are made by hand using gumpaste (flowers and grass on the edges, as well as, the shaped butterflies and dragonflies). I bought the princesses to place on the cake because it is much easier and inexpensive than making them myself. On top, the store bought crown is the centerpiece of the cake, the little Princess received her crown and wand (it was a kit at the store) for her birthday. All the edging and filler was piped to look like grass because this “princess” cake was a “princess/garden themed cake” (hence the flower decor). The flavoring of this cake was a marble cake layered with a vanilla flavored whipped cream and a light purple whipped cream frosting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Classy Western" Cupcakes

These cupcakes are for a regular of mine. The theme was "Classy Western" with purples and grays being the primary color palate. This is what I came up with:

 

 

 

 

The cupcakes had the same style, a horseshoe (either light purple or gray), a sheriff’s star (deep purple), and a light brown lasso. I will add that all of the decorations are edible; I used fondant and let it dry for a few days before placing on top of the cupcakes. This entire design came out completely cute, especially on the cream colored background from the red velvet cake’s cream cheese frosting. Also, the wrappers I found for these cupcakes were the “cherry on top.” They were light purple with a dark purple western pattern printed on them. Perfect, right? : )

Celebrate, Come on!

These cupcakes you will see are for three girls’ graduation. Class of 2012! Each girl wanted her own individual flavor cupcake and decoration to match her school colors; mind you I needed to make close to 200 cupcakes for this one party. The first cupcake was a classic red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Its decorations were: icing was gold with black edible balls (because black frosting looks good, but dyes the mouths and teeth. Funny, but only for other people, not the one eating the cupcake : ) ) and black cupcake liners.



The next cupcake was an apple streusel cupcake with cream cheese frosting. I created this cupcake by buying a premade apple pie filling and added it to a spice cake batter. Once the cupcake cooked half way I sprinkled it with homemade streusel topping, and then I let it finish cooking. It was very moist and crunchy, it was an apple pie, but in cake form : ) The decorations were: icing was light blue with edible silver and silver cupcake liners.

The final cupcake was a lemon cake with a raspberry jelly filling with whipped cream frosting. Simple, yet delicious. Its decorations were: icing was teal with black edible balls (for the same reason I stated earlier : ) ) and black cupcake liners.

Here is how they looked next to each other:

Here is how some looked on their stands with push-in graduation caps:

All together now: