Fire Truck Groom's cake

I was asked by an old co worker of mine to make a groom's cake for their wedding. This cake was fun to make but disaster happened. You only get to see one side of the cake because the other side has a nice little dent on it. Just as I was putting the finishing touches on it, it fell over. Luckily it was covered in fondant and it wasn't that bad and I could put it up against the wall. The bride said no one could tell but let me tell you, I had a mini heart attack that morning.

Cute Tea Party Cake

Here's the latest I did this week. It's for a little girl that's having a tea party theme for her birthday. Her mom sent me a pic of this tablecloth that she's using and this is what I made.

Latest Wedding Cake

Here's the latest cake I've done. It was President Nuttle's son. Some of you may know of them. Anyway the mother of the bride is one of my mom's best friends and I was honored that they asked me to make this cake. It was chocolate cake with mint buttercream and chopped andes mints. Seriously yummy! The caterer said they couldn't keep the chocolate cake coming fast enough for the guests. I also made three almond cakes with almond buttercream and raspberry filling. That too was sooooooo good. The flowers and all of the decor for the wedding was done by my Aunt Aleatha and my mom. They just started a business called True to You Designs. You can find them on facebook. I'm pretty sure Doug will be starting a website for them soon. I will post pictures of their stuff soon. They always blow me away. They even had me making some of the floral pieces. Not easy.

New Moon Cake

This week I made a New Moon cake for my sister in law's sister in law. She loves New Moon and so Sarah wanted to suprise her with a New Moon cake. Her mom wanted to get her a little spring cake with flowers. I'm so glad that Sarah convinced her that Danielle would like the New Moon cake better. I was sick this last week so this cake came down to the wire plus I have a wedding cake to do for Saturday and I'm still working on getting the business started. Ugh!!! So much to do, but it's great! The flower on top and red petal is from the new moon cover, the red ribbon is from the cover of Eclipse, and the bottom tier is inspired by the movie. The crescent moon and spears are straight off the movie cover. I hand painted the background colors and the trees on the bottom tier. Oh and did you notice that the cake sparkles? Yay Team Edward! I'm not really sure why my dad put ivy leaves in the picture but bless his heart he thought it added something. Maybe it did. Once I photo shop it, it might look a little better. Just love dad for doing the pics cuz I suck at it. Thanks dad. Love ya.

Red Velvet and Delicious!

I needed to test out some red velvet cake recipes and this is what I created. I don't know why I can't just leave it iced. What's wrong with me! My excuse was that I needed to test out some new pearl dusts that you can't see since it's on the side. But really I'm just a little obsessed and can't leave it alone. Oh and by the way, the cake is delicious. Best red velvet cake I've ever had! I iced it with cheesecake buttercream. I don't even like cheesecake and I still think it was good.

Daddy's birthday Feb 14th

Doug's birthday is on Valentine's Day and so we haven't celebrated Valentine's Day in about 10 years. It's my fault. Doug's so good to me all year long that I'd rather have a day all about him than get flowers that will die. So this year we went to his parent's house for a small dinner. We had already celebrated with his sister and friends on another date. We ended up having dinner all by ourselves though because his mom went to the ER for some issues with her heart again. She's fine. She just needed another medication. So Doug and I ended up making a dinner we knew nothing about, and if you know us you know that we are NOT good cooks. All the while we were really worried about Doug's mom. We persevered though. Dinner came out great despite our handicap. I spent most of the afternoon decorating Doug's golf bag birthday cake. I think it came out pretty cool. I didn't have all of my stuff with me but I think I made the most of what I had.

Yes Doug really is 34. Ha ha old man.

Some of these posted the wrong direction. Don't really know what happened.

Ethan made the golf ball all by himself. He had a lot of fun doing it.

The cake was covered in buttercream and chocolate fondant. Mmmm, mmmm, good.

Can you also see the silver edible dust I put on the irons?

My man and little men. Happy Birthday baby!

Barbie cake

Here is a barbie cake I did for a little girl that wanted the pink dress. Italian meringue buttercream isn't as easy as american buttercream is to work with but it tastes so much better that I'll sacrifice perfection for taste. I was waiting to post this so that I could put other cake pics with it but I'm still waiting for those pics to be sent to me. I've also made a superman symbol cake for a 40th birthday and a buche de noel. The superman cake turned out pretty cool. The buche de noel was gorgeous but unfortunately I did not have time to take a pic of it and I trusted the client to take good pics. Next time I'll just deliver it late so I can get a pic of it. They were all fuzzy and totally not usable. Oh well. Live and learn.

Anemone and Ranunculus Wedding Cake

Whew! It's been a busy past couple of weeks. Here are some pics of my first ever wedding cake. Most of you have seen these already but I wanted to post it for myself for when I make a book of all my blogs. This cake was an almond pound cake with raspberry cheescake italian meringue buttercream and homemade raspberry preserves and a coconut pound cake with lemon italian meringue buttercream. Yumm. I also made one more cake just to serve that was coconut pound with coconut flakes and coconut meringue buttercream. The flowers are all made out of gumpaste and the ones that are painted are painted with an edible paint. I had to teach myself how to make these flowers so it took me weeks to make 37 flowers. I could not have made this cake though without the help of Tina, Amy, Beth, and Nikki. Beth painted some ranunculus for me while I took Blake down to his endocronologist appt. She did an amazing job and the cake wouldn't have been as beautiful without them. I had a little disaster but I was saved by my wonderful team. On Thursday after a long day at the hospital with Blake, I came home and Tina and I put together two of the larger cakes. The two tiers were three pound cakes each and everything was made from scratch so it was satisfying to see two of them done. Well that night, before we put them together, I made the icing to cover them. I was distracted by a crying Blake and forgot to add the extra ingredient that makes it shelf stable. It wasn't part of the original recipe. It's something that you have to add at the end. Anyway we stayed up late putting the cakes together and icing them only to realize in the morning that I couldn't use them and had to start over. So Friday night my team and I made 6 new cakes and two more batches of icing, carved, leveled, and iced the two make up cakes, covered all cakes in fondant, finished my gumpaste flowers, and piped on the design. It was a lot of work and there is no way I could have done it without my team. I had Tina who's pregnant, Amy that had to leave for work by 4:30 the next morning and Nikki with fybromyalgia. I felt awful that they all stayed up so late working so hard but they refused to give up, so thank you so very, very, very much. Saturday Tina and I did the finishing touches and delivered the cake successfully only to have another little hiccup once we got there. We went to put the support dowels in only to realize that they were too long. I surprised myself and stayed semi calm and we figured out how to fix it without a saw. Aunt Aleatha helped me place the flowers and it was awesome to see it finished. It was better than I had even envisioned. Thank you so much to all those that helped. Even those of you that watched the boys. I couldn't have done it without all of you.

New Cakes!

Ok so these pics printed last to first and for some reason my little post is after all the pics. I'm still learning how to do this blogging stuff. Here is a birthday cake I made for a little girl. This is from the back of cake.

Here's the front obviously. One of these days I'll learn how to edit out the backround of these pics.

This cake was for our first customer. It was a german chocolate cake and she wanted a cape cod, New England kind of feel. So this is what we did.



Yes it says Mommatula!



Me finishing the cake with just minutes to spare. Don't I look lovely? Don't answer that!

So my friend Tina and I are starting a cake and dessert business which is not quite officially started but even so we have already had our first client. We were soooooo nervous but I think it turned out great. It was a huge hit with the family. Can't get any better than when they say it was like the big O for their mouth. Their words, not mine. Who thought I'd be a baker and really enjoy it. Anyway the second cake was for my friend Kelli's daughter Maggie's 6th birthday. I ran into a few snags making this one and it was my first topsy turvy cake that I learned a lot from. I still think it turned out pretty cute. Still can't believe that people actually like my cake. Even more my family is really enjoying all of my practice recipes.

And then there was cake! A lot of cake!

Here's the cake that took me days to make but it was soooo worth it. The top tier was a cocunut cake that I think I overbaked a little but was still yummy. The bottom tier was chocolate with chocolate chip. It was huge! Thank you soooo much to my friend Tina!!!! She came over and helped me make the superhero logos because I had been up late everynight for three nights. Thank God for her! Seriously. We made the Batman logo, the Green Lantern logo, the Flash logo, Superman's logo and Wonder Woman's logo that you can see on the pic where Ethan is blowing out his candles. Spiderman was made out of chocolate. I piped it in stages in a spiderman cake pan. I thought it turned out pretty good. There are a few things I would have done differently but oh well. Now I know for next time.