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Dr. Seuss cake!

 Happy Birthday Jack

(and Dr. Seuss)

You will see a bunch of different shots of this one, just because I want to remember what the heck I did!

This is the end result, with a little boy that is so into what he calls "Dr. Seuss World"

This little guy new exactly what he wanted when it came to his birthday cake!
The sprinkles he wanted are in the filling of the 9" and the mint he wanted is in the filling in the 6"!
Chocolate cake with butter cream and fondant.

Charactors are all gumpaste cut by hand with an exacto knife and I draw/paint each piece with a fine paint brush and food color
I believe we covered 7 Dr Seuss stories in our cake for Jack!
Cat in the Hat
One Fish Two Fish Red fish Blue Fish
The Lorax
The Grinch
Thing One & thing Two
Green Eggs and Ham
Horton Hears a Who

 

I am thrilled to say that my Colorado Cowboy cake has placed in the top ten at www.cakeswebake.com 

Will know in a week how it all ends up! I am not expecting to win, but an thrilled to place with some AMAZING decorators!  

Thanks to my decorating friend Cathy for calling me and telling me about the contest!!

Another Baby Shower!

 Baby shower cake: 

 A 6" & 10" vaniila cake with whipped strawberry filling.  Buttercream iced and covered with the amazing Satin Ice fondant!  I love this stuff!  It is defiantly like satin! 3 smaller butterflies and the lettering were done with my Cake Cricket. 

 Cupcakes were RED VELVET!  Yummy!!  I did fill the cupcakes with cream cheese icing as well as topped them with it!  I do love these ,bit pricey, but adorable pink cups.  I think I will be using these more!

Tiny white dots added were made with fondant and cut from a #12 tip.

Colorado Cowboy!

This is a birthday cake.
The board is covered with fondant to look like a wood floor.

All items decorating this cake are edible! The entire cowboy hat is made from gumpaste, shading with the airgun is what really made this hat look real.

Small copper sprayed buttons around the band were added after the hat dried. The belt and the rope are fondant and the buckle is gumpaste. I tried to get the 6" to look like denim and the 10" to seem like leather. I used clipart to cutout the cowboy boots that decorated the lower cake! This was a fun cake and was enjoyed by the Colorado Cowboy himself! (White cake with whiped strawberry filling)

She is 2!

My Sweet Grand daughter turns 2!!

She is a little artist so her mommy thought a cake with paintbrushes
(i know they look a bit like candles)

and cupcakes on a painter's pallet represent that!

Oh how I love being Nana!

 

Fun in Florida!

My tiny little grand daughter and I made flowers to go on a store bought ice cream cake for new born little Jane as we celebrated her special blessing day!

What a Winter Wonderland Wedding!!

 6, 9,12 and an 12x18 sheet cake gumpaste cut snowflakes in different sizes and shades of blue and silver. The topper was created with clear Christmas tree ornaments, by the bride's mom!  Beautiful touch!

Then of course they needed a grooms cake!

(Check the next post for the Grooms cake!!)

Winter Wedding Groom's Cake

Nintendo Grooms Cake!

This was so much fun, it is a 2 layer 9" square carrot cake with cream cheese filling.  Covered with Fondant to look like the 

ORIGINAL NINTENDO!

Mario depicts the feels of the groom!

"YES, I WIN"

Controllers are made from crispy rice cereal, and fondant!

Now the cords... they were going to be piped, but I didn't want black buttercream on a white cloth, then the thought was black rope licorice, so sad I couldn't find it anywhere! 

so the only things NOT edible in this cake 

are the black SHOE LACES!

Leilah, enjoying my first ever baked ganache covered cheesecake!

I guess I did okay, she seemed to love it!!

Thanks Leilah, Nana loves you!!

Classy Cake

I thought it might be difficult to create a wedding cake that looks elegant and not country, using SUNFLOWERS!

Knowing this beautiful bride as well as I do made it a bit easier to find the perfect combination.

She showed me pictures of designs she liked and here is the end result!

This is a 3 tier 6,9,12 there was also a GPS grooms cake and 3 half sheet cakes.

The monogram was picked up at Hobby Lobby and I added different size tiny pearls to add another elegant touch.

The flowers and leaves are all gumpaste.

Oh how I enjoy creating cakes for a family that is so dear to me!

Sometimes I think the love I put into creating a cake makes it taste that much better!!  It is the most important ingredient!

I think often of the term, 

you have to 'FEEL THE LOVE'

 

GPS Groom's Cake

GPS Groom's Cake

 This cake was a surprise from the brides mom!  They were surprised and really loved it!  The couple has a special GPS story between them.  Garmen is replaced by Gebs, which is their last name

This was sculpted from a 9x12 cake.  I took one of the cut away sides

and added it to the bottom end to make it about an inch or so longer to give it correct shape.

This is a chocolate cake, with chocolate raspberry filling.

Covered with bright yellow fondant.  The black is Fondex!  OOHH  i love that stuff!

Of course the date and time of their wedding day was done with black food color pen. 

Another Princess Cake!

Princess And The Frog

 

Princess Tiana, from Princess and the Frog

She is made entirely of gumpaste, with a dowel in the center to create a cake topper.

 Prince Naveen  is also made from gumpaste.  

He is sitting on the second cake, out if front of the upper cake, (because I made him a little to large to fit underneath)I have done this twice now!  You would think I would learn to plan my cakes better!

This cake was completed from beginning to end in 24 hours!

Cakes are white and chocolate and filled with chocolate buttercream, covered with  fondant. Her flower is gumpaste on her dress, but the vine on her dress is hand painted on!  I always push to see how many techniques I can do on one cake without over doing it!

Hawaii / Rock Climbers Wedding Cake

Two cakes in one weekend!  So different from each other!!

This was a 6", 9" and 12"

Some sculpting done, adding and taking away to make it look like a mountain.

Bride & Groom, sea shells, flowers, and sign are all made of gumpaaste, 

This couple actual rocked climbed up to the top of a beautiful  "mountain" by the ocean in their wedding attire and sandals, to be married when they reached the top!

This cake was delivered to Golden Colorado....

My husband and I drove about 80 miles to deliver it.  In 96 degrees!

We have A/C in the car thank goodness!  The only problem was that our engine got so hot we began feeling VAPOR LOCK starting!  Steve drove amazingly!  Milking it and never stalled out!!

The only problem is that the cake was in the back seat and the A/C had to go off !!

We made it and everything went INCREDIBLY well!

I love this CRAZY hobby!!

I am so grateful that I have friends that let me practice my hobby and those even willing to pay me for what I love to do!!  How lucky is that!

Thanks to all of you who follow and enjoy my blog!  I hope you get ideas to add to your own creations!

OLD SCHOOL BUTTERCREAM WEDDING CAKE

THIS WAS THE OLD SCHOOL BUTTERCREAM WEDDING CAKE!

   I did make my flowers out of Gumpaste but the rest was a yummy buttercream.

She wanted all kinds of flavors:

Top 6" vanilla cake w/lemon crunch filling

9" chocolate cake w/ ganache and Baverian Cream

12" Vanilla Cake w/ Raspberry whipped filling   

We also did 3 1/4 sheet cakes:

1) Chocolate cake w/ ganache and cherry filling

2) Vanilla w/ raspberry whipped filling

3) Vanilla w/ lemon crunch filling

All three sheet cakes were iced with a yummy whipped cream frosting.

We are in the middle of a major heat wave here in Colorado Springs, so I did have a bit of delivery issues!

All went well in the end!

Baby Shower!

This CAKE was for a baby shower

that gave my daughter, my grand daughter and I 

time to visit with dear friends!

I always get a little more nervous when I am doing a cake for friends and family!

The heat really got me on this cake!

I had to work fast & furious!

In the end it came out just fine!

The beautiful, expectant mommy loves yellow cake and chocolate filling!!

I haven't made this combination in so long I now want to make it just for us to eat!

This cake was a 10" on the bottom and the top was a two layer 8" topped with a 6" and a 4", one layer each. "

 The fish are all made of gumpaste, 

the waves were a cut on a whim and hand painted to look kind "whimsical"

The bubbles were piped on with buttercream using 3 different size tips, #3, #5, #12.

Love ya, Chelsea!!

My daughter Becca once made her ADORABLE creation 

a "Bundle of Joy"

as a gift for Chels!

I have to show off her business!

Let us know when you are looking for a sweet baby gift, 

and a baby shower cake!!