Baby Shower Cake with Baby Chuck Taylors

This cake was truly adorable! It was two tiers with vanilla cake as the bottom tier and strawberry cake for the top. The cake was iced and trimmed using cream cheese frosting and all the additional accents were made using fondant.

This was my first time making shoes using fondant and it was definitely challenging the first go round, but I learned a lot, so I'm sure it'll go a little easier next time. The bow, polka dots and daisies add some added excitement to this cute cake.

I hope this cake provides a good memory for the mom to be.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Birthday Cake

This is a three layer strawberry cake was baked using fresh strawberries and filled with strawberry cream cheese. The cake was frosted with cream cheese icing and decorated using black cream cheese icing and pink fondant. This was my first attempt at working fondant. I had to make the bow twice, but thanks to Edna (http://www.designmeacake.com/id67.html), I had a step by step tutorial that was easy to follow.

Cupcake Cake

This is another cake made during my decorating class. The focus this week was transferring designs on to a cake and dimensional decorating.  The task was to transfer a design onto a cake.  All great cupcakes need a topping, so I topped mine with a cute little cherry.  This was fun and it turned out really cute.

Purple & Gold Chocolate Rum Layer Cake

I made this chocolate rum cake layer cake with chocolate buttercream as my final project for my first cake decorating class. I felt like I owed my husband a little something for being so patient with me while I took this course and since his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, was celebrating their centennial, I used that as the inspiration behind my design.

Although the frosting looks chocolate in the picture, it was actually a deep purple. I piped the fraternity motto, "Friendship is Essential to the Soul" and the Omega symbol with 20 pearls on the top in yellow buttercream frosting. Around the base of the cake are clusters of their official flower, african violets.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Baby Shower Cake

How cute is this?  Daddy and mommy with baby duck in tow...

Not only was this cake cute, but it was tasty too.  This three layer strawberry cake was baked using fresh strawberries and filled using a strawberry cream cheese.  Finally, the cake was frosted with cream cheese icing.  All of the bubbles were also made using cream cheese icing.  To add final touches to the cake, I used a little family of ducks which was perfect for the young couple expecting their first baby boy.

Vanilla Snoopy Cupcakes

I made two dozen of these adorable snoopy cupcakes for a 5 year old's birthday.  All she wanted was a Snoopy cake, but of course that's something hard to find in most retail bakery's, since it's not a popular character these days.  I worked with the mom to come up with a design that her daughter would enjoy and something in the budget.  I'm please to say that both mom and daughter were happy with the vanilla cupcakes, topped with vanilla buttercream icing and a chocolate Snoopy.

Lemon Pound Cake w/ Lemon Glaze

Sometimes simplicity is the best thing.  This is a homemade lemon pound cake with a lemon glaze.  The glaze contains fresh lemon juice and zest.

I made this for a client and it looked so good, I was forced to make another for me and my hubby.

Happy 50th Birthday!

Obviously, this cake was done for a 50th birthday.  The bottom tier is red velvet and the top two tiers are pound cake.  The cake is iced and decorated with butter cream.  The  50 cake topper was made using white chocolate and painted using and edible dye.

Three Tier Graduation Cap Cake

This three-tier cake was made of pound cake and butter cream icing for a graduation.  

Ribbon Wedding Cake with Roses

This wedding cake is made with vanilla pound cake and frosted with cream cheese icing.  The decorations were kept simple with ribbon and roses.