Star Wars!

This cake is a marble cake with vanilla fudge filling and frosting.  I had a request for a lightsaber cake - but to feed twenty kids!  So, after deliberation, it ended up being a square cake with the Star Wars logo and a lightsaber.

Fun to make - looks like fun to eat!

Reese's Birthday and Flavor Update!

Our good friends, Max and Charity, are hosting a birthday party for their 5 year old daughter, Reese, tomorrow.  Reese and I are good "pals" - I have taught her swim lessons, babysat for her, and we spend a lot of time together with our families.  :)

Charity is quite the baker and an excellent decorator and is going to be making some amazing treats for tomorrow - but I REALLY wanted to make Reese a special birthday cake.  This is just a fun, funky cake incorporating her favorite colors and my favorite colors!  :)  Happy birthday to my sweet little friend... :)  Love you, Reese!

The cake is a yellow cake with funfetti - pink, orange, blue, and green - with vanilla frosting... yum! 

Here are some photos:

I also have a new cake flavor - cookies and cream!  It is really yummy!  I am going to do another trial run which will be a dark chocolate cake with an oreo cookie crust and cream cheese filling.  The frosting is a cookies and cream buttercream frosting... YUM!

This weekend I will also be making an ultra special dessert for Father's Day... something fun and unique!  Be on the look-out - I hope it's successful!
Thanks!
Aly

It's a jungle out there!

This week I have been working on a baby shower cake for another jungle themed baby shower.  I modeled this cake after the one Lindsay and I had made last year for my sister-in-law - but this time I did it all by myself!  :)  And wow, this cake took forever - about 10 hours in total from baking to decorating.

The bottom tier is a lemon cake with vanilla filling and buttercream frosting.  The top tier is a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and frosting. 

I used a zebra print design for the bottom and a giraffe print design for the top, both with green leaves and colorful flowers to make it "pop".  Then, I handmade from gumpaste and fondant a giraffe, an elephant, and a tree.  This was my first solo attempt at 3-D characters, and while they are not "amazing", they turned out decent.

Here is a photo:

 
I really enjoyed making this cake - I think I have officially found the love for cake making again!   It has been a while since I made a cake like this using fondant - and I just LOVE all the different and fun things you can do with fondant!

I hope the customer is satisfied... Out of all my cakes so far, I am most proud of this one!

Thanks for reading,
Aly