This weekend was a busy one with completing one project and also completing 2 cakes.

Here are the final cakes:

First cake up my drum kit cake which used the 4 direction colors: red, black, yellow and white. I was trying to incorporate geometric shapes, music records and notes and a drum kit on the top. I was very pleased with the result. The lower tier was a chocolate with chocolate buttercream icing and the top tier was vanilla with vanilla buttercream icing.

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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a special cake – my cousin’s golden birthday cake. She was turning 10 on the 10th. I started thinking about this theme and came up with a design that was whimsical, bright and perhaps a bit impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

…and not corn, beans and squash! A cake I made with 2 of my sisters!

For months I’ve been promising my 2 youngest sisters that I would show them how to do a fondant cake and yesterday was the day! Sunday afternoon they came out with a pre-made chocolate cake. I had mixed some different fondant colors and made some extra vanilla buttercream icing for underneath. Read the rest of this entry »

This week has been filled with cake! Friday I had the great pleasure of doing a second cake with GSL and yesterday I did a solo cake for my friends’ joint birthday. I wanted this cake to be interesting and reflect the farm. I called it a “homestyle cake” because I did the icing very natural. So it was a vanilla bean pound cake with a fruit jelly filling and then a vanilla bean icing. I loved seeing the little flecks of vanilla in the icing.  Read the rest of this entry »

This week my friend and I had the exciting task of creating a cake for our friend’s birthday – the catch – we needed to decorate it in a tight timeframe at work.

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For my nieces 2nd birthday I was asked to make a cake – she is really into peep, chirp and quack – I don’t know much about them but she really likes ducks, chicks and birds. I took that idea and decided to do a pond top designed cake.

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So tomorrow we are having a baby shower at work and I was approached to make the cake. I started thinking about a cake that would be a challenge and allow me to use some of the skills that I learned at the fondant and gum paste course. I came up with the “cow jumps over the moon” theme because I liked that story from when I was a child and I wanted to incorporate a little sleeping baby on the top. Read the rest of this entry »

So this weekend I will be working on a cake for a baby shower potluck at my day job on Monday. I was trying to think of something new that I haven’t done before that would be fun and creative. So I started to think about children’s stories and songs.

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Yesterday we celebrated my husband’s 30th birthday. It was a really fun party and I made the cake! I wanted to make it to his taste and incorporate a car cutout. Unfortunately, the 3rd tier didn’t happen but I was still really happy with the cake. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate marshmallow fondant. I haven’t made a lot of 2 tier cakes so I was really happy with how the tiers worked out.

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