Christmas Ornament Cake

Most of my cakes start out "simple" and then I began getting carried away as I work.  I usually don't have it all planned out before I start.  Inspiration strikes as I work and I'm compelled to do more and more.  Such is the case with this simple Christmas cake.

All ornaments made from fondant. Cake was white almond sour cream.

I've been dying to use my ball pan and so this was my first time working with it.  I love the look of this cake and the client was over the moon about it.  She just told me to "make it Christmassy" so needless to say she was shocked when it was delivered.

Anniversary Cake

Made this anniversary cake for a couple celebrating 35 years.

Sculpted the figures out of fondant.  Although I love sculpting, the next time I attempt this, I'll have to purchase a tutorial.  I don't think I did things in the right order and the lady didn't survive delivery in one piece. :( They were able to put her back together, but I was heartbroken.  You live. You learn.  Overall, they were very satisfied with this cake.

Surprise Dragon Cake

This was my son's sixth birthday cake.  He wanted a friendly dragon and that's what I created for him. Sculpted the dragon out of fondant. Cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting.  It was divine!

Pink and Yellow Princess Cake

I loved this color combo.

Cake is 2 layer white almond sour cream with buttercream filling, buttercream frosting and fondant and gumpaste decorations.

My First Wedding Cake

I may have said this before, so I apologize if I'm repeating myself since it's been so long since I've written.

There's a very good reason that there are a bunch of reality television shows based on cake, bakeries and the like.

Because cake = DRAMA!

And I tackled the highest drama cake there is. The wedding cake!  There were tears.  There were disasters. But in the end, it all worked out.  I know it wasn't completely perfect, but they loved it, the guests loved it and it tasted amazing!

It was chocolate cake with oreo buttercream filling.  Outside was regular buttercream finished in the petal effect.  Pearls are chocolate.  White flowers are fondant with pearl accents.  Topper is fresh floral bouquet.

And I'm happily doing this again in April.

Vintage LSU Tiger Cake

Since last Saturday was the "game of the century" against Alabama and we got invited to a party, I decided to do an LSU cake for the event.  I love the vintage LSU tiger and see him all over the place lately, so I decided to tackle him in fondant and edible marker.

It was not as easy as I thought it would be.  In fact, my first attempt was a complete disaster that I angrily crumpled and tossed in the trash.  I then made a simpler design for the top - a paw, but just couldn't stop thinking about how badly I wanted to do the tiger.  So, after a bit of rethinking my process, I gave it another shot and finally got it just how I wanted it.  It's the 1947 LSU Tiger mascot logo.

Here is the throwback/vintage tiger -



Here's my tiger -

Cake was purple velvet

Finished cake - tiger stripes on sides are purple fondant

And the cut cake!

WE WON!!! GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Pumpkin Cupcakes

Every year, my siblings and I host a very small get together - just us and significant others plus kids - and watch "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown."  I usually make cupcakes, but since I started decorating, I decided to kick it up a notch this year.

Got this idea on Real Simple, I think - maybe somewhere else. It's simply a circle of white fondant draped over an unwrapped dum dum lollipop.  The eyes are drawn on with edible black marker.  It was easy, but a little time consuming. Decided to make our top cupcake "Charlie Brown" is his overly-snipped ghost costume.  Cupcakes were orange velvet - frosting was chocolate buttercream.  They were great!