Tommy Frog Cake

It is all cake except for the feet hands and eyes (fondant). I used a 10", 9", 8" and two 6". Yes the frog has a butt. I thought it would be funny.

Thomas cake

Before: ( a little embarassing) After: (just shows that I really can't wing a cake. It has to be pre designed and calculated to turn out decent)

This is my second attempt at a Thomas cake, and I think I did much better the second time around. You can see the measurments and the math that I used to get it to scale. I started with two 11 x 15 sheet cakes cut and stacked into 4 layers. Then I used my measurments to carve away the excess. It went slowly, but I wanted to be sure not to cut anything off that shouldnt be. Then I did a crumb coat, smothed it and decorated it. I was happy with the way it came out. It wasn't perfect but it was much, much better. If anyone wants a copy of the papers let me know and Ill send them to you.

Talent Show

Here it is finally.... it only took a month to post it. This cake was for our ward talent show. The theme was "Every good gift is from God." which was written on the tag hanging off of the gift box bow. They wanted all kinds of talents showcased. It was a lot of fun to do and a lot of work. I took these when the cake was put together at home so it looked better when we got there. When they announced that it was time for cake there was a line before we even got there to cut it. They were all very excited to eat it. There was a strawberry cake with whipped buttercream and pinapple filling (SO GOOD) and a lemon with rasperry filling, and chocolate with fresh strawberry filling. Notice the artist pallet as the cake board. Gabby again. The crazy one.

Princess and the Frog

This was Lizzy's "Princess and the Frog" inspired cake. I was suprised at how easy and quick the pillow was to do. i just carved the sides in and layed the fondant on and quilted using a ruler and my embossing tool. It probably took me 40 min. total to carve and color and cover and quilt and draggee. all the pillows that I saw online were rounded on top but I carved the middle going inward with a X shape. (It ended up not mattering because I put the lilly pad on top).
Lizzy thought of the blue color for the pillow because it was "like water" which I thought was genius. I was just gonna do purple.
The lilly pad was just a circle then I went over the edges to give them a wavy look and of course put the lines and the slit in it. Looking at the picture now, I think the lilly pad should be bigger. Everything was sprayed with a pearl luster dust-vodka mix.
The crown is gumpaste and I just cut it out with a large cookie cutter and let it dry in my Wilton Flower former tray. Then painted purple. I should have tinted the gumpaste and then sprayed it with the color.
The buttons on the tassel are wierd but it was late at night and I was tired and didn't care all that much. I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time. I hand-rolled the tassel strings. BTW-Jacob actually made me an extruder everyone! I was SO excited! He just needs to drill the hole sizes that I want into the different tips that he got. Now that I did this pillow with the tassels, I now know what size holes to make him do!
The lilly flower was made out of a cutter in my Wilton flower kit. I really just winged it. I shaped it in a cupcake tin and let it dry. I wish I could have dusted the lilly flower better but I wasn't that into it. Maybe next time I will color the gumpaste slightly as well. The ends are really fragile as you can tell. one petal broke and some are just curled up a little.
Lizzy loved it and it was really fun to make.
Thanks for the ganache tips, Shelley! It tasted like heaven. :)

More cakes

Theres one more that I didnt get a picture of that is comming soon.

iPod Cake

I did this for a friend so I got lazy and didn't put headphones on it. The color is much better in person. It was a silver/black color with a sheen on it.

Tommy B- Day Cake

This is the cake I made for Tommy's birthday. I didnt really have a plan. We just did whatever. Tommy loved it. I baked it in a 11 x 15 sheet cake and cut the peices out and stood them up on the board. This was done using our new Fondant recipe. It tasted like royal icing to me. This is basically how I set it up. Looking back now. I wish I would have done a smaller head. We did a chocolate cake with chocolate peanut butter icing.

Kitty Cake

This is a cake that we decorated for a neighbor. She already had the pan but didnt have the time to do the stars. Gabby and I layered the extra peices of cake on there to raise the legs and nose. For a star cake it turned out pretty good.

ladybug cake

Here a quick cake I made for Laura for her birthday. If I had time I would have done the face better. I didn't even get a chance to clean it up like I like. As it was we ended up singing to her at 9:00pm. Oh well!

rainbow trout cake

This is the most amaizing cake that we've made. totally loved it, we did a great job, heather is awesome ( even though she didnt want me to do the scales on the fish, but of course i didnt listen to her), we actually made two cakes that day and it was fun making them.

purse cake for relief society activity

so here it is the purse cake i made for the activity for relief society, i didn't want to do a huge cake so i made this one instead, my second fondant cake, i must say that i loved making it, i was nervous when i was putting the fondant on it, but i did good, ohhhh i am missing it....but i know is in a better place now...... ps. the flower and handle are made of gumpaste, i found my inspiration on http://www.thecakegirls.com/

More Cakes...

Ryan's 5th B-Day Cake: 2 6" circles for the bottom tier with fondant & fondant cut-outs. On the other side, there were coins and also a star that said "5 UP". The Mario was fun to make and it was Ryan's absolute favorite part of the cake. He even ate some of it. The top tier was a Barbie skirt pan that I trimmed down a tiny bit to make it a little more round. I found a cool trick to make a good red color for fondant! I used extra pink fondant that I had lying around, put in some burgandy to give it a deeper red color and then put in a lot of no-taste red and the color came out great.

Quinn's 18th B-day cake: 3 inch deep - 10 inch cake cut in half for the cookie layers and a 2 inch deep - 9 inch round for the middle. I should have cut the 9 inch down about 1/2 - 1 inch because it looked like a quadruple-stuffed oreo! I covered the 2 10 inch halves and then just iced the middle layer with swiss meringe to make it look like real Oreo stuffing. I iced the middle layer before layering in the bottom 10 inch but there was still a little clean up after I got it on there. Plus, I had 2 filling layers to cover up once it got on the cake. There was no supports necissary although the middle layer did get a bit squished. I refrigerated it so the middle layer wouldn't crack. If I was doing it for a client, I probably would have put supports through the 9 and bottom 10 inch tiers just so the middle layer wouldn't crack. All the detail work is actually in fondant. No piping. I didn't feel like making royal icing and trying to get it the exact color as the fondant so I just rolled very thin ropes of fondant on my wonderful Ateca fondant mat. That mat really makes rolling ropes a lot easier for some reason. It's far from perfect but it turned out pretty good. I LOVE doing "Imitations of Life"-type decorating. I think it's my favorite medium.

Cakes, cakes, cakes!

30th Birthday...of course. Would have looked MUCH better in fondant but the client really wanted buttercream.

Lizzy's 6th B-day

Malianna's Cake

Jacob's Dad's cake. It's a replica of his trailer that he loves

These are all the cakes that I've been busy with lately and have not posted.

Cakes, cakes, cakes!

Here are the cakes, Shell. I don't have one of the pink square hores cake with brown and pink flowers and brown piping and I don't have one of the Thanksgiving cupcakes either. Sorry. Here's the skateboard cake and Steven's....and my own birthday cake. I didn't make it. Jacob did. I just threw some store-bought frosting on it and threw some extra fondant flowers on top. The skateboard cake was kinda sloppy. The blue on top is not the right shape. The "O" in the name "Owie" is actually a popular skateboard brand logo from Element Skateboards. It looked a lot better in person. Jacob make the cake board out of MDF so that you could see underneath it. The wheels are fondant.