phantom of the opera cake

Here's the final result. Thanks Heather for the advice. I didn't have time to do the piano keys, it probably would have been just the right touch...oh well!

Little Mermaid Coral Cake

More cakes

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

for amelie

The inspiration

The result

Baby Shower cake for my best friend April. I used the baby's monogram for the front.

Castle Cake

This is the castle cake that we did for a boy in the ward. He likes castles and the color orange. It tuned out nice. We absolutly hate doing castles now. This was one of those cakes that you just have to push through. Definatly not one of our favorites. The stupid towers just took FOR_EV_VER! Good luck to anyone wanting to cover the wilton towers with fondant. The top level is foam board covered in fondant and pushed into the cake. We did figure out whe my fondant turned out so bad last time. You need to use the Walmart brand of sugar to make it work. The C&H brand just made it so dry. If you are going to make your own fondant use walmart brand marshmellows and sugar. Keep extra corn syrup and maybe some glycerin on hand just in case.

Super Hero Cake

Our little customer couldnt decide who he liked best: Batman, Superman or Spiderman. So we put them all into one cake. This cake started out as a huge disaster (due to my newbie fondant making skills) but as always Gabby pulled out another miracle (with the help of corn syrup) and we saved the day. The finished product was worth it. The fondant just kept ripping and crumbling and it was just horrible. It definatly will take a little practice to get it right. Grant it is not perfect but Im sure our little 5 year old didnt see all the "mistakes"

Jasmine Cake

Here is the cake that we did for my neice. It turned out so cute. The only thing was that I put it on the wrong way (it had been speared with a paintbrush and we had to repair it). That should have been on the back. It was still cute. I like to make charachter cakes that represent the character rather than stick a toy on top. I think we did a good job of capturing the essence of Princess Jasmine.

30th B-Day

Sorry, these are really bad pics but I LOVED this cake. Rarely am I really, genuinely happy with a cake but I loved this one. The wife that ordered this told me that she wanted a tiered cake and told me that she wanted to incorporate all of his favorite things into the cake. We chose a blue/silver color palate to put it all on. The only think that I would have changed is that I would have made it viewable 360 degrees but I only had 6 things to put on! There were 6 aspects that are in 2-D. 1. Guitar Hero:That guitar was freakin' awesome! It was so tiny and so like the real guitar Hero guitar. The guitar was my favorite part. I stuck it on a toothpick and stuck the toothpick in his leg to get it to stay there. 2. Pitsburg Steelers: He's a huge fan. She wanted the logo on there somewhere but I made the whole helmet instead. I was happy with it. 3. Water skiing: He only skiis on one ski but I thought that would be wierd to just have one ski on there by itself so at the last minute I had the idea to make a pull cable on there and just stuck the ski right on top of it. 4. Weightlifting: I was really worried about how the heak I would incorporate this on the cake but I think it turned out pretty good. I cut out different sized circles and stacked them on top of eachother then cut them in half. I put a toothpick in them and stuck them in the cake. 5. that he's turning 30 of course, hence the big 30 on top of the cake. I made it and the stars out of a fondant/gumpaste mixture. 6. He is a really sucessful computer software salesman for Motorola so we put their logo on there too. It was a lot of random things to put on there but I think it all came together really well. The blue was a really good background color.

Like I said, these are really bad pics. It looked much better in person.

Tinker bell cake

this is a cake i made for my daughter ale, she wanted a tinker bell cake, after trying for the first time fondant with heather, i had to do a cake in fondant and i must say that i love fondant! the flowers are made of gumpaste.

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.

Birthday Cakes

Here is 2 birthday cakes I did for Crystal. Can you guess which one was for Tysen?

50th Anniversary

OK? Where is everyone else's blogs?? I know you've made cupcakes lately Beth, HEEELLLLOO!!! Anyway this is a recent cake I did for a 50th Anniversay. I made the 50 on the front with gumpaste and luster dust. It was SUPER gold. The kids that saw it didn't think it was edible. It was chocolate cake on top with chocolate hazelnut mousse filling and carrot cake on bottom with whipped cream cheese filling.

Happy Birthday...

To a special little girl in my neighborhood... Our prayers are with you, Annalynn.

Mom's 60th B-day Bash Cake

So, we've got Mom's Birthday cake here that I'm sure you have all seen already, but here you go anyway...

The only direction I was given was that Mom's favorite color was purple and that she liked tulips. So this was the result. Well, the cake was VERY purple and the tulips didn't even look like tulips. I ruffled the edges way too much. I was also curious to see what the stripes would have looked like if they were silver instead of gold. The bottom tier was a square turned out nicely but I didn't like it once I put the top tier on. The top tier is a 9 inch (I should haved done 8 inch) round. I had major issues trying to fondant the top tier so I ended up having to cut strips and put it on the way I did because the fondant kept ripping when I tried to cover it. I used Wilton's cutter to make the strips and I just used their embosser tool to put on the stitching detail on each strip. I rolled fondant for the borders and after they were placed on the cake, I painted them with a gold luster dust and vodka mixture. (don't worry, the alcohol evaporates) I also hand painted the stripes and bow gold as well.

There were 14 flowers on top as a tribute to mom having 14 children. The top tier was white cake with a rasberry/amaretto buttercream filling and the second tier was chocolate fudge with an Amaretto buttercream filling.

Basketball

I did this for my friends little boy's 2nd birthday. The cupcakes went around the cake on the table in a circle with candles in the cupcakes. It turned out nice. I was afraid of the ball rolling off but Shelley told me to put dowels in it and it worked pretty good. I do need to start experimenting with new cake and icing flavors. It seems like Im always doing the same thing. This is a yellow cake with lemon buttercream. What frosting goes best with chocolate? I can never seem to get a chocolate tasting chocolate buttercream. Any help?