1 year anniversary cake

Here is the one year anniversary cake. I like the way it turned out.

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!

Christmas Wedding

Here is a very small cake (68 serv) that I did on the 19th of Dec. It was cutting a little too close to Christmas for me. It was done with whipped icing. I loved the glittery red ribbon that I used on it. I got the roses from Sam's club...way better than the one's at Costco. They were beautiful.

The best compliment I got was from the bride, she said..."My mom & I think that is the most beautiful wedding cake we've ever seen"

Hunter Cake

Here is our first wedding cake. It went really well. Everything went very smoothly and everyone loved it. I think the hardest part was cutting the cake. The chocolate cake was too moist and looked sloppy after cutting. Does anyone have a good chocolate cake recipie for us to use? The top teir (plus a sheet cake) was white cake. The middle was marble and the bottom was chocolate.

Mosiac Wedding Cake

Here is the wedding I did in August. I was happy with the way the mosiac & gumpaste letters turned out. But I felt really rushed on the shape and smoothness of the frosting. Oh Well! It was hard to walk away from this cake without trying to do more to it because it felt so plain but it was what the client wanted so....here it is.

wedding cake

Here's a wedding cake I did this weekend. There are too many things to nit-pick about it, so I won't bore you. Just a word about florists...make sure they are long gone before you start putting the flowers on the cake....psycho!!! Anyway, it is what it is and here it is.

Alvillar Wedding

Here's the final product! Their open house was beautiful very simple and classy. Hope the cake lived up to the bride's expectations.

My First REAL Wedding!!!

...sort of. It's actually a dummy cake. The bottom two tiers are styrafoam then fondanted and decorated as usual but the top tier is actually cake so that the bride and groom can do the ceremonial "cake cutting". I was pretty happy with it. I'm glad it was a dummy cake because I would have been stressed out of my mind worrying about it melting in that 95 degree weather! Sorry about the bad photography. I was frazzled and didn't check the pictures that my Jacob took. Hopefully I can get a better pic from the photographer later. I'm just so glad it's over!

My First Wedding!

I did our cousin Rob's cake for his open house in Spanish Fork this past week. I'm so glad that it was so casual. I probably would have been 5 x's as nervous if it wasn't. The only direction that I was given was that the colors were royal blue and sage and it was to be a cupcake tower so here is the result.

Thank goodness that Ashley was visiting me and was here to help me! I don't think I could have done it without her help! We had to make 100 flowers to go on top of the cupcakes. Since there were two colors in each flower, that meant that we had to cut out 200 flowers and then assemble them! We also had to cut out 200 leaves. Ashley did just about did all the flowers and leaves by herself. The top cake was fun to do the piping on. I've been wanting to try this design for a long time. I was happy with it...until during transport, the buttercream started melting and creating air pockets in the cake. We had to poke a hole on the top and let the air out, then cover it back up with a fondant flower. It also started to melt the dam for the filling so that is why you will notice it being a bit lumpy in the middle. The picture makes it look worse than it is though.

My only complaint was the crude cupcake stand. The seperators were too high. I need to cut them down a couple inches. Actually, I am making a new cupcake stand that will look like this:

It's fun to put a new picture in your Portfolio

Except I can't seem to get decent pictures of my cakes. I don't know what sort of dark forces are out there trying to keep me from taking these pictures but it happens every time. The thing is I had my camera right there with me when I finished setting up and all the lights were still up. Sure enough I ran out of there with my XD card empty. Shhheeesh! It's so frustrating. Anyway this is what I got after I went back to the reception and attempted to take a picture with low lights. This is how bad the light was, the roses on the cake are hot pink, not red. Then I had to hunt down a cupcake and take a picture of it on a piano bench in the other room. Pitiful I know! Well I have a few other cakes to post but won't get to it until I get better pictures.