Pink and Brown Polka Dots!!

First Birthday Cake for a Sweet Boy!

My dear friend's little boy had his first birthday party Saturday. Here is his little cake I made. I forgot to take a picture of the matching cupcakes and smash cake...I need to get one from his mommy!!

Girly Stripes and Polka-Dots

This is a two tier cake, one 8" 2-layer tier and one 6" 2-layer tier. It is iced in buttercream with marshmallow fondant accents and bow.

30th Birthday Bash

Happy 3oth Birthday to my sweet sister-in-law, Delana! We celebrated with a surprise party and this cake. It is a two tiered 8" and 6", iced in buttercream with fondant accents. The "30" is made with a fondant and gum paste mixed together.

Giddyup, Cowboy!

This is a two-tier Western themed birthday cake. The bottom tier is an 8 inch square 2-layer cake, and the top tier is a 6 inch round 2-layer. They are both iced in buttercream with tons of fondant accents. The fence and grass is piped in buttercream. The bandana is fondant with details piped in royal icing. The figures were all made with the help of candy molds...I just pressed the marshmallow fondant in the greased candy mold, carefully pulled them out, touched them up, and then let them dry. The hay bale is a small rectangle of cake, crumb coated in buttercream, and covered in fondant. I cut very thin strips and "glued" them to the bale with a touch of water. Then I wrapped "straps" around to look like the hay was tied up. Oh, and I added a bit of silver pearl dust to the horseshoes and a bit of gold to the sheriff's badge. This cake was so fun to make! Yee haw!

Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake

Here is my second topsy turvy cake... made for a 10 year old birthday girl. The bottom tier is 8", and the top tier is 6"...both 2-layer. There is a buttercream coat and then covered in marshmallow fondant. All the decorations are made of fondant as well.

Back of cake.

Side.

Pink & Brown Cupcake Cake

Oh my goodness...this cake is my new favorite! It was for a first birthday party with a cupcake theme. It is a two tier cake...the bottom tier is a 2-layer 10 inch cake, and the top layer is several 8 inch layers carved to look like a cupcake. It is iced in buttercream with fondant stripes, polka dots, lettering and bow. SO MUCH FUN!!! Oh, and there is a matching smash cake for the sweet little birthday girl!!

Mad Hatter Topsy Turvy Cake

Hi out there...I almost hate to post these new pics because I like seeing the "Gifts from Above" twins cake when I go to the blog...it was pretty cute, in my opinion (is that okay for me to say?). Anyway, I am posting two new cakes that I made this weekend.

This post is for the first cake. The request was for a Mad Hatter topsy turvy cake...which I had never done before. For some reason, I am always up for a challenge, so I agreed. I had a picture to follow for the decorating, and I watched a YouTube tutorial on the construction of a topsy turvy cake. Seemed easy enough, so got started. Everything seemed to be going smoothly...I made the fondant decorations that needed to dry for a day or two. Then Thursday was baking day. It was a 2 tier cake, and in order to carve the shape for this type of cake, each tier had to be made of three layers. Needless to say, I did a lot of baking on Thursday! Friday was decorating day. This was also my first time to completely cover a cake in fondant, so that was a learning experience as well. As the cake sat, the top layer of the bottom tier started to push over some, causing the fondant to sag and bubble a little. I was disappointed b/c it didn't hold the tapered-sides shape and sloped top that I had carved. But in the end, the customers were very pleased. Overall, it was very cute and fun!

This is the cake compared to the picture I was copying...they wanted the middle two tiers of this 4 tier cake in the picture.