Rock Star Cake

This rock star cake was made for my sweet little eight-year-old, 

who wanted a rock star birthday!

She loved how it turned out!

 The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate chips in it, filled with vanilla buttercream frosting and covered in marshmallow fondant.

Flower Detailed Chocolate Cake

This cake was a rich chocolate cake with chocolate filling and creamy chocolate frosting.  I used a dark chocolate frosting for the detail work.  This cake was for one of my favorite people, and I am glad she loved it!

Mom's 50th Birthday

My mom had a big birthday recently! She loves german chocolate cake, and so we decided to do a top layer of german chocolate cake and decorate a bottom layer with fondant to represent different parts of her personality. This may be one of my very favorite cakes I've done before, and it was so fun to do it for someone I love so much!

Some of the details up close:

My mom is amazing with plants and loves to garden,

She loves her family. And she loves to shop!

She is a woman of faith.She is an amazing librarian and an excellent teacher. I used the books to list all of her personal "titles."She loves hiking and completed a huge backpacking trip this past summer!

She is gorgeous, and is always put together.

Happy Birthday, Mom. You are so amazing!! I love you!

Pirate Cake

This may be one of my very favorite cakes I've done in a long time! I just love this pirate theme! One sweet mom ordered this cake for the three boys in her life:

Buccaneer Russell...

Pirate Andrew...

and Captain Taylor!

So fun!

The cake was chocolate fudge with raspberry buttercream frosting, covered with marshmallow fondant.

Arrrrrr, mateys! Hope thar be lots o' fun and loot at your birthday celebration!

Girly Girl Cupcakes

A sweet aunt ordered a dozen cupcakes for her young niece - just because. :)

The niece loves chocolate and pink and purple.

These are chocolate fudge cupcakes with a chocolate ganuache filling. The pink frosting is a strawberry buttercream. The purple frosting is a vanilla butter frosting.

I decided to put bows, flowers, and hearts on the cupcakes to make them extra cute. These decorations are made from marshmallow fondant. The little pearls are also edible.

Hope you LOVE the cupcakes, Alyssa!

Owl Birthday Cake

I had a friend who asked me to make a last-minute chocolate Texas sheet cake for her mother's 85th birthday. She wanted something simple that included owls. This is what I came up with:

I like the little owls, and the 85 on the tree. :)

I hope she had a fantastic birthday!

Royal Cupcakes

My little princess had a birthday this week! We made cupcakes for her school celebration. These cupcakes are chocolate fudge cake with ganauche filling and with chocolate frosting topped with marshmallow fondant decorations. They were a huge hit with all the kids (and the teachers)!

Architecture Student Cake

This cake was made for my husband, who is a grad student studying architecture. This was for a review presentation he had where he needed to provide some food. For the books, I imitated real books he was using this semester.

This was a really fun cake to make! The bottom cake was a yellow butter cake covered in vanilla buttercream frosting. The top cake was a chocolate cake covered in creamy chocolate frosting. Everything was covered with marshmallow fondant and the details were made out of fondant. Everything on this cake is 100% edible.

Tyler & Taylor's Wedding Cake

Tyler and Taylor chose a very elegant design for their wedding cake. It was perfect to match their gorgeous and elegant outdoor reception!

The top three layers of this cake were chocolate fudge, with a creamy chocolate filling. It was covered in an orange-flavored buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant. The black swirls are completely edible and hand-painted on the fondant. We saved the top layer for the bride and groom and served the other two chocolate layers at the wedding. The bottom layer is actually styrofoam, to make the cake look larger while saving money and not having excess cake. :)

Thanks for letting me be part of your special day, Tyler & Taylor!

Wedding Reception Cupcakes

I didn't get a great picture of these, but Tyler and Taylor (see wedding cake above) served 300 cupcakes at their wedding reception. There were three flavors: vanilla cupcakes with a cherry baked into the middle, frosted with almond buttercream frosting / chocolate fudge cupcakes with a creamy chocolate filling and frosted with creamy chocolate frosting / spice cupcakes with an orange buttercream filling and a frosted with orange buttercream. Each cupcake was frosted with a rosette on top:

The pretty display at the wedding reception:

Yummy!

Army Groom's Cake

I made this groom's cake for the rehearsal dinner of a wedding. The groom had graduated from army cadet training only the week before, so they wanted some camouflage on the cake as well as the bride and groom represented. I think it turned out quite cute!

The top layer of this cake was chocolate fudge filled with a chocolate ganuache, and covered with chocolate buttercream frosting. The bottom layer was a vanilla cake filled with chocolate ganauche and covered with chocolate buttercream frosting. The camouflage, bride and groom are all made from fondant.

This was my first groom's cake, and I thought it was so much fun. I've decided I LOVE groom's cakes!

Fondant-fetti Birthday Cake!

I made this cake for two good friends celebrating their birthday together! The information I was given is that Elizabeth loved the color pink and Katie loved brown, and they both wanted a chocolate cake. So, this is what I came up with!

I made a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganauch filling covered in a chocolate buttercream frosting. Then I made marshmallow fondant decorations, including all the little twisty confetti, which were so fun, in white, brown, and two shades of pink. I put Katie's name on one side of the cake:
But, if you go over the cake...

...you see that Elizabeth's name is on the opposite side.

So fun! I was happy with how it turned out. And, since the birthday girls also happen to be some of my best friends, I got to eat a piece of the cake. Chocolate heaven.

School Bus Cake

This school bus cake was so much fun to make! It was made for a little boy's 2nd Birthday! The birthday boy really loves school busses, and so his parents wanted an authentic-looking bus cake that also highlighted Taylor and the fact that he was turning 2!

Both the license plates had Taylor's name on them. I also used the back of the bus to highlight the number 2!

Happy Birthday Taylor and the bus # 002 were written on the side of the bus.

This was a German chocolate cake covered in chocolate buttercream icing and then covered and decorated in marshmallow fondant. Unfortunately, the birthday boy was sleeping when I delivered the cake, so I hope he loved it and had a great birthday!

Piano Recital Cake

Besides being a cake decorator, I am also a piano teacher! I made this cake for my most recent piano recital. Each of the 26 students' names were somewhere on the cake, which they thought was awesome. The round part of the cake was a chocolate fudge; the sheet cake section was butter pecan. The whole cake was frosted with butter cream frosting. The musical decorations were made from marshmallow fondant. It must have tasted good, because every last bit was gone by the end of the night! :)