4th of July Cake

There's always time to make a quick cake for a holiday! I whipped up this cake and let my kiddos help me decorate it for the 4th of July. It was whipped cream frosting and strawberries and blueberries make the finishing touches! Yes those lovelies are my kids...and my mom in the background!

It's summery delicious!

Some older cakes...

I found some pictures of cakes gone by...here they are!
First up a practice 6" French Pink Poodle cake for my daughter's 1st birthday...

Some castle cakes I did for my niece a few years ago...

A James Coney Island Hot Dog cake for my hubby...

Mermaids and Spider Man Oh-My!

Well June/July were very busy times for me. It seems everyone's birthday is during those months and then again I have a business to run...and be a full time mom and wife. But they were fun and turned out cute I hope. The first one here is a mermaid cake made for my niece...

This is the picture of it before I finished putting in the front fondant "rock" to cover the support pipe for her tail. It was an 8" white cake with cream cheese frosting covered in "Satin Ice" fondant (which is my new favorite). The two rocks she is seated on are actually cupcakes covered in fondant. I also bought some new paint for my airbrush gun and I LOVE how easy it is to work with, nice constant colors...pretty blue. Here's a picture of the birthday girl with the finished cake.

Then it was onto my Venom/Spider-man cake for my nephew. This one was a many steps complicated cake. First off Venom was made with a Rice Krispy treats mold, much stronger and easy to shape when still warm. Getting the right shape for the head was very hard, and I still wasn't wholly satisfied, but it turned out okay once the accents were in place. 

Then it was on to spidey. For the actual spider man, I broke down and bought a plastic figurine, it looked good and saved time. I did make a 4 tier building cake though (all layers were slightly different flavors of white  cake: rum, almond, etc.). Then the hard part were the walls. The were made of fondant sheets pressed with a brick pattern. I think I should have used gumpaste though, because they didn't hold up as much as I would have wanted. They did spray paint beautifully though. Here the finished product, let me know what you think!

Oh and the kids' favorite part was eating the teeth off of Venom! Go figure!

My Attempt At Formality

So I was very leary of doing my mom's cake for her 50th birthday because I couldn't think of anything whimsical to do, so it had to be elegant. Elegant is not my forte... I'm more into fun and quirky, but here goes nothing right?!

Well here's the picture of how it turned out...not to shabby, right? It really ended up looking more like a wedding cake, but then again, how do you do elegant and not make it look like a wedding cake? So the cake was an almond cake with sweetened condensed cream in the middle layer and cream cheese icing...so rich, so tasty! It was covered white fondant. I decorated it with a fondant sash and roses and a calla lily made from gumpaste. These were my first attempt at making roses and I think they came out really nicely! My mom loved the look and taste of the cake, though she kept insisting it was too fancy for her! Silly mom....she looks great for 50, huh? ;)

Curious George Cake

This is a cake I made for my niece last year. Again, I would do several things differently now, but I thought it was a cute idea. I had to incorporate the primary colors as part of the birthday party theme, and they wanted curious George. So he was supposed to be looking out over the cake. Character cakes are VERY difficult to make, b/c you can make a monkey easily, but trying to make one that matches a particular look is much more difficult. Either way, it turned out okay. I ran out of time and just wasn't able to clean up and put in the additional detail I wanted.

French Poodle Cake

This was the first cake I made after my first cake class (which didn't really address fondant; though it did teach me a few things about icing). The poodles and eiffel tower were moulded out of marshmallow fondant as well as the cake covering. The poodle candles were purchased from Oriental Trading. I would now probably make the poodles etc. out of gum paste, because that would probably be a much better consistency. Enjoy!

This was the whole spread with cupcakes included.
I also got most of the part favors, etc. from Oriental Trading. They have so many fun things to choose from.