Kids Birthday Cakes

Here are a few kids birthday cakes I did early on.

I did this Spiderman cake for my friend Annabel's son's birthday party last June. I used piping gel on wax paper to outline a coloring page and then transferred it to the cake. I then tinted more piping gel and filled it in. I learned that I dont like doing designs like this, lol.

I did this cake for a client. It turned out very nice but imagine painstakingly piping all those individual stars! Needless to say my hand hurt :)

After that I got another request for a Toy Story cake. This one was for 2 sisters having a joint birthday party. I learned from the Buzz cake and did cut out fondant decorations for this one and just piped details to clean it all up. This is one of my favorites and my client LOVED it :)

Baby Shower Cakes

Here are some cakes I've done for babyshowers.

This cake I made for my friend Karina's coworkers babyshower. I had been experimenting with cake flavors and had taken her a piece of my banana cake recipe a couple weeks before which she loved and requested for the shower. Turned out to be a good move because from that cake I got several orders from those in attendance and made banana cake one of my two specialties!

I made a 10" round and did cream cheese frosting for filling and frosting. I used fondant for all the decorations.

This is one of the cakes that came from that. Again it was banana cake with cream cheese frosting. I was given free rein on this cake so I did some googling and combined with my ideas this is what I came up with. I did buttercream for frosting and stabilized whipped cream for the clouds. The stars and moon were made out of a 50/50 gum paste & fondant mixture. Then I wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star . . . Soon we'll find out who you are". This is one of my favorite cakes :)

The next babyshower cake I did was for my friends Annabel's friends shower. Again I was given free rein :) This is my husband's favorite cake, he always tells people how the teddy bear is solid chocolate. He was so amazed that I could do something like that, lol. I can't remember exactly, but I think the bottom layer was chocolate with buttercream and the top was yellow cake with buttercream. It was frosted in buttercream and the dots were chocolate buttercream. The blocks were rice cereal coated with fondant and piped with buttercream. I wonder who got to eat the chocolate teddy bear . . . ?

First Paid Cake

So after a ton of practice cakes I got my first paid order. I did a 1/4 sheet cake for a client whose son had just been accepted into the Airforce.

Getting Started

So after much procrastination I finally have my blog up and running. Thanks SOOO much to my friend Carolann who helped me put it together because as good as I am with cakes I am equally bad with technology :)

I've been making cakes for over a year now. I started by taking a Wilton basic cake decorating class because I had no idea what a crumb coat, torting, or crusting buttercream meant. My son's 2nd birthday was coming up in May and I figured it was as good a time as any to start cake decorating and make a cake for him.

So this is what I came up with. I did chocolate for all the tiers and did buttercream with bits of chopped up Oreo cookies in it. For the decorations I used my new found skills :) I did red piping down the sides and a shell border. I made the clown, seal, and balloons all out of modeling chocolate and voila! I was done. I was very proud of myself and thought I had done an awesome job for it being my first! I even made a little smash cake to go with it. And my friend Karina from http://karinafloresphotography.blogspot.com/ was super nice enough to take these wonderful pictures from me. Aren't they wonderful?!   

So anyhow, there's my cake beginning. If you're still reading this, thank you so much for following me! Now let's see how long it takes me to post all my other cake pictures :)