July

It's been exactly 30 days since my last blog. I've been sooooo incredibly busy. Here's what I've been up to cake wise in July.

Cat in the Hat cupcakes. 

Princess cake for one of the most adorable little girls I've ever seen. I did the smash cake out of chocolate and the 2 tier cake out of marble and chocolate ganache for one tier and chocolate with cream cheese and strawberry filling for the other.  The cakes were covered in fondant and all the decorations were made out of fondant / gumpaste. It turned out super cute!

This is a yellow cake with buttercream filling for a baby shower. Its decorated entirely in buttercream because the client is not a fan of fondant, and who can blame her?! The taste isn't that great but you can do oh so many pretty things with it :)

Here are some super duper adorable fondant covered Hello Kitty cupcakes.

This is one of my favorite cakes. I made the peacock entirely out of fondant and wire for stability and made it a few days to allow to dry hard. The cake itself it just plain ol' chocolate with chocolate buttercream and frosted in white buttercream with a pearl border. No need to do anything fancy with this beautiful peacock on top, lol!

This cake is a 3 tier Buzz Lightyear / Alien cake. It took me forever to hand make all the aliens and fondant decorations, but I was super happy with how it came it out. But this cake almost made me give up doing cakes. I was depressed and super embarrased about it for like a day and a half and then I got over it. Bottom tier is yellow cake with buttercream, middle is chocolate with strawberry filling and top is red velvet with cream cheese. So anyhow, one hour after pick up, mind you it was a very humid day and the cake left my place intact, I get a call that the cake somehow fell apart and the client is super dissappointed. Nothing is worse than a disgruntled client and they can do wonders to discredit all your hard work so I cheerfully offered to refund all $120 back. I still cannot understand how it is that the cake fell apart with all the wooden support in it. Its not my first cake and it was pretty solid. Other than it being humid, I am baffled as to what happened. But in all my years of customer service, the one thing I've learned is that the customer is always right! C'est la vie!

Moving on . . . this next cake is the best cake ever! I say that because it's my birthday cake. Yes, I know how silly it is that I made my OWN cake but that just how I am!

Its a 2 tier cake, the bottom tier is carrot with cream cheese and the top tier is pink velvet with lemon filling. I covered it in fondant and added gold sugar balls. The flowers are handmade out of gumpaste. I absolutely LOVE how it came out and it tasted really good too. 

And with that I say, Welcome August! Can't wait to work on some very exciting cakes I have coming up. Look for my Justin Bieber cake and and a Tiffany and Co. inspired wedding cupcake tower coming soon!! Enjoy the rest of your summer <3

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 . . . ?