Guess Wallet 30th Birthday Cake

The wallet on this cake was so much fun to make. I was sent a picture of a wallet and asked to replicate it. The colors for the party were white, black and a hint of hot pink. The cake also had to be girly and glamorous. This is the design I came up with. The wallet is made from rice kripy treats, covered in vanilla buttercream and then covered in hot pink fondant. All the decorations are edible.

This is the picture of the wallet I was sent.



This is my version of the wallet.



The 8" cake is chocolate and filled with a raspberry buttercream. The fondant was being rather difficult as it was so humid but I'm happy with how the cake turned out.

1st Birthday Cake

The weather has been so hot and humid the last week making cakes and covering them in fondant has been rather challenging! It took a lot of patience on my part and a few times rolling out the fondant to get results that looked okay. Fondant and humidity do not mix well!! I think some A/C may be in order!!

This 10" chocolate cake is filled with cookies and cream filling and covered in blue fondant.



All the decorations are made from fondant.

Tinkerbell 5th Birthday Party!!

My daughter just turned the big 5 so we had to celebrate in a big way. Trying to get a 4 year old to decide on a cake was very time consuming and very frustrating...to say the least. Hailey changed her mind at least 15 times. Finally she thought Tinkerbell would make the best birthday cake.



The cake is layered chocolate and vanilla and filled with vanilla and milk chocolate fudge.

The cake is covered in a layer of buttercream and then a layer of purple fondant.



All the decorations are fondant except the Tinkerbell candle on the top.



I also made purple cake pops and marshmallow pops as party favors.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

I was asked to make some garden theme cupcakes for a friend's bridal shower.





The cupcakes are vanilla with vanilla buttercream tinted green and the flowers are fondant.

Ping Pong Table Cake

This cake was almost my undoing! We had some rather warm weather last week and fondant hates warm weather! It makes it very sticky and very had to work with.



I was asked to make a cake that looks like a ping pong table for a retirement party. The cake is vanilla and filled with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. I wanted to cover the cake in one piece of black fondant but after several attempts of rolling it out I finally decided that one piece just wasn't going to work. I ended up covering the cake with two piece of black fondant. I tried my best to blend the seam but with the weather being so hot and humid touching the fondant to blend just wasn't really an option.

The paddles, the net and the ball are all made of fondant. The net was another issue. I let it dry for a few days but due to the weather it wasn't a taught as I would have liked.

Car Cupcakes

These cupcakes were very last minute. I was asked to make something that a boy would like. These cars are not my best work, but for last minute they're not too bad. I took me about 20 minutes to whip them up as they has to dry a bit before they could go on the cupcakes.

Chocolate cupcakes filled with chocolate fudge and topped with vanilla buttercream.

Floral Birthday Cake

I was asked to make a simple birthday cake for a shared birthday. I was asked to make a vanilla cake with a mocha filling and covered in vanilla buttercream.
To keep things "simple" I made a pink gerber daisy with some vines and added a few littler daisy on top.



Daisy's and lettering are made from fondant.

CAKE DISASTER
I recieved a call from the lady who ordered this cake last night. She has had some of my cake at a friends party was so really looking forward to having it again. Unfortunately the cake turned out very dense and not as she remembered. I was at a loss as to what may have happened but the only possible answer was that my leveling agent wasn't activating properly. I had just bought new baking powder so I rechecked the expiry date and low and behold it says 12/10....Since it is no longer the year 2010, dumb me, it was no longer good. Lesson learned, check and recheck expiry dates and know what year it is. This is my first complaint since I started baking cakes, I was glad she told me but dissappointed in myself. I feel horrible this happened but how does the saying go, "Live and learn"!