Andy's Birthday

My husband and are I HUGE Dave Matthews Band fans. In fact, we danced to one of their songs at our wedding. So when it came time to make my husband's birthday cake the theme was easy to choose. I made the firedancer out of yellow tinted gum paste and let it dry over a couple of days, then I painted it and the blue background with food coloring. I tried using petal dust at first, but I couldn't get the colors to mix and be as vibrant as I wanted. All in all, I was quite pleased with the final outcome and so was my hubby. Happy B-Day Andy!!!!

Healthy Hearts Reunion

So I was asked to make some cakes for my hospitals Healthy Hearts Reunion. At first I was really excited about the idea, but once I got into the baking and creating...I was not excited. It was more of a tired and frustrated attitude. Anyway, twelve hours and lots of butter, flour, eggs, and powedered sugar later, I had four 12x18 cakes done. I assembled and decorated on site, which didn't take long, but after this weekend I am definitely taking a break from baking for awhile. And...personally I think I really need to work on my icing skills. Michael's cake decorating class....here I come!

Kaitlyn's Birthday Party

Ahh little girl's birthday parties.... Can anything be more fun than to make than a 5 year-old girl's birthday cake??? I think not. The pictures are proof enough...

Nurse's Cake

This is the cake I made for Nurse's Week for the PICU. I don't think its my best work, but its not too bad considering I made it the morning after working three nights in a row....

Happy Nurses Week to all the nurses out there in the blogosphere. You rock!

Japanese Cherry Blossom

This was actually my first attempt at making flowers... I used my friends birthday as an excuse to make a cake and to be my guiney pig at flower making. Altogether, it was a pretty easy cake to put together. First, I made the flowers and colored them with food coloring, then I made the branch out of rolled fondant and placed the flowers all around it. My friend liked the cake and so did everyone at work, so it was another successful experiement, but I still think I need to work on my coloring skills....

Transformers

Another girl from work wanted me to make her son's birthday cake. Apparently he loves Transformers, so it became the cake theme. Now while I wanted to make a 3D Transformer or something like that, I don't have anywhere near that skill, so I went with the Transformer logo instead. My husband helped me picked out the proper logo because apparently there are two different kinds, one for the good guys and one for the bad...who knew? Once the proper logo was found, I again printed it out on paper and cut it out to use as a template to cut my fondant from. I had to do a little improvisation with the rest of the decorating, but overall I liked the look. I found what I thought was a cool font on word and printed out William's name in italics to give some movement to the letters. Again, after cutting out the paper I used it as my template for the fondant and then placed the letters on the cake. It's a pretty simple design, but I like how it turned out and from what I hear, William liked it too. Yay for another happy customer!

Harley Motocycles

I was asked to make a cake for a coworkers husband's birthday. Apparently, he is a big Harley fan and has a few motorcycles that he rides frequently. I wasn't quite sure what to do with this cake, so I looked at a few pictures I saw online and pieced my favorite elements into this cake. Making the logo was the most difficult part. I printed out the logo on paper, cut out each letter and shape individually and then used those pieces as my templates to cut the fondant with. Making the logo took around 2 hours, but I didn't even notice the time pass. I made the flames out of store bought fondant (again because it colors easier) and used orange and red food coloring to give it the swirled colors, hoping that it would look more realistic. I free handed cutting out the flames and just put them around the cake to make it look like it was engulfed in fire. While I may not be a motorcycle person, this is still on of my favorite cakes thus far...