5 Tier White Wedding Cake with roses

I love this cake!!! Absolutely elegant!

Captain America Cake

My Drew turned 10 on Friday.  For his birthday, I made a Captain America cake.  Kyle showed me a picture of one like it and I just had to try it...  Drew loved it!

Inside, I layered the cake to look like the American flag when it was cut...

And no party is complete without a goofy picture of the Birthday Boy!!!

Chieko's wedding cake...

I did a wedding cake for a destination-style wedding.  It was a morning ceremony on the beach.  The bride, Chieko, wanted hibiscus flowers on her cake.  She designed it herself and I put it to cake!  The flowers were much easier to make than I had thought they would be.  Time-consuming, though!

Puppy shower cake...

My dear friend Deidre is having a boy!  She has decorated her nursery with the cutest puppy theme!  So for her shower, I made a fondant puppy for the top of her cake.

In addition to the centerpiece cake, I made these little matching cupcakes for each place setting at the table.

Wedding cake...

 A recent wedding cake for a formal and rather elegant wedding.

Thank you cake for Bobby...

This cake was for a gentleman at our church who has spent many, many hours over the years "taking care of stuff..."  I can find it difficult making cakes for men.  I always have lots of cute ideas that are almost all better suited for girls and women.   In order to have enough cake to serve everyone at church, I made cupcakes to coordinate.

Jersey cake...

A replica of a soccer team jersey.  Velda requested this cake as a surprise for her brother's birthday.  This is his favorite team.

I found pictures of the jersey online and tried to do all of the details...

Taxi cake...

I just stumbled upon this cake picture when looking for a different picture.  Velda requested a taxi cab cake.  I think it was in February.  It was during a time when I was doing a lot of cakes and travelling.

Pretty cakes for church...

These were for a party at church in honor of those who donate their time.

I find the simplest details can make cakes very elegant.

Spiderman Cake... Happy Birthday Justin!!

This cake is for a little boy named Justin who was our neghbor when we first moved to Bermuda.  This is the first of 5 cakes this weekend.  Done more than 12 hours early!!! That never happens!

Juicy Couture Cake for Juliana's Birthday!

Velda's daughter, Juliana, turns 17 today.  Velda requested a Juicy Couture Cake for her.  This is a cake rendition of the J.C. "piggy" bank.  As always, I had a lot of fun making it!

Birthday Cake for Me...

Today was my birthday.  Drew and Sam wanted to decorate a cake for me.  They are so sweet!!!  The best part is that they only put 10 candles on it!!!  Here it is:

Cupcakes for Sam's Thomas

Both of my boys' first friends in Bermuda are named Thomas.  Sam's Thomas turned 7 on Christmas Eve.  These are cupcakes for his class at school.  Like many, many boys, Thomas loves Star Wars. 

My hundred dollar cookie!!!

I entered this Christmas cookie in a contest and won a $100 certificate to Williams-Sonoma!!  I was so excited!!!  Sam says that now I am famous... He's so funny!

Velda's daughter turns 29...

Velda's daughter turns 39 today.  Velda wanted a "modern art" style cake for the occasion.  This was fun.  I had never done a cake quite like this one.

Gingerbread houses...

One of the first days of break from school the boys wanted to do gingerbread houses.  They had tons of fun!  I think they ate as much frosting and candy as they put on the houses...

Oh, Christmas Cookie... Oh, Christmas Cookie...

I have spent the majority of the last 3 days making my Christmas Cookies.  I tried a few new things this year.  The "snow globe" cookie was really fun to create!  In addition to the cookies pictured, I made Christmas pine trees and mittens... They have all been eaten by my monsters already!  I'll have to remember to take pictures as I go along.  Here they are:

And some close-ups:

I put some sugar glitter on the snow for these cookies.  You can't see it very well in the pictures.

Two birthday cakes for Velda

Velda asked me to do 2 different cakes for this past weekend.  The first was for a Sweet Sixteen Party.  For a girl who apparently loves movies.  Velda asked for the Birthday message on a movie ticket.  I added the popcorn and coke to make it a little more fun.

The second cake was for a Lakers Fan.  Velda sent me a picture of a cake and asked me to replicate it.  I did change a few details.  I used Royal Icing to make the Lakers Logo for the cap.  The picture she sent me had the logo printed on fondant.  I thought this turned out really well.  It looks cool!  It was a lot easier than I had anticipated.  

Christmas Party cupcakes for Grade 2...

These are the cupcakes I made for the Christmas Party for Sam's grade 2 classroom... They turned out cuter than I thought they would.  I didn't have a lot of time to make them and I was having difficulty with the oven...

Happy Birthday Dorian!

These cupcakes were for Dorian's friend's birthday. 

Seeing stripes

This cake isn't anything special on the outside....

You have to cut into it for the surprise inside:



Last week, before we left for Minnesota, Tracy sent me an email with a picture of a zebra striped cake...  All of a sudden I was obsessed.  How did they do that???  I spent a lot of time thinking about it.  I tried one before we left and it was a serious flop.  (Kyle enjoyed eating it, flop or not.)  It took 3 more tries once we returned home to get it right.  I think it looks really cool!  I would have decorated it a little more fancy but since it is just an experiment, I decided to go easy.  Plus, it was after 9 last night when I was ready to decorate!  I had a bunch of leftover batter so I decided to see if it would work with cupcakes:

The technique needs a little tweaking but I still think they look pretty cool!

Cupcakes for Sam's class...

I stayed up until nearly 1 am this last night making these cupcakes for Sam's birthday celebration at school with his class.  Bears are popular at our house!  I love that we can send homemade goods to school with the boys...

Sam turns 7.....

Sam turned 7 today... Hardly seems possible... He wanted to design his own cake.  He wanted to put lego cars and guys on it.  I made a silicone mold of a lego plate then formed the green lego "plates" on the cake from fondant.  Everything is edible except the cars and guys. 

He didn't have a party but we did have friends over to enjoy cake and ice cream.  He blew out his candles and announced that he had wished for snow in Minnesota when we are there this next week!!!  Sorry Minnesota!

Happy Birthday Makenzie

My next cake was a fun cake for Makenzie's 10th birthday.  She wanted vanilla flavored sponge and purple is her favorite color.  I always love doing fondant flowers.  I really like how they look on cake.  This is the first time I have made little fondant insects.  They were quite tedious but turned out really cute.  I am pleased...  Hope Mackenzie likes it as much as I do!!!

Happy Birthday Satina!!!

Satina's mom is throwing her a surprise party tonight for her birthday and wanted a cake.  She called Sophia at Kyle's office who called Kyle who called me... After the telephone game was finally finished, I agreed to make a cake for the party.  So this is what I spent a couple of hours doing this morning before going to the school for the boys' lunch time...



Cake for baby Kar'da

Another cake for Satina; for her Godson's christening.  She wanted a cake with a sunset/ocean theme.  I molded the shells out of fondant and hand-painted them.  It was really fun and I thought the shells turned out really well.  I enjoyed "painting" another cake.

My favorite Van Gogh

I have wanted to paint on a cake for a long time.  I have seen some pictures of "painted" cakes and they look really cool.  I decided to put my brush to fondant and make a cake replica of "Starry Night."  It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped so I will be attempting this again... Watch for a better version of the same cake...  Tasted great...

Baby Cakes

If I ever opened my own cake shop, I would want to name it "Baby Cakes" and have a big variety of gourmet cupcakes.  Of course, I'm sure someone has already taken the name...

These are cupcakes that I made and packaged for Kyle's company's summer party.  (120 cupcakes)  They are fashioned to resemble a Pina Colada drink.  The cake has pineapple bits in it with coconut and rum flavoring.  The icing is buttercream with rum and coconut flavor.  They were so moist and yummy...  All the people in Kyle's department got to have lots of taste tests over the two weeks that I was developing the recipe.  I think it took 4 batches to get it just right...  Assembling the plastic boxes probably consumed the most time for this project!

Happy Birthday Velda!!

For Velda's birthday this year, I made mini-cupcakes for everyone at Kyle's office.  Cute little bites of heaven...

A surprise girly-girl cake

Sometimes I think that I might have too much fun with my cakes...
This cake was created for Satina, a gal in Kyle's office.  She wanted a shoe cake like the one I made for Velda but there was not enough time.  I told her I would come up with something "girly-girl."  She had no idea what I was going to make until it was delivered.  It was a hit!

Drew's 9th Birthday

Drew turned 9... How did that happen????
Instead of a party, Drew chose to receive a more expensive gift.  Even without a party, I still wanted to make him a great cake!  This cake has a fondant sculpture of "Toothless" the dragon from "How to Train Your Dragon?"  He didn't know I was making it so it was a fun surprise!!!