New Year's Eve Wedding

This was a beautiful wedding! It was by a pool, outside, with mohagony columns and tealites around the pool. The bride and groom were the most amazing clients to work for! They each had grown children, so this wedding was a fun celebration of their love.

The cake was three different flavors and turned out well. The top, which the couple kept, was chocolate kahlua with mocha buttercream. The second tier was italian cream cake with cream cheese filling. The bottom was a yellow cake with chocolate ganache filling.

I wish Wanda and Matt the very best for their future! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day!

Scary Flower Cake

This was an amaretto cake and my first time decorating a cake with real flowers. The florist told me to build up the buttercream, then place the stems in it, so that the caterers wouldn't have to worry about where to cut and which part to eat.

Well, I did that and as you see above, it turned out beautiful! However, after driving the cake to the client, and after the chef told me where to place the cake, most of the flowers had fallen off along with the buttercream.

Instead of freaking out, which I was silently doing, I took a knife and got as much buttercream as possible to build up again, then stuck the flowers in all over again. I did not get another picture of it, but the catering staff all thought it was beautiful! Whew!

Lesson learned - the next time real flowers are used, I will put them on at the location! :)

Over the Hill Cake

This was yet another cake for a friend from high school! I have been fortunate enough to do graduation cupcakes, baby shower, baby dedication and now this one for her mother.

It is actually a square cake with a football pan size cake cut and put on top. The signs were gumpaste, and I used white royal icing and edible markers to write on them. It is a very simple layout, but it really ended up being a large cake!

Thanks Stacey!

Copy of an Invitation!

This was an interesting one to do. The invitation was beautiful and I thought I would try to recreate it. I decided that to do it 3-dimensional would be quite time consuming and costly for the client, so I did a simpler version of 3-D.

All the details were made from fondant. I rolled it, then flattened with my finger where needed. There were a lot of dragees used on this! Also, royal icing was used for the beaded look on the crib, sides and bottoms.

Copy of a Napkin!

The napkin looked just like this, just with the writing along the bottom. This was the first time I had covered a board in fondant, it was actually pretty simple. I tacked it down with piping gel and it did the trick!

The CELEBRATE along the side was done by using alphabet cookie cutters as a template, then painted with black icing color.

The '8' was chocolate and the '0' was yellow cake.

It was a hit!