This one was for a woman's birthday party. Plain chocolate cake, buttercream icing, mm fondant decorations with gum paste flowers.
This cake was for a 60th wedding anniversary. The weather was very humid and hot, and the cake was disagreeable! My first experience with icing and fondant staging a revolt! It looked OK until I took it out of my very cool basement to the venue for the party. It then cracked along the hearts and the fondant started to slide off.The cake was vanilla, with buttercream and fondant. Coloured with Wilton's purple colouring. This was 2 1/2 recipes, for the number of people it had to feed.
Sailboat cake. Made for a man's birthday. Chocolate cake with rice crispy boat. The 'water' is fondant, and the boat is covered in fondant as well. The 'bouys' or 'rings' on the sides are mint candies.
A mermaid cake for a 6th birthday. The cake is a double recipe, to make it high enough to fit a good sized mermaid on the side. The cake is iced with a marble effect in the buttercream. The mermaid and all the details are mm fondant.
A friend saw my other cakes and was coming from out of town for a visit. We were having a BBQ get-together and she joked that she wanted me to make a cake, perhaps a 'bug' themed one as the little buggers have been a pain in the neck up here this summer! So, here it is, bugs and all! The top cake is pound cake with chocolate ganache and sliced strawberry filling. The bottom is chocolate cake. Both cakes are covered with MM fondant. There are rocks, ants, flying bugs and buttercream 'grass' as details.
A baby shower cake. This 'basket' full of baby stuff is a double recipe. It is a Bailey's cake with chocolate buttercream between the layers. It is iced with a basket weave in chocolate icing. The details are all fondant. The monkey on the blanket is to match the baby's bedroom set.
A Tinkerbell cake for a 3rd birthday. The cake is chocolate, as is the 'stump'. It has buttercream between the layers and is covered with MM fondant. "Tinkerbell" is made of fondant as well, though I have learned my lesson and now use gum paste for figures. Her wings are card, and the cake board is just hand drawn to look like forest flowers.
This was a cake I did for the last day of Play School. Their concert was "camping" themed, so I made a camping cake. There is a figure for each child in the class and each of the three teachers. They are all made of MM fondant. The cake was an eggless apple spice cake. The trees are ice cream cones covered in buttercream. Everything, except the sticks for the marshmellows, is edible!
So, there you have it. Just a few of the cakes I have done in the last 6 months or so. If there are any Hay Riverites who would like to 'hire' me to make a cake for them, I would be happy to chat and discuss details. I am not a 'professional' baker, but I have a lot of great ideas and a lot of fun implementing them.
To make it worth my while I figure my base price will be $40 for a basic 2-tiered cake. Prices will go up with size and details required.
This seems like a great start to your own business. The cakes look great and people are commissioning them from you. One thing always leads to another.
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