Toy Story 3rd Birthday

This cake is for a 3 year-old boy. The cake is chocolate, with buttercream icing. The whole thing then covered with fondant. The bottom tier is yellow with hand-piped red stripes. The top is white with hand-painted black 'spots'. The Woody character is my first attempt at a new technique....I made the bulk of him with rice crispie square, then covered him with coloured modeling chocolate-which I have never used before...I like it! If you use white chocolate melting wafers, then you can colour it any colour you need with regular gel food colouring. It hardens well, and smoothes over the bumpy crispies....
His red stripes are piped icing, the black spots are fondant 'stuck' onto the white, the other characters are all fondant.
The soldiers are plastic!

Wedding Shower Cake

This cake was for a wedding shower. The 6 bridesmaids will be wearing yellow dresses on the big day, the bride in classic white....
The cake is vanilla with buttercream. The dresses are all formed over cake as well, the bride's dress is a small pyrex bowl, the bridesmaids are mini muffins! All are covered in fondant with gumpaste bodices (because it HARDENS) The hangers I made with thin wire and needle-nosed pliers!

Birthday cake for three

A repeat 'customer'. I have made a number of cakes for her. She is celebrating the birthday of three family members. She gave me the invitation and little other direction except for the flavour of the cake-chocolate. So....here we are. It is a chocolate cake 9 x 13 on the bottom, with a 7", two-layer cake on top. All the decorations are in buttercream-yum!

Another Baby.....

This one is a smaller version of my classic "baby basket". We have the blanket, onsie, booties and soother. The cake is rainbow, with chocolate 'basketweave'.

Piglet 1st birthday cake

Another round cake with stuff on it-but pretty cute!

The top tier is vanilla bean cake with strawberry buttercream filling. The bottom tier is strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream. Piglet is handmade from a combination of fondant and gumpaste (will use a higher ratio of gumpaste next time...he took FOREVER to dry!)
The flowers are gumpaste and the details are all hand-drawn.

My little sister, Deni, will love this one!

Soccer anyone?

I got an email from a woman who wants a special cake for her father's 60th birthday. He is, apparently, a big soccer fan. So, this is my first attempt at a sphere-shaped cake. No, I did not buy the cake pans and instructions from Wilton...this is all me!
I used a pyrex bowl to bake two halves of a sphere, and a single layer 8" round to fill in between them. The cakes are chocolate fudge, the filling is chocolate ganache. I stacked it, with much trepidation, and iced it with buttercream.
I found a website that had the formula for the size of the shapes based on the circumference of the circle, and got cutting! It kind of worked. Near the base I had to free-hand some of the shapes, but the grass camoflages it pretty well.
The scarf is the only way I could think to include the symbol of his fave team, so I made the little patch and stuck it on a fondant 'scarf' to lay beside the ball.

Score!

1st Birthday Barn

It is Oliver's first birthday, and the family is moving to the country....so A Barn Cake!
This is vanilla cake with buttercream. I made a 9 x 12 and cut it into 3 sections to stack it. The roof pitch is just hand cut. The roof covering is MMF and so are the animals. The grass is vanilla frosting and the pathway-graham crumbs! Finished off with some Peek Frean doors and Voila!!