guitar hero

my first guitar cake made of buttercream. so many issues but that is what makes me better fixing the issues. the strings are spaghetti noodles sprayed with silver luster dust. the accents are all fondant.

get your drink on!

an order was placed for a 1/4 sheet cake for a grandmother who's nickname is burgundy. why you ask? it's because she likes her red wine. my kind of grandmother! they wanted martini glasses. so here is the design i borrowed. they say imitation is the best form of flattery!

pardon my reach...but that's my name

this was a request from my girlfriend for her parents anniversary. she wanted the print of her father's tartan (the pattern on a kilt) to be the fondant drape on the cake. WHAT!!! i thought how am i going to do that?? fondant dries so fast and i need time to put the lines in and then fold the fondant without it cracking....enter fondarific! you may have hear the name on ace of cakes. this fondant doesn't dry as fast which was a huge help! looking back i would have made some changes with the lines but i liked how it came out. they loved the cake...which is all i really wanted.

here is her father's kilt.

here is the cake.

beachy bridal shower

i know. i know. i have been away for a very long time. but i am back!!! woohoo! so this is what you have missed.

here is the cake that i made for one of my closest friend for her bridal shower. she likes the beach so her than to be sister in law created the design of the cake. buttercream, sand, shells and coral. okay it isn't exactly what she designed...i kinda took some liberties with her design and simplified it. what? i was busy that week. i need my beauty sleep people. anyhoo. here are the pics. the shells and the coral are made with fondant. the sand is brown sugar.

hello...kitty

so my friend dee loves hello kitty. yes there are some of us that have that deep lust for all things hello kitty. since she graduated and it was her birthday i figured it was the best time to grant her wish. to have hello kitty's head on a plate. :) again i had bubble issues with the fondant but it was my first time fondanting anything that wasn't round or square. i have to pat myself on the back for doing a good job. :) not the best but good. doesn't she look cute!!

986 cupcakes on the wall....

this was cupcake hell week. 986 cupcakes...all for me to decorate. unfortunately, i forgot to take pictures of the wedding ones. but i got pics of the graduation ones. the lady who ordered them wanted 1/2 the cupcakes to read '09. let me tell you the ' was a hard thing to place. i like them though. but the red was a bugger to make. i had to cut out 268 which was the class number for a high school in red. but it wasn't red enough so i painted them with red food coloring hoping to make them redder. it didn't make them look so hot. the gold '09 though...HOT! love gold luster spray!

in midst of cupcake hell week i was asked to make a dead head design for an ice cream cake. i think it looks great. the paint could have been better but i tried my best!

the trouble with fondant is...

so debbie called and asked for a tennis cake. i thought cool, tennis court with rackets and tennis balls and a net. so i put it together and it looked off...i wasn't completely happy with it. but i figured it was fine so i sprayed a pearl sheen and was ready to box.

i turn around and i realized...oh crap there is a net that i totally forgot about. that means i need to change the cake since the "l" was on the net line. but i already sprayed the pearl sheen. so i move some of the letters insert the net and spray the pearl sheen again. you can kind of see where the letters once were but the cake looked much better.

this wedding cake was for a couple that had a small wedding. because of the number of people they had to pay the minimum amount for a wedding cake. so i advised them to go all out and get fondant. they wanted to use a flower off their invitation. the color fondant was the color of their napkins. now i usually do buttercream cakes. i rarely get an opportunity to fondant cakes. it was a pain but it looks okay...thanks to the ribbon. the fondant traps air bubbles...i need to learn how to get rid of the bubbles that the cake produces so that i can have a perfect fondant cake. :) i think the cake kind of looks wintery to me. the flowers look like snowflakes.

this cakes was from a picture of a bridal magazine. the bride and groom wanted a small wedding cake to cut. fondant again...those air bubbles kill! but i think this cake looks awesome. i tried white chocolate fondant that says you roll it thin...it didn't work for me. but then again i am a novice. i think after more practice i will be ready for the white chocolate fondant.

toba garrett's cake class

so i found a place that did cake classes near me...when i say near it is in MA and i am in PA.  it was a 5-6 hr drive.  i wanted to added to my decorating repertoire.   i never really learned how to make gum paste flowers and i liked her bride's dress cake.  so i signed up and this is what i learned.  

i could have done better but hey it was my first time and practice makes perfect.  the flower would have worked better if it was gumpaste but i ran out and had to use fondant.  oh well. 
i think my lily came out awesome.  the only thing is they are so breakable.  it chipped on the ride home.  :(
this is my fixed orchid.  the petal in the middle cracked, so i took it apart to fix it.  i should have read the paper to tell me what color to make it but pink is cool.  :)

16, race cars and cupcakes

this week was about sweet sixteens, fast cars and pretty cupcakes.

the sweet 16 cake order was straight to the point. in the shape of the number 16, add flowers, and only use silver and fuchsia. well i got most of it right. i thought the pearl spray would be give it a silver sheen on the white flowers but i was wrong. you live and you learn but i think the cake looked great with the pearly flowers.

then i had a race car cake. that was an interesting ride. the catering company was suppose to send the pictures but they had computer issues so i didn't get the picture until the day before the car was due. i thought it was a nascar car but it turned out to a specific car. here is his birthday cake. too bad i messed up on the flag...it isn't a perfect parallelogram.

there was also an order of wedding cupcakes. they liked the fondant design i made during their tasting. here is what i did for them. i think they look pretty. :)

colorful birthday cake

so debbie called to place an order for a birthday cake.  all she said is that she wanted it to be brightly colored.  did i mention i hate when she does that.  at least put me in a direction of what to design.  it was for a 50th birthday, i think but for a woman.  so i looked for some ideas on the internet.  it just so happens i went to charm city's website and saw a stacked flower cake.  this is my take on charm city's flower cake.  their's is better but mine did the trick with debbie.  she loved the cake.  :)  whatever takes to make the customer happy.  

crinkle ribbon cake

the bride wanted a crinkle ribbon and a second ribbon in purple.  i crinkled the ribbon using a skewer.  the purple ribbon, i used an extruder the circle one and then flattened it.  i think the green is a little too dark.  i need to work on coloring but i think it turned out well.