Grrrreat!

Marbled chocolate and vanilla cake in tiger stripes inside the cake! Fondant tiger stripes and sneaky kitty feet on the outside, topped with a sweet little bow.

Come On, Sports Fans!

A sculpted jersey and baseball hat, and the Chicago skyline. For the Bulls biggest fan! Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, and molded chocolate pieces.

Did Someone Say Cake?

Look who came to celebrate with the birthday girls! Sweet little ninja turtles can't resist cake, especially cookies-and-cream filling.

Avengers, Assemble!

This chocolate cake with cookies-and-cream filling is frosted with buttercream and surrounded by chocolate logos of a young man's favorite superhero team.

Touchdown!

What better way to celebrate with your "team" than with a regulation-size football on a grassy field!

Let's Go Fishing!

This cute little guy is sitting on top of stacked Lego blocks made of vanilla cake and orange frosting and covered in panels of modeling chocolate. 

Close-up on location with "12" topper added. The figure and topper are sculpted out of chocolate, as are the letters and grass surrounding the fish pond.

Mustang Sally

This sheet cake features a sculpted mustang made out of white chocolate. The letters and the plaque behind the mustang are also white chocolate. The client request the top to be scored as part of the design to make for easier cutting.

Pretty as a Princess

A cute little cake for a little girl's birthday. The tiara is made of royal icing, and is painted with an edible silver sheen. Blue jewels made of isomalt, also edible, finish the design.

The Great Debate Cake

This podium cake is for a debate-lover's 18th birthday! Made of chocolate cake with chocolate filling, and covered in modeling chocolate, it's debatable whether she liked the flavor or the design more. The gavel "1" is made of cereal treats with a solid chocolate handle.

Winter Wonderland

A good friend asked me to make a cake for her daughter's birthday, just before Christmas. She had this castle set, from Wilton, and thought it would be perfect.


This is a 2 tier, direct stacked cake. Red and green peppermints make up the border, with red and green M&M's starring as the trim around the windows, doors, and on the turrets. This was tons of fun to put together, and even more fun to see the kids faces.

All Aboard!

My little guy is absolutely crazy about trains. And cars of course. Anything with 4 wheels that goes! Trains seemed like something fun to put on a cake, and I wanted to try a new technique.

Fondant painting! Our little train is hand shaped into the engine, various cars, and the gifts. The paint is simply my paste food coloring mixed with clear vanilla. The alcohol in the vanilla evaporates quickly, allowing the coloring to dry faster.

I had a lot of fun putting this together, like play dough for grown ups. This is a technique I will be playing with again!

Ahoy Matey!

Are you ready for a "lootin" good time? This cake was a perfect pirate cake, and what better treasure than a yummy caramel buttercream under all that fondant. Made for a pirate themed party, this is a full sized sheet cake. Frosted with delicious buttercream and then covered in rolled fondant. I colored the fondant green with cake decorating spray.



A yummy, gummy shark border keeps little hands away! The kids were served a gummy shark with each piece, these were laid in place, not glued with frosting.




The palm trees are made of shaped fondant, with wire reinforcing. Green tinted white chocolate palm leaves are attached to fondant and wire bases. I mounded frosting around the base for added stability and sprayed it green for "bushes".


A friendly little shark patrols the river. A little far upstream aren't you? With crushed graham cracker sand, and piping gel tinted blue for water, this little stream is a yummy mouthful.
The treasure chest candle was found at a local party supply store.

Here Kitty!

This cute little kitten graced a little girl's birthday with her presence. I modeled it after her cat, a tabby striped calico with blue eyes.

This pan is "Animal Crackers", by Wilton. The shaped pan has rounded ears, for teddy bears. I shaped the points with frosting. Those two were some of the favorite pieces!

A Swimming Good Time

My son, for his 4th birthday, requested a "waterpark cake". As luck would have it, I had just recieved a magazine, with this cake on the cover.

This was a difficult cake to put together. The top layer of the cake had a cutout section, shaped like a jelly bean. I put the two layers together and poured almost set jello into the cutout. I piped little swimsuits onto teddy grahams, and used blue M&Ms for the border. The water slide is heated Airhead candy, shaped and positioned, with melted white chocolate to fill it. Blue sprinkles on top simulate water. The sand is graham cracker crumbs. This was a big hit, with children and parents alike.

Basket of Flowers

I really like to do daisies. They are one of my favorite flowers, so pretty and casual. Brown Eyed Susans are simply a variation on a daisy. Here I paired the Brown Eyed Susans with tiny, dark blue Apple Blossoms.




The side is a basketweave effect. I finished it with a rope border on the bottom, and the flower border surrounds a simple font on the top. The flowers are royal icing, and were dried on flower formers for a more realistic curved look.

A Little Bit of Pixie Dust

This cake was one of my favorites. This was for a little girl's first birthday. The customer was doing a Tinkerbell invitation, and asked to have the picture of Tinkerbell on the main cake. I blew the image up, traced a mirror image, and imprinted it onto the cake. I then filled her in with a star tip. Her wings were outlined, then filled in with a sparkly edible glitter.

She invited over 100 people, so we did several cakes. A large Tinkerbell, smaller "Happy Birthday", a second small one with a tiara purchased by the customer. Also, I did a small, 6-inch smash cake for her daughter. She was allergic to eggs and dairy, so I did a spice cake that was egg, milk, and butter-free. All were frosted in a cream cheese frosting.

Happy 30th Birthday!

A friend told one of their other friends that I loved doing cakes. I had just finished the classes, and was trying to put myself out there for more practice. She was given my number and called, asking if I could do a cake for a large birthday party. We spoke on the phone, and decided that I would do 2 9x13 cakes, one chocolate and one vanilla. The exclamation point is the pieces of cake that I cut out to form the numbers. She wanted bright, almost neon obnoxious colors, so I went to town on the food color gel. I had never done anything this bright, it was interesting...

This cake was huge. I used 4 large pieces of cardboard taped together, 2 pieces per layer, to support the cake. She loved it, although it was bigger than she had thought it would be. There was plenty to go around, and I had my first taste of doing business.