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Sesame Street Birthday Cake

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Loved doing this cute Sesame Street birthday cake for Reid! It started out as a 3-tiered cake, but Reid’s mom decided that 2-tier was large enough and I added the sign on top to give it that extra needed height.

sesame_st_cake_4The bottom 10″-tier is chocolate with cookies and cream filling and the 8″-tier is snickerdoodle cake with cinnamon buttercream between the layers.   The cake was smooth iced with buttercream and the details and images were all hand-cut from homemade marshmallow fondant.

Reid’s mom specifically wanted Elmo and the Cookie Monster to adorn his cake.  I loved the little details of the stars on wires, the tiny letters cut from fondant, and the multi-colored stripes….so festive and happy.  The cake just screams “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” don’t ya think?

I debated on adding homemade chocolate chip cookies around the bottom, but I had some extra tan fondant from another project, so I rolled it out thick, used a round cutter, pushed in some mini chocolate chips, and dusted the edges with cocoa powder to make them look “baked.”

I was really pleased with how they turned out.

 

This was SUCH a fun cake with so many cute details.  Hope you had a great 2nd birthday, Reid (and thanks for asking me to make it for him, Candee :0)!

“Miss to Mrs.” Bridal Shower Celebration Cake

25 Sunday Jun 2017

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I haven’t shared a cake creation for awhile, so thought I’d post this cute one I did a few months ago for a bridal shower….

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The bride’s aunt ordered it for her niece and showed me a picture of a cake with a simple bride’s silhouette all in buttercream.

I embellished my design to make it a bit more dramatic with the silhouette hand-cut from black fondant and overlaid with buttercream swirls and flowers.

 

The cake was a half sheet double layer banana cake with chocolate mousse filling, smooth-iced with vanilla-bean buttercream.

The inscription is cut from fondant using letter cutters with 2 different font types.

Congrats to the Bride-to-Be, I hope you liked your cake!!

 

Graduation Cake and Cookie Ideas

25 Tuesday Apr 2017

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It’s almost graduation season, so start planning those parties!  I really can’t believe how huge graduation parties are here in Ohio…much bigger than celebrations where I grew up.

These are some examples of half-sheet cakes that are a good party-size and can serve a bunch when made with 2 layers.

These 2 graduation cakes I did for a Poland Seminary High School graduate last year who was going to Ohio State in the fall.

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This Cardinal Mooney cake I did a few years ago (before I discovered how cutting letters out of fondant is much cleaner … and straighter :)).  The graduate was going to the University of Dayton…

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These are full sheet cakes, which I don’t make often as they are difficult to manage in my regular-sized fridge.  I love this black and yellow theme with swirls and stars.  It really says “Let’s CELEBRATE…you’ve done it!!”

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For this one I made a 3-d mortar board and decorated it with stars, sprinkles and fondant twists. Here’s the post that describes it in more detail.

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This cake is for a smaller celebration…followed by a group of specialty cakes.

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And you always need cookies, right?

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Spring Flowers 2-Tiered Birthday Cake

19 Wednesday Apr 2017

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Here is another of my favorite birthday cakes…mainly because I love yellow….makes me feel so happy and “spring-y,” if that’s a word.

yellow_2-tier_1Cheryl’s daughters were planning a surprise party for their mother and asked if I could do a yellow “rustic iced” cake, 2-tier, with tulips and the custom topper they ordered.

I love how the colors of the flowers pop against the pale yellow icing…

The cake is a 7″ and 10″ tier white chocolate cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate buttercream.  The personalized glittery topper is perfect to add some height.

Hope you had a great surprise birthday party, Cheryl!  I really enjoyed making your cake!

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Retro Fleetwood Mac and NKOTB Cakes

24 Friday Mar 2017

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Fleetwood Mac is BACK!!  And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, it proves I’m just way too old.

My dear friend Missy asked me to make a cake for her friend’s 40th birthday.

She wanted a replica of the birthday girl’s favorite album cover, this artistic rendition of the iconic 1977 Fleetwood Mac “Rumors” album.

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It took some time and a few sharp exacto blades to cut the image out, but I think I got it pretty close.  Luckily, it was a fairly simple design.

I really love this fondant image-layering technique. It’s kind of like putting a puzzle together from the front to back to get the 2-dimenional image to look kind of 3-D.  The hardest part is visualizing the layers as separate pieces

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The cake is a 10″ square key lime cake filled with lime curd and iced with cream cheese buttercream.

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Another blast to the past was for Missy’s 40th birthday.  Her brother wanted the theme to be her favorite late-1980s group, New Kids On the Block.

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For this one, I used an icing image and added fondant details.  Much easier than cutting each piece out separately!

 

Happy belated 40th birthdays, Ladies!!

I had fun making these unique and different cakes for you!  :0)