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Wild Things Cake

18 Monday Feb 2019

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I just ran across this fun cake from a couple of years ago, made for Noah and based on the beloved children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.”

The cake is a 6″-8″ tiered cake with smooth buttercream icing. The “bark” on the bottom tier is made from melted chocolate, spread thin on waxed paper and broken into strips once cooled. It creates such a neat look. The arrows and crown are made from fondant.

I don’t have many other details on the cake, just wanted to share…hopefully make you smile a bit remembering a favorite childhood memory or two.

You’re welcome 🙂

Ideas for the GUYS…

04 Friday Jan 2019

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Happy January 2019!

One of my New Year’s “inspirations” (I hate to make resolutions, too binding) is to get caught up on posts, so here goes…

Since I do so many cakes for teens, kids, babies, showers, etc., I thought it would be fun to highlight some cakes I’ve done for the guys this past year.

The theme of all of these cakes involve cars, sports, or other stuff guys might like (or gals, just sayin’)….

NASCAR

This is a 10″ cake with smooth buttercream icing on the top and black buttercream on the sides. I used a fat round piping tip to make the tire treads. The logo is hand-cut from fondant and the flag is fondant, too.

Car Logos…Mercedes, BMW, Mustang

These cakes are 8″ in size with smooth vanilla buttercream and hand cut logos in fondant…

Carpentry-themed

Love these cakes, so much detail. The first is a retirement cake for a gentleman moving on to a 2nd career as a finish carpenter. The second is a birthday cake for a hard-working dad. Both are smooth buttercream iced with fondant tools and other fun details.

Along the way, I discovered some tool cookie cutters, so fun~

Cigars and alcohol, oh my…

This Corona cake I did awhile back, but wanted to highlight it again. Here’s the full Corona Ice Bucket cake post.

Sports

I actually did this one for 8-yr-old Thomas, but it would be great for any New Orleans Saints fan. (Full-Disclosure: The helmet is a topper provided by Thomas’s mom, I did’t make it…but wish I had 🙂

And who wouldn’t love an OSU cake and cookies?

Hunting & Sasquatch (my all-time fave!)

Here are a couple of cakes that kinda fall into the same category. Especially if you believe in Sasquatch :)))))

Well, that’s it for this post, hope you got some ideas for your next guy (or anyone) cake! Happy caking!!

FORTNITE Gamer Cake #2

13 Monday Aug 2018

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I get so many questions about Fortnite cakes I thought I’d share another one I did recently.

During the making of these Fortnite cake toppers, I snapped some pictures of what goes into making them, I thought I’d share them here.

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The cake is 15×11 double layer chocolate with cookies and cream filling and iced with chocolate and vanilla buttercream.  The “dirt” on top is crushed Oreo cookies and the grass is piped on buttercream.

All of the details are made from homemade marshmallow fondant and the hill is (under the chest) is molded from rice cereal treats and then covered in gray fondant.

 

The wooden ramp is actually a piece of cardboard covered with brown fondant stamped with wood grain texture…

I then painted it with brown food color gel thinned with lemon extract to highlight the wood grain and make it look old.

All of the other tools and supplies are handmade from fondant…

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As you can tell, there is a lot of time that goes into the details of this cake.  I continually get inquiries about the price of the cake and toppers, so I did a up a price sheet  for the toppers. (Fortnite cake topper pricing_rev)

Cake prices are based on size.    The basic topper set here should fit on cakes starting with 8″ rounds.

This cake for Luca doesn’t have the game controller on it like this cake for Savva I did a few months ago.

I hope this helps answer some questions about the cake…it sure is a popular theme for young gamers right now!!

Hope you had a great birthday, Luca, I really enjoyed making your cake!!

Sweet 16 Travel Cake

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

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This was such a fun birthday cake to do for a darling, smart, inquisitive girl who enjoys traveling and documenting everything with her camera.  I can hardly believe she’s Sweet 16 already!

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The cake is an 8″ chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling, smooth iced with vanilla buttercream.  All of the details are made from homemade fondant.

The name plaque is cut out of fondant with an Ohio-shaped cutter and painted with metallic gold paint.  The Eiffel Tower is piped with black buttercream onto a fondant plaque.

 

 

I wanted to give the feeling of travel all the way around the cake to highlight her adventuresome spirit.

 

Her camera also plays a big part in her life, so it had to be on there…

This was such a fun cake to do, I’m so glad I got to create it for you, Quinn.

Happy Birthday, girlfriend!

Corona Ice Bucket Cake

13 Saturday Jan 2018

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For all the Corona fans out there, this one’s for you!

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Loved making this one…It was sort of a last-minute order, but I couldn’t resist doing it for a sweet mom who wanted to give her son a special surprise on his 21st birthday.

Note: The Corona is real, all the rest is cake or sugar…And no Coronas were hurt in the making of this cake, the birthday boy got to drink it –eventually :0)

It started as a 3 layer 7″ vanilla cake that I carved into a bucket shape and  rough-iced with buttercream.  I then cut a hole out of the middle to accommodate the Corona bottle. That was the tricky part…making the hole big enough for the bottle while leaving enough cake to maintain the structure (and to eat, or course!).

After letting it set up in the fridge for a few minutes, I covered the entire thing in Continue reading →