“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!!

Lego Birthday Cake

04 Friday Jul 2014

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chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, fondant, Lego Cake, vanilla-bean frosting

My sons are 11 and 9 at the moment and there are probably over a million and a half Legos spread around our house, so I can’t believe I haven’t made a Lego cake until this week! A friend of a friend asked me to do a Lego birthday cake for her son’s birthday and I gladly obliged!

This cake was SO FUN! I started with a 10″- round double-chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and covered it with vanilla-bean buttercream in lemon yellow. The large Lego figure, larger Lego bricks, and the round he’s sitting on are fondant, as is the name plate on the front. I also covered a small loaf-sized cake with blue fondant and added fondant “studs” on the top (that’s the technical Lego-geek term for the little bumps on a Lego bricks that holds them together–who knew?!). The smaller Lego bricks are candy. I wanted to add some height, so I put the fondant stars and “9” on wires. The customer brought me a bunch of her son’s favorite mini figures to go around the cake (my boys thought they were the “coolest ever” mini figs).

All in all, this was a SUPER fun one to do. If I get more calls to make Lego cakes and cupcakes, I’m going to find a brick maker so I can make my own from fondant.

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

Musical Graduation Cake

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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double chocolate cake, fondant, graduation cake, Sour cream vanilla cake, strawberry mousse filling, vanilla cream cheese frosting

I made this graduation cake for the darling daughter of a dear friend who is graduating from high school this year. She is very musical (among her other talents) and wanted a musical-themed cake with flowers.

This is a half-sheet double layer cake (chocolate and vanilla) with a fresh strawberry filling, iced with vanilla-bean cream cheese buttercream The notes are made from melted chocolate piped ahead of time onto waxed paper and added at the end. The graduation cap and scroll are made from homemade marshmallow fondant with royal icing piped on. Some flowers are buttercream and others I cut from fondant.

It was such a pleasure to do this cake for Henriette’s graduation…She is an outstanding girl who is very adventuresome and excels in so many things. We wish her all the best in her coming years of college…Good luck, Henriette!!

Graduation Cake with Mortar Board

15 Sunday Jun 2014

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candy melt cap, fondant, graduation cake, Mortar Board, Pink Velvet Cake, raspberry mousse filling, vanilla-bean frosting

Well, it’s graduation season and I’ve been making cakes! Cakes for big parties (250 people!) and small family gatherings. It’s so fun to personalize them for each graduate…There are so many possibilities.

This full-sheet cake I made for the graduating daughter of our neighbor. She asked for a pink champagne cake with raspberry mousse filling, iced with vanilla-bean buttercream–delicious combo! There was no particular theme, just a big celebration cake with primary colors for family and friends (and they do have a BIG family…10 kids!).

Since it was such a big cake, I wanted to add some dimension. The large graduation cap is made from a smaller 4″-round cake frosted with black buttercream. The top of the mortar board is made from black candy melts that I piped onto waxed paper and cut to a square after it had chilled for a few minutes (thanks to Liz Larson for the video tutorial on this: theartoffrosting.blogspot.com). The tassel, smaller cap, stars, and twists are made from homemade marshmallow fondant.