Batman Birthday Cake - 1/10

Here is a Batman cake I did for Trenton, the son of a good friend of mine who also helped me with it:) The two-tiered cake is covered in fondant with fondant decorations (except Batman action figure).  If I had this to do again, I would use black fondant for the buildings as more of a silouette and add more starlight.

"Gotham City"

Fondant Batman Symbol

Princess Lily's Castle - 1/10

My oldest daughter Lily loves princesses...and well, every princess needs a castle!  So I thought about buying the Wilton Castle Cake kit, but with my adventurous side tugging at me, I decided to just make one myself!  I researched a lot of different castle cake designs and combined my favorite ideas with a few of my own.  The cake was marble cake for the bottom tier, strawberry for the top, both filled and covered with buttercream.  The towers are made of ice cream cones covered with white chocolate, the door, windows and cobble stone path were all handmade with fondant and the grass and flowers are royal icing.  My daughter absolutely loved it!

Christmas Gift - 12/09

This is a Christmas gift cake I made for church.  I got to use one of my new tools to do a quilting technique and added sugar pearls where the stitches intersected.  The bow I had made originally had lots of loops but they ended up breaking as I was putting the bow together:(  So I salvaged two that were not broken and made a simpler double-loop bow and finished it off with some pearl dust.

Quilting detail.

Chocoholic's Anonymous - 11/09

This was for my husband's birthday which is only two days after my daughter's birthday.  It was definitely a "chocoholic's" cake!  It was dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and poured over, chocolate curls and pinecones made of modeling chocolate--and some leftover leaves from my fall cupcakes.

Maeve's First Birthday Cake! - 11/09

Maeve's Sunflower 1st Birthday cake!  I was so happy with how it turned out!  My husband suggested I use blue fondant to cover the cake and I'm so glad I took his advice!  It really made the sunflower stand out and added the blue sky element.  The grass is buttercream using a leaf tip and the center of the sunflower is chocolate icing using a star tip to fill it in.  I found the pre-made ladybugs at Hobby Lobby when I was getting the party decorations--they were so cute:)

Smash Cake--I need to work on my writing;)

Fall Cupcakes - 10/09

These I made in the fall of 2009, for our church picnic. I wanted to do some fondant decorations before my daughter's first birthday--and I love the warm colors of fall leaves--so decided to make these cupcakes.  Everyone loved them! 

Acorns are also made of fondant.

In the Beginning - 10/09

October 2009.  My very first cake using fondant--this was a trial cake for my daughter's first birthday that my good friend Janine helped me with.  It was so much fun and turned out better than I had expected!