It's wedding season!!!

I had two wedding cakes this past week. Both wedding cakes had enormous amounts of cupcakes involved! The first cake was a white cake with vanilla filling, with green hydrangeas and 150 white and chocolate cupcakes. The Bride LOVED it! I can't wait to see pictures of it from the day of, when they had it all set up!
The second cake was for an old friend, she had 300 mini cupcakes. The top cake was chocolate with chocolate gnache and strawberry shortcake. All the mini cupcakes had strawberry kiwi flavoring too! It was delish!

Toooo long!

Alrighty so this post is coming way to long since the last one. I've been so crazy busy with all sorts of things, not the least of them being cake making.

So I'm going to start with a few of my favorites. I was asked to create a T-Rex cake for a little boy. They wanted a character cake for the family dinner and then a 3D cake for the party. After much debating, a few moments of sheer terror, and at least one panic attack this is what I came up with.

The cake was white cake with grasshopper filling, I had so much fun airbrushing this cake! I gotta say I just love my airbrush. All in all I think it was definetly worth the effort!

It's a Bird.. no it's a plane!

I was asked to make a replica of a piper cub airplane for a 90th birthday. So I decided to take some pictures as I went through the process so you guys could see what it looks like :)

First I had to make a base for the cake. So we cut the shape of the plane 25inches long and 8 inches at the widest part.

Then I put on 6 cakes each were a 9x13, cut and shaped them to fit the base

when I was finished I covered the cake with Fondant, and airbrushed it to match the original plane.

And this is the finished piece!

Busy week!

This last week was a busy week for me. I had quite a few different cakes to make, and it was my birthday! However I didn't make my own birthday cake, my DH got me a Dairy Queen cake, mmmmmmmm it was delicious!

So I had an older lady from my church call me a couple weeks ago, asking if I made wedding cakes. I told the lady I did make cakes, and she started telling me what she was looking for. She wanted a carrot cake with cream cheese icing, square with fondant and royal icing, and mauve hydrangeas or white roses. After talking for a few minutes, I finally asked her, "who is this cake for?". She says to me, "my dear, it's for me! I'm getting married in a couple weeks."

Hahah oh dear! I think the cake turned out well, and once I realized it was for her, I made it a very classic traditional style wedding cake.

wedding cakes

As I get started this year, I'm really trying to focus on getting my business up and running now that we're all moved! So I"m putting in a kitchen and going to go big or go home...well actually I'll be home, so it's just go big!

My goal is to be doing 2-4 wedding cakes a month through the summer... lets see if I can accomplish this!

Above are a couple of the wedding cakes I've done....

Topsy Turvy

My neice turned 5 this summer and had an amazing Alice in Wonderland themed birthday party. So of course the cake had to be whimsical and a little crazy :) The cake looked amazing! Then we had some technical difficulties, the middle tier slid off the cake and smashed into the floor. So I quickly put a new middle tier together and the day was saved.... or so I thought. About an hour into the party the bottom tier EXPLODED!

Needless to say I learned my lesson, from now I'll cook all my own cakes :)