Archive for the 'Adult' Category

Vera Bradley…

To celebrate Tiffany’s 40th birthday, the girls and I created this Vera Bradley purse cake to match the party theme. It’s a white vanilla cake with a swirled strawberry custard filling and buttercream icing. The purse was hand sculpted of cake as well. All the decorations are made from fondant. Mini cupcakes with matching flowers [...]

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Twilight…

This cake was inspired by Stephanie Meyers Twilight series.  It is a lemon cake with strawberry and cream cheese swirl filling.  The “New Moon feathers” are made from gum paste as are the logo and signs on the cupcakes which are hand painted.  I am on Team Edward by the way in case you were wondering. [...]

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Pink & black…

The bottom tier of this cake was a moist lemon pound cake with raspberry cream cheese swirl filling.  The top tier was a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling.  The numbers on top were made with gum paste while everything else was decorated with fondant.
 

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Peach roses…

A simple birthday cake for a husband and wife joint birthday party.  The cake is made of chocolate devil’s food cake brushed with a Kaluha sugar wash and chocolate hazelnut buttercream. All the decorations including the roses are made of fondant.
 

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Occupation birthday cakes…

I was asked to make two birthday cakes for a husband and wife depicting thier occupations.  He owns a Real Estate company whose slogan is “We sell Texas to the rest of the world.”  She is a long time teacher/librarian.  The teacher cake is a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and the Texas [...]

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Tiffany present…

This is a tiffany blue present cake for a very special lady celebrating 70 years young. The bow is made from fondant.
 

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Garden party…

We had a blast making this cake with all the little details.  It is a vanilla cake with fresh sliced strawberries and strawberry filling.  All of the details were crafted by hand and edible.  We used crushed cookies for the dirt.  Along with the cake are chocolate cupcakes that were baked in clay pots, topped with [...]

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Shop a holic…

 
This shopping themed cake was made for a friend’s 31st birthday.  We included all of her favorite stores: Gap, Macy’s, and the Children’s Place.  The cake was white vanilla with cream cheese and strawberry filling.
 

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Vietnamese mud fish…

 

We were asked to make a birthday cake that incorporated a fish like the one pictured below on the book. It is a logo for the Vietnamese Navy.  We hand cut and hand painted the fish out of gum paste and tye dyed all the waves.  We used brown sugar for the sand. The cake was [...]

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Dali - Persistence of Time…

This cake was made for my brother in law.  It is a white vanilla cake with lemon filling.  The design was inspired by Salvador Dali’s painting “Persistence of Time.”  The darker shaded areas of the cake were made with a cinnamon rub.  The tree was hand painted and made of gum paste.
 

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009