Archive for the 'For Him' Category

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

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

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

Martini anyone?

This was a small cake we threw together for my sister and Meoi’s husband.  As you can see we matched the party-ware we were using for their birthdays.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008