Princess Cupcakes

These were for a little girls birthday. Castles, flowers and wands on chocolate cupcakes. The castles took so long to make. Isn't it amazing how a few sparkles and pearl dust can make something nice look even better?

65th Birthday

This cake did double duty as my final exam for my latest cake decorating class and as the birthday cake for my mom's 65th birthday. The flowers are gumpaste and this was my first ever attempt at the basketweave on the sides of the cake. I am now a fan of the basketweave. I'm sure you will be seeing me use it again and again.

Mike's Amazing Cakes

Check out this guys work. It would be amazing to be this good.

http://www.mikesamazingcakes.com/

A Princess cake for a princess

One of the lady`s that came to my neice`s baby shower loved the cake so much that she asked me to make a cake for her daughter`s 7th birthday. She wanted a princess cake. This was my first pillow cake. I wish the pillow hadn`t ended up so thick but the feedback I got was all positive so I guess I was just being nitpicky. The slipper was a challenge too. But the goal is to learn something new from each cake and so far it has always happened.

A Baby Shower cake for my neice

My neice Jessica is expecting and my wife and daughter were putting on the baby shower. Of course dad is going to do a cake! The only instructions I was given was to have Winnie the Pooh somewhere on the cake. So a trip to Scoop N Save to purchase Winne the Pooh figurines (no way I was going to try to make them from fondant, they`re too recognizable) and then I went to work on the cake. In my defence, even though I chickened out on making Winne the Pooh from fondant, I did do the fondant baby. The footprints were fun to make too.

Finally, a wedding cake

Well it finally happened. From a Craigslist ad I was hired to make my first wedding cake. If I thought I was nervous about earlier cakes it didn't even come close to the nerves I had with this assignment. A three level cake in hot pink fondant with quilting and a gum paste bow on top. Another first for me, I had never done quilting on a cake before.

The three levels didn't get put together until I was at the reception hall. It would have been too difficult to tansport otherwise. But it all arrived and went together beautifully, the bride and groom loved it and I can now say I am an experienced wedding cake designer. One cake equals experienced right? Right?!

Monster Energy Cake

My son Devan turned 16 this year and he is a big Monster energy drink fan. I was nervous about trying something like this because it would be very easy to mess up something so recognizable. But he really wanted it and what good is it to have a cake decorator for a dad if you cant get exactly what you want for your birthday cake?

So here is the final result. I'm including a link to the video Devan made of the making of his cake. He posted this on Youtube. In the video you will hear me refer to a Christmas cake video as well. Sadly, this video never got made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88M1AnytzY