SWEET BABY BOY

This baby shower cake was so much fun to make.  Cute decorations cover a dark chocolate fudge cake iced in blue buttercream and a baby boy made from marshmallows and a vanilla wafer rest upon the top. This sweet boy is all snuggled up with his blanket made from fondant and is sleeping peacefully under the moon and stars made of gumpaste. Fondant stars all around the bottom make a nice finish for such a darling cake.

This cake can also be done in pink or any other color of your choice to accommodate any Mommy-to-be.

SOME CAKES FROM THE PAST

Here are a few cakes I have created over the years...

Our Princess Addison Turns 1

Matching Smash Cake...All Ready To Be Smashed

Pretty Princess Favors

Tasty Toad Favors

Our LadyBug Turns 2

LadyBugs Everywhere

Addison Turned 3

Pretty Cupcakes To Match

Pretty Package

Working hard in cake class

Birthday for Jennifer

Destination Cake

Just Because

October Birthday

One For Adam

Happy Valentines Day

No Bones About It

Hats Off To Anna Kate

It Was This Big!

Getting Older

I hope you enjoyed viewing these cakes made for many different occassions. 

CALLA LILLIES & PEARLS

Once again I had the pleasure of creating a cake for my neighbor and friend, Renee. 

Her son Matt had just announced that he was getting married and she was planning an engagement party for him and his bride to be, Mollie. 

We decided on a white cake and the colors peach and ivory.  She told me that whatever I chose to do was fine with her but mentioned that Mollie loves flowers.  Wow...what a trusting friend she is!  I thought that peach calla lillies would be beautiful sitting on top of ivory fondant and since they are also one of my favorite flowers to make, I decided I would use them for this cake.

The cake was a white cake iced with buttercream and then covered with ivory colored fondant.  On the top and bottom, I placed the calla lillies which were made from gum paste and then added some simple pearls for an elegant touch to this special cake. Nothing too fancy, just simple and elegant.

They were planning on having children at the party so I made cookies shaped like hearts and flowers and then decorated them with fondant and sprinkles. I also made yummy treats using Marshmallows stacked on a stick and then dipped them in white chocolate & sprinkles.  The kids LOVED them!

Rice Krispy Treats cut small for little hands were also dipped in white chocolate and covered in sprinkles. I placed these yummy treats in pretty wicker baskets with grass and they were also used as decor on the dessert table made just for the kids. What better than decorations you can eat???

What a great party this celebration turned out to be! The guests loved all the desserts and most importantly, Matt and Mollie were thrilled with their cake.

Congratulations Matt and Mollie!

CARS AND CAKE FOR MICHAEL

This Disney's CARS cake was made for my great nephew, Michael, when he celebrated his third birthday. The cake turned out really cute and is definitely one of my favorites. 

Michael loves chocolate so I made a chocolate cake,covered it with buttercream and added chocolate Oreo's around the bottom. Crushed Oreo's and M&M's made a perfect racetrack and green buttercream was used for the grass. No race can start or end without a flag so cute little race flags were added for the perfect start and finish.  I added Michael's favorite CARS character from the movie and the cake was complete.

Michael was thrilled with his cake and didn't even want to cut it!

Happy Birthday Little Guy!

LET THE GOODTIMES ROLL

My friend Mr. Cook is celebrating his 75th birthday so only a very special cake would do for this occasion.

When his wife and I started to brainstorm about the perfect cake for him, she shared with me that she would like to do something that showed his love for traveling. They had just returned from Las Vegas, one of his favorite places to travel so we decided it would be fun to throw a Poker Party!

This cake is made from a lemon cake with a buttercream frosting and covered in my homemade marshmallow fondant. The dice are also lemon cake that I covered in buttercream and then decorated with fondant dots.

The hearts,diamonds and spade shapes are also made from fondant and placed around the bottom layer of the cake. A few playing cards and some gold coins and we were on a roll and ready to wish Glen a VERY Happy 75th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Glen! Let The Good Times Roll!!

BIRTHDAY CAKE / GROOMS CAKE

Here is a photo of a cake that I have done in the past that would make a gorgeous Groom's cake but since it is so yummy, would made a wonderful birthday cake as well for that special chocolate lover in your life!

This cake is a four tier chocolate fudge cake covered with a chocolate fudge buttercream.  Dark chocolate fudge icing complement the top and bottom to give a nice contrast and help make it to die for!

I like to decorate the top of the cake with Pirouline rolled wafers and handmade chocolate candy swirls.

Served on a silver platter this makes a great cake for any occasion!

BIRTHDAYS & BUBBLEGUM

What a fun and colorful cake this was!

Lola Cate is my Granddaughter's best friend and she was turning five.  Lola Cate loves bubblegum so it seemed only fitting that this sweet girl would have a bubblegum themed birthday party. Her Mom and I thought it would be fun to make her a bubblegum cake and I believe it turned out perfectly.

Lola Cate's favorite flavor of cake is vanilla so I covered a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and my homemade marshmallow fondant.  I cut out colorful fondant circles in all different colors and sizes and placed them all over the cake.  Bubblegum spilling out of a gumball machine and a few gold coins helped to decorate the top of this fun cake. Pink fondant sprinkled with sparkle dust was used to spell her name and make the big number "5".

Lola Cate was having lots of friends at her party so I made cupcakes to go along with this cake. I wanted them to be sweet and simple so I used vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and placed a single gumball on top of each of them.

Lola Cate's party was a huge success and she loved her cake. Happy Birthday Lola Cate!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALI

Ali is the Granddaughter of Renee, who is a friend of mine and her second birthday was quickly approaching.  I had the pleasure of making Renee's other Granddaughter, Stella's second birthday cake recently so I was honored to have the opportunity to make another cake for another special girl in this wonderful family.

Renee shared with me that Ali loves kitty cats so I set out to make the perfect cat cake for her.  I started with a vanilla cake iced in purple buttercream and used that for the base of the cake. I made the head using a round ball shaped pan and once the cake was cooled, I cut it in half to make the sweetest kitty cat head which I then iced with a white buttercream icing.

I used black circles cut from fondant for the eyes and then placed a plastic movable eye in the center held of them on with a dab of frosting. The ears, nose and tongue are made out of pink fondant that were cut into small hearts and then folded into the perfect shape.  Spaghetti made perfect whiskers for this sweet kitty and vanilla wafers covered in white buttercream were used for her little paws.  Lots of white buttercream and ALOT of piping with my grass tip helped make this sweet kitty look soft enough to snuggle. I added some puffy cheeks and a pink shell border and she was all set for Ali's birthday party!

Renee said Ali loved her birthday cake and I have to admit, so did I!

EASTER BONNET CAKE

Happy Easter Everyone!

My whole family is coming over today for Easter dinner and an egg hunt and I can't wait! I hope each of you have a wonderful day with your families!

At my house, no holiday is complete without a lot of cakes! One of my favorite things about Easter has always been the beautiful Easter bonnets the little girls wear, so I let that be my inspiration for this dainty Easter bonnet cake.
 
A 10 inch round pan made the perfect base for my bonnet and my Pampered Chef measuring cup (the 4 cup size) made the perfect top. 

I decided to make this cake a coconut cake and then I iced it in a coconut flavored buttercream. Some toasted flaked coconut sprinkled on top, gave this sweet bonnet the appearance of a straw hat. The flowers and ribbon are made from my homemade marshmellow fondant and were the perfect finish for this pretty cake that looked perfect on my dessert table and tasted even better! 

Happy Easter Everyone!

"HERE A CHICK...THERE A CHICK...EVERYWHERE A CHICK CHICK!"

As I mentioned before, no holiday is complete at my house without a lot of cute cakes.

This little chicken cake turned out absolutely adorable and the kids loved it! 

I have a set of paisley shaped cake pans that I have been able to use for many different designs and the smallest pan of that set made the perfect body for this little guy.

He is a chocolate coconut cake iced in buttercream and then covered with my homemade marshmallow fondant.  His little eye, beak, wing and feet are also made from the same marshmallow fondant.  He is nestled comfortably in a bed of Easter grass made from flaked coconut that I dyed green using food coloring.

Now all we need is a plate and a fork.  Can someone cut it please?

CHOCOLATE GANCHE' BUNNY CAKE

This cake speaks for itself!  A chocolate ganche' Easter Bunny.  Yum!  Nothing says Easter better than chocolate bunnies!

This cake is my personal recipe for an Almond Joy cake. I love to get creative when I bake and see what unique flavors I can create.  I came up with this flavor a few years ago and it quickly became a favorite.  The Almond Joy cake has so much flavor that it doesn't need much so I decided to cover this little bunny in a chocolate ganche' and leave him alone. Simple, rich and delicious! His little eye is made of fondant and he's sitting on the same green toasted coconut as his little friend, Mr. Chicken. Beside him are two chocolate eggs made from the same Almond Joy recipe and covered in the chocolate ganche' glaze as well. I added some multi-colored sprinkles one them just to give them a little color.

We'll defienetly need a egg hunt to work off all this sugar!

ICE CREAM AND FLIP FLOPS

It's summertime and boy is it hot!  What a better way to cool off than with an ice cream cake?

Today our neighborhood is having a Tacky Flip flop party and everyone is supposed to wear a pair of flip flops that they deigned themselves. A prize awaits for the Best In Show and I'm sure it's going to be a contest worth seeing!

Sticking with the theme of the party, I thought it would be fun to make a cake in the shape of a pair of flip flops and since it's so hot, I decided an ice cream cake would be even better!

First, I took my husbands flip flop (since it's much bigger than mine) and traced it onto a piece of  brown paper to make myself a pattern. Once I had my pattern, I baked a vanilla cake in a 9x13 pan which was the perfect size for two flip flops. After the cake baked and cooled,  I froze it to make carving out the shape of the flip flops much easier. Once the cakes were nice and frozen, I placed the pattern of the flip flop on top of each cake and carefully carved out the shape of a flip flop. Now to add the ice cream center! I let the ice cream sit out to get soft and then filled each layer with ice cream...YUM! After I assembled both of the cakes, I iced them with a Cool Whip topping and tried my hardest to resist eating them right then! To add some color, I used Necco Wafers for polka dots and made sand from crushed Vanilla Wafers. Muti-colored pipe cleaners that were twisted together made the perfect straps and added the final touch to this fun cake.

In the end, I wasn't sure if I'd win the prize for the TACKIEST flip flops but I knew I'd win for the YUMMIEST ones!

A BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR NORMA

I love nothing more than surprising my friends with cakes! Baking for the people I love is truly my favorite past time.


Norma is a wonderful friend of mine and her birthday was quickly approaching so I decided to surprise her with a cake. It just so happened that my last Wilton cake class fell on the night of her birthday and I needed to bring a cake to class to decorate so all of this worked out perfectly!

Since it's the holiday season, I wanted to do something in red and green but without it looking like a Christmas cake. I decided to bake a butter pecan cake in a square pan and cover it with buttercream icing for the crumb coat.  Then I covered it in my homemade marshmallow fondant and I was ready for the fun part!
To start, I covered the bottom edges of the cake with white and red circles and added small white circles in the center of the red ones to really make them stand out.  Next, since we don't see much snow in Georgia around the holidays and we all dream of a white Christmas, I decided to paint the flowers and leaves I made for the cake to look like they were dusted with snow. I thought they turned out pretty good...maybe we'll see some real snow after all?

In the end, my instructor for my class was quite pleased with my final cake and Norma was so surprised when I showed up at her house that night with a yummy treat. Happy birthday Norma...and here's to hoping we see a white Christmas!

BARBIE TURNS 40

Today is Gina's 40th birthday, but if you could see her, you'd swear she isn't a day over 25.  Gina requested a Barbie cake, so I set out to make her a Barbie Doll cake just like she wanted.

This cake was devils food with a buttercream icing and covered with marshmallow fondant.  I must admit, I had never made a Barbie cake before so this was really fun for me.

I purchased a real Barbie for this cake, so the key was trying to decide how I could get this doll into the cake without her legs riping it apart.  I decided I would wrap lots of tape around her legs and then cover the tape in plastic. Once I finished that, with a lot of prayer (and fingers crossed) I inserted Barbie into the cake and prayed her legs would stay together. Lucky for me, they did. Whew!

Lots of pretty pink fondant sprinkled with pink glitter made the perfect dress for this Barbie.  A pretty sash to cover her waist and some buttons for the front and back and she was almost done! I liked the top that she had on when purchased her so I decided from the start to make the skirt to match it.

When I delivered the cake to Gina's husband he was so surprised and couldn't believe that it looked like a real doll.  Not sure what he was expecting but I was thrilled that he thought it looked real! I just love to exceed my customers expectations! Gina absolutely loved her cake and still doesn't look a day over 25!

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY GINA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STELLA

Today is Stella's 2nd birthday and this is my first cake for her.

Kids birthday cakes are my absolute favorite and I sure hope I get to celebrate many more birthdays with this precious little girl!
Some of my clients know exactly what they want down to the smallest detail and others give me a few key points to work with and let my imagination run wild! This mom said that her sweet girl loves the color pink as well as balls and balloons, so I thought a pink cake with both would be fun.

For this cake, I made a vanilla cake and covered it with pink buttercream. I then made colorful circle cutouts from fondant and placed them all around the cake.

The top of the cake has colorful balls made from fondant that are then suspended with cake wires.  A pretty "2" candle sits in the middle just waiting for a wish to be made on it. What a sweet cake for a sweet little girl!

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

I just love watching children grow! I had the pleasure of making this handsome guy's third birthday cake and now he just turned five. On his third birthday, he wanted a Monster Truck cake and I must say, it was a MONSTER Cake. I bet that cake weighed 30 pounds!

So this year Jake wanted to celebrate with Darth Vader. Jake's favorite cake is vanilla so that's exactly what he got. The cake was vanilla cake with buttercream icing.  I carved the bottom layer to look like an exploding meteor and covered it with black buttercream. The top layer represents the galaxy and was covered with blue buttercream and lots of silver painted fondant stars. The Star Wars logo was carved lovingly from sugar sheets.

Darth Vader himself was the candle holder and a red candle made a great light saber. The cupcakes were also vanilla cake but to make them look a little special, I swirled the white and blue buttercream together and topped them off with a fondant star and a Darth Vader helmet.

Happy Birthday Jake and May The Force Be with You!

WE WILL MISS YOU!

It's always hard to say goodbye to a friend or co-worker, but I can't think of a better way to do so than with cake?

I made this cake and cupcakes for the office where my sister works.  They had a very special person leaving and they wanted her to have something very different.  No ordinary cake would do for this occasion! So I put my thinking cap on and came up with this.

This cake was chocolate vodka fudge with a buttercream icing covered with marshmallow fondant. The stars are chocolate fudge cake also covered with marshmallow fondant.

The yummy cupcakes are chocolate vodka fudge and my famous caramel macchiato adorned with fondant confetti.

The stars on the wires are paper but the sign on the cake is made of fondant and sugar sprinkles, nothing too sweet for this dear lady. 

She was sent off with a blast and the cake was a success!