Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! This is a chocolate cake with peppermint buttercream filling. I thought it would be cute to have Santa getting stuck in the chimney on the way down. All decorations are made from fondant and are 100% edible.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mermaid Cake



This is a two tiered chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, covered in buttercream and fondant. With the exception of the mermaid candle topper, all pieces are completely edible and made from a fondant/gumpaste mix.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Diego Jeep

Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling. The bottom tier is covered with buttercream and fondant and the top tier is covered with buttercream and cookie crumbs.

The jeep is 100% edible, made with rice krispies treats, buttercream, fondant and gumpaste. The flags, grass and rocks are a gumpaste and fondant mix. The Diego logo and headlights are gumpaste and I colored them with food safe markers.

Diego and Baby Jaguar are plastic figurines, but everything else on the cake is edible. A close up of the jeep is below.


Friday, November 6, 2009

Pizza Cake




This was a lot of fun to make! And surprisingly simple. The cake was made much larger than needed, but only because it's much more life-like at 12" round.

Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, covered in buttercream and fondant. Rice krispies treats covered with fondant make up the "crust." The "sauce" is strawberry preserves mixed with buttercream and a bit of red and brown coloring gel. Everything else on the pizza...ahem, cake...is made from fondant.


The Cat is Back

Hello Kitty, done a bit differently. My camera battery literally died after I took this first shot, and I have better angles/pics on my phone that I will upload later.

The tiers are yellow cake with chocolate pudding filling covered in buttercream and fondant.

The Hello Kitty face is carved from rice krispies treats, covered in fondant and decorated with gumpaste accents. Everything on this cake is edible.


Saturday, October 24, 2009

Family Tree 80th Birthday Cake



This cake was for an 80th birthday celebration - for a man whose many passions were narrowed down to "family" and "Villanova baseball."

Each tier is chocolate cake with strawberry filling. The top tier celebrates Villanova baseball, while the second and bottom tiers celebrate his large family with a family tree. The birthday boy and his wife's name are "carved" in the tree trunk, their children and spouse's names are on the bottom tier and his grandchildren are all named on the middle tier.

All decorations (leaves, baseball bats, baseballs, etc) are edible and are made of fondant or a fondant/gumpaste mix.