Archie Cake

This is another fast cake. Honestly, I’m starting to question my life if 90% of my cakes are thought of and delivered in just a few hours! This was for my father in law’s birthday. I have known him as Archie all 12 years of my marriage…but it’s not his name! Apparently when he was younger he looked just like Archie in the comic strip and the name stuck.

I’d never seen Archie before and had to look him up online, then employing the same toothpick technique I used in the hockey puck cake, I created the face and the comic strip title font for this cake. Considering I’d never seen Archie before, and I made this cake in about 3 hours…I think he turned out pretty cute!

Pinewood Derby Racer

Who said cake is only for birthdays? This is NOT a great cake! Come on…I’m not dumb!! But it was made in about 15 minutes (kinda looks like it, huh!!) But the parents were asked to bring a dessert to the race, and I thought it would be fun to match the theme. The best part of this cake…the Hostess Cupcake wheels. I felt bad that there were only 4 of them, each and every scout wanted one!

Grayson’s 7th Birthday

This would be Grayson’s masterpiece. Well, mine as far as the cake creation goes, but my son gets the credit with the vision. He wanted a hockey puck birthday cake…now let’s get real…that sounded kind of boring. Just a lame, flat, black cake right?? Yeah, that’s what I thought too. But no, he wanted the Chicago Blackhawk logo piped on the top and the insignia on the sides.

Now we’ve mentioned it before, I’m self taught. I’m not the most adept at piping…let alone piping freehand! But this was great! I took a piece of tracing paper and put it over my son’s jersey and copied the Indian Head and the Tomahawk insignia on the arms. Then I laid the Indian Head over the center of the cake, and used a toothpick to poke little holes through the paper and the fondant to create the lines. When it was finished, I just had to connect the dots with the piping bag. Pretty easy!

The tomahawks were made by putting a sheet of wax paper over the tracing. I copied the design with piped stars then put the finished pieces in the freezer to set. After 30 minutes I took them out, peeled off the wax paper and used a skiff of frosting to stick them to the sides of the puck.

I do have to say, to date, this is one of my favorites!

Blake’s 5th Birthday

Here she is!! To date, one of the cakes I’m most well known for. Go figure! Everyone tells me everything about this cake looks difficult, but you know what…it was surprisingly easy. You have to remember it was only my second attempt with fondant, so it can’t be that hard right??