Optimus Prime

With a blockbuster movie, it was only a matter of time before someone asked for a Transformer cake. This cake was SO MUCH fun to make, but as with previous customer orders….SO MUCH STRESS!! Every piece is carved from a two layer cake, covered in fondant, painted and then embellished with fondant details. His face was the first time I’d ever actually sculpted something out of fondant, and you know, I was surprised at just how easy it was, and how cool it turned out.

Toot Toot Chugga Chugga

What a fun cake this was! This was another “quickie” Costco sheet cake with my own cake sitting on top. I used the spray cans of food coloring (from the grocery store) to create the four Wiggles squares under the car.

As for the car it’s another Wilton shaped pan, the 3D Cruiser. I simply carved it to create a convertible, used fondant logs to make the actual car shape and then painted it red! The Wiggles themselves are from a Big Red Car toy that we had lying around.

This one is both the toy and the cake…kinda fun!

Not To Be Outdone…

I have mentioned before that I LOVE the 3D Teddy Bear pan from Wilton. This is one example of why! I would love to take complete creative credit for this little bunny—but in all honestly—I copied him! I found him online, and figured “How hard can he be”-and the answer was NOT AT ALL!! Yet the ‘precious’ factor totally rocks with this one!

The secret to the plushy fur…..I piped him twice. So he actually has double the buttercream frosting as normal…but he’s so plush and yummy!

Easter Basket

How fun is this cake? It is simply several layers of yellow cake carved into the shape of a basket, then using the basketweave technique I frosted it to look like an Easter Basket. The candy on top is actual Easter candy, but everything below is in deed cake.

I should also point out that this is the first cake that someone actually ordered from me, and payed me for. Pretty crazy that! A whole new level of stress suddenly emerges when you are making a cake for someone else, but honestly, any day I get to make a cake (whether for me or someone else) is a pretty great day!!

The 1st Guitar

First guitar cake. For someone scared to DEATH of piping, it turned out pretty cute. Mind you, I do see every fault with it (and there are many) but for a first time trial, I think it turned out pretty cute—I just wish the arm were a little longer. It has a sort of banjo look to it with the arm so short.

I also didn’t pipe the flames on this guitar. I outlined flames with piping gel, but then used sugar crystals to create the shimmering flames themselves. Yellow, Orange & Red…not too shabby!