My Little Pony Cake

Third birthday cake for a Leah.  her mom had a My Little Pony cake when she turned 3 and wanted to make it a tradition.  The color scheme for the cake was for the pony “Rainbow Dash”–and it was so fun to find ribbon at the hobby store to match the colors perfectly!

The Coolest Mickey/Minnie Cake

This is the cake I finished for today.  It was for a little girl who LOVES Minnie Mouse, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on TV.  It’s a little different from the Minnie Mouse cake I made a couple of months ago, but still so cute.  The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse scene above and behind the cakes was made from Rice Krispy Treats covered in fondant…fully edible!  The letters wishing Jazmyne a Happy Birthday are made from the candy chocolate molds, and are quite tasty themselves!

And one of my favorite touches of all….

I put a sheet of fondant under the Minnie Mouse cake, and ruffled it.  Too fun!

Baptism Cake

I have never enjoyed making a cake as much as I did this one. Oh, if only I had had more than one little girl! This was for a baby girl’s baptism last weekend–and I was pretty much given a license to do just about anything I wanted to with it, just make it girly…add roses and a cross and the inscription.

I was a little worried about the cross. I don’t know “Cross Etiquette”…is there one particular cross that is for one particular church? You know, I didn’t want to put a Lutheran cross on a Methodist cake!! But when I looked online for cross ideas, I found this one. It’s kind of Celtic with it’s swirls–but have you ever seen anything so girly? It looked like a piece of ribbon–and I had to use that one!

It was my first attempt at making sugar roses–those things are super fun…a bit on the time consuming part and holy cow…are they delicate. I always laugh on the cake shows when they say they only need 20 sugar flowers, but they are making 50. I just thought they weren’t very careful….no—these babies shatter at the slightest pressure. But they were so cool!

I’m not the best photographer in the world…and I wish the pictures were better–but to date, this is my favorite cake!

Dawson’s Princess Cake

This cake was made using my “quickie” Costco sheet cake method.  It’s really the only thing I’ve ever used when I’ve had to use a shape pan from Wilton. This carriage cake was made using a mixture of strawberry cake and pound cake.  It was frosted underneath the piping with white chocolate buttercream–and simple buttercream for the piping.  It matched the picture that it came with exactly.

This would be a case where good lighting is needed when decorating.  As I was piping the pinks the night before I was tempted to pull the dark pink off.  The picture called for hot pink–and all I could see was salmon pink.  But since I was nearly finished with the piping—it would have caused more damage than it was worth–so I left it.  It wasn’t until we were in the sunlight, delivering the cake that I realized that it was, in fact, hot pink.

Methinks it’s time to change the light bulbs!!

Elmo Redux