A Dream Winter Cake

A cake for a “Winter hating, San Diego loving” friend! All I could wish for her was a melted snowman!

10 Cow, Topsy Turvy, Present Cake

This was an end of the year Christmas cake for a church organization.  All year long the theme had been “10 Cows”, so the cake is a topsy turvy cake made with Christmas presents, but then there are 10 cows all around the cake.  One cow is lying down, one is standing with her baby. One cow is only the hind end–he’s peeking in one of the gifts. Another cow is only the top portion—as if coming out of the present, after peeking.  The bottom cow on the right is my favorite…we actually cut way some of the fondant and sprinkled cake crumbs around his muzzle and feet because he’s actually grazing on the cake! The top gift is a little lamb, because the next year’s theme was “Of one fold and one Shepherd”.  All in all, one of my very favorite cakes to date!

Miss Chrissy’s Cake

I’m on Facebook—and I talk about cakes and fondant A LOT!  One day–after many posts and threads pertaining to the two a friend happened to mention that we were giving her cravings.  Well, the only “friendly” way to relieve such pain and suffering—I made her a cake!

What you don’t see is that this is a quad-layer decadent carrot cake with a yummy cream cheese frosting.  I never really realized how difficult it is to create a cake—for no particular reason.  No Happy Birthday—no wedding…just a plain old every day “Friend” cake.  I think it looks a bit like an English hat–but hey, it was cute–and I got to use my fun little cake stand!

Simple Flowers

This was NOT supposed to look this way. I wanted to either make a Tinkerbell cake or a Shrek cake. You can see by the flowers that Tinkerbell was my choice. But when it came time to adding the cake mushroom to the top, and the fondant Tinkerbells around the side—I really liked the simple design too much to add them. It needs a topper—but I think it’s a pretty cute little ‘change of plans’.

Last year I was at the Hobby Lobby and found these darling, whimsical cake platforms–but they were way too expensive. There were three sizes, the largest was $40.00, medium $30.00 and the smallest was $20. NEVER would I even think of spending this kind of money on cake platforms. But just a few months ago I found them on clearance and paid less than $20 for all three together. How cool is that!

This cake would probably fit into the realm of Mother’s Day, Bridal Shower or a more grown up birthday. In this house—it’s going to be for Father’s Day! So Honey…..Man up!!

Poker Cake

The poker cake was for a surprise 30th birthday. It in no way, shape or form matches the image I had for it in my head! But…with every hobby shop within a 30 mile radius being out hexagon shaped pans…and me not being able to hand pipe decent playing cards…this is the best it gets!

You will notice as you scroll through most of my cakes, I avoid “writing” on cakes. It’s not that I can’t do it…I just don’t think I do it well. That is one area I need to just sit and practice……piping handwriting!