Sweet Blossom

A friend's husband called me up to do a surprise cake for her birthday this week.

We managed to decide on her favorite color, purple, and her favorite flower, cherry blossoms.

Turned out quite well I think. It's not as big as it looks, that top tier is made of two large cupcakes.

The branches are made of dark chocolate, and the flowers are fondant. I might just have to do an easy tutorial on making these cherry blossom branches some time in the future. They were surprisingly easy to make.

Here is a shot of the back. I think that little branch was one of the small ones that hardened up before I could throw some flowers on it. But, I usually like to continue a design on the back of the cake as well as the front. I think it finishes the whole composition off very nicely.

Funnily, as I was dropping this cake off today at the husband's office, the wife pulls up infront to take him to lunch. I think we spotted her before she did us, and we had to scoot back inside. He ended up going out and I waited in the building until they had gone, and I snuck the cake into his office. I am very, very sneaky. Hopefully he was able to pull off the surprise.

Happy Birthday Melissa!

Bowl me Over

So I guess there was some kind of big sporting event going on yesterday?

I had and order for a Superbowl cake, and man I love baseball, so of course I said yes!

Just kidding, of course I know that the superbowl is football. Unfortunately, it is not the kind of football I like.

Anyway, on to the cake. My directons included the phrase "Make it look custom, not like a normal cake."

I hope this is what she meant.

I was quite proud of my football helmets, there was a couple of hours there where I was rather confused as to how it was going to work, and a bit of time where I was thinking "Stuff it, just do the logos!"

Colts

Saints

And the Superbowl logo for this year. Colors are a bit off, and I am the first to admit that my piping needs alot of work.

I just happened to notice the chocolate footballs at the store, and grabbed one up just in case I needed something extra to add. Then I had a thought.

Lombardi Trophy!!!

So a bonus side of chocolate trophy. This would be my first time working with chocolate like this, and it turned out surprisingly well. I suppose it would have been alot different if I had to make the football too.

Here's where poor planning also kicks me in the butt.

Yeah, I set and frosted the cakes before I realized I was not going to be able to pipe my borders on those inner edges. Whoo! D'oh!

Poke-Char

What I don't know about Pokemon is alot. Luckily I live in the age of Google.

Here is a Pokemon cake made for the middle son of one of my best customers.


She supplied me with all those little figures, which was awesome because then I did not have to make my own.

This little dude kept diving off the cake though and left a couple of dents in the side.

I was trying to make a completely round Pokeball thing for the top, but it was incredibly hard. That is something I need to practice a little more, and not just try to do on the day of order.

This cake is the party counterpart to these classroom cupcakes.

Whiteout!

We were snowed in this weekend so there were no cakes.

We went out on Friday to do some erands, and when we got back, the car got stuck in the driveway. Apparently Lenae someone gouged some ruts in my driveway with their car, add slippery snow to that, and even 4WD gets bogged down.

Here is an idea of how deep this snow really was by the next day.

My dog is pretty tall, her head comes up to my hip, at some points the top of the snow was brushing her belly.
So really, I don't think we could have gotten up the hill, even without Lenae's someone's assistance.

It's ok though, since there was nowhere really to go and it was nice and cozy in our house.

Besides there were things to be done.

Snowman building

Sledding

And it looks like the forecast calls for more snow to come.

As a bonus I'm completely prepared for Valentine's day. Cabin fever, so not a problem for me.

Giddyap!

Or however you spell that...

My first cake with horses. Before this I would always convince people to change their theme, I know, that's bad. But I had no idea how I could make a horse cake, without, you know, making a HORSE cake, which I don't think I could do.



Here is a little closer image of those horses.

Apparently they are a rare breed of eyeless horses.

AVAST!!

These two pirate themed cakes are for the drama club cast party at The Kid's school. Obviously they're putting on a play about pirates. I've done a pirate themed cake in the past, these are a little more toned down.

I usually do a white and a chocolate cake for these events since there are alot of kids to feed.

This is the white cake.


This is the chocolate cake. The banner is the same one that is on their program.

It was difficult to get a good shot of the chocolate cake since it is so dark. Here is a better image of the details. Luckily The Kid had donated her Pirates of the Caribbean toys to my decorating stash, so I had some toppers I could add without having to make my own.

Movie Night

Here are some popcorn cupcakes I made for a birthday party held at the movie theatre.

I was unable to find any white and red striped paper to make the cupcake cups, so I made some out of solid red paper and used white electrical tape to create the stripes.

These are rainbow cupcakes covered in buttercream icing.

All displayed on my brand new cupcake stand.