Woah!

The Kid went to a week long horse camp over spring break. AAAAAAaaaahhhhhHH!!!! Vacation for both of us.
Here is the cake that I made for her last day.

It had a black dog, a rabbit, and a pig running around the bottom of it. Those are some of the other animals she got to play with and take care of over the course of the week.

This was my first time working with marzipan, I used it to make the horse,and it worked out pretty well. One thing I did not expect was that the marzipan would be so oily. I did like the way the shapes held up, and did not sag the way I would expect my fondant to.

Like I told my friends, I was feeling kind of guilty since I did not make The Kid a cake for her birthday last year. But then I think on it, and realize that she gets no reason cakes all year long.

Happy Belated Birthday!

The Husband's big Four-Oh was on the 4th of this month. Unfortunately for him, he spent it in bed sick with Norovirus. I guess it's going around our area...Awesomesauce!
So, obviously no cake for him on his birthday.
The next week, he went on a trip, so no cake again.
I told him that the only way he was going to get a cake for his birthday was if I could bring it to him at his office. There was no way in processed grains and sugar hell I was going to have a big cake sitting on our dining room table for a week.
So I took it to the office last monday.
I swear, I don't mean to sound like I'm stereotyping, but taking a cake into an office filled with cops is like chumming the water on Shark Week! One person left the office with a slice of cake, and soon enough there was a line out the door!

Anyway, onto the cake.

This is a special cake I only make for him on his birthday. Not the most masculine cake ever to grace these pages, but it was fantastic!

Sgt. Awesome's White Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake, with white chocolate buttercream, fresh strawberries, and white chocolate dipped strawberries.
White chocolate is his favorite obviously. Luckily the strawberries have started to come in to the stores, and they are very nice for this time of the year.

Happy Birthday Mr. Awesome!

Minnie Mouse

Baby Minnie cake for a first birthday party.

Of course I forgot to take a picture of it until after I had moved it into it's transport box.

I just cant resist adding those little choking hazards. But then I guess that the baby is not the only one eating the cake.

And the lovely little dive cake.

Do the Hustle!

A disco birthday cake!
With my best attempt at disco balls. I hope nobody broke a filling on all of those dragees.

The only thing I could really think of was the flashing floor I remember from the TV show Dance Fever with Danny Terio.

I tried to model the age part after the Studio 54 sign, the font is almost right.

Ninja Cat

I know that the title of this post is Ninja CAT, but what really got me excited was the ZOMBIES!!! I don't know if I've ever gone on about my love for a good Zombie flick. And, you wouldn't be surprised at the lack of requests for me to make a good ole' Zombie cake.

This was a Ninja Cat (made for a lady named Kat) vz. Zombies cake!

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Here are some of my undead parts! (I'm kind of inapropriately giddy here)

More parts, with extra gore!!!

And a wide shot of the whole cake.

The Ninja herself, I didn't get a shot of her tail in here, so it is kind of hard to tell that she is a cat.

One of her victims.


The funny thing about this cake is that I made it on the same day that I made the Louis Vuitton (??) one posted below. If you look closely, you can see that they are the exact same cake, just decorated on two different ends of the taste spectrum.

I'll let you guess which one I like better.

Louis Vuitton

Who does not love a little bit of Louis?!

I have never made a handbag cake, and I don't know that I ever will, but here is a LV themed cake.

I think that I got the colors down pretty well.

I wish that my bows were a little peppier, but I can never get them to look very fluffy.

I had just happened to pick up a pattern marker from the sewing section of a store to add to my toolbox. It's a good thing that I did because hand marking all of those stiching marks individually would have drove me insane! Hand cutting all those logo shapes was hard enough as it was.

Here is that sad droopy bow again, almost as sad as a bridesmaid's butt bow.

Cars

So another first. I have never seen the movie Cars, it came out during a period when The Kid refused to watch animated movies. Shark Week on Discovery Channel, yes, talking cars, no.

Anyway, here are some of the characters I know nothing about.

Dolphins...Principal's Cake

Lenae designed a new logo for our Elementary School's spirit wear. Our Principal absolutely loves it and is not putting it on everything that he can.


Naturally when his birthday rolled around, the Vice Pricipal ordered a cake with the new logo on it.

iTouch

The #1 item on most teen wishlist in the area is an iTouch.

Here is an iTouch cake I did for a 13 year old.

The time and date on display are her birthday and birth time.

It took quite alot of time to get these apps made out.

Luckily I had all of the right colored dragees to make a blinged out iTouch cover.

Bakugan Brawl-Day Cake

I'm brshing off my cake baking doldrums here to post some of the cakes in my backlog.

Here is a very simple cake I made for a Bakugan birthday party.

Super simple, but at the same time, time consuming. All of those flames are indivdually cut out and then hand shaped.

Dora!

My first ever Dora the Explorer cake!!

The kid absolutely loved this show when she was a toddler. I remember once when my mom came to visit, and was talking to her. Grandma asked "What's the magic word??" The Kid's response, "ABRE!!" Awesome.

Anyway, I had the cake and background turned the wrong way, so my photos all came out dark and a little blurry. I am a rubbish photographer. So these are a bit flashy.

The cake was served along with some flowery cupcakes.

And here is the birthday girl with her cake! I love it when people send me pictures of the recipient enjoying the cake....hint-hint...

yay!

Blossoming

Here is another one of my "Maggie" cakes.

It's getting easier and easier to make this one. It's also becoming one of my most requested styles.

Lovely.

Little Einsteins

I'm not all that familiar with the Little Einsteins show. The Kid was past that stage when it came out. She did watch the heck out of those Baby Einstein videos.

Anyway, this is supposed to be the ship that is in the show.

It sort of came out looking like a cartoon version of a cartoon ship.

Of course there were cupcakes to go along, you can kind of see them there in the background.

It's been a long time since I've done a really carved cake. I was not too sure how well the crusting buttercream would go on, especially around the shapes like the rocket engines (which were cupcakes...on a stick!), but they ended up smoothing out pretty well.

Shadow Boxing

Here is another retirement cake for The Husband's Chief. It was supposed to look like a shadowbox that is generally presented to the retiree. The stripes ended up being a bit large, so the "box" ended up looking very crowded without having a great variety of items in it.

Here is a detail of the ribbon rack. I meant to have a picture of The Husband's actual ribbon rack to compare, but he hid it somewhere.

Dog tags.

Coins. The Husband has a whole mess of coins that he displays on his desk. I was lucky enough to find this chocolate mold that was in the shape of the Air Force seal. It is quite detailed, but is a little hard to see in chocolate.

I placed a couple of them on the top of the cake, and ran them around the edge of the cake. I made them in white and dark chocolate for that.


Apparently it went over quite well.

The Cake Baker Strikes Back

So, the second Star Wars, well the second one according to my time line is Empire Strikes back, my most very favorite Star Wars movie. Therefore naturally, my second Star Wars cake...we have yet to see if it turns out to be my most favorite Star Wars cake.

Anyway...

It's pretty good I think.

There are some of the same elements as the last one I did, but this boy requested "more Dark Side".

I added Clone Troopers.

And Storm Troopers.

To add a little more to the pot I ran some stars around the back of the cake, and black frosting. Oh, black frosting is a dangerous thing. For one, it usually tastes disgusting because of the amount of food coloring needed to darken it. And second, it can turn your mouth a very strange, strange color. Used sparingly it can work, but I do try not to use it too much.

Wizards 2

I did another Wizards of Waverly Place cake, almost just like the other one. Just a couple of minor changes to this one.

I love those feathers, they were so much easier to make the second time around.

Here's that party invitation that the cake is based on.

I love working the details on this cake, for some reason my piping was right on target with this one. These color combinations are so non-traditional and fantastic, I love them!

Again those feathers!! I love them too, I think I might have to make a peacock cake just so I can make these feathers again.