Going to the Dogs

So, puppy dog cupcakes for a birthday.

Luckily I had just checked out this book from the library, and it had some great ideas for making dogs.

A sort of Dalmatian.

My favorite, a disapproving Scottie.

Some sort of squishy faced dog that kind of looks like Chewbaca.

And a sort of a Westie.

One little girl went around the room collecting all the dogs from classmates willing to give them up. She ended up taking about six of them home on a plate, it was kind of strange.

Lego Indiana Jones!

This was really fun. Lots of work, but lots of fun too. I as I was stacking and covering the cakes with fondant I really didn't think that this was going to work out well, but it looks ok.

Using some downloads from the Lego site, I made some funny shrinky dinks to use as decorations.

I have never played the Lego Indiana Jones game, but I wanted to have bits from the movies. This was really the only one that came out.
The coal cart scene from Temple of Doom. I love the look on the Lego Willie's face.

Skulls and bones of course. Always ignore the ominous warning those provide.

And a snake, naturally.

And the giant booby trap stone.

Fun times!

YEAH WOLVERINE!!!!

Oh yes.

Total geek out moment. Seriously, my favorite X-Man ever, even before Hugh Jackman and his rippling biceps.

I really puzzled over this one for awhile. How to depict Wolverine on cupcakes???

OK, granted he looks a little more like Nite Owl from Watchmen (Movie, not graphic novel), but it was pretty much what I could do with fondant. And yes, I recognize that there is a costume difference going on here. The black hood is from waaaaayyy back in the Golden Age, I think the blue and yellow is more recent. But I'm not sure, it's been awhile since I've looked at comic books.

The X and the claw slashes were a pretty obvious choice for the other cupcakes.


Here is a slightly better picture of the decoration. This is a shrinky dink I made at home. It started out the size of a standard letter sheet of paper, and shrunk down to that size. I put a hole in it so that the birthday boy could use it as a keychain or whatever afterwards.

Funny thing is that he was questioning me about why Wolverine was dressed in that costume. OMG!!! Hello it's only Wolverine drawn by Jim Lee!!! Well, he's only 7, I'm sure he has never even read the comic books, just seen the movies. I suppose he can be forgiven.

But someone should really educate him....the youth these days...

These are rainbow cupcakes with buttercream and fondant.

Thomas the Train Part Deux

I don't normally care to do the same thing on a cake more than once. I like to think of my cakes and cupcakes as "custom". You know you're getting something that no body else on base has had or ever will have.

That saying, this might be the first time I've had to repeat a theme for cakes.

I've made Thomas the Train cupcakes in the past, and this weekend there was a request for a Thomas cake and cupcakes together.

Luckily I found these cute Thomas and Friends whistles somewhere, so I did not actually have to make a replica of Thomas (which would have been hard).

And I repeated the same faces as last time on the cupcakes.

I think the smiles might be bigger than the last batch, but there is something cute and appealing about these to me.
These are all chocolate with buttercream and fondant.

Lego cupcakes

I can't take full creative responsibility for this one. I had seen Lego cupcakes online somewhere and the image really stuck with me. So when someone requested a Lego theme I hauled it out of the vault and here you go!


Our family visited Legoland this summer. They had lego shaped pommes frites!! I wish I had bought some just to take a picture of it.

BOLT!

Yay a Bolt cake!

What a fun movie that was.

I was able to get Mittens and Rhino down pretty well, but when it came to Bolt.... Sculpting a well known character out of floppy fondant in humid weather is not so easy. I'm one of those people, that if the finished result does not look like the well known character, I'm not happy. And well, all my efforts ended up looking like a white blob with ears.

I was having a really hard time. In the end I had to settle on doing a collar with a BOLT tag on it. I really hope that I did not dissapoint the birthday girl.

Here is another shot of Mittens and Rhino...I'm really proud of those two. Rhino is in one of those snap together plastic Christmas ornaments, which worked perfectly for his ball.

Again crusting buttercream! Hooray for crusting buttercream! Over rainbow cake, with fondant and gumpaste details.

Cheese Cakes

First fully fondant covered cakes ever!

It's kind of funny because the fact that they are supposed to be cheese wheels kind of lends itself to the lumpiness of the cakes.


These cakes were made for a cast party at The Kid's elementary school. They did a production of The Pied Piper.

There were two casts, and two performances, so two sets of cakes. I turned around and did it all over again the next night.

Second time, a little better...


Still lumpy. Especially right at that point where the two layers meet under the fondant.

Still, kind of cute! And they were all demolished at the end of each night.

Care Bear Cupcakes

I could not imagine making a whole carebear on a little cupcake, so I settled on making some of their tummy "tattoos". If I had to go back and do another set like this, I would probably have done more of the "tattoos" and less of the clouds.

These were stored covered overnight, so they ended up absorbing a bit of moisture and getting shiny and a little sticky. But I did not seem to be a problem taste wise.


I think these were rainbow cupcakes with buttercream and fondant frostings.

Beauty and the Geek Dining in Cake

Here is another cake done for the TV themed spouses dining in.

This table's theme was Beauty and the Geek. The beauty part was pretty easy, but the geek bit was a little thought provoking. I got some physics equations from one of the participants and used a frosting pen to write them on the fondant.

This was also the first time I'd done a 3 tiered cake. There was not too much trouble with the stacking, but about an hour after stacking the whole thing a HUGE air bubble appeared on the bottom tier. It was like a large boil...ugh.

Here is a detail of the little bird I made to represent the "beauty" side of the topper.

For the "geek" side I downloaded a robot cubee from this site. I also used some of these on my daughter's Star Wars themed birthday cake.

This cake had white confetti cake as the first and top tiers, and plain white cake as the middle layer. The pink fondant was strawberry marshmallow fondant, and the others were plain marshmallow fondant. And I think the decorations were made with gum paste, I can't really remember.

Happy Birthday

To ME!!

Yeah, I made my own birthday cupcakes.

I got a new fondant cutter over the weekend, and just had to try it out.
Cupcakes + Gerbera dasies = FREAKING FANTASTIC!

Littlest Pet Shop Cupcakes

This is one of the first trays of fondant covered themed cupcakes I made.

I asked the birthday girl for one of her favorite pets and based the character's look off of that. There was of course on attempt of making a standing pet, but with a head that big, it was a failure before it even began.

Pawprints decorated the cupcakes that did not have any letters on them.

The birthday girl and her special cupcake.

These were a mix of white and chocolate cupcakes with buttercream and fondant frostings.