Geburtstag!

None of my German friends has ever had me make them a cake before. I've taken cupcakes to my doctor once or twice, but I've discovered that the thing the Germans really love is Brownies. I don't think that they have anything like that here, so it's really a treat.

Anyway, my doctor has told me that American cakes are too sweet, I guess it's all the frosting.

Anyway, again, one of the teachers at The Kid's school wanted a birthday cake for her mother's 90th birthday. I was told...."She likes roses". That was all. Crap, my rose piping skills are pretty out of date, I don't think I've made a buttercream rose in over 3 years.

So I did the next best thing, I hid my cruddy piping skills with chocolate covered strawberries (another thing I don't think they make here!).

Ok, I guess they're not *THAT* bad.

Funny Bunny

Now I can't seem to discover if this bunny is named "Happy Bunny", or "Grumpy Bunny", but I guess it is an entire product line? I know I've seen it before, and it is kind of cute.

Yes....I still suck at taking photos of my cakes...

I would say that this is a pretty happy bunny.

Here is the cute saying that the birthday girl wanted on her cake.

Awesomesauce!

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.

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.

Heide Red & Black

Here is a small cake done for an adult's birthday. The overall design was left up to me, I was just given the recipient's favorite colors.

They happened to be red and black.

As a general rule, I don't like to use too much red or black frosting. Both colors take alot, and I mean ALOT of icing dye to get a true color. Grey and sort of dark pink does not really do it for me, it looks very faded and just not right. Anyway, with that much icing dye the taste of the frosting becomes very sharp and bitter. Not really what you want to go for when making cake. Black frosting also tends to turn your mouth and teeth a very strange color.

Using the colored frostings as accents worked out pretty well.
As a note, it does not take as much dye to color fondant, and the taste is rarely affected.




This cake/cupcake combo also ended up on The Cupcake Blog. Woot!

Topsy Turvy!

O-M-G!!!

FINALLY!!! I mean, seriously, finally!!

I put on my big girl decorator pants and attempted a topsy turvy cake again.

For those of you reading from the beginning (I know there are not many of you, but that's ok) you might remember my very first post. My first attempt at a topsy turvy cake was a pure disaster. And since then I've had unintentionally crooked cakes, but not an actual true, meant to be wonky cake.

Until now.....

Ta-DAH!

This was an Alice In Wonderland themed cake.

Really how else should an Alice In Wonderland cake be, but a little off balance.

Granted, there are some areas that could have been improved, and things that I would have done differently. But overall, I am incredibly happy about the way that it turned out.

A very merry unbirthday indeed!

Lenae's Un-Birthday

So we were going to surprise Lenae on her birthday this year. Long story short, it did not work out, but she got a new nephew out of the whole deal.

Of course I had already prepared the dessert for her party, so here are some gratuitous cake shots

Last year I made her sunflower cupcakes, this year I figured I had to go one a little better.

Her favorite colors are a turqouise/teal green, and greens, so that's where I got my color combination from. This is the first time I've ever done a two colored cake like this, and separating it with that swirl of brown really made it work.

And here she is looking not a day past 29 (again!).

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!

Tink 3

Tinkerbell seems to be getting popular again, after saying I did not make too many of these cakes, I've had two requests in the past two months.

Each time, it gets easier to make this cake. It helps alot to know exactly what I need in order to pull it off.

And I'm still in love with those toadstools.

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.

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.

The big 2-9

This was a wonderful cake to make. There was much discussion on theme, colors, shapes, everything. I'm glad because it shapes my ideas of what someone's expectations are.

It was just pretty, pink, and still grown up somehow at the same time.

Obviously it was for a 29th birthday party.

There were of course coordinating cupcakes to go along with the cake.

Here is a close up of what I call scrolling, for lack of a better word, on the bottom tier of the cake.

Getting better, I think that my days with henna parties really paid off there.