Get well cow cake

This cake was super fun and really easy. We were getting some work done on our house, and the guy doing the work mentioned his girlfriend had surgery recently and that he would be interested in a cake for her. Turns out, she is in LOVE with cows, and this is what she wanted! I had tons of fun sculpting the cute little cow to go on top, and DJ came up with a great way to make the cow spots for the rest of the cake. This cake chocolate cake with vanilla bean frosting.

Ninja Turtle Birthday Cake

We made this cake for the same friend we made the Burn Book cake for. Her son is OBSESSED with ninja turtles, so we made this cool cake for him!

 

Needless to say, those ninja turtles were a lot of work, but it was totally worth it! Chocolate cake with strawberry filling, gumpaste decorations. Here's a closer look at the ninja turtles:

 

 

Dora's Mermaid Kingdom Birthday Cake

This cake was for our friend's three year old. She insisted on a Dora's Magic Mermaid Kingdom cake, so that's what she got! Chocolate cake filled with vanilla bean Italian Meringue buttercream. Covered in fondant with gumpaste decorations.

 

  The Dora was super fun to make, and Alison loved it!

Nursing Program Graduation Cake

We made this cake for my teacher's daughter, who graduated from nursing school in December 2012. The cake was vanilla with Italian buttercream and fresh strawberries! Yum!

This cake was super fun! The decorations were everything on this cake, so we had to make them extra special!

 

This was another one of my favorite cakes! My teacher and her daughter loved the cake!

Mean Girls Burn Book Birthday Cake

We made this cake for a friend. Her and her best friend are obsessed with Mean Girls (the movie), so she wanted a Burn Book cake for her friend's birthday. Now, if you haven't seen Mean Girls, the Burn Book is a book where the girls write horrible things about everyone else. Here we have a side by side, real book from the movie, and cake:

Left Side is a shot from the movie, right side is the cake

 This cake was red velvet with cream cheese filling. All the decorations were made piece by piece out of gumpaste, and the drawing was done with edible pen. This was the first cake we made for someone that wasn't a family member, so making it and then letting it drive off wasn't easy. These cakes are our babies! It's still a struggle, but we're getting better! 

Animal Baby Shower Cake

 

Now we're talking! This has got to be one of my favorite cakes EVER. We made this for DJ's sister's baby shower February 2012. (Hi April!) The whole cake was vanilla with vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream. The fondant was Satin Ice, and the little animals were sculpted completely out of gumpaste.

 

 I really got to test out my sculpting skills with this cake. (Yes, those are my man hands above.) 

I made four little animals:

 

I drew inspiration from different designs I saw online and duplicated them. I dyed the gumpaste before-hand and sculpted them with special little tools Wilton sells. This was the first time we were making a cake that lots of other people would see, so the pressure was definitely on.

Thankfully everything went according to plan! The only thing that we didn't make and isn't edible is the brown ribbon around the bottom tier. 

Since it was a ladies only baby shower, I got to go along with the cake and see that it got there safe and sound, and I even got to cut and serve it! We got awesome feedback. Like I said, probably my favorite cake we've ever made!

Glittery birthday cake

 

We made this cake for the same sister that wanted the Finding Nemo cake. Kind of a short notice cake, so we just threw together something cute and girly. This is the first cake we used regular fondant for instead of marshmallow. The glitter is edible and safe, and can be applied to any cake! Decorations out of gumpaste and fondant.