Saturday, August 11, 2007

Tim & Christy's Garden






Three tiers on a floating cake stand, filled with an array of royal icing flowers! Includes a diagonal half-basketweave. Also has sweet hearts in smooth space.

Bottom tier is a rice crispy "cake" with buttercream and raspberry filling. Middle and top tiers are white cake with buttercream and raspberry filling.

Flowers include hydrangeas, roses, primroses, apple blossoms, violets, and drop flowers.
A small alien was included (hidden) especially for the groom.

Cake serves 116 wedding servings.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Having a Ball!

Alec's Having a Ball!!!

"Basketball" is 9"round.
"Soccer ball" is 8" dome.
"Baseball" is 5" dome.

All are iced in buttercream.

Will serve 48 party servings.

WILD-life

McKenna's WILD Birthday


This is an 11" x 15" white cake with buttercream filling.
Iced in green buttercream the embellishments are palm trees with royal icing leaves and pretzel rod tree trunks. Then the Wild animals, elephants, lions, tigers, and zebras, are candy melts. These are formed and then hand decorated--they are E-D-I-B-L-E!!!


This cake will serve 50-55 party servings--as well as a few candy treats!!

Sand Castle at the Beach Party

Eliza's 5th Birthday Sand Castle Cake for her beach party.




The bottom layer is a 12" square, the top layer is a 6" square. They are iced in an ivory/sand/tan colored buttercream. They have applied "sand" (made from graham cracker crumbs and light brown sugar). The towers are fondant covered, with the applied "sand." The towers are from Wilton's Romantic Castle Cake Set. There are white chocolate* pieces like shells, crabs and a cute pair of sunglasses.** The cake is chocolate with raspberry filling.

This cake will provide 60 party servings.

*Made from Wilton Candy Melts®
**Not recommended for outdoor parties or parties where the ambient temperature is much over 70°F

Friday, May 18, 2007

Missionary Homecoming

The following cake was done for an Elder Missionary Homecoming. This young man was serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was returning home after two years. He served in the Iowa, DesMoines Mission.




The top tier is two "shoes" looking worn and such with a missionary tag and tie draped across them. They are iced in chocolate buttercream and covered in black marshmallow fondant, details including laces are made from fondant as well. The missionary tag is made from black fondant, with white buttercream icing. The tie is made from blue and maroon fondant.

The second tier is "scriptures;" a triple combination (Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants [D&C], and Pearl of Great Price) and a Holy Bible. They are separate cakes. They are iced in buttercream and covered in marshmallow fondant. The "pages" are brushed or "gilded" with yellow/gold sparkle dust.

The bottom tier is a 14-inch round iced smooth in buttercream and filled with raspberry filling.

This cake would provide approximately 120 party size servings.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Off to Iraq


This cake was for a young Marine Reservist who is going to Iraq. It was from his coworkers on his last day. The cake was white with buttercream, fashioned to look like a US Troop stationed in Iraq. The cookies have an almond vanilla glaze to appear as yellow ribbons--supporting the troops and hoping they all come home safely!

The second photo shows a close up of the message on the cake.

This cake served 12-15.

"Swamped " at 50



The recipient of this cake does heating and air for a living. So having it say "Feeling 'Swamped' at 50, Jon?" was great for him. The cake is white with buttercream and raspberry filling. Iced in buttercream with a sugar cookie/fondant "swamp cooler" and a sugar cookie chair and fondant figure. Everyone thought the cake was great, especially the birthday "boy".

The cake size is 11" x 15" and serves just over 40 (2" x 2" serving). Bigger size servings would serve fewer.