So the kid loves balls...

It was perfect for him!! And such a fun cake to make!

Easton's Cake!!

I've been having some serious issues with blogger tonight. Grrrr. So here is Easton's cake...I can't change the order of the pictures. Sorry. I saw a ton of these cakes on Cake Central and Easton got excited about it so I gave it a go. I learned a lot. I need to buy an exacto knife because cutting out the letters with a big bulky kitchen knife makes it really tough to do. I used MMfondant for the grey on the etch-a-sketch. That was not a good idea. Everything else was real fondant. I was going to tint some leftover marshmallow fondant a darker brown for the fence but when i realized how hard it was to work with I just used the same brown I had for the rope. When I was making the etch-a-sketch I didn't dust the surface I was working on with cornstarch and it made it really difficult to keep its shape. Thankfully I learned that before I tried to attempt the Toy Story Logo.

I'm happy with the way it turned out. The kids loved it and I learned so much!

Pink bug cake!

I made this cake for Sunday dinner for one of Easton's second cousins. She was turning 2 and her mom said she liked pink, bugs, Elmo, and Tinkerbell. I went with what I thought would be easiest. Its really a miracle that this cake even happened since I had to completely fill, ice, and decorate (including making the decorations) today! Trust me I don't normally do that and was not planning on it happening that way!



I hand painted the lady bugs and next time I'll try to paint them better. I made cupcakes too and filled them with the same filling the cake had. It was chocolate sour cream filling. One of my favorites.

Chanel

I asked my sister in law what cake I could make her for her birthday and she found this one. So here is my Chanel cake in all its glory!




It is a white almond sour cream cake with cream cheese filling and marshmallow fondant. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out, although I might have done it a little thinner (it was 11x6...Maybe I should have done it 11x5)and instead of fondant for the edging I would do just black icing next time...maybe it would have turned out better. My finger nails are still black around the edges from dying the fondant black! YUCK! I also would use the little silver balls instead of rolling and painting fondant silver for the rivets. It didn't look as clean as I would have liked. Oh and it was so hard to put the logo on right! The fondant was thin and it stretched a lot when I was moving it. Didn't turn out too bad but not perfect. Hmmmm...there's got to be a technique for that! Oh and definitely would dye the fondant gray before painting it silver for the zipper and metal rings. The silver just didn't make it dark enough!

All in all this was my favorite cake yet!

AHHHHH!!!!

I just found out you can use your Cricut to cut gumpaste and fondant and edible image sheets so you can get beautiful and perfect designs on your cake. UM COOLLLL!!!!

Here's an example I found and you can see the detail pretty well

You can also do damask stuff which i think is so elegant and would look awesome on a wedding cake!

I guess I know what I am going to be trying next!

Giraffe

You cannot imagine my excitement when I got my very first cake request last week for my friend Mikelle's** birthday. I was thrilled! So here is what my very first customers got:

Mikelle LOVES giraffe stuff and wanted it on her cake. So I said OKAY!!!!

I love the way it turned out. It's clean and (I think) elegant but still a little funky!

I'm really looking forward to the month of March. There are 3 birthdays in the Judd family and I am going to of course make a cake for every one of them. A golf bag cake for Nathan, a purse cake for Emily, and some sort of first birthday cake for my little niece. I'm hoping they will all be a challenge for me so I can learn. AND I hope to take the last cake decorating course!

**Mikelle is an up and coming photographer. You can check out her website here. She is currently offering discounted photo sessions so she can learn her way to becoming even more awesome! She already does great work. Some of my favs are here, here and, of course, here.

Wilton Course 3, Class 2

Tonight we worked with fondant for the first time. We learned how to cover a cake with marshmallow fondant and also make a fondant rose. I really liked the fondant roses. They were a little tedious and took a long time, but they turned out WAY better than those darn buttercream roses that gave me such a hard time.

I like the way my cake turned out. If I would have known better I would have made one more loop to go in the center and made the loops a little thinner in width. Oh well. My fondant did start to bubble a little when I got home and I'm not sure why. I'm excited to eat it, but I don't have the heart to cut into it until Nathan sees it. :) It is a from-scratch yellow cake with a chocolate sour cream icing. YUM! If they are good I'll post the recipes.

Just a bunch of stuff

Wilton Course 2 Finale Cake

A smash cake for a baby photo shoot

Lincoln's First Birthday Cake

My mom's birthday cake

Cupcakes for my sister in law

Here is a bunch of pictures of cakes I've done...just so I have them all in one place