Gender Reveal Cake

This cake was sooooo much fun to make.  I was smiling and giggles the entire time I was frosting a decorating it.  It was just a blast to be the only person who knew the secret!

My neighbor Deanna asked me to make this cake for her daughter, Brittany.  Her nurse gave me a call after her ultrasound and I made the cake for a gender reveal party that night for her family.  No one knew the gender, until they cut into the cake!

To keep things simple, I had the vanilla layers baked and tinted only the inside filling.  I kept all other icing plain white, so there would be no mistaking what color was on the inside.  It was so fun to be in on the secret and help make the reveal a special night!

Toilet Seat Cake

My husband's crew asked me to make this Good-bye cake for one of their own.

 

This is a 9x13 layer cake with a toilet seat on top!  The seat is a wide, flat ring of white icing.  Inside, piping gel was tinted blue to look like toilet water.  A little gumpaste iphone sits inside the bowl.  

 



"The Cure" themed BIG Birthday Cake

My friend Julie had mentioned this summer that she would be ordering a big cake for a birthday party near Halloween.  As the date approached Julie gave me small details about who the cake was for and the type of party this would be. 

My first and most important challenge was to somehow channel The Cure....yes, as in all your favorite songs from the 80's Cure.  Let me tell ya, there's not a lot Cure-themed cakes on the internet to draw inspiration from.  Somehow, I miraculously found this picture, while searching for "Goth Cakes".  That's when Julie and I decided that we had to have the big hair on top, to give props to lead singer Robert Smith. 

We loved the eye, too, so I made a gumpaste eye with a painted iris, pupil and lots of glimmering shadow and lashes!

 



The top layer was a 6" vanilla layer cake frosted in ivory tinted buttercream. 

 

 

The middle layer is a 9" red velvet layer cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in black fondant.  I made a ruffle border to wrap around the base.  It was kept smooth and simple.

 

 

 

The bottom layer is a 12" marble layer cake, with Maroon tinted buttercream. 

 

 





While delivering the cake before the party started, I got to glance at the set-up in progress.  It looked like an amazing party, and I'm so glad I was able to help make the day special. 

 

 

 

Pennywise the Clown (Scary Version!)

If you're like me and probably many other people born around the late 1970's and early 1980's, then there's a pretty good chance you're terrified of clowns.  You don't enjoy them in circuses, parades, or birthday parties.  In fact, I'm rather confident that my generation single handedly destroyed the clown profession.  But it's not our fault, it's Stephen King's.....you know where I'm going with this, right?  Yes, you do.  The movie IT.  I am still mind boggled how that horrible movie was played on network television during primetime.   A nation of impressionable minds were forever changed...

So you can imagine my delight when I was asked to make a creepy clown cake for my good friends Kenn & Kari.  They had an awesome Halloween party with a creepy circus theme and wanted a Birthday cake for Kenn's dad.  I couldn't possibly think of anything creepier than Pennywise, the clown from It.  So I had to Google the most wrong and depraved phrase anyone should ever have to Google....."Clown from It".

I highly suggest you never, ever do that.

So, here is the creepy cake. 

I could only bear to take this one quick picture.

Brave Cake

My friend Janice had some great ideas and inspiration for a Brave-themed cake for her daughter Marleigh's sixth birthday. We decided on a 2-tier cake.

The bottom tier was inspired by a tapestry we found here.   I did a bottom border in gray fondant to look like a castle.  It was a 10" cake.

The top tier was all about the bow & arrow.  I did a gold rope border, a bow made out of a fondant/gumpaste blend (I let it air-dry bent around an 8" pan so that it would keep the contour of the cake later). The top tier was an 8" cake.  The icing was vanilla tinted ivory to give it a little bit more of an old-timey feel.

The top was very simple with her happy birthday message piped between two arrows.

San Diego Chargers Cake

I got a surprise call from my friend Lynn who asked for a surprise cake for her husband's birthday.  Brandon and I used to work together (before kids, a hundred or so years ago).  He is from San Diego so he got a cake with his team on it!

We did a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.  It was the first time I tinted cream cheese icing, and it actually worked out pretty well.  I kept the borders and writing a regular vanilla buttercream so it would pipe well.  The logo is a cut fondant layered on top of each other.

Fire Duty Cake

My wonderful husband has been on light duty at work for six months straight, as that is the rehab time required for ACL surgery.  It was not an easy six months, especially since my husband loves his job and doesn't do well with being restricted!

So when the time FINALLY came for his doctor to give him the okay to get back to work full duty, I made a cake for him to take to his crew.

The best part was, he got to put out a structure fire his first day back on duty, within the first twenty minutes of his shift.  The crew came back to the fire station and had cake!