Dead Space Cake

This is the cake I made for my brother's 19th birthday back in December. It is Issac's helmet from Dead Space (video game for those of you who don't play). The cake is red velvet, covered in vanilla butter cream and then MM fondant. This cake was pretty easy and only took me about a day and a half and I made everything from scratch. I have an awesome picture of us cutting it open but it's on a different card that I don't have right now. I have not had many cake requests and have been too busy with classes to play on my own. Hope to have some more pictures up soon though. Hope everyone had a great MLK long weekend!

Guitar Cake

I finished making a Birthday cake for my friend Joel's 21st today. I decorated the cake to look like his guitar. I didn't have straight wire so I used really thick thread for the strings. The cake is red velvet (so I guess the guitar will bleed when stabbed o.O) with vanilla buttercream. I LOVED making this cake and just HAD to add a cute little dinosaur (inside joke lol). I can't wait to give it to him this afternoon. Happy Birthday Joel! Hope you enjoy eating it as much as I enjoyed creating it ^__^
PS I just made business cards so hopefully I will have more cakes to play with!

Birthday Cake

Hunter and his brother just turned 21 this past Tuesday yesterday so today I made them a birthday cake. I was going to make a WALLE cake but around 10pm last night I figured out about how long it was going to take and how many supplies I was going to need. It was going to take me way too long on my own so I started brain storming. There was no way he was going to get a regular cake after my awesome chess board cake I made him last year. Hunter really likes the Moonkin form on his druid in World of Warcraft so I decided to go with that. It was so much fun and everyone loved it. I made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting (his favorite) and then used my new grass piping tip for the decorations. We just got a ton of little wild pansies in our yard so I picked a couple of them to add some more color to my cake. I'm making my cake tomorrow for my birthday Monday! I can't wait! I finally get to have a girls night out. I miss having girl time. I hope everyone has a great Easter!

Beehive Cake

Thursday was my mom's birthday but we are celebrating it today. Since she love Winnie the Pooh, I decided to make her a Beehive cake. I also bought her a Pooh figurine by Jim Shore. This was my first sculpted cake as well as the first cake I had ever made that was more than two layers. I had some trouble with the cake layers in the beginning because they kept wanting to crumble and lean. After I got the initial buttercream layer on and into the freezer it set up just fine and didn't fall over. I kept the cake in the freezer over night and today I covered it in fondant and decorations. For some reason my cake started sweating really bad. I had to put a fan on it after I covered it with the fondant to dry it and to keep my bees from falling off. The bees are having some trouble staying on still. I think they might be too heavy but I added a couple of toothpicks to help them out and it seems to be working for now. My only big concern is transporting it to the party tonight... My cake holder is not tall enough so I think I'm going to have to use a box. Hopefully none of the decorations will fall off. I surprised my mom with it this morning and she LOVED it. Of course I thought it turned out alright because I'm my biggest critic but she kept going on and on about how pretty it was and how much she liked it. :) Make all my hard work worth it. I would've had the cake finished a bit sooner (and with less stress) if I hadn't felt so terrible. Someone at work got me sick so I had to take a lot of nap breaks while working on the cake. But I finally have it finished and my mom adores it. She said she doesn't even want to eat it lol It's a chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream and marshmallow fondant.
Oh and if anyone knows the best place to get a cake board I would love to know. Lowes said they could give me a piece of plywood but couldn't cut it in a circle so I have no idea where else to go. Enjoy the pictures and any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Cuppycakes!

I have had a very busy day of baking and decorating! I've been wanting to learn to do some decorating on my own and work on building my portfolio. So today I made some vegan chocolate cupcakes and some (almost vegan) vanilla honey cupcakes. I decorated the chocolates with pink buttercream and marshmallow fondant roses with leaves. It was my first time making fondant and only my second time using it to decorate.

The vanilla ones I topped with a circle of fondant and then
made them look like Ace playing cards. It was a lot of work doing
everything from scratch but it was good practice. My friends even
bought them from me so I at least got paid for my work. They also all said they were delicious! Hoping to play some more this weekend. Enjoy the pictures! Hopefully they'll look even better with a little more practice.

Ginger Bread House!

My boyfriend and I made a Ginger Bread house for the first time. I used a piping bag with a tip and he used his fingers. So you can easily tell who did which sides =P It was a lot of fun. I think more of the candy decorationg pieces ended up in my boyfriends tummy than on the house. It turned out ok but then when I went to move it from the table to the counter, it caved in on itself. lol It was still fun to make and it's not like anyone was going to be eating it or anything. One of my cats would probably have knocked it over anyway. Hope everyone has a Great Christmas! Don't get any coal.