Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tropical Cake

Tropical Cake
June 4, 2009



Bottom Layer: Chocolate cake with chocolate icing, covered with fondant

Top Layer:
Vanilla cake with chocolate icing, covered with fondant

This cake was made for a Bridal Shower for a Destination Wedding. The water was created by mixing blues to the fondant and covering the fondant with edible blue shimmer dust. The top layer was colored and covered with clear edible crystal glitter to look like sand. The seashells were painted fondant, as were the lawn chairs, the flip flops, and the bottle. The umbrella is a toothpick umbrella.

Trivial Pursuit Cake

Trivial Pursuit Cake
May 29, 2009



Card: Two-layered dark chocolate sheet cake with Bailey's Custard in the middle with chocolate icing, covered with fondant.

Game Pieces: Vanilla cake with vanilla icing, covered with fondant.

This cake was made for the opening night of the play "The Odd Couple: The Female Version." The game pieces were petit fours covered with colored fondant, and the pie pieces were made from fondant as well. The cake was covered with fondant and the writing was done with an edible ink marker, and the added decorations were all fondant.

Fashionista Petit Fours

Fashionista Petit Fours
May 22, 2009




Body: Mini Vanilla Cakes covered with Pourable Chocolate Fondant


These petit fours were for a birthday.
One cake was baked and cut down to four equal petit fours and covered with the pourable chocolate fondant. The toppers were all molded from fondant, and silver dragees were used as extra embellishments. All the cakes were then neatly packaged in a color coordinated box.

IPod Cake

IPod Cake
May 17, 2009




Body: Chocolate Fudge Cake with Chocolate Icing, covered with fondant

This cake was for a birthday. Silver powder dust was used to paint the IPod silver. The writing was done freehand with edible marker, and the picture was printed and placed on a piece of fondant. The earbuds were licorice, rolos, and mini pretzel rods covered in fondant.

Guitar Cake

Guitar Cake
April 4, 2009





Body: Bailey’s Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Icing, covered in Fondant

Neck: Rice Crispy Treat with chocolate icing

Head: Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Icing


This was a birthday cake, about two feet long. The fondant was dyed red and ivory, and the silver was painted on with a silver powder dust. The knobs were Hershey Kisses, the screws were silver dragees, the strings were dental floss, and the frets were candy ties. Everything else was molded from fondant.