Toadstool Baby Shower

I was yet again lucky to have the pleasure and honor of making a cake for a friend who was about to become a new mommy!  The theme for this show . . . yep you guessed it gnomes and toadstools!  This was my first time ever attempting to make a toadstool cake.


The cake is a red velvet cake, filled with a cream cheese frosting and iced with vanilla butter cream.  It was then covered and decorated with MMF.  The gnome is a figurine I found at Hobby Lobby and the amazing cake stand was hand made by my extremely talented father-in-law!

Triplets Cake

To say these cakes were made for 3 of the most amazing kids would be a huge understatement!  Between struggles vision impairment, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and  infantile seizures they have been through it all.  So when my friend asked me to make her kids birthday cakes this year I was honored!

There was no "theme" for this event.  They wanted to keep it a small and intimate gathering of close friends and family.  Keeping that in mind

we decided to do 3 individual cakes.  Besides just because they share a birthday doesn't mean they have to share a cake!  Each cake was covered and decorated with MMF.  The cakes were a double chocolate cake, filled with a vanilla mousse and iced with a vanilla butter cream.

Rainbow Cake

This cake was made for a DEAR friend's daughters first birthday!  The top layer was a vanilla cake baked into 6 different layes; each a color of the rainbow.  It was then filled and iced with a vanilla butter cream. 

The cake is covered in and decorated with MMF.

To make the candles flame I used a small piece of yellow fondant and marbled in a little dab of orange food coloring.  

Grumpy Old Men

My husband is about to turn the big 3-0 and I've been giving him a hard time about getting "old". So I thought what better way to celebrate then with a Grumpy Old Men party! For his cake I decided to make a pocket watch cake.

The cake is made from a 8" round cake. It is a dark chocolate cake filled with a chocolate and banana butter cream  then sprinkled with dark chocolate shavings. It was then covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. The nobbs and chain were also made of MMF. I then cute a 5" circel and handpainted the numbers. The 8" cake, clock hands and nobs were then paint with edible gold paint.

Not too Sweet - Sweet 16

This cake I made for a Sweet 16. It was covered in and decorated with MMF. The skull topper was sculpted from MMF , details were the carved into the sculpture and then it was painted. The top tier was a banana split cake. It's a vanilla based cake with mashed bananas added to the batter. It was then filled with a layer of dark chocolate icing, homemade vanilla whipped cream and chopped cherries. The bottom tier was a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and whipped filling.

Sushi! Happy Birthday Ryan!

Here is my second cake since baby! If you recall back in March I made a sushi cake for my brother's birthday. Well a friend if mine saw it and asked me to make a red velvet cake for her boyfriend's birthday. I didn't want to make the same exact cake, but knew she wanted the table. So, I decided to make the table setting a little different this time. As luck would have it, this cake matched their table scape PERFECTLY!

Cake was red velvet with cream cheese filling, crumb coated with vanilla BC, covered and decorated with MMF. TFL!

After a 3 month hiatus I'm back! Giving birth to my beautiful baby girl was the most amazing experience! She is definitely the best thing I'll EVER bake from scratch.

This is a dark chocolate cake with homemade vanilla whipped cream and sliced strawberries as filling. It is iced in vanilla BC and is covered and decorated with MMF. Happy birthday Mama Smith!