Jazzy Birthday Cake

This special cake was created to celebrate the 60th birthday of my colleague's father. It was a two tier cake. the bottom portion was a chocolate cake with fresh strawberries and bavarian cream filling. the top tier was an horchata cake with cinammom filling. The instruments at the top of the cake were provided by my colleague.

Close up of the flower detail.

Fun with fondant

The last two weekends proved to be a continuation of my exploration in fondant work. (see my posting on 3/11/2011 for my 1st attempt!).  The best part of these two cakes was it provided me with an opportunity to collaborate with my sister Cindy who also happens to own a baking company called Cynsational Delights (http://www.cynsationaldelighst.com/).

Monster Party

This 2 tiered cake was for a 3 year old's birthday party. The party girl is a huge fan of monsters and so we really let our imagination run wild in terms of creating a cute and not too scary trio of monsters to help her celebrate her big day...

The original party monsters

Cake was a vanilla bean cake with peach and whipped cream filling and was covered in chocolate fondant. The color scheme for the monsters and other design accents came from the initial inviation for the party.

Rugrats Themed Birthday Cake

This second cake was a twist on the Rugrats Characters. This was a much harder cake for me in that this really was my 1st attempt at actually trying to recreate an established character out of fondant. The cake was a chocolate cake with fresh berry filling and frosted in butttercream. The customer requested Chuckie and the Raptor from the Rugrats Movie.



Chuckie and Raptor, waiting to boogie at the party!

 Our "Chuckie" was a more grown up version of the character (hey this was a party for a 21 year old-no minors allowed!) and to me resembled more a an oranged hair harry potter than Chuckie lol! Raptor was much more straight forward to create.



Side shot



Purrfectly Cute Cake

This cake was my first real attempt at sculpting with fondant. The birthday girl is great lover of cats and featured two fondant kitties back to back with fondant roses and leaves. Simple design, but I think it came it very cute.

The cake was devils food cake, white chocolate cream and fresh berry filling, and iced in white chocolate buttercream and covered in vanilla fondant.

Design elements featured fondant roses, and two very special fondant cats...




How can you not smile at this little guy?



This cake was really my first attempt at creating charaters from fondant. Overall I think it wasn't too bad.


















He's got your back



The design was realitively simple and straightforward but relied on the success of the fondant characters.

Sometimes simple is better...

For a special couple- Mom and Dad

35th Anniversary Cake... 

This cake was the anniversary cake my sister and I made for our parent's 35th wedding anniversary. Its a very simple design and really is about showcasing one of my mom's favorite flowers.

Sometimes the most simplest of designs comes out the most beautiful.

Photos from some past work...

I was looking over some old photos from when I first started this baking oddessy and realized that I never got around to posting them. I hope you enjoy.

Spring time cake

This cake was a final project cake for a cake decorating class. It was an egg shaped cake and featured royal icing flowers, butterfly and bird. The buttercream was applied in a basketweave pattern and I was pretty please with the final look. Not bad for my 1st attempt at this technique.

Cupcakes:  Who doesn't love cupcakes especially when they are dressed up like this?

Top row (w/ green frosting): Choloclate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

Second row (w/ red frosting): Vanilla bean cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

Third row (w/ white frosting): Red velvet cupcakes with creamcheese frosting.

  Playing with frosting techniques

This cupcake grouping was a study of different piping techniques for buttercrem frosting. It was one of my first attempts at learning how to create different flowers.

Fondant Bow cake:

This was one of my first attempts at really working with fondant. If I remember correctly, I believe that the cake was an almond cake with an apricot glaze and amaretto mocha filling. This really was a turning point in moving away from buttercream work and really start learning more about how to utilize fondant not only to cover a cake but as a decorative element.

Exploring with Dora

Its be awhile since I posted, but with fall in full swing, what better way to warm the hearth with a little baking, especially if it ends up warming up hearts at the end?

My latest cake featured my favorite adventurer Dora.  It was done for a celebration for a colleague and her daughter. Vamonos!

This two tiered cake featured royal icing flowers and topped with Dora, Diego and Boots (hey its not really a party unless a monkey is involved right?).

The cake was a white cake with fresh banana and strawberries in a Bavarian Cream filling and frosted in tinted buttercream...if that isn't enough of a treasure to go on an adventure for then I don't know what is!

Summer time baking

Hot weather makes for a hot kitchen! But anything worth having usually means some sort of sacrifice no? These latest shots are some of my more recent works to welcome summer...


Baby Raquel's Shower Cake

These cute duo were made for the baby shower of my cousin. Both cakes are strawberry cake with strawberry mousse and were frosted in buttercream. The accents were made from fondant. The larger cake was for the guests to enjoy and the smaller of the two were for the expectant parents to enjoy.

     


Since the mom to be isn't a huge fan of pink, I opted for an apple green backdrop on the frosting and used white, green, and pink flowers. The design came out as a very cute but understated girly cake without going overboard on the pink. :)












Tiramisu Cupcakes...Thank you gift for Ms. Zamboni :)

One of the best parts of summer is the ending of the school year. My daughter's teacher this year was Ms. Zamboni. As our way of thanking her for all her hard work and encouragement, we presented her with a dozen Tiramisu cupcakes with a marscapone frosting. The cupcakes looked so pretty that they looked great next to the flowers that accompanied them. Have a great summer Ms. Z! :)