I made this Gothic wedding cake for my son’s wedding which was on Halloween. They came to me and asked if I could make a very strange and different cake. They wanted it to be teal and black and have offset square layers. They also wanted silver spikes around it. My mind raced with ideas. Early Preparations … Read more
I made this cake for a good friend’s wedding, in which I was also a bridesmaid. It was my first wedding cake and had to feed 130 people and hold up to August heat at an outdoor wedding! Talk about stress! I made all of the flowers out of royal icing 2-3 weeks before the … Read more
This Seashells wedding cake was a lot of fun to make. I traveled 7 hours with the baked layers and then completed the cake the day before the wedding. The cake is chocolate fudge with chocolate buttercream, ivory vanilla fondant covers the 10, 8, 6″ layers. The ceramic cake top was provided by the bride … Read more
This is my 1st wedding cake and I was asked by my daughter to make this one for her special day. She gave me a picture of the design she had chosen. The cake had 4 tiers: The bottom was an 11” vanilla sponge cake The next tier was a 9” cake dummy covered in … Read more
I was asked to make a wedding cake for a friend’s daughter’s wedding. I normally only do birthday cakes but told her I would be up to the challenge. She told me what colors and that she wanted a tiered cake and how many people would be attending. I started out with a 13” round … Read more
I made this castle cake for a friend’s wedding. The cake is made up of five 14 inch round cakes and five 8 inch round cakes. The castle was made up of turrets made out of circular cardboard tubes wrapped up in pink fondant. The body of the castle is made up of cake and … Read more
This is a four tier hexagon wedding cake. The cakes were stacked, iced and put in the refrigerator overnight to chill. It is always best to chill cakes before leveling and curving. The cakes had to be slightly leveled on the side also, so once they were stacked i trimmed the edges off, this gave … Read more
My cake was so fun to make! I just graduated as a dental hygienist, and one of my hobbies is to make cakes. I have always made cakes for everyone else but didn’t plan on making a cake for myself – but my family made me one… LOL! Well anyways I made a half sheet … Read more
Here’s my cool North Pole Igloo cake. To make this cake, use a sturdy board for the base, covered in aluminum foil. Spread Bettercreme across inner section of board. The Igloo cake was baked in a 6″ metal bowl and then placed upside down on double layer 7″ cake. Don’t use too big of a … Read more
My son needed a short notice school project in two days and he asked if I could help make a Hamsa hand design out of cupcakes. I had no idea what Hamsa was, so I looked it up on the interweb and found lots of ideas. I make cakes and cupcakes but I’d never made … Read more
I made this Frosty the Snowman Christmas present cake for a friend of mine. She originally asked me if I could put a fondant ribbon on a cake like one shown on a magazine cover. I told her I would do that for her, but I thought it seemed a little plain for a Christmas … Read more
This Christmas snow globe cake was made for a family dinner. It was a 3-layer 8 inch vanilla cake with white chocolate ganache filling. I iced the cake in buttercream, covered it in red fondant, amd embellished it in white fondant snowflakes. The snow globe was created with a glass bowl from the Dollar Store. … Read more