Lisa's Baby Shower

I have been looking forward to making this cake for my sister's baby shower for months now. I made the color flow head and royal icing flowers a couple days ahead and was pretty pleased with them. It took a little bit to get back in the decorating groove. Once I started making the cake, I realized the instructions were for a much larger cake, so the head and flowers were a little large for the 8-inch cake I made. I was fairly pleased with the result. Maybe the artist in me will never be satisfied and see perfection in my creative work. On the other hand, for the small amount of practice I've had, I'm not doing too bad I suppose.

Grace Church

Robert's aunt asked me to make a cake for their church to welcome the new priest. I agreed to my first paying job. Being pregnant, I was very tired the weekend the cake was to be made. My first mistake was forgetting to grease the pan before baking the cake. 4 boxes of cake mix down the tubes. I finally finished with just a few hours to spare. This was a very simple cake to decorate, which is more difficult when you can't hide your mistakes. I wasn't thrilled with the final cake, but more lessons were learned. This was the largest cake I've made so far, so I won't be quite so intimidated next time.

Happy Birthday Charlie!

This cake was for my 4-year old cousin who is into cars. I wasn't able to get a photo of the cake before he tried to destroy it. Thank goodness it was only a finger swipe of the tire. I found red icing was very hard to make without using a ton of food coloring. I tried to buy pre-made red icing, but had trouble getting the consistency right. In the end, I was pretty pleased, and Charlie thought it was great...which was all that mattered.

Happy Birthday Logan!

This cake was made for my son's first birthday. It was a confetti cake made in a character pan with lots and lots of stars in buttercream icing. We had a dinosaur themed party complete with inflatable dinosaurs, jell-o dino eggs, and lava juice (fruit punch). This cake was just for him. We put the entire cake on the tray of his high chair and let him have it!

This is what happened...

This is a 3-D chocolate cake I made for everyone else at the party. I had a few pictures to go by that I found on the internet, but I would up creating a mixture of all of them. I used two 3-inch deep round cakes and 2-3 batches of icing (I only thought the other cake took alot of stars.). The orange spikes and his eyes are made with royal icing. I was pretty proud of myself considering I had no experience with carving a cake. I felt like Duff on Charm City Cakes. As big as it was, we didn't have much left over. I'm glad everyone liked it.

Happy Birthday Robert!

This cake was made for my husband's birthday. What do you do for a guy's birthday cake? I just learned how to make tons of flowers out of sugar, but I don't think he would like that very much. I copied this idea out of a decorating book I have.

Happy Birthday Kristy!

This cake was made for my Aunt's birthday. I enjoyed leaning how to make daisies out of royal icing, so I made her a cake that used them. She loved the look, and her 3 year old son loved eating the flowers. I had fun making this one.

This was a second attempt at this cake and was made the morning of the party. The first one was baked the night before, but fell because I forgot to include water in the recipe.

Merry Christmas!

I made the green tree cake for Robert's family Christmas party at our house. The theme was sweets, so I figured it was appropriate. The kids loved picking the candy out of the icing.

The white cake was made for my family Christmas party at my mom's house. I enjoyed using the same pan for 2 very different looks. I'm not a huge fan of candy in icing, so I think if I made this cake again, I would pipe the decorations in buttercream.

Flowers and Birds

So this was the last cake for our Course 2 class. We used all of the flower techniques we learned the past few weeks on this cake. We also learned the basketweave technique. It's easier than it looks, just take patience. I gave this cake to my nieces in Metairie just before Christmas. They used it as a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas morning. I thought that was a really nice idea and a better use of the cake than I could come up with.