My Favorite Cake

This beauty was for a repeat client in Jamestown, RI. She wanted a "winter wonderland" theme and this snowglobe concept was the sketch she chose.

Inside the glass globe (fishbowl from Michael's) the snowman (RKT covered in white chocolate) is accompanied with his furred and feathered winter companions.

The 4-layer cake was iced with Oreo IMBC.  All decorations, animals, bow, excepting the glass bowl (of course) are edible.

The birthday girl did not like fondant, so the cake covering is modeling chocolate. I piped snowflakes along cake body and dusted it with sanding sugar. 

 

 

This was by far the most fun I have had in creating custom cakes.  It was a blast!

GOAL!

This was my last cake order in Rhode Island before I packed up all the supplies and flipped the open sign, so to speak.

  Double-layer round chiffon cake with vanilla IBCM and the shoe was also made from cake.  The absolute hadest part was working out 3-D geometry.  I had to make my own template and it took me about 45 minutes to perfect the positioning on the ball!  I am so glad my children were at school or they would have heard some very creative and very bad words.

Wild Side

This RUSH job (slapped together the morning of her party) was for my daughter's 6th birthday.  Cake design was a collaborative effort between my daughter and husband as I was a bit preoccupied with moving preparations, life, other (paying) cake orders, etc.  You know how the cobbler's children have no new shoes?  Yeah. 

Awesome concept and the safari animals and desert trees encircle the cake.  But just looking at that wrinkly bow is making me break out in a sweat.  I am so sorry baby girl!

Spaghetti Pot Cake

Tea Party

Fall

Fresh as a Daisy

This was a very fun cake to do!  Kelly green fondant with over four dozen hand-crafted gumpaste daisies.  Three-layer marbled cake with buttercream icing.  The name was modeled in (red) white chocolate.

Go Wildcats!

Double-layer butter chiffon with buttercream.  Covered in fondant (marbled floor to look like a basketball court).  First time carving a wildcat head.  Tools were MIA, so this was done with an exacto knife and a toothpick!  Fondant basketballs and pom-poms surround the cake.  Roooooaaaaar!

There's something special inside...

...and it's love!  Seriously, people.  I love what I do.  You love whomever you are honoring by choosing me.  You love these special moments in time that bring families and friends together in celebration.  Last but not least, hopefully, you love cake.

And if I may say so, you have exceptionally good taste and a keen appreciation for good food.  I mean, come on, it's obvious you are a trendsetter and wise beyond your years!  Hey, is that a new shirt?  It looks fab with your eye color... 

Dark Chocolate...hmmm...

Very few birthday cakes are "manly" without looking cheesey.  Yeah, dad likes football, but does he really want a football-shaped cake?  Perhaps.  But I thought I would try something a little more sophisticated and understated for a male friend of the family.  Four wafer thin layers of chocolate sponge, sandwiched between decadent espresso-mascarpone cheese.  Covered in dark chocolate ganache.  Elegantly surrounded by dark and white chocolate-dipped strawberries.  My only regret?  Not taking a better picture! 

Cinco de Mayo! Circa 2007.

My first fondant cake.  Ah...back when I didn't know any better and used (gag!) Wilton's pre-made fondant (gag, gag!)  Thus began my love affair with odd birthday cakes.  I so wish I had a picture of my daughter's chicken leg birthday cake still!

That's no moon, that's a space station!

So much fun to make!  Cake is chocolate with cookies-n-cream icing.  Final result had a second tie fighter dangling above the storm trooper, "flying" in outer space.  Can I put on a resume that I know how to make a 1/2-inch sugar paste gun?

Cupcakes and Tiny Treats!

Various assortment, and no, your eyes do not deceive you...that is a picture of miniature (and fantabulous!) fruit cakes.  I thought portion control would help prevent an all-out gorging this past Christmas...boy was I wrong!  Those little rum-soaked fruit cakes made a wonderful breakfast.  And snack.  And after lunch treat, and...well, you get the idea.

Albert the Alligator

Albert was so much fun to make!  Jelly roll with lemon curd for body.  Butter genoise for all else.  Football in mouth is rice crispy treat, body covered in fondant.  My daughter was glad to see the "scary gador" gone!