Monday, July 26, 2010

Happy Anniversary Dreams




Its a cake!! And a pillow!! This pillow cake is a carrot cake iced in cream cheese frosting and covered in buttercream fondant. Made for Renee and Jeff's anniversary, this cake features the numeral 8 (for year 8) repeated over and over in royal icing. Gumpaste leaves and calla lilies make up the centerpiece and cradle a set of wedding bands. A whimsical sugar cookie butterfly adorns one corner while the pearlized plaque sums up the cake with the phrase "Always kiss me goodnight..." Happy Anniversary!

Baby Jordan




This cake was made for a baby shower to herald the upcoming arrival of baby Jordan. The bottom tier is a half chocolate, half french vanilla layer cake filled with a rich almond custard. The top tier is a white cake with a lemon blueberry buttercream filling.

Butterfly Embroidery


One of my favorite cakes - chocolate with a fresh blackberry buttercream filling - this fondant covered cake displays a gorgeous technique known as brush embroidery. And it has butterflies! What more could one want?!

Happy Birthday Bethy!!


My best friend, Bethy, is a librarian with a love for all things literature - what better way to celebrate her birthday than with an open book displaying our birthday wishes!? This chocolate cake covered filled with a fresh chocolate raspberry filling and covered with almond buttercream is really an open book lying in a field of flowers!

Go Green Bay!

Lemonade in a Cake's Body

This french vanilla cake was covered with a lemon zest buttercream icing and decorated with cheerful lemon slices - a hearty welcome for a new coworker!

The yellow rose of Texas...and a chocolate cake!

Irik Edmund!!

This french vanilla cake with key lime buttercream icing was the perfect cake to celebrate the impending arrival of my little man - Irik Edmund Weeks - with my coworkers and friends at the Center!!

A turtle for Emily

Emily wanted a chocolate cupcake turtle, and this beauty was created! Surrounded by fondant covered sugar cookies, our cheerful turtle is made of chocolate cupcakes and decorated with chocolate buttercream icing...

Cupcakes in Velvet...

Happy Birthday Renee!!



Pretty Packaging


A lovely buttercream iced chocolate cake covered with royal icing flowers for a decorative finish!!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Whimsical Flowers


This whimsical cake was flight of fancy one Monday evening. An eight inch fudge marble cake with chocolate filling, this cake featured swirls of mint green vanilla buttercream icing adorned with petal pink flowers and white icing pearls.

Peach and White Wedding





For a small work-family wedding shower for a coworker and his fiance, a simple two-tiered wedding cake seemed in order. As Edgar and Sarah's colors were peach and white, this cake featured peach and white roses and rosebuds. The top tier was a two-layer six inch french vanilla cake with strawberry filling. It was encircled with peach and green rosebuds and leaves on one half and white rosebuds and leaves on the other half. The bottom tier was a two-layer eight inch chocolate cake with chocolate filling. It featured peach and white roses. Keeping with the color scheme, the middle tier held an arrangement of peach roses tying the ensemble together nicely!

Tuxedo for the Groom



This oval shaped groom's cake was a yellow butter cake with a chocolate buttercream filling. Covered with fondant, this groom's cake has a white and chocolate tuxedo top (complete with rosette!) with additional white and brown polka dots on the sides.

Happy Tuesday!

This happy little rainbow cake greeted coworkers on a recent Tuesday morning. An two layer, eight inch round, this cake was chocolate with a chocolate filling and almond buttercream icing.