Great To Be 8

Guess how old Averi is turning? That's right 8. Number cakes are lots of fun and can be done in a million different ways. Averi was getting baptized and wanted the cake to reflect that a little. So I made the 8 white and then did an elegant swirl design in turquoise. She is getting to be quite grown up so I thought this cake helped show that.

A Rainbow Birthday

My niece Sienna decided that she wanted a rainbow birthday party . . . so this is what I came up with. I put some hills on top to help with the background and flowers to make it girly. There is of course a big rainbow, I cut out the back (made out of white fondant) and let it dry for a day or so to make it hard enough to stand on it's own. Then I added the colors and put it on the cake. No rainbow would be finished without a pot of gold!

Covered In Flowers

Welcome to Autumn. I love the colors of this season and tried to capture them a little bit with this cake. I have wanted to cover a cake with tiny little flowers for a while now and my Mother-In-Law's birthday gave me the perfect excuse. It was easy to cut out the flowers, but it took a lot more than I thought it was going to. I actually ran out of fondant and had to spread them out more than initially I wanted to. I guess I will know better next time I attempt this cake design.

Chocolate Shardes . . . yum

This cake is very fast to do. To make the chocolate shards you need melted chocolate in whatever colors you want. Pore them on a lined sheet pan and using a knife or toothpick swirl the different colors around. Don't mess with it too much or it will all mix together too much. Let the chocolate harden and then cut into pieces. The cake is iced with buttercream and then I pored ganache over it and let it drip down the sides. Obviously these are two different cake sizes and it can be done in a million different ways.

How fun are ruffles?!

My sister and sister-in-law both have birthdays in May. We all got together and I made them a cake. I have wanted to try a ruffle cake for a while now and thought this was the perfect time to test it out. I decided to do it ombre as well (which means the colors grow lighter). After I made the different shades of turquoise it was pretty fast to do. I did 2 rows of each shade until it is white at the top. To make it look like a ruffle you just have to roll the fondant out extremely thin and then bunch it together when you are sticking it on the cake - easy. I think it turned out to be one of my favorite cakes that I have made.

The Mortensen Wedding

 One of my cousins just got married and asked me to make her wedding cake. They were going to have other deserts to eat so they just wanted something small to cut. The couple wanted to keep it simple and were making the cake topper themselves.  The chose to do a messy buttercream with red velvet cake and cream cheese filling. They had balloons all over the reception as decorations and wanted that theme carried over to the cake.

Here is the lovely bride, Megan Mortensen. Both the bride and groom were happy with their cake and the colors matched perfectly.

Bird Nest Easter Cake

 I wanted to do something really simple and fast, so this is what I did . . . 

It is 4 inch and 6 inch round tiers covered in fondant. I used real ribbons only because I didn't feel like coloring fondant. The bird nests are made out of Maifun Rice Sticks, I found them in the oriental section of the grocery store and just fried them up (they are done when the puff up and are still white but I left them in a little longer to add some color) then used colorful Easter candy eggs.

Easy and cute.