These adorable little cupcakes were made for a baby shower. The mom-to-be loves cupcakes so they were a great choice. Each cupcake was topped with a hand-made fondant topper in alternating colors of lavender and pale yellow. The toppers were rattles, bibs, pacifiers, carriages, and alphabet blocks.
This beautiful green, purple, and blue peacock themed wedding cake was for made for an Indian wedding. All three tiers were covered in green fondant and then airbrushed with a green shimmer dust. Bright gold fondant circles border each tier, and round separators covered in purple satin ribbon were used in-between the tiers to give the cake more height. Each tier is decorated with gold piping made to mimic peacock feathers, the center of each is adorned with a blue poured sugar gem. Blue royal icing scroll work and real peacock feathers top it all off.
Being a child of the 80′s I played hours and hours of Super Mario Bros. on my original Nintendo (which I still own). The little 1-up mushrooms are classic. In recent years I bought a T-shirt that has a picture of a cupcake with the 1-up mushroom coming out of it and it says 1-UpCake on it. I couldn’t resist making my own 1-UpCakes so here they are. I brought this little guys in to work my first day at my new job (Instructional Technologist at Lafayette College) and they were a hit!
This retro 60′s inspired cake was for a Bat Mitzvah celebration. When I met Sabrina and found out she is a huge Beatles fan like me I was not surprised when she wanted a hippie/60′s theme for the cake. The sides of the cake are decorated with symbols for Peace, Love, and Chai (or “hai”) which is the Hebrew symbol for life. The quote was inspired by “No day but today” from Rent, one of Sabrina’s favorite Broadway shows.
I made these adorable cake pops for a sixth birthday party being held at a bowling alley. The mom provided the handmade Styrofoam bowling lane along with the bowling pin cookies she made at one end. I then added the chocolate bowling ball cake pops. They are covered in teal and purple white chocolate (the birthday girl’s favorite colors) and decorated to look like bowling balls. This is a great shot of Cecila with her birthday display. She came over with her mom to help put the bowling balls in the display.
For this wedding cake the bride really wanted something traditional. She liked the idea of having pillars with the cake topper in the middle, so the top tier was decorated with a cluster of royal icing roses. Drop-strings in ivory buttercream surround the bottom two tiers with a royal icing blossom at each point. The middle tier is also decorated with cornelli lace inside each drop-string.
This cake was ordered by the same customer who also ordered the Christmas Ornament Cupcakes. She had ordered the cupcakes for a small dinner party, and they were such a hit she decided to order a larger cake, with the same ornament theme, for another party. The large 3D ornament was made from rice krispy treats formed into a ball and covered in red fondant. The design was piped on using royal icing and painted with gold luster dust. All the ornaments going around the cake had different design.
This wedding cake was for a couple who both happen to play Djembe drums. Since the wedding was in December the bride wanted the cake decorated with snowflakes as well as red bands to match the wedding colors. The two drums on top where hand made out of fondant to match the bride and grooms’ own drums.
I made these adorable cupcakes for a Christmas party. They each have a half ball of cake attached to the top of each cupcake. The cake was frosted in chocolate buttercream and then covered in a circle of fondant. Fondant ornament “hangers” were handmade, painted in gold and silver, and attached to the top of each cupcake.
I made this cake for the retirement party of a Chemistry Professor at Centenary College. I actually worked for the professor last spring so I was honored when I was asked to make a cake for her retirement party.
The cake was covered in fondant to look like the top of a chemistry lab bench. The cake is topped handmade fondant decorations to look like a test tube, notepad, pencil, periodic table, and of course a beaker filled with “blue liquid” CuCl2.
