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.

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.

A customer recently asked me to make a cake for her husband. He is originally from England and she was throwing him a party to celebrate how many years he has lived in the United States. For the theme of the cake she asked me to incorporate his favorite game of Tiddlywinks. Upon doing some research I discovered that, although not very popular in the U.S., Tiddlywinks is very popular in England. There is even a English Tiddlywinks association.

The cake was frosted in buttercream and covered with fondant “winks” placed all around. The pot on top of the cake was handmade out of fondant and has a wink mid-air. The American and British flags are made from edible images.

A bride recently asked me to make a grooms cake for her husband to be in the shape of a log cabin. They are planning to build a log cabin together after the wedding. I carved the cake into the shape a house and then rolled out logs of fondant to build the siding.

A bride, who I made a wedding cake for this past weekend (will post pics of that later), asked me to make a birthday cake for her father. His birthday was just a few days before the wedding so with all the family in town she was having a party for him. He was an officer in the Navy for many years and was stationed in Hawaii which is where the bride grew up. It was a tradition that the wives of the crewman would make a huge lei of flowers that would then be placed on the submarine as it came into port from being out at sea. She asked if I could recreate a submarine with a Hawaiian lei on the cake for her dad.

This shoebox cake was for a 50th birthday party. The customer asked I incorporate her favorite brand Via Spiga, and her favorite color purple. I decorated the cake to look like a Via Spiga shoebox and created a purple platform shoe out of gumpaste, as well as a purple wallet.

Having known many friends in High School who played Dungeons & Dragons my initial reaction to making a 20 sided die cake was YES! I can do that!

As the date of the delivery approached I started to realize just what I had gotten myself into. Carving a cake that has 20 different sides was a lot more difficult than I had imagined. Keeping track of all 20 sides alone is enough to give anyone a headache. I bought a real 20-sided die to use as my model which was a very smart move. In the end I was able to produce a cake with 20 sides, and the customer was very pleased with the result.

This cake was a surprise for a groom who majored in Classical Guitar in college. The bride told me he was very surprised and absolutely loved it. The cake flavor was Guinness chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, what guy wouldn’t love a guitar made of beer and chocolate!

This cake was ordered by a friend of mine for a Pepper Fry party. The Pepper Fry is a long tradition in her family that was started by her great grandfather. When he immigrated from Italy to Pennsylvania he brought along with him some of his family’s Pepper seeds. He started a little farm and grew so many peppers that every year he would fry them up and give them to his neighbors. It was so popular that it grew to become a yearly tradition that has been carried on by his family.

These adorable cupcakes were for a “Something Blue” bridal shower. The sister of the bride asked me to make a cake that looked like a Tiffany box along with some matching Tiffany cupcakes. I also topped some of the cupcakes with Tiffany blue colored buttercream roses.