A Princess Castle

This cake was made for my friend Jen's Twins- Emily and Madison.  They are big fan's of the Cake Boss and Jen wanted a special birthday cake for them, I was happy to supply. Jen gave me creative freedom and this is what came of it... It is buttercream with fondant accents. The turrets are ice cream cones covered in buttercream and the top are covered in purple sprinkles or jimmies... 

The water in the front is colored piping gel. I used an impression mat to make the brick imprint on the buttercream. This was a fun cake to make. Perhaps someone else will want a castle cake so I can make another one... 

Here are pictures of the cake coming together... The top ball is a little off center... oops... 

Lining up the cones

Covering the cones in buttercream, then sprinkles

The cones decorated...

More accents...

Baby Shower

Made this cake for Brandi and Matt's baby shower. The idea came from her sister Stephanie who was inspired by a cake from a cake central artist (sorry don't know the exact cake maker).   Instead of attemping a frozen butter cream transfer for the bear I enlarged the image, cut it into pieces and then tried to match them as fondant pieces.  It looks o.k., I had some trouble with the piglet- but you can tell that it is a bear in a cover holding something...  The bee's are fondant pieced together.  The cake itself is yellow with Strawberry Rhubarb filling- yummy...

More CORE Birthday's

Made a quick cake to celebrate the birthday's of two of my co-workers- Caitlin and Kelley.  I choose green for the base color because it seems spring like and appropriate and much to my delight it matched the color of the pants that Kelley wore that day. Coincidence? I think not....   Happy Birthday to my friends and co-workers...

Hoppy Easter & Birthday

Today we celebrated Easter and my sister's birthday.  Good times and good food... Yummy!  I made Cindy a cute little cake to go along with the 20 other desserts that were on the table...  I also made strawberry cupcakes to add to the table as well.  I had my mom make cupcakes wrappers from her leftover scrap booking paper.  They dressed up the cupcakes nicely... Possibly mom's next craft project for the winter bazaar's... Overall a great day!

The beginning- Smoothed out buttercream icing

Used my new Funky Alphabet Cutters- Very Excited about them. You will be seeing them again...

Made the green swirly things using the clay gun.  I added gum paste to the fondant and it was 1,000 times easier to push threw... Thank goodness I discovered this trick because I was thinking I was going to have to give this tecnique up since it hurt my hand so much to use... Yeah!

Made the flowers and rolled a yellow circle for the center.  Made them pop off the cake.

The end result... Cute!

The final result...

Here are the Easter Cupcakes... Cute as well...

Mom working hard putting together the cupcake wrappers...