Under the Sea

Today was the first birthday of a precious little girl... It was fun to celebrate and see all of my friends. Her birthday is perfectly placed so it will force us to have parties in the winter and get to catch up with each other...
Her mom gave me lots of creative freedom. She provided some of the birthday girl's favorite toys for inspiration. She loves her crab, clown fish and Orka so I used those as inspiration.  A search on cake central.com produced some great inspiration (in addition to giving me a computer virus, but that is another story...)   Below are some pictures of the cake coming together.  Enjoy!

The Octopus in its infancy...

 Made the coral out of white chocolate. Poured it over crushed ice to give it the trademarks of coral.

Pictures of the finished cake:

The aftermath...

Shades of Blue

Made this cake for an after Christmas friend's party. The theme was the 12 Days of Christmas. This cake represented the pipers pipping...  Lots of pipping... I learned the technique from the website mycakeschool.com.  I can't wait to try some of the other tutorials and cakes from the "school".
Here are some pictures of the cake coming together.
 

  

Wouldn't be complete without a picture of my super cute nieces...

 

Jillian wanted in on the action...

Yummy Desserts...

 

I also made an onion tart which turned out great.  Lots of sauteed onions, Gruyere cheese, Thyme baked on a puff pasty sheet. yummy...