Happy Birthday

Today was actually my 27th birthday, but I didn't make this cake for myself. I made it for my coworker whose birthday is also this week. It's fun for me to bake and decorate, so it's like a gift to myself AND a gift to my coworker :)

My Father's Day Cake

While this didn't turn out quite like I had planned, it still tasted pretty good.

I tried a new caramel icing recipe, which didnt stick to the sides of the cake at all, so I had to frost the sides with butter cream, and I tried to make the top resemble a baseball, so this was the end result:

Strawberry Shortcake Rendition

A spontaneous strawberry shortcake cake:

Argyle Cake

My husband's 29th bithday cake - to satisfy the preppy man in him!



This cake is covered with chocolate fondarific (brand of fondant-like icing)



Diamonds are made by using cookie cutters and cutting out shapes in rolled fondarific/fondant.

Fall Housewarming Cake

The Recipe:

CHAMPAGNE CAKE RECIPE (taken from here)

2 3/4 c. sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2/3 c. shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 bottle (2/5 pt.) champagne (3/4 c.)
6 egg whites

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and set aside. Cream shortening with 1 cup sugar until fluffy. Blend flour mixture alternately with champagne and mix to a smooth batter. Beat egg whites until stiff and soft peaks form. Fold about half the meringue into the batter, mixing thoroughly with whisk. Gently fold in remaining meringue. Turn into two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until test done. When cake has rested 10 minutes, turn out to cool. When cold, put together with coconut filling.



For the buttercream icing border, I used a Leaf Tip, and put a red stripe in the piping bag, filled it with buttercup yellow icing, and squeezed out leaves all around the cake. The red stripe gave it a more authentic fall leaf look...wouldn't you agree?

The leaves on the side were ordered through fancyflours.com and they are just sugar.

Father's Day Cake #2

Pound Layer Cake filled with whipped topping and sliced strawberries

Buttercream icing on the outside in basetweave pattern

Mom's Birthday Cake

My Mom's Birthday Cake:



** Fudgy, chocolate, 2-layer cake with chocolate chips, with mint buttercream frosting between the layers, topped with chocolate ganache frosting, and buttercream flowers & vines**

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From the start of icing to the finished product:

- chocolate ganache (semi-sweet chocolate and heavy cream)...very easy to make and pour over the cake for a smooth shiny finish

-Using a round tip, i piped these vines on with light green buttercream icing

- Using a leaf tip, I added the leaves to the vines (if you use a coupler, you can change back and forth from the round tip to the leaf tip and use the same icing bag)

- The night before I covered cardboard with wax paper and made these pink flowers using the flower tip and pink butter cream icing, then left them covered overnight to harden

- A attached the premade flowers with a dot of buttercream icing, and that's it...it's done!

St. Patrick's Day Cake

Spider Cake

Under Construction

Blue Snowflake Cake

Circle Cake- pink, green & brown

Chocolate Cherry Cake

Pink Cake with Roses/Vines

Chocolate Rose Cake

Happy Hump Day Cake