My First Fondant Covered Cake

This was a really simple cake. Nancy let me use her silicone leaf press, and oohhh, I know what I want for Christmas! I could cover a whole cake with that fun!
It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

This was a Chocolate cake with fudge filling.

Strawberry Basket Cake

This cake was a basket weave cake around the sides with fresh strawberries on the top. I made this a 8" white chocolate cake with a strawberry and vanilla custard filling.

This came out as a pretty cake, that decorated up pretty fast. I hulled the strawberries before putting them on the cake, and I wish I hadn't. They started to drip later on that day. Oh well, just an excuse to eat it quickly!

Fish Cakes

This was my fifth cake from the classes at Creative Cakes. We worked with piping gel and rice paper to make a cake from my drawings. The other version of this class is a floral scene, and it looks pretty, but I had fun with the fish. I had a blast making this cake, it was a lot of fun seeing my drawings become cake decorations.


Not to sound vain, but I don't think the pictures do justice to this cake, it is a very vibrantly decorated coffee pecan cake. I think I want to try this with my daughter. it would be fun to put some of her pictures on a cake.

Book Cake

Okay, I probably shouldn't be posting this, but instead eat this Gingerbread cake quickly and pretend it never happened. So many regrets! I was just off when I frosted this cake. I'd like to blame the frosting, it was too soft or something, but it was me.

Besides the knarly frosting job, I should also apologize for the sappy quote. What do you put on a cake that has no event? I kept thinking about Romeo and Juliet on the balcony scene "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and while that seemed heavy handed, it led me to think of another line, which I did use. It seemed appropriate for where me and Jon are, but don't tell him, he thinks it is pretty random and he doesn't read this blog.

MY Cake

So the kids got the first two cakes, that makes this one mine! (Sorry Jon, you have to wait another class)

I wish I could take better pictures (maybe that is the class I should sign up for next). The colors were pretty, but you have to take my word on it. I used Maroon and for the green I combined "leaf green" and "forest green". Oh, and did I mention this was a yummy White Chocolate cake with Ollaliberry filling?

Ignore the bottom where I smashed it. This cake looked great, if I do say so myself. I learned how to do mums, swags, and rosettes, and worked on cornelli lace, and some border options.

George Gets Another Cake

I told Gloria that the butterfly cake was "her" cake. So it follows that this would be Georges's cake. George was IN LOVE when I brought home this Spicy Chocolate cake shaped like a VW. It was a total blast to make, so I was pretty thrilled also.

It is made from a round cake cut in half placed with cut sides down. The tires are Oreo type cookies, and the hood is carved.


The back had a split window, a special request from Jon!

Butterfly Cake

The last weeks of summer are here and I decided to try to cram in a cake decorating course from a local cake decorating supply store
This is the first cake we made. This is the first time I have worked with piping gel and it was pretty easy. If you look real close you can see some pink edible glitter!


The cake was a Carmel Chocolatechip cake cut in half and turned cut sides out. Piping gel was used to make stripes and then a toothpick was drawn through the lines to make the design.