Princess Cakes for Two cuties

Howling Wolf Cake and Cupcakes

This was my first try at stamping food coloring on Gum Paste. Loved it.. the possibilities are endless now

Happy B-day Moriah!

Ok.. So this would be my first Ballerina cake. I had free range on what to do.. I went back and forth with designs.. went thru about 5 because for the life of me I could not find a ballerina. Anywhere! But finally as a last resort went into Hallmark and found one in the ornament area from xmas.. What a find.. not only pink with crown, but blonde hair for the birthday girl.

It was also my first time using the Cricut Cake cutter.. (thanks Dominique!) boy o boy.. I learned a lot with it. One.. never use there pre done frosting sheets. They are paper thin, the frosting color comes thru the sheets and hard to work with. Next time I will use gum paste and roll it out myself.

All in all, it was a fun cake to do.. and the reaction of the Birthday girl was priceless.. well worth the time and all the re-designing of this cake.

I love the crown topper!

Barbie Cake

My girls were so excited when they saw this cake. It was one of 4 cakes made in my class!!

Cant wait for the next series of classes to start in Jan.

Dakota turns 16

My nephew Dakota turned 16 last month and I was asked to do the cake.. I jumped at the chance since this is the first big cake I have been asked to do.. A half sheet.. And boy was it big. And heavy. 4 full cakes are sitting there on that board.

Happy Birthday Dakota..

Baby shower

A friend of mine is having a baby and she asked me to make a few mini cupcakes for her shower. the theme was... yes.. red and white.. I will just say now.. I can not shoot white things. My camera and I were not getting along this day. I love how the little baby chocolates came out.

I enjoyed making these. Cant wait to see the new baby girl when she arrives.

14 layer cake

This is what my kitchen counter looked like.. 8 cake pans ready to go. I used round cut out wax paper to fit the bottom of the pans.. I use this a lot when baking breads.. but never with cakes.. saw it in the recipe and thought it was a good idea. I will used this now with all my cakes. It makes it so much easier to get the cake out of the pan. No worries that it will stick.

I use regular pam to spray the bottoms of each pan first. Then put the wax paper down on that so it will stick and stay in place. Also I love using....... wait for it........ PAM for baking.. LOVE IT. when I don't have my quick release for cakes I reach for this. Works great everytime.. and for greasing down 14 pans its a must have. Made the moring go much faster.

This is what my counter looked like with layers of cake cooling. I did not even have enough racks to cool everything down. But they cooled fast and as soon as the last batch came out I was ready to start putting the cake together.

With one daughter looking and watching..

Now the stacking starts. Glaze... Layer... Glaze.. Layer..