Cake Canvas

 

Q:  What do you get when you cross a cake with an oil painting?

A:  This…

Recently a friend asked me to make a 40th birthday cake for her husband.  He has black Angus cattle, and she asked if I could incorporate them into his cake somehow.  The challenge for me was to design a cake that didn’t look too cute.  I wanted it to be a masculine cake.

Then I had the idea of doing a hand-painted landscape directly on a cake.

I had the Tool Man stop by and take a few pictures of the cows and the barn to be sure I got everything just right.

This was my favorite cow! I think it looks pretty neat.

As a child I took oil painting lessons and enjoyed painting for many years.  However, I probably haven’t painted any pictures in the last 5 years, so it was quite nice to sit down again with a palette and some brushes and let the creative juices flow.

The entire cake was covered with homemade marshmallow fondant, and I painted the scene with icing color thinned with almond extract.  It took about two and a half hours for me to complete the painting.

The cattle cake was made of 4”, 6”, and 8” tiers.  The top two tiers were white cake with buttercream filling, and bottom tier was red velvet with cream cheese filling. This cake served approximately 35.

Lindsey

Mission Completion!

Here are a few pictures of the Go, Diego, Go! cake I completed this weekend.

One thing you may notice about this cake is that the figures are not handmade. The birthday boy’s mom ordered these characters for me to use. Hey, I’m not complaining. Those were the easiest figures that I’ve ever done!  That doesn’t mean that there weren’t plenty of other details to make for this cake.  All of the flowers, trees, leaves, hills, and the sun were made from fondant.

The waterfall consists of a blue sheet of fondant draped over the side of the cake.  On top of that I brushed on royal icing to resemble waves.  I love the way that technique turned out.

This cake was made with 6” and 8” tiers and served approximately 30.  It’s filled with cream cheese icing and covered with marshmallow fondant.

Lindsey

Booties and Bows

Today I’m sharing a gorgeous baby shower cake .  I love the sophisticated color palette that the mom-to-be chose for the cake – soft blues, muted green, and brown.

Fondant gets a bad rap sometimes, but I really believe you can’t beat its flawless appearance. 

My first attempt at sculpting baby booties…I think they turned out well!

This cake was made using 6” and 8” tiers.  It was filled with buttercream, and covered with homemade marshmallow fondant.  The dots and stripes were cut from fondant, and the booties were sculpted with gum paste. The bow is made of a combination of gum paste and fondant.  This cake served approximately 30 guests.

Lindsey

Umizoomi Cake

I have a fun little cake to share with y’all today.  It’s an Umizoomi cake for three-year-old Walker.

The shapes and characters were made using fondant fondant.  My monkeys don’t watch this show on TV, so I had to do a little research before sculpting the characters.

This cake was made with an 8” round tier and a 4” square tier.  It was filled and iced with basic buttercream, and it served approximately 25.

Lindsey

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

This was a 10” round, two-layer cake filled and iced with buttercream. It served approximately 25.

Lindsey

Sweet Baby Boy

This cake was made for a diaper shower for sweet baby Zachary.

The teddy bear was hand-sculpted from fondant.

This cake was a 10” round, two-layer filled with buttercream icing.  The cake was covered with homemade marshmallow fondant and decorated with fondant details.  It served approximately 25.

Lindsey

Pink and Browning Cake

What good country girl wouldn’t love this next cake?

A Browning camouflage cake done in pink and brown.

Simple and sweet, this cake was a 10” round two-layer, filled and iced with buttercream.  The deer and camouflage were cut from fondant.  The cake served approximately 25.

Lindsey

Anger Management

I had the opportunity to do a re-run on a cake this week.  For Ty’s birthday party last year, he wanted an Angry Birds theme.  Here’s the cake that I made for him.

Actually it was really two cakes. One for the birds and one for the pigs.

This week I did another Angry Birds cake for 9-year-old Aaron.

The birds and pigs had to share some real estate on this cake, though.

All of the birds, pigs, and structures were sculpted from fondant.

This was a 10 inch round cake filled and iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant details.  It serves approximately 30.

Ty loved the cake when he saw it, so I’m pretty sure Aaron will enjoy it too.

Lindsey