Look “Who’s” One!

It seems cakes have been flying out of the oven around here lately! That’s a good thing, but as a result, I’m getting a little behind in editing my cake pictures and publishing them for y’all to see.  This Labor Day weekend I had a minute to sit down and look back through some of the cakes I’ve made over the past few months.  Here’s a cute little cake I did back in June for Allen’s first birthday.

Owls are such a popular trend right now.  From cakes to clothes, owls seem to be popping up on everything baby related.

Here’s the smash cake for the birthday boy.

This cake was made with 8” and 10” tiers and serves approximately 45.  The main cake was filled and iced with buttercream and covered with marshmallow fondant.  All of the decorative details were made with fondant.

Lindsey

A Game of Cat & Mouse

When it comes to cartoons, I’m old-school all the way.  Me no like Pokemon, Jimmy Neutron, Bubble Guppies, etc. etc. etc.

Give me Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny, or these guys…

I was super excited when a mom contacted me about doing a Tom & Jerry cake for her four-year-old son.  She chose this design to go along with Blake’s swimming party.

The cake is covered with homemade fondant which I marbled with a couple of different shades of blue to give it a watery look. I also made the name with rolled fondant.

To make Tom & Jerry, I started with a base of rice cereal treats and covered it with a combination of fondant and gum paste.  These little guys took some time to complete.

Ty was a little confused at how Tom & Jerry were able to get so close to each other without fighting.

This cake was made with 8” and 10” rounds and serves about 45.

Lindsey

Under the Sea

Welcome, y’all.  Today we are going on a little underwater journey.  This mermaid cake was requested as a birthday surprise for Anna Cat.

Detail of the mermaid’s tail – I used the end of a round piping tip to push into the fondant to cut the scales.  I love the dimension that it added to the tail.

The mermaid cake was made using single layer 8” and 12” rounds and served approximately 30.  The bottom layer is covered with buttercream, and the “island” is covered with fondant.  The mermaid and shells are sculpted from fondant.

Lindsey

Gator Boys

Seems like the majority of cakes that I do are geared more toward the girls than the boys – you know, like polka dots, bows, and colorful zebra prints.

Not this cake. It’s lean and mean and dirty and green.

In a good way.

Meet the Gator Boys.

I hand-sculpted these lovely lizards using a combination of fondant and rice cereal treats.

Take it from me.  There are a lot of little scales on those gators’ backs. It took me about one hour to complete each alligator.

Once I had the gators looking the way I wanted them, I finished them up with the airbrush.

Obviously, the alligators were the focus of this cake, but I added a few swampy details to give the cake some more character.

No swamp scene would be complete without a snake…

…and a turtle.

This was an 11x15 single layer cake that served approximately 30.  The cake was iced with buttercream, and the details were hand-sculpted from homemade fondant.  Except for the stems of the cattails, the entire cake is completely edible.

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

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