“Year” Out!

It’s no secret that I absolutely hate the New York Yankees, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.  And a couple of weeks ago I had to make a birthday cake for my father-in-law. He’s a big Yankees fan, so I decided to go with baseball theme for his cake.

No baseball cake would be complete without some peanuts and popcorn, or at least fondant versions of them.  I hand-painted the details on the popcorn, peanuts, and bat using icing color.

This cake was made with 6” and 8” rounds and served 30.  It was filled and iced with buttercream and the decorations were handmade from fondant.

Lindsey

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

Ombre Dots

I’m constantly searching Pinterest for inspiration for my cakes.  One trend that is becoming really popular in everything from cakes to hair is ombre.  If you are not familiar with it, ombre refers to a gradation of colors from dark to light.  It’s simple, striking, and I love it!  I’ve incorporated the ombre design into a few of my cakes, including Lucy’s princess cake.  Last week I tried it out again on a simple baby shower/birthday cake.

This little ruffle flower was made from a combination of gum paste and fondant.

This was an 8” round vanilla cake filled and iced with buttercream.  It served approximately 20.

Lindsey

Wedding Sweets for Kelsie and Ben

Today I’m sharing a few pictures of my latest wedding creations.  First up is the bride’s cake, a stunning, 4 tiered cake complete with a “fishbowl” and twinkle lights.

The design of this cake was all the bride’s idea.  She had photos of two different cakes that she wanted combined into her perfect wedding cake.

A very unique detail of this cake was the vase incorporated into it. Inside the vase was a photo of the bride and groom, a small string of white twinkle lights, and a few gum paste roses.

Also adorning the cake were 20 handmade, gum paste roses. I was so pleased with how these roses turned out!

More roses… Sorry about that, but I’m kinda partial to those roses. Each one took about 15 minutes to make. So, if you do the math, that’s a total of five hours spent just making roses!

The wedding cake consisted of four tiers – 6”, 8”, 10”, and 14” and served approximately 115.  The bride and groom chose vanilla cake with strawberry and cream cheese filling.  The cake is iced with cream cheese and covered with homemade fondant, and the details were piped with buttercream icing.

And now for Ben’s cake…

Who Dat?!

The groom’s cake was a 12” round vanilla cake with cream cheese icing and fondant details.  It served approximately 45.

Congratulations, Ben and Kelsie!

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