Pumpkin Diva

What a fun cake I got to make this weekend!  I like to refer to it as the pumpkin diva cake.  I mean, what else would you call a jack-o-lantern with plump lips, eye makeup, and a hair bow?

I also made a little smash cake for the birthday girl.

Hello, gorgeous!

I carved my little diva out of a 6” round strawberry cake.  After filling and icing the cake with buttercream, I covered and decorated the pumpkin with homemade fondant.

The bottom tier was filled and iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant accents.

This cake was made using 6” and 8” tiers and served approximately 30.  It was filled and iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant.

Lindsey

Aging Gracefully

I sometimes find it a bit of a challenge to design birthday cakes for adults.  Bright, fun kiddie cakes are easy for me to visualize, but it seems like I have to exercise my creativity a little more when I’m planning a cake for an older adult.  I guess I see it as a fine line between tastefully mature and boring.

The cake I’m sharing today was designed for a lady’s 79th birthday.  I tried to keep the color palette on this cake a little more sophisticated.  I mean, I really didn’t think the birthday “girl” would appreciate lime green, hot pink, and turquoise, so I chose cream, brown, and coral.

And instead of polka dots and stripes, I decided to use a couple of different techniques to create a cascading floral design.  I punched out some flowers from gumpaste and applied them to the cake, and I hand-painted a few flowers and vines directly onto the cake.

I love the dimension that I got by using the two different techniques for the flowers.

This cakes was made with 6” and 8” tiers and served approximately 30.  It was filled and iced with buttercream and covered with homemade fondant.  The flowers are made of gum paste, and the tiers are trimmed with satin ribbon.

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

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

Ballet Cake

Just a quick post to share a simple little ballet themed cake I did last week.

This was a 10” cake to serve 25-30.  It was filled and iced with buttercream, and the slippers were made of fondant.

Lindsey

A VERY Pink Cowgirl Cake

It was kinda quiet in the bakery last week because I was working solo.  My right hand man was outta the country, so I had my work cut out for me.

Here’s a very pink cowgirl cake for 4-year-old Maddie Claire.  She was getting a pony for her birthday, so her mom requested that I incorporate a horse onto the cake.  The final design for this cake was a combination of several different cowgirl cakes that mom had seen online.

I was happy to be able to put together this unique cake that was just perfect for Miss Maddie Claire.  This cake was made using 4”, 6”, and 8” square tiers.  It’s a combination of chocolate and vanilla cakes filled with buttercream icing. The cake is covered with homemade marshmallow fondant. The horse, belt buckle, and ropes are made with fondant, and the bandana print is piped with royal icing.  The cowboy hat is sculpted from rice cereal treats and covered with a fondant/gum paste mix.

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

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