Just finished this pink LV purse cake. The cake is lemon with lemon buttercream and raspberry jam, covered in fondant. All decor is hand made and edible. The cake is a gift to a lady who is now vegan, but loved to collect LV purses in her pre-gan days, hence the “loving vegan” tag at the top. The cake board is covered in fondant and the leopard print is hand painted. The LV pattern is all handcut too, and I really underestimated how long that was going to take. Just to do the pattern took about 6 hours total. The “LV” logo is painted on. I used a mold for the zipper and chain on the side (really easy: buy some Amazing Mold putty, a new zipper and a chain and make your own). The cake is also massively huge at 14” long, 4” deep and 9” tall (not including the height of the handles). I padded the front so that it would look more like fabric and less rigid—meaning the ripple in the middle is intentional and not a result of saggy fondant.

Please excuse the yucky background… the cake was so big and delicate that I didn’t want to move it to my light tent and risk a caketastropy!

Thanks for looking!

Cat in the Hat themed cake, all fondant or gum paste details, all hand made. Top tier is chocolate/mint, bottom tier is vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream.

Pooh Bear cake, chocolate/chocolate. Pooh Bear is hand sculpted from fondant.

Han Solo frozen in carbonite grooms cake. All handmade and edible. Chocolate/chocolate, covered in chocolate ganache and fondant. I made Han by making a mold from a toy (used Amazing Mold Putty) that I placed on top of the cake and blended the edges.

Wedding cupcake display. Cupcake flavors: vanilla, chocolate, lemon and pumpkin with giant cupcake for the bridal cake. Grooms cake was Han Solo frozen in carbonite. The vases separating the glass tiers are filled with paper flowers handmade by the bride.

Music themed cake. Chocolate with chocolate buttercream, covered in dark chocolate ganache and fondant. All details are fondant/gum paste, hand-made and edible.

Just for fun, I thought I’d post this cupcake that I submitted to an ugly cupcake contest and won. I’ve been dying to make a zombie cake for a long time and that’s what I wanted to do for this ugly cupcake. When I googled “ugly zombie” the first image that pops up is one of a zombie hamster, which was perfect inspiration! Since it’s made from cupcakes, it’s probably near life size, right?!

Anyway, I took one cupcake and leveled it. Then took 2 more cupcakes and stacked them on top (so it’s like a 3-tier cupcake) and that’s how I carved the face. I then covered the head in fondant and used gel coloring to add some dimension to the “skin.” The hair is cotton candy that I stuck on with water.

A tiny tiered cake for a 2nd birthday. The bottom is a 6” round, top is 4”. Rapunzel and the flowers are handmade from gum paste.

A princess castle cake complete with a princess and a friendly dragon. The birthday girl was turning 3.

What a fun cake to make! Everything is edible: tower is RKT coated in RI and covered in fondant; cake is chocolate/chocolate covered in ganache and fondant, Rapunzel is gum paste.

I was asked to make a Battlestar Galactica themed birthday cake. My husband is a fan of the show and said that a cylon cake would be the ultimate, so that’s what I made. The first picture is my cake (left) with a photo of a cylon (right) for those who don’t know what a cylon is. The cake is mocha with peanut butter buttercream and dark chocolate ganache.

My mom retired from work on her birthday and these were for her office to celebrate. Flavors: vanilla/vanilla, chocolate/chocolate, apple spice cake/brown sugar frosting, lemon/lemon.

I made this for my neighbor’s son’s 1st birthday party. It’s a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.

I made this cake with only 3 days notice. All elements are handmade and edible, except for Rapunzel and Pascal. While there are a few things here that I would have liked to have executed a little bit better, I’m still really pleased with how it turned out and this is probably one of my favorite designs so far.

My client was hosting her daughter’s fifth birthday party at CuriOdyssey (http://www.curiodyssey.org/) and wanted a cake that reflected the party location. CuriOdyssey is a very cool place in San Mateo, CA that’s a museum with kid-sized exhibitions and a small zoo with animals that have been rescued/rehabilitated and aren’t able to return to the wild (many of the animals are native to California). The birthday girl wanted an “animal theme” for her cake and the birthday mom sent me this cake for inspiration: http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1781787/happy-little-farm. Specifically, she liked the frog and wanted to include one holding a heart like in the photo and she wanted some of the animals at CuriOdyssey featured on the cake (badger, coyote, owl, bobcat, frog, duck, birds, etc). CuriOdyssey also has this insanely cool bee exhibit and we wanted to include some bees on the cake as well.

The tricky part for me was trying to figure out a way to incorporate that many animals into a small-ish (9”) cake without it looking cluttered. Then I saw a photo roll by on Facebook and decided to throw the tree in to anchor everything together. For the life of me, I can’t remember who made the cake that inspired the tree in my cake here. If anyone knows, please leave a comment and I’ll link to it (it was a Valentine themed cake that had a tree on top and a girl sitting on a swing hanging from one of the branches—so adorable!).

This cake is a vegan chocolate cake with chocolate filling. Everything is handmade and edible.

For a “you are my sunshine” themed 1st birthday party. When my client initially contacted me a few weeks ago and told me the theme of her party, this was the first idea that popped into my head. I came up with a few other ideas, but she chose this one. The cake is a vegan banana cake with vanilla filling. I also made 5 dozen cupcakes to accompany this cake—2 dozen lemon, 2 dozen strawberry and 1 dozen gluten-free lemon.

I made these cupcakes for a “foresty fifth birthday party.” Since there were a variety of allergies amongst the guests, these cupcakes are all gluten-free, nut-free and vegan (but oh so delicious!). This was so fun—I love cake projects where I can run wild with the display!

Ariel themed birthday cake. All details are handmade, except for Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder.

Black fondant covered strawberry cake with vanilla filling covered with tons of bright flowers. So fun!

I made this cake for my daughter’s first birthday. The top tier is gluten free vanilla with lemon; bottom is chocolate/chocolate.