First Communion cake for my sweet daughter Katy. The cake is chocolate covered with ganache and fondant. Decorations are all gumpaste except the girl who is a mix of fondant and gumpaste.

I made this Cinderella cake for a little girl turning three who loves Cinderella! I wanted to capture the magic of the transformation of Cinderella in her rags to her ball gown for the ball. I put small LED lights under her dress and pointing at her so she would look like she was in mid-spell. She is elevated and I put Aluminum foil around the plastic pillar that holds her up to help reflect the lights. She also has a wired silver star ribbon wrapped around her and ending in the Fairy Godmother’s wand. The cake itself is an Aussie Chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache and covered in white fondant. I borrowed a faux finish technique of sponging small circles of different colors together to achieve the color on the cake itself. But instead of wet paint, I used dry petal dusts and luster dusts overlapping each other. Gus and Jaq the happy mice are on pumpkins made of fondant.

This is a sweet chocolate baby shower cake covered in pale blue fondant with chocolate brown accents, with a nest made from extruded fondant. The mommy bird and two children birds are watching the blue egg in the nest. All are made from fondant.

This monstrously large surf board cake measured in at 48” x 13”! The surfboard was constructed in three parts – each end is Rice Krispies Treats formed to the surfboard shape. In the middle is a 12”x18” sheet cake. Buttercream smoothed the joints of this carrot cake and fondant brought it all together. The blue background design was airbrushed on. The flames details were cut freehand from yellow fondant and dry brushed on the edges with red petal dust. The cake border is swirls of three colors of blue fondant extruded and rolled like a swirl to look like water.

This was one of my first official attempts at cupcakes. There are three dozen decorated in the reverse of each other. Half are fondant black and white zebra stripes with red and white polka dotted cupcake wrappers. The others are red swirled buttercream with white candy pearl “polka dots” and zebra wrappers. This was for an 80s themed birthday party.

This charming birthday cake is based on a design by the Pink Cake Box. My cake is a hand painted leopard print on fondant. The cake itself is a white cake colored hot pink with chocolate and yellow cake leopard spots baked into the cake. Will add a picture when I have one! The pink bow is made from fondant with some Tylose powder added. I used a bow tutorial from the amazingly talented Leslie Wright of Royal Bakery. The “jewel” I added to the bow was from the Michaels craft store. The shamrock on top is gum paste and represents the fact this sweet little girl was born on St Patrick’s Day! The bottom tier has 3 8”x 2” layers filled and covered with chocolate ganache. Top tier is 2 6”x2” layers. I love the fun mix of colors and the way the leopard print turned out!

I made this cute little owl for my daughter’s teacher’s birthday. And of course I also had to make 25 little owl cake pops for the students! The owl was carved from a six in chocolate cake that was cut in half and stacked four layers high. A dowel through the center kept it intact. And the whole thing was covered in chocolate ganache then fondant. The cake pops are two designs—one for boys and one for girls. The teacher owl in the middle shares colors with both. I used impression mats to give texture to the different cut out pieces of fondant. This teacher loves owls and has them all over her classroom decor. The cake pops are molded, dipped in candy melts and then adorned with cut pieces of fondant. The eyes are Wilton candy eyes. Thanks for looking!

How much fun would it be to have your birthday on St Patrick’s day?! Well this cake was for a lucky girl who also happened to get a birthday cake from me exactly one year earlier—the first day I was officially in business as Jenny’s Haute Cakes! So making it was also an anniversary celebration for me! Inside are 6 rainbow layers of white cake filled and frosted with white chocolate ganache. Covered in fondant. The pot of gold is basically a large cake pop covered in ganache and fondant and filled with chocolate coins. The shamrocks flying around the pot of gold were cut from gum paste and “glued” back to back around a cake wire made by Duff Goldman. The tall one are cake wires and the short ones are on cupcake wires. Nothing about this cake was particularly difficult to make, but I thought the design came out really well and it is fun!

I think of this cake as a combination of Madonna and Cindi Lauper meet Betsey Johnson! This was for a girly girl’s Surprise 30th Birthday Party. The leopard print is hand painted and inside that layer is hot pink cake with leopard print! The bow is made using a tutorial for the irrepressible Leslie at Royal Bakery. The gumpaste peonies are made using a tutorial from Michelle at Inspired by Michelle Designs. Both tutorials are free on YouTube. Thanks Ladies!

Happy First Birthday Little Dude! I had so much fun making this Finding Nemo Cake for a friend’s son’s first birthday. And then delivering it in a snow storm! The cake is a salted caramel chocolate cake (Martha Stewart recipe—soooo yummy!). All three tiers are covered in chocolate ganache and then fondant with fondant and gumpaste characters and decorations. The red coral is melted and shaped Jolly Ranchers. Each cake I make is an adventure and opportunity to learn to things. So much fun!

Surfing cake for a dear friend’s son. The design is Oreo cookie pound cake (10” square) and a bundt cake is cut in half and stacked to make the wave. All buttercream. Surfer is Gumpaste over wire and decorated with fondant to look like the birthday boy.

Who doesn’t love the Peanuts? Peanuts cake for my twin nieces. All the characters are made by hand from modeling chocolate. The cake is chocolate and vanilla covered in fondant.

Fondant covered cross cake. Gumpaste flowers. Made for my miracle niece who was diagnosed a year and a half ago with brian cancer and is now cancer free! This cake was a labor of love!

In Denver we love our football! Birthday cake for a little boy turning 6. Broncos logo is hand cut and hand painted gumpaste. Football is modeling chocolate over rice cripies treats.

Birthday cake for a little girl turning one. Cake is chocolate and white covered in ganache, then fondant. Matching smash cupcake for the birthday girl.

I made this cake for a friend whose daughter wanted a Bermese Python for her bithday. Mom wasn’t so excited about a real snake, but she had seen the amazing Bermese Python cake made by North Star Cakes (www.NorthStarCakes.co.uk). She asked me to make her daughter a python cake for her birthday. So here is MY Bermese Python cake inspired by the brilliant North Star Cakes! The snake is part Aussie mud cake with vanilla buttercream and part rice crispies treats. It is covered in a 50/50 mix of fondant and modeling chocolate. I used a plastic flourescent light cover to create the diamond skin pattern. The tree is PVC pipe and wire covered in modeling chocolate with gumpaste leaves.

I have been cake decorating for about a year now. I made this western-themed cake for a friend’s daughter’s 18th birthday. I hand-made the boots from modeling chocolate over Rice Crispies Treats. The conchos around the top tier were made from modeling chocolate in molds I made myself. The rope and horse shoes were made using molds I purchased. I hand-painted plaques on the middle tier from fabric used in the party decor. For the bottom tier I used flexible silicone scrapbooking stamps to emboss the fondant to look like embossed leather. The bandana was created using a paisley mold then hand painted to highlight the detail. The lettering on the bottom tier for was made using stamping tools for leather. This cake was a labor of love.