Had no idea what a ‘Toodles’ was when the client ordered this cake. I had to do some research to find out.

This poor cake was a disaster! It started out as a Topsy Turvy cake and fell while I was putting the butter cream on. So, that first cake all got thrown in the freezer, and I started baking again. Once I got all of these layers done and cooled, I started fresh and chose to forget the fondant and the Topsy Turvy and just go with butter cream. When the client came to pick it up, she got out of the driveway, and down to the corner and called me stating that it took a nose dive in the back seat! So, back she came, and I was up until midnight trying to repair the damage. It was a mess.

Made this cake for our pastor for pastor appreciation Sunday this last week end. Didn;t realize until after I delivered it that I had my goal posts backward!

Chocolate cake using a lot of molds from fondant and piping.

This was not my design, but was given to me by the client. She wanted this cake for her son.

This cake was a red velvet cake using the smallest spring form pans by Wilton, and then carved some to form it’s shape. Every two layers I placed a divider so that I could place cut skewers in between as supports, then ran a full skewer all the way through all layers and cardboard circles to keep it stable. I made the lid and handle out of gum paste and then painted it with silver sheen food coloring. The plate, pickle, pretzels, brat, and German bread were all made from gum paste and then chalked with petal dust the colors. The mustard was royal icing, along with the tree and trunk on the stein. The bottom cake was covered in fondant to look like a checkered table cloth. The foam on the cake was quite by accident. I had used a cooked flour icing and it kept sliding down the sides. Everyone thought I had done it on purpose. It ended up just adding to the whole composition!

Each month, I have been having a drawing in my community for a free cake giveaway. This is my May cake. It is a Lemon Sour Cream Pound cake with raspberry and butter cream filling and butter cream on the outside with lemon/butter/vanilla flavored mmf on the outside. I also covered the board with fondant then air brushed it with gold luster sheen. The buttons between each tufted billow were made using gum paste in a mold that I had made using a button. The little place card was an idea that I had gotten from a fellow caker named Shirley Wilson, and these are kind of her trademark. It’s made from gum paste. The flowers are silk. I was going to use real flowers until I realized that they were going to cost more than what the cake was worth, and I really stink at making gum paste flowers. It’s something I just need to sit down and practice doing.

Cake made for my best friend. Her favorite flower are morning glories. All butter cream, with gum paste flowers.
I put cornelli lace inside the diamonds in a different color for contrast.

This was such a fun cake to make. Covered the cake in fondant, then I used a leaf cutter/vainer for the sides, and started with my lightest leafs at the top, and worked down the cake until I had my darkest leafs. Used a tiny forget-me-not gum paste cutter for the flowers at the base, and a larger five petal cutter for the ones on top. Used the 3” smallest pan by Fat Daddio’s.

This is a mini bride’s tasting cake made for my Goddaughter’s tasting party. I used a 5” square pan to bake the cake in. The molded designs came from a Wilton mold, and the rest is done in butter cream icing.

This is a mini bride’s tasting cake that I did for my Goddaughter’s tasting party. It’s done in a cooked flour butter cream on red velvet cake. My poor poppies were not quite dry when I put them on, and they look a little floppy!
I used the Wilton small spring form pan to bake this cake in. Each cake was enough to serve small bites to each guest that she brought to her party. I served a peach colored punch made with apricot juice, 7-Up, a little maraschino cherry juice and orange juice, along with cream cheese mints and coffee. It was a lot of fun and all the guests were stuffed.

This is a mini German Chocolate bride’s tasting cake that I made for my Goddaughter’s wedding tasting party. The sides were iced in chocolate butter cream and then grated chocolate crumbles were pressed into the sides. The faux cherries were made from red fondant and glazed with clear Karo syrup. Her husband wanted a Portal Cake (from a game) as the grooms cake, so this was my sample.

This is a tiny mini tasting cake that I made for my Goddaughter’s wedding tasting party. I used a leaf cutter/vainer and started at the bottom of the cake and continually went to the top using the darkest leafs at the bottom and gradually ending in white. The pan size was Fat Daddio’s smallest, which I think is a 3” pan and is the equivalent of about 2 cupcakes.

This is a mini bride’s tasting cake that I made for my Goddaughter’s tasting party. I had about 5 different cake samples for her to try that day, each decorated in a different style so that she could see different techniques.
I used the Fat Daddio smallest pan, which I think is a 3” pan and the equivalent of about 2 cupcakes.

This was the very first time that I tried out the tufted billow weave and I did it with a very small cake dummy. I used 2 floral Styrofoam circles as the base to cover my fondant. I chose to do it in black and white to show the contrast.

This is a cake I just made in March for my granddaughter Victoria. She is a traditionalist wanting a wedding white cake with old fashioned decorations. I have two granddaughters and both show a great deal of promise as cake decorators.

This is another butter cream cake made for my best friend’s granddaughter. I had hearts left over from my Valentine cake and white flowers left over from my Goddaughter’s wedding cake, so Chloe got the ‘leftovers’ for her birthday cake.

This is a marble cake that I had made for my grandniece’s birthday. I poured the batter into the pans one tablespoon at a time alternating the chocolate and yellow right smack in the middle of the pans allowing the batter to spread naturally. This way it resembled a zebra print pattern when the cake was cut into. The cheetah spots were hand painted with food paste colors, but the zebra stripes were cut from fondant. The sweet 16 lettering was made using gum paste.

This is a birthday cake I made for one of my good friends. She always lets me do whatever I want. I’ve wanted to learn the Lambeth Method of cake design forever so this is my meager attempts trying a few things I have seen here and there.

My sister wanted me to make her granddaughter an over the top, girly girl cake in pink, so this is what I came up with. It is all in butter cream except for the pearl beading between the ruffles and the string work and the small molded roses that are beneath each connecting ruffle. This was the first time I had tried brushed embroidery using butter cream icing.