Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing with mmf/gumpaste accents. <3

Again, sorry for the bad cell phone photos.

I was given total creative freedom with this cake as long as it was purple. I love doing the rosettes and petals but wanted to change it up a bit and keep it soft and romantic. What better way to go than hearts for a bridal shower?

The cake is a chocolate raspberry cake filled with a raspberry compote filling and iced in vanilla buttercream with mmf accents. Toppers are sugar cookies covered in mmf.

Sorry for the horrible photos, I need to work on that! The colors were actually beautiful tones of purple but in photos look more blue.

Marbled vanilla and chocolate cake iced in vanilla buttercream icing and mmf/modeling chocolate accents.

What a labor of love this cake was! First time trying out this ruffle technique on the top tier. Each row took about 30-35 individual ruffle pieces. Not the greatest with figurines, but had fun making these ones! Flavors are chocolate hazelnut cake with marshmallow icing and red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. Each tier was then covered in mmf petals/ruffles. Figures made out of a 50/50 mmf/fondant mixture.

I was so excited to finally get to make an elephant themed baby shower cake! The cake is designed around the invitation. Vanilla chocolate chip cake filled and iced in vanilla buttercream with a 50/50 gumpaste/fondant mixture for all the toppers (so she could keep them for a shadow box). My friend Mayra from Heavenly Creations by Mayra worked on me with this by making 80 elephant cookies to match! She did such a great job. <3

A mechanic themed cake. They were celebrating not just a grand re-opening under new owners, but all the years this guy put in to the business to make it what it is today. <3 Vanilla pound cake iced in vanilla buttercream with fondant accents.

Simple 10” Hello Kitty cake. Iced in buttercream with a gumpaste Hello Kitty and fondant accents.

The request was for buttercream ruffles, flowers, pinwheels, butterflies and bright colors…something very springy! This is what I came up with.

So many ruffles for this cake!

My nieces 17th birthday cake – Bottom tier is chocolate hot cocoa cake filled with a chocolate buttercream cookie filling. Other tiers are vanilla funfetti with vanilla buttercream icing. Decorations in mmf.

Monster Jam cake – Chocolate hot cocoa cake with a cookie crunch filling and iced in vanilla buttercream icing. MMF covering and accents. Dirt is made out of chocolate buttercream with cookies and munchkins crumbled up. Rocks made from mmf.

Cheetah print and zebra print 1st birthday – Chocolate cake with a light chocolate buttercream icing covered in mmf with mmf accents. Smash cake all icing. Cupcakes are vanilla on vanilla with mmf toppers. ♥

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday – Vanilla funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream icing and mmf covering/accents. Guys, this party setup was AMAZING! I wish I took photos of all the fantastic things going on. She had hand made cookies, chocolate bars, games, banners, place mats…the best looking party I have ever seen! So cool.

**Photos taken by Morgan Bayard Photography https://www.facebook.com/MorganBayardPhotography

Curious George 1st Birthday – Bottom tier is strawberry cake, top tier is vanilla coconut cake. Both filled and iced in vanilla buttercream icing. Bottom tier and all accents done in mmf. Top tier iced in buttercream with mmf accents. Curious George made from a 50/50 gumpaste/mmf mixture. I had so much fun with this one! There are cupcakes and a smash cake in the next photo that went with this cake.

Jungle themed baby shower cake – Bottom tier is vanilla cake – top two tiers are strawberry cake. All iced in vanilla buttercream icing with mmf accents. ‘Water’ is made from a mixture of blue buttercream icing and clear gel. I hope you all love this cake as much as I do! ♥

(If you want to learn how to make a bow like the one shown here, go visit Lesley at Royal Bakery! She has a wonderful tutorial for making bows).

These were the most fun cupcakes I have ever made and my first detailed ones. They were for a Alice in Wonderland/Mad Hatter themed baby shower. Flavors were red velvet with cream cheese icing, vanilla almond with vanilla buttercream icing and vanilla funfetti with chocolate cream cheese icing. Toppers were made out of 50/50 wilton/mmf. TFL!

My friend wanted a MM themed cake for her sons 1st birthday. She wanted something not overdone and with a black/red/white theme. This is what I came up with. TFL!

Cake Flavor: Top tier – Chocolate hot cocoa
Bottom two tiers and cupcake – Vanilla funfetti
All filled and iced in cream cheese icing and then covered in fondant.

I still can hardly believe I was asked a second time to make a cake for CC Magazine. I feel completely out of my league with all the other amazing cakers out there. The theme this time was Pink Pearl Wedding. My original design called for just a 2 tier cake but I decided to add on a 3rd tier. I tend to overdo it on a lot of cakes so I tried to challenge myself in keeping this cake more simple. The rose on top is only my second rose. While I know I have done it completely wrong, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out compared to my first. The best thing about this cake is after the photos were taken I donated it to a bake sale my Aunt was holding and it raised $150! I hope you all enjoy it! <3

I’m so excited to share this cake with you all! Cake central magazine emailed me asking if I would be interested in submitting a cake to possibly be published in their magazine. I was nervous to take on this task, but went for it. The theme was a Green Secret Garden Wedding. They sent inspiration photos and I had to design an all buttercream cake based off of the photos while using more than one icing technique. It could have fondant accents, but the base of the cake had to be in buttercream. I tried to showcase that you can make a beautiful, romantic cake with different but easy icing techniques. I hope that’s how it was conveyed.

For the bottom tier I made my icing very fluffy and used a leaf tip. I then added on some grass shards and clovers that I had made from fondant. I made the clovers a few days in advance after finding a tutorial on how to make clover earrings out of some type of clay form. It took a bit to make them, but was worth it. For the second tier up, I used a bunched up paper towel and saran wrap to create the effect. I dipped the paper towel in some vanilla extract that I had added a tiny bit of ivory to and then used that on the icing to create some subtle depth. I then added some off centered pink fondant petals. This tier actually took the longest to complete I think. The third tier up I iced smooth and then using buttercream I did some brushed embroidery and scroll work. I added on some small fondant flowers and pearl accents. For the top tier, I did some rosettes adding a pearl in to the center of each one and a fondant bow/brooch accent.

There are SO many amazing photos of this cake taken by Marissa of Memories To Cherish Photography. I will be making an entire album just to showcase what great work she does! I think she captured this cake perfectly in the way I was hoping for…actually better than I had hoped for! The day of the photos it was drizzling out, kind of gray out but the sky had a beautiful color to it. We brought it outside and set it up on the side of my home where there is a concrete slab, moss, rocks, etc. It seemed like the perfect spot. I held an umbrella over the cake while she took photos and my little munchkin was running around puddle jumping lol. We were lucky to get these photos in the time frame we did before it started down pouring.

I loved making this cake and was so honored to even be asked! I sure didn’t think it would actually make it in but when I found out it did, it was an amazing feeling. When I was done making this cake, I kept it on my counter an entire day lol. It was hard to let go, but it is cake after all and I certainly did not want it to just be thrown out. I wanted it to be enjoyed so I donated it to the nursing home that my Gram was at before she passed away. I hope you all enjoy this cake as much as I do! <3

Unicorn Birthday – 48 cupcakes (chocolate hot cocoa and vanilla butter) iced in vanilla buttercream icing with fondant accents. Loved making this one!