This cake is really much smaller than it appears, it maybe feeds 6-8 people. I made it as a door prize for a Valentine’s party at our local hospital. At my last Mike McCarey class (Big Bird) he was also offering some of his other class materials and so I bought his Eiffel Tower cutting guides and impression mat. I have been dying to make it ever since and I thought since Paris was considered “The City of Romance” that it would fit the bill quite nicely.

I made this cake recently for a Sweet 16 Birthday party. It’s buttercream coated with sanding sugar to give it an icy effect. Gumpaste snowflakes, fondant swags and brooches, and letters cut from modeling chocolate are used as accents.

Funny story: This cake says “Megan” but was supposed to say “Morgan”. I give a nice account on my blog about how I made the repair at the venue: http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2013/01/megan-vs-morgan-tale-of-on-site-repair.html

I created this cake recently for a bride that was a big Disney fan and wanted a cake to make her celebrate that and make her feel like a princess. The bride brought in a Jim Smeal design and I WISHED I could have just recreated it entirely – I just love his work!

The scrolls are from a stencil I found online. I don’t know if you’ll be able to see it in the photos, but the bride also wanted some “hidden Mickeys” on the cake. The white pearl borders wound up being almost all hidden Mickeys, and that really came together as a happy accident!

I made this cake recently for a good friend for her child’s 4th birthday party. The theme was a Country HoeDown, so I used old wooden crates, denim jeans, bandanas and farm animals as my influences. The birthday boy also wanted the mooing tractor from Cars so I sculpted one from modeling chocolate. I put the sound module inside a tractor tire (also made from modeling chocolate) that sat on the cake board so he could get to it easier and play with it.

I made this cake a couple of weekends ago. The bride wanted her cake to look like burlap. I had the hardest time coming up with an impression mat I liked. I finally wound up using the grippy shelf liner that I use under my cakes to prevent them from sliding as an impression mat. It looked way better than the ones I bought!

http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2012/11/burlap-pattern-rose-wedding-cake.html

I was writing about this for my blog tomorrow but I thought I would go ahead and share it with you guys. I made this cake this past weekend for a groom who really likes Copenhagen.

The original can is about 2” across – we scaled it up to 16” for the cake.. yep it was BIG! We used modeling chocolate for the sides and the lid. We cut most of the lettering from modeling chocolate too. The bottom half of the lid and the side label was printed on edible image sheets and pieced together.

I also made edible “tobacco” by mixing coconut with brown food coloring and then cooking it on very low heat to dry it out some. The look was very convincing!

I don’t do many baby shower cakes, but I really enjoyed making this one. This one was based off of the “Ahoy Baby Boy” line of party supplies/decorations. The client provided me with a paper plate and I used this to create all the decorations from modeling chocolate. Except the bees – they were just too small to cut so I printed them on edible image paper. The blue gingham pattern was also printed on edible image paper.

http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2012/10/ahoy-boy-baby-shower-cake.html

We made this Wedding Cake this past weekend for a bride having her reception at the local art museum. It’s not often that we find a couple willing to be so bold with their wedding cake design. We had a blast making it. It’s a buttercream covered cake with modeling chocolate accents. The koi fish were printed on edible image paper.

I made this cake recently for a bride who came into the shop with a cake picture from Art Eats Bakery in SC. We reworked the design a little to make it into her own creation.

I made this cake this past weekend for a dear friend of mine. She’s not a big fondant fan, but she is a big fan of ruffles. I started playing with my ruffle tips and before you know it, I starting making all these ruffle flowers in buttercream. I thought the cake turned out really nice and my friend Daisy loved it!

More info here on our blog about how we made the cake:
http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2012/09/buttercream-ruffle-flower-cake-tutorial.html

And, a Youtube video on how to make your own buttercream ruffle flowers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWAaHGpHMY

This is my entry into this year’s Threadcakes contest. It is based off the Bonsai Cats T-Shirt design. The planter is cake, the tree portions are RKT and the tree trunk is a PVC structure covered in modeling chocolate. We had a blast making it, but it was a shame we had to cut it in the end!

Here is a link to my contest entry. I would certainly appreciate it if you could LIKE it, or even leave a comment!

http://www.threadcakes.com/entries/view/1546

Made this cake for a friend’s 40th birthday party. We were having a crawfish boil and the birthday boy is a professional weightlifter, so I made a crawfish with a dumbbell made from fondant “corn”. Everything is edible except the cast iron pot that we used on the very bottom in place of a cake stand.

I made this cake based off a picture the bride brought into the shop. The original photo, from The Pastry Studio, was all fondant, and the bride wanted the fondant kept to a bare minimum. So I figured out how to do buttercream ruffles. You can read more about it on my blog: http://bit.ly/NZKpNe

I really liked the pearl coating on these tiers. I mixed the dragees first, and then put them on the cake with a large cake pan underneath to catch the ones that didn’t stick the first time.

I really liked the sentiment the “And They Lived Happily Ever After” added to the cake. It is a 4-tiered fondant cake with royal icing words and flourishes painted with Nu-Silver.

I discuss he techniques I used a little more in depth on my blog:
http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2012/07/happily-ever-after-wedding-cake.html

I made this cake this past weekend and had a blast making it! There’s a lot of edible images in this cake, but that doesn’t mean it was necessarily easy! Everything on the cake is edible.

There’s some more info about this cake on my blog:
cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2012/07/clue-game-board-grooms-cake.html

With Independence Day upon us, I realized that I have not published this cake anywhere other than as a small image on my own website. I made this cake WAYY back when in 2007 for the “Star Spangled Supper” cake contest for the Chattanooga Theater Center. I did win, but the “prize” was just some free ads in the programs.

Have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Peach and coral have been big colors for my brides this season. This is a pretty standard 4-tier buttercream wedding cake. I used Fondarific for the eyelet portions. It doesn’t stretch as I’m cutting the details, but maintains the pliability to still wrap around the cake once I’m finished with the detail work.

We made this cake recently for a music lover and saxophone player. Chocolate buttercream with a buttercream stencil and a sax made from modeling chocolate. And topped with a TON of peanut butter cups!

This was my first “lidded” cake, even though the lid wasn’t cake itself. I molded the gun out of modeling chocolate and while it could have been a cleaner piece, it was pretty realistic looking!

If you’re interested at all in how I did the lid, I chronicled the process on my blog:
http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com/2011/05/chocolate-glock-grooms-cake.html#more