My 83 year old Dad’s favorite car of all time was his 1972 Volkswagen Beetle. He has always regretted getting rid of this car. For his birthday, I thought the least I could do is to try to replicate that favorite car. This is my 4th attempt at a carved cake.

My first try at a “Maggie Austin” fondant frills cake with cabbage rose. I think this flower is a new favorite of mine – so much fun to make.

lemon cake with buttercream icing and lemon flavored marshmallow fondant. Fondant flowers inspired by “Carina’s Cupcakes”.

Spice cake with buttercream frosting and white chocolate ganache over top. Snowflakes from fondant. Idea inspired by a cake done by Dimitrana Schinogl of Austria

My friend’s daughter had her 18th birthday (Oct 27) and she was celebrating with a fall themed party complete with apple dunking and hay rides. They saw a picture of a similar cake on-line and asked if I could do one similar to the one they’d seen. I do not have the link to the original cake – if anyone is aware of it, please let me know so I can give them credit for the general idea. The cake was chocolate with orange colored buttercream frosting. Decorations were a combination of fondant and buttercream icing.

My sister-in-law inspires me to make this cake…she made a similar one years ago…so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s a three layer 8 in round cake. The bottom and top layers are vanilla covered in buttercream and fondant. The middle layer is chocolate cake covered in chocolate ganache. The ‘lettuce’, ‘cheese’, and ‘tomato’ are fondant. The fries are shortbread cookies with sugar sprinkled on them to look like salt

I made this cake for my boss’ retirement party. It measured approx. 24 in. by 20 in. and was 2 layers. The cake was covered in fondant and the lei was gumpaste.

This was my first attempt at a peony. In my “dream world” there is such a thing as teal colored peonies :) I have always liked the look of a large, single flower on top of a cake.

This was my first “sculpted cake”. . .my son’s favorite activity is longboarding. . .and even better, to longboard through an empty parking garage. For his birthday this year, I decided to sculpt a parking garage with Ben longboarding down the ramp. This was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting under the fondant.

This was my first “tiered” cake. The bottom portion was based on a design I saw on someone’s facebook page. . .now I can’t find it to give them credit for the idea. If anyone recognizes the “idea” please tell me who it came from so that they can receive credit for it (the original was done in oranges and yellows I believe).

my first attempt at a “zebra” cake!

I wanted to try out the petal effect and decided to try it out on this little 4 inch cake. Just the perfect size for one flower on top.

Funfetti cake dressed up! I was out of town when my friend’s birthday rolled around, so I decided to make her a belated cake. This was only the second cake I’d covered in fondant. I wanted to try the draping technique and had only tried the little roses once before.

this was my first attempt of this style of decorating. I thought it was quite fun and not too difficult to do. I was asked to do a birthday cake using lavender or purple. . .but no other instructions. Always fun to try something new.

Deep dark chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and chocolate ganache glaze.

This was my first fondant covered cake made for the 3rd Wilton cake class.