My hairstylist asked me to do a cake for one of the lady's in her salon who passed her board exam. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you call it, but she's now a certified hairstylist anyway. So the ladies at the salon wanted to celebrate with her. This is the cake I came up with.
The cake was yellow with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing. The hairdryer was made out of rice krispy treats and covered with fondant. All the other decorations were fondant.
My mother retired this year after teaching for 35 years. That's quite an accomplishment and I'm very proud of her. We had a retirement party at church for her. The theme was "elegant beach" and the decorations were beautiful thanks to the very talented MiMi. She outdid herself as usual and I wish I had pictures, but I don't yet.
I do however have pictures of the cake.
The cake was covered in shades of brown marshmallow fondant. The coral was made from royal icing. The shells were made from candy melts and the "fish roses" were made from fondant.
I'm a little behind on showing cakes but this is one from last weekend. It was for a good friend's daughter who turned one. She wanted the cake decorated like the fabric that she used to make the birthday girl's dress. She also did center pieces to match. The dress and the center pieces were very cute and the cake ended up matching pretty good. Happy Birthday to H Bug!
Chocolate cake, peanut butter mousse filling, chocolate buttercream icing on bottom and white buttercream on top and fondant decorations.
Sorry I've been MIA lately. I have a long list of excuses but who likes to hear excuses? So I'll just move right along to the cake. This was fun, easy and turned out really cute.
I apologize for being away for awhile, but I have been making cakes. I just haven't slowed down long enough to post them. This past weekend we had a birthday party and also a open house for my Grandmother, Nanna. Nanna is very special to me so it was an honor for me to be able to make a cake for her.
The overall theme was "springy" so this is what I came up with. The top layer is chocolate cake with peanut butter filling. The middle layer is yellow cake with cream cheese filling and the bottom layer is butter pecan with cream cheese filling. It's all covered with fondant and all of the decorations were made from fondant.
Kelly, my friend who gets me to do cakes for her ALL the time and still manages to stay super skinny, asked me to do a cake with cream cheese icing instead of butter cream. Well that is yummy to me as well, but you can't do a lot of decorating with cream cheese icing. It's just not stiff enough. She wanted sort of an outdoors theme so I decided to do blue cream cheese icing like water (so I didn't have to make it smooth) and make a big fish out of rice krispy treats. Here's the fish.
And here's the cake.
I loved doing this cake. Probably because I have boys and they would love a cake like this. (They actually did love it, but were willing to part with it.)
The cake was chocolate with buttercream filling all covered with marshmallow fondant. All of the decorations were made out of fondant as well, with the exception of the fishing line. It was dental floss.
