Kiss Cake!

Today is Joe's dad's birthday :) Happy Birthday Bob! He is a huge Kiss(the band) fan so it was easy to pick out a design for his cake.

The cake is a Yellow Vanilla Sour Cream Cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Joe was enjoying eating the scraps!

It is not seeming that I am getting better at buttercream cakes. I used the wrong kind of buttercream to get it nice and smooth like how I would like. I did get to pipe stars though and that was my first time. Very easy to do!

We made kiss faces to go on the cake but I think it looked very nice without them so we left them off for now. I am bringing them with the birthday celebration though just in case we feel they are necessary at that point.



Happy New Year!

I hadn't made a cake in awhile and I was really itching to so I decided to make one for when I went to visit my family in Oshkosh.

I posted picture of it on Facebook when I was done and my cousins saw it. When I pulled up to the house my cousins daughter, Grace, was peeking out the window, checking to see if I had the cake. I was greeted at the doors by my cousins being all excited because the cake actually cake with me. They werent sure if I was bringing it with me or if I had made it for a different occasion.

It was a big hit, even baby Stella loved it!

Grace loved eating the fondant pieces, apparently she is a sugar addict like me!

There was a lot left over but Grace and her brother Sam were more than happy to take a bunch home with them!

This was the first cake I took pictures of with my new camera. I am still terrible at taking pictures but they seem a little better than they did with the camera I bought in college. :)

Kelsey's 14th Birthday Cake!

My cousin Kelsey was born on Thanksgiving 14 years ago. It was November 28th and I was 10. We were at my aunt Wendy and uncle Dave's house. Kelsey's family was not there of course because they were at the hospital awaiting her arrival. Kelsey requested that I make her a cake for her birthday and bring it to her on Thanksgiving.

I wanted to do a funky cake since 14 year olds are pretty easy to please and I have yet to do a real funky cake. Admittedly I got lazy with this cake. I carved it and it looked like an upside down pyramid. It may not look like it in these pictures but it has really steep sides. I had forgotten how to make nice looking bows so I had to watch my old trusty Youtube videos. It was a pretty fun cake before it cracked down the middle after the 2 hour car drive :(

Playstation 3 Cake

The crowning moment of my cake career thus far? Will I be able to carve a cake to look like a Playstation 3? I guess I can! After several nerve wrecking weeks leading up to the cake's deadline, I finished the cake early! The whole playstation is made of cake and the controller is made of Rice Krispie Treats covered in fondant. My scuplting needs more work but my carving is coming along nicely I think. Joe helped me out by painting the words Playstation 3 for me. I was too scared of messing it up. Overall it was a lot less scary than I anticipated :)

Zebra Striped Purse Cake

In preperation for the PS3 cake I knew was coming I wanted to carve a cake. My mom and my aunt's birthdays are on the same day and we were having a little get together. I decided I would make them a purse cake since both of them love purses and shopping. The zebra stripes on the purse are painted on and the ones on the board are fondant. I think I am digging the painted stripes a lot more!

Halloween Cake!

Work was having a pot luck and I can't cook so I made a cake. It was close enough to Halloween to make a Halloween themed cake. I made a orange velvet cake (just dyed the dough orange) with cream cheese frosting. It is covered in fondant with a tinfoil/toothpick tree convered in fondant.