Microphone Cake

So this is my first attempt at a microphone cake for a popstar birthday. The birthday girl requested a microphone with a blue handle and silver or gray top. I made the handle using by cutting a sheet cake in half lenthwise and stacking it. The top part is an 8 inch round cake, stacked and carved to look like a ball. I used buttercream icing, the sparkle is silver sprinkles and the trim on the microphone is black fondant.

Peace Signs

My daughter insisted on a peace sign theme for her birthday this year. It's a two tier, vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. I cut the peace signs and flowers out of fondant. I was unable to find peace sign cookie cutters so I used a round cutter and then cut out the peace signs by hand. Lots of work, but well worth it because my daughter loved it!

Here's a picture of it being cut after all that work!

Corvette

I made this Corvette themed cake for my Corvette loving father! It's covered with marshmallow fondant, which I made for the first time. I'm discovering that I'm not so fond of fondant, but I'll keep trying! Those guys around the side are "Jake", the corvette racing symbol.

Soccer Ball

I made 2- 8 inch cakes, stacked them and carved them to make the ball shape. I was a little unsure of my carving skills and how even the ball was going to turn out, but it actually appears to have come out pretty even. I put a very thin layer of buttercream and then used a pentagon and hexagon template that I cut out of paper to mark the pattern on the cake. Next I went back with the star tip to transform it into the soccer ball, I added some grass around the bottom edge and it was done. Everyone loved it!

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I'll be doing a soccer ball cake for my nephew this weekend and I'm looking forward to posting the results!

Mermaid

My daughter chose Little Mermaid for her 3rd birthday. Little Mermaid wasn't very popular at the time and I couldn't find cake decorations for it, so I bought the doll from the toy store. I used crushed graham crackers for the "sand".

Harry Potter

Here is the Harry Potter cake that I did. I bought the toy kit online and copied the sample picture. I had to improvise the bricks by coloring the icing brown and using gel between them, since I don't have an airbrush. I used the canned black spray on the right hand side for the sidewalk.