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.

Daisies

Ok, so I made a cake with daisies on it today. I baked a single layer cake and made buttercream icing. Sometimes my buttercream turns out really well, other times not so well - today was a good day! I used gum paste for the first time and found that I liked using it. It was both easy to color and easy to use. My cake turned out so-so, but it's only going to be eaten by the family and seen by few (since I assume that no one is looking at this anyway)!

Vow Renewal

I made this one for my brother and sister in law when they renewed their vows. It was my 1st attempt at a wedding type cake. Next time, I'll get it a little straighter!

Pop Princess Guitar

I made this guitar for my daughter's 6th birthday party. She loved it and it was a big hit!

The Beginning of the Adventure

When I was a kid, I loved to bake. I was always asking my mom to buy cookie, brownie and cake mixes or chocolate chips to make homemade cookies. My favorite toy as a kid (besides my barbies and star wars figures) was my Easy-Bake oven. It was the old one that was yellow, brown and orange and you would put the pan in one side and take it out the other. As I've gotten older, I still love to bake and especially to decorate cakes. I worked as a baker in a local bakery for about 8 years. Everyone thinks that is where I learned to decorate cakes, but since I was the one baking the cakes (and other goodies) I only learned how to ice a cake and add a border. So in other words, I am pretty much self taught. Between then and now, I graduated college and have worked in an office. After 10 years being away from the bakery, I am tired of sitting at a desk and am itching to get back in the bakery! I've decided that since I don't have the experience to quit my job right now to go work as a cake decorator, I'm going to work on my skills at home and post my results here.
I've sort of been the unofficial cake maker for my family for several years now. I make my daughter's birthday cake every year, she tells me what she wants, we look on the web for some ideas and that's what I make. We've had animals, princesses, pop stars and wizards. Earlier this week while visiting the local craft store, my daughter asked me if I could teach her how to decorate a cake. Wow! So this weekend, we're going to give it a try. She said she wants to make a daisy cake, I've never made daisies, so I guess that's where I'm going to start!