Baby Shower Cake and Cupcake Tower

This cake was a fun cake to make!

The flavors were simple... chocolate and vanilla with buttercream frosting.
The challenge was in the fondant work.

The top cake had a lot of adornments. Out of fondant I made a little baby covered by a blanket, a toy teddy bear, some blocks, a bottle and a ball.



For the cupcakes I molded little baby feet. I also put a few baby feet around the sides of the cake.



Here is everything all together.....

Happy Birthday Patrick

One of the adorable Bunker babies turned 1 last weekend and I was asked to make his birthday cake!

One of his favorite things is Sesame Street so I ran with that and made the Sesame Street themed cupcake tower.

I started with a 6inch chocolate cake for the top. It was frosted in white buttercream. To decorate it I cut out orange and green circles from fondant and also cut out a green "street" sign for the side of the cake. On the "street" sign cut out I wrote Patrick and the # 1. On the top edge of the cake I piped out the Happy Birthday message.



For the cupcakes I made Elmo and Cookie Monster.



The frosting was still the same buttercream just colored red and blue. I used 2 different tips to frost the cupcakes. The eyes were store bought and for Elmo I cut his mouth out of fondant and for cookie monster I used 1/2 an oreo in place of his mouth.

Here is the final product....






From what I hear Patrick loved the cake and happily destroyed 2 cupcakes!

Happy Weekend everyone!

Reid's 1st Birthday Cake

The Family I nanny for asked me to make a Cake and Cupcakes for their daughter's first birthday! They decided to go with a Lady Bug theme for her cake and I seriously had so much fun making it!

The flavors were simple... Chocolate and Vanilla with Vanilla buttercream.... the adventure was in the design.

The cupcakes were frosted with Pink and Green frosting and topped with some different fondant pieces.

On the green frosted cupcakes I had these cute little pink ladybugs!



The pink frosted cupcakes were topped with black "ladybug" dots!



For the cake it was frosted in pink and covered in black "ladybug" dots. I also wrapped it with a green ribbon. For the top of the cake I made a number 1 out of fondant and also some little flowers to stick out of the cake on wire.



For the Birthday message I cut out a flower shape from white fondant and piped on the message.

Overall I thought this was the cutest cake I have made yet and from the pictures I saw Reid enjoyed it as well!!!









I hope everyone stays dry during these rainy days and stay tuned this weekend for the 3rd cake I made this past weekend!!

Graduation Cupcake Tower

So last week I made a graduation cake for Dominique and her family to enjoy on her actual graduation... Yesterday was her AWESOME graduation party and I was privileged enough to make a cupcake tower for the occasion.

I stuck with the school colors for this cake too. The cupcakes were vanilla and chocolate. I colored the vanilla cupcakes orange and frosted the cupcakes with buttercream.

I topped the vanilla cupcakes with black stars cut from fondant and dusted with edible silver shimmer. The chocolate cupcakes were frosted in orange.



For the top of the tower I made a 6inch cake. I wanted the cake to look like a graduation cap. To do this I took a square cake board and covered it in black fondant. I made an orange tassel out of fondant and added some wording to the top of the cap. The actual cake was frosted in white buttercream and I tried coloring it black using Wilton's Color Mist spray. It didn't come out as black as I hoped but it was was serviceable.



Here is the final product all set-up at the party...








CONGRATULATIONS DOMINIQUE!!!!!!!!

Keep checking back this week for posts about 2 other cakes I made this weekend!

30th Birthday Cake & Cupcake tower

I was very excited to make this cake once the order was finalized! The client requested a Tiffany Blue theme with silver and white accents.

For the cupcakes, the flavors were chocolate with buttercream and Cookies n' cream. They were frosted in Tiffany Blue and I used Silver and white sugar balls to decorate the tops.

The cake was the really fun part!

I started with 2 inch chocolate cakes. I filled the cake with chocolate filling and then crumb coated it using Tiffany Blue Buttercream.





After the crumb coat dried I generously frosted the cake in the same Tiffany Blue Buttercream.



The day before I Had constructed a cute white bow out of fondant. While the cake was frosting was setting on the cake I cut out my ribbon and tag pieces from the white fondant.

Once everything was cut out I added the Birthday message to the fondant tag and added all of the pieces to the cake.





I was so happy with how the cake came out! I assembled everything on the cupcake tower alternating the cupcake flavors.







I think it looked really cute! I hope Jackie had a Happy 30th Birthday and enjoyed her cake and cupcakes!!!

Have a great week eveeryone!