Graduation Cake

I had a lot of fun making this cake!
The graduate was graduating from Newton North High School and Since I am a graduate of NNHS I was happy to make a cake in the school colors.

I started with 2 10inch vanilla cakes filled with a Dulce de Leche buttercream. YUM!

The cake is frosted in a bright white buttercream and instead of piping a border I decided to use a bling-tastic ribbon around the cake to dress it up.



For the other decorations I used fondant. I cut out all of the lettering and made some accent decorations using a star cookie cutter.



My fav part were the stars "floating" above the cake. I did this by cutting out the stars and pushing thin jewelery wire through the stars and letting them dry out. I then attached the letters using just a little bit of water. I just love the dimension it adds to the cake.

Here is the final product!!!!







I hope everyone has a fabulous week and that this rain lets way to some sunshine for all of us!

2 Tier Cirlce Cake

Tonight is Newton North High School's Senior Prom and one of my favorite clients requested a cake for the occasion.

She gave me creative liberty to do whatever I wanted for the cake, she just requested the cake be in colors that coordinated with her daughter's dress.

I started with 2 cakes. An 8inch and a 6inch, both chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.
I frosted each cake with a pink Buttercream and then stacked them into 2 tiers. This is the first tiered cake I have ever made.... not too bad for my first attempt I think.



After the cake was stacked I got to working on the decorations. I colored some pink and purple fondant and cut out a couple of different sized circles. I also cut out some letters from the purple fondant to say "NNHS Prom 2011"

I strategically placed the circles, piped a white border on each tier and placed the lettering on the top of the cake. As a final touch I topped the cake off with some hot pink and brown accent feathers.

I hope all kids enjoy the cake after they dance the night away!

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!