Pink Flowers and Lace 50th Birthday Cake

Bird on a Branch Birthday Cake

This cake was for my beautiful friend, Debbie. Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling and buttercream icing, with marshmallow fondant accents. Oh, and sixlets! The pearls are sixlets, now sold in bulk at Winco!!

Teal and Purple Birthday Cake with Gold Scrolling and Fondant Flowers

This was my niece's birthday cake, from October. It is chocolate, OF COURSE, lol. Teal and purple are her favorite colors, and she wanted gold also. . .buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant accents.

Wedding Cake with Burlap and Gerber Daisies

 can't tell you how happy I was to make this cake, how happy I am that these two people found each other and have begun their life together. The bride, like a sister to me and dear to my heart, gave me few instructions, just burlap, gerber daisies and she pinned a few pics on Pinterest. Love her confidence that I'd make something she'd love. 

If you're interested in knowing how this cake came together, see the photos below. Keep in mind this is how I do it, but there are a few ways to put a big cake together.

1. Bottom tier is 3 14" layers (vanilla and chocolate marble cake). Filling is vanilla creme. Below, it is stacked, filled and crumb coated with buttercream icing.

2. Big cakes are heavy and need dowels. I used 4 wooden dowels cut to size for support and 1 for the center, which helps keep the tiers from sliding.

3. Next I added a 10" cardboard cake round, for the next tier which is, coincidentally 2 layers of 10" marble cake. 

4. Some people put their tiers together and then set them on the cake. I prefer to assemble them on the cake: bottom layer, icing "dam," filling, then next layer, and a crumb coating of buttercream.

5. I chose to use shake straws as support, 4 of them cut to size. They are strong enough to hold the 6" tier. Then I added a 6" cardboard cake round.

6. Add the 6" layer and follow the same steps as #4 above.

7. Next step was to frost the whole thing with buttercream.

8. Then I just smoothed it( I use the viva towel method, google it if you're curious) and decorated as below. I used the cornelli lace and dot techniques, burlap ribbon and live gerber daisies (complements of the bride). VOILA!

Flower Petals and Chevron Baby Shower Cake

Made this cake at the request of grandma to be, for her daughters baby shower. Let me just say, chevrons are NOT easy. I definitely need more practice with precision geometrical shapes.

This is a chocolate cake,with buttercream icing and filling. Petals and chevron are hand cut/formed marshmallow fondant. Ended up being a nice cake, I thought, but I would do a few things differently if I do chevron again. 

For one, I would MEASURE very specifically the stripes and be very sure of the correct proportions. In this case, I would have made them thinner. Also, I would have chilled the stripes after rolling and cutting the fondant to make it easier to place.

I did LOVE the petal covered top tier, although hand forming that many petals took AGES. 😉

Bee's n Flowers Birthday Cake

Got to pick my own design for this cake for a sweet friend. 😊 Chocolate vanilla marble cake, raspberry filling with buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant accents.

Monogrammed Pink Ruffles and Flowers Birthday Cake

Sweet cake for a very sweet and wonderful friend. Cake is chocolate with chocolate fudge filling, buttercream icing and lots and lots of marshmallow fondant flowers (at her request).

Ruffled Purple Ombre Cake

Made this small ruffled cake for the daughter of close friends, who just graduated from high school. School colors are purple and black, but wanted a more feminine look so I opted for the ruffles and flowers. I probably should have arranged the flowers differently, but I still loved the effect. Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling and buttercream frosting. Should taste delicious! I bought 2 of those glass leaf plates, specifically so I could use one with this cake, and I think it's a great accent.

Bird's Nest Mother's Day Cake

Chocolate cake filled with both chocolate buttercream and French vanilla creme filling, then covered in vanilla buttercream. Flowers, bird and nest are all marshmallow fondant. Mama bird is even sitting on some little eggs . . . Made the flowers a pretty off-white to set them off from the white cake, and really like the antique effect that it had. Had fun delivering this to my own mother and grandmother, who both deserved a grand cake. :-)

Baby Bird Baby Shower Cake

Spring was my inspiration for this baby shower cake . . . Ok, so it's still winter and only 40 degrees at the warmest part of the day, but we're out of the single digits and a girl can dream, right?!! ;)

This is a chocolate cake (6" tier and 9" bottom tier) with chocolate mousse filling and buttercream frosting. All the decorations are marshmallow fondant, the birds, nest, and branches are hand formed and I used a Wilton fondant mold for the leaves and flowers. I was really happy with how it all came together!

Pretty Blue and Green Flowered Birthday Cake

Made this cake for the daughter of some close friends and wanted to make it kind of special. I went for a two-toned design and made fondant flowers using Wilton Fondant and Gumpaste molds. I loved how those worked! The cake is chocolate with vanilla creme filling and buttercream frosting, and the marshmallow fondant accents. I think it turned out unique and lovely, just like the birthday girl! :o)