April Cake Bonanza

The week of Easter I had 3 cakes that were due. So here are the 3 that were due:

1. Happy Birthday Jeremiah

This was for my mom's friend's son's birthday. The cake is marble cake with strawberry banana filling. The cake was covered with Buttercream frosting. She just wanted a simple sheet cake for her son's birthday.

2. Happy Birthday Kathleen

This cake was for my step mother's birthday. She said she wanted something simple and colorful. She loves the look of the gerber daisies. So i used bright colored fondant to make the gerber daisies. It was marble cake with buttercream filling.

3. Happy Birthday Alex and Jailyn

This cake was for my niece and nephew. It was marble cake and was filled with buttercream and covered in MMF. The cake was cut and stacked into the shape of a puppy. The puppy was designed off of the stuffed puppy that my nephew loves. My niece when they did the cake was petting the cake as though it was a real puppy. I was also told that she didn't want them to cut up the cake.

Angry Birds Birthday Cake

One of my friends asked me to make her husband's birthday cake. He is apparently addicted to angry birds, thus an angry birds themed cake. After much searching to find a good picture of the birds and piggies, it was time to bake and create. He LOVES chocolate, or so I was told. So, I made the base of the cake of 2 chocolate 9x13 cakes and filled them with chocolate ganache. That's right, super chocolate cake. ;) The cake was then crumbcoated with vanilla buttercream (still perfecting the chocolate buttercream) and chilled. Then the cake was covered in a green tinted MMF. The birds and the piggies are made of rice krispie treats that I molded and then crumbcoated and coved in tinted MMF. It was super exciting when the birds and piggies started to come alive with all their little eyes, tails, eyebrows, etc. Then I took a dowel rod cut at the height needed and covered it thick in tinted MMF and took toothpicks to support the sides of the slingshot and then added a small strip of fondant to the back for the slingshot. A little blue bird was then added to the slingshot. The wood and stones are just molded MMF. Then the rest of the piggies and birds were added to the cake and then the wood and stones. I took green tinted buttercream and piped grass onto the cake between the wood and stones and around then the slingshot base. For around the cake, I cut out grass blades out of green tinted MMF and added them to the cake sides. Total time for this cake was ~ 10 hrs.

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Kid birthdays

My husband's Goddaughter and her brother had their combined birthday party yesterday and I made their cakes. Each had their own theme. Alyssa's was elephant themed and Jacob's was train themed. The elephant cake is made of yellow cake with a chocolate ganache filling. The train cake is made of chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The base cakes were made of 3 layers, so they were huge! The elephant is made from the Wilton 3D small teddy bear cake pan. When cooled, cut the teddy bear's ears off. Then I shaped the trunk and the legs with some extra buttercream. Then I crumbcoated the rest of the elephant and then fondanted. This was difficult but was a nice challenge. I added some details with the different tools from a Wilton tool kit I got when I went to Hobby Lobby one time. As for the train, I made a 9x13 cake and used a 2 inch round cookie cutter and cut out 3 circles of cake. I then put buttercream between the layers and added straws for support. I also cut out a 2.5 x 7 inch strip of cake for the train base. I place the rounds on their side on top of that strip. I then added a small back square piece so that the fonant sides of the cab would have support. I then buttercreamed and fondanted that. I used different tips and other tools to form the wheels, smoke stacks, cab walls and cow tosser. I then let those dry and harden over night and then added them the next day.

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It's a me, a Mario

For my godson's birthday- I was asked to do a toadstool cake. Of course, I can't do anything simple so I took my sports ball pan, rice krispies, cake mix, fondant and all othe tools and got to work. With much research into the Mario world (which I knew next to nothing about) I looked at pictures and party websites. So I started by making the rice krispie treats. Then I molded them into the stalk part of toadstool. Then I made up the cake mix and made small bricks and the top part of toadstool. Next up would be buttercreaming for the crumb coat. Then I covered with my marshmallow fondant. For finishing touches, I added green buttercream grass to fill in imperfections and gamps between the bricks. Total hours spent on cake ~10 hrs.

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