Mother's Day Cake

Here is the Mother's Day cake that I made for our Mother's Day luncheon today. Unfortunately I had to work (on my first Mother's Day!) so I got together with the Moms on both sides of the family and planned a luncheon on the Monday following. It was so much fun - except that my niece was sick and unable to come. Marshmallow fondant is pretty amazing but I want to take a break from it after this cake. I need to work more on my buttercream and royal icing techniques. Plus marshmallow fondant is yummy but it gets to be old after awhile... I want some softer frosting on my next creation!

White cake swirled with purple food coloring filled with wonder cream frosting and covered in marshmallow fondant. Bow and details done in marshmallow fondant.

Silent Hill Cake

My sister's 24th birthday was today! So as soon as I was finished placing the bow and delivering the baby shower cake to Easton I started on this creation for her. The cake is themed after our favorite horror survival game Silent Hill! This cake was very difficult to make. It was a four level, filling-filled nightmare themed cake. The fondant wouldn't tint red so I had to paint it with red food coloring by hand (and I'm still trying to get the red off my hands!). The homemade cookies-and-cream filling was delicious but not sturdy under heavy fondant. But in the end it was really yummy, looked totally cool and my sister got the theme right away!

Chocolate fudge cake with cookies-and-cream filling and vanilla icing. Covered and decorated with marshmallow fondant.

Baby Shower Cake - Fondant Style

A girl at work who I have made cakes for before asked me to make her a baby shower cake this week. Here it is! The picture seriously does not do it justice! The bow was a little difficult. The first bow I made totally (and literally) flopped so I had to make a second one. Apparently bows aren't meant to be made out of fondant but instead a combination of it with gumpaste - who knew? This one was made out of fondant and left out to dry for 36 hours before placing on the cake. Thank goodness it worked because the end result was 100% worth it! She texted me after the shower and said the cake was a HUGE success!

Strawberry cake with strawberry icing, covered and decorated with marmallow fondant and royal icing flowers.

More Dissected Frog Cake Photos...

Abi with her cake. I was so glad that she liked it! My mother-in-law says it's going to be a hard cake to top! Bring on the cake challenges...

Thought I would post a picture so the front of the cake could be seen. The tongue has gotten a lot of compliments...

Dissected Frog Cake

My younger sister-in-law's birthday was today. She is a freshman at UMBC and is majoring in biology. What better way to celebrate her birthday than to make her a cake that looked like a dissected frog! Her Mom had suggested doing anything musical or biology related and I jokingly made the comment that I was going to make her a dissected frog cake and when I got home I couldn't get the idea out of my head! So I searched for some diagrams of frog innards and got to work. One hundred percent worth it. The cake was awesome and Abi loved it!

Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

We had a very important client come to work and tour the facility this week. The tour went smoothly and the clients were very pleased so one of my coworkers and I decided to throw our department a thank you pizza party! He ordered pizza for everyone and I baked these chewy oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts. There wasn't one cookie left in the tin to bring home!

Peanut Butter Candy Cookies

So I've decided to branch out - who says my year of baking has to be strictly cakes? So I made some gourmet looking peanut butter candy cookies. Basically peanut butter cookies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups baked right in them and then drizzled with chocolate. Yum! My grandmother said they looked too fancy to eat!