Luau Birthday Cake

This is a cake for little Gianna who turns one this weekend. My pictures sure make my cake look bumpy, but in person it doesn't. I think I need a new camera - a good one! I did do the buttercream meringue on this cake thanks to Whisk Kid! The bottom layers (3) are chocolate, and the top 3 are yellow. I also did a smash cupcake for Giana.

How to make Homemade MM Fondant

How to make Homemade MM Fondant

This is the video that I used to make my marshmallow fondant. Get the gel colors by Wilton at Walmart (better price than at Michaels), use a toothpick to add it to the fondant - a little goes a long way.

Birthday Cake

This cake was done for Relay For Life. It was a cake to be presented to survivors. Little did I know, since it was my first event, that the ribbon color for survivors is purple. Oh well, they still ate it!

Easter Egg Birds Nest

To be honest, I didn't make these. My daughter made it in preschool, but it was so cute, I had to share it. Its just marshmallows melted with chinese noodles and some bubble gum eggs in the middle.

Alarm Clock Cake

This cake was made for my friend Karen who went back to work after a long absence. It's not that detailed, but it got the point across, and it was small, which was perfect for the 4 of us after dinner.

Cupcakes

The carrots were out of homemade marshmallow fondant for the carrot cake cupcakes, and the chocolate ones....those were funny. I generally use a box mix to make the cakes with, but make my own buttercream icing and fondant. I actually melted chocolate chips for this chocolate icing before I realized I could have used cocoa powder! But they were good!
I still haven't mastered meringue buttercream...the first time I used the "boxed" egg-whites-only because they were pasturized (worried about sickness) but found out that for that reason, they wouldn't stay up, and kept falling when adding the butter. If anyone has an easy one, pass it to me and I'll try it out!

Christmas Snowmen

These snowmen are super easy, but messy and time consuming to make. You have to have melting chocolate, along with icing to pipe, candy to add, and hand dip the hats (did I mention its messy?). But my 4 yr old did most of the work, and she had a blast, so it was well worth it.

After putting the 3 marshmallows on the stick, you dip them in white chocolate and set to dry. Then you take 1/2 marshmallow and stick it to 1/2 oreo for the hat, and dip them in dark chocolate and set them aside to dry. Once dry, use icing for the eyes and carrot nose, then to "glue" the candies on for the buttons. I've seen them done with scarves too, but I didn't do those.

Hello Kitty Cake

This cake was for my daughters 4th birthday, as she was really into Hello Kitty things. This is my first attempt at fondant, however it was store bought fondant that I do NOT recommend, it can't be eaten. The wiskers are licorice, and the eyes and nose are jelly beans.

My first cake that was not a circle or rectangle

This cake was for my 3 year old (2008). It is of "Rocket" from the Little Einsteins show. My friend iced it for me as I hadn't tried fondant yet. I used 2 cupcakes for each rocket engine with a graham cracker at the top, a tootsie pop for the antenna, and just shaped the sheet cakes on my own.