It's been a while!!

So, it's been a little while since I've posted and a lot has happened!! My best friend trusted me with her whole wedding!! Well, all the cakes anyway!! So here we go...

The Bridal Shower

Top tier was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and the bottom tier was orange rum with orange rum glaze and chocolate orange buttercream. The whole cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream. The art on the cake was supposed to mimic the beautiful design on the plates, haha, I did my best!! Much to my suprise a lot of the guests got it!! So happy with the way it turned out and even happier that the Bride and her whole family LOVED it!!

The Grooms Cake

After many many many hours of looking through pics and trying to get ideas, my friend came up with the idea of a poker themed cake, and this is what we designed. It was a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Crumb coated in buttercream and covered in homemade white chocolate marshmallow fondant. I'm still working on my skills (lol...) so the cards and chips are real, but the next cake I make, you'll be able to eat them!! haha...The groom loved it and it was awesome to see all the guys goofing off around the cake!!

The Wedding Cake

Before final touches

After final touches

So this cake was a true labor of love!! Each tier was Orange Rum with Orange Rum glaze and Chocolate Orange buttercream. It was then crumb coated in vanilla buttercream and covered in homemade white chocolate marshmallow fondant. I hand piped the scroll work and the monogram out of buttercream. The bottom of each tier is wrapped in black satin ribbon.

This was the biggest cake I have taken on and to be honest, it was scary!!!! I mean my best friend trusted me to make her WEDDING CAKE!! The bride and the cake are like the 2 things that everyone goes to see and I was making the cake?? But in the end, I was proud of how it all turned out. After it was all set up and I was sitting at the table waiting for the happy couple to arrive, I was just watching and listening...EVERYONE LOVED THE CAKE!! There were so many people taking picture after picture after picture of the cake saying how amazing it was!!! It was a major confidence boost. And the look on the family's face when they saw it...and especially the brides expression, yeah, I was proud. So, to my best friend, Thank you for trusting me and I'm very very happy for you. Congrats Girl!!!

The latest adventures

So things have really been picking up lately!! Several of my friends are getting married and have seriously trusted me to make their cakes. I am truely grateful to them but wow!! I've never done wedding cakes before!! Nothing to that scale anyways. Wish me Luck!!!

Here are a couple of cakes that I did just recently...

A lady I work with asked if I would make a cake for her sister's birthday. She asked if I had ever done fondant, and well I had, but for anyone who has tasted store bought fondant, you know it's kinda (REALLY) gross. But recently I found a recipe for homemade white chocolate marshmallow fondant. Perfect reason to test it!!! So I told her sure I'd try it. She asked for pink dots and a bow of some sort, nothing really specific, but here's how it turned out:

It was a yellow cake with Chocolate ganache filling and buttercream frosting and covered in fondant. I think the fondant turned out great and I was so excited cause I got to use pearl dust!! I think it added that little extra something to the cake. And the best thing, she said her whole family loved it!!! lol...they really compared it to a "Cake Boss Cake." How cool is that???? I'm definitely not that good, but it was neat to hear that!!

Well, I have done a wedding shower cake, but I'll update on that tomorrow. It's late and I'm tired!! Good night!!!

Digging a lil deeper...

So to keep going with my past cakes...here are a few birthday cakes:

Fondant cake with buttercream and fondant accents





This is one of my Favorites!! One of my girlfriends asked me to make a ladybug cake for her daughters first birthday. It turned out so cute!! Lil Miss Avery kept eating all the spots off her ladybug!! Everything was buttercream....

Until another day!!

A little peep into my past...

So here are a few cakes I've done in the past....

The first was a tester cake for my daughter's first birthday. It was me and my mother playing with fondant for the first time. Needless to say it was FUN!!!





Next was the actual birthday cake and her smash cake:





It was definitely a LABOR OF LOVE!!! lol...all in all we were proud of what we made!!


The next couple of cakes were from my Wilton's Cake Courses. I have taken course 1 and 2 and hope to finish the last 2 courses in the near future.....






Well, I'll add more pics later, for now it's off to bed!!

Adventures in Cake

Let the real adventure begin!!! I've just only realized my passion for cakes over the past few years, and with that I've been finding reasons to make cakes, both for practice and for fun. I've been very lucky to have friends who have the faith in me and trust me enough to make cakes for their special occasions....so to those who have helped me thus far and to those who are helping me now a huge THANK YOU!!! I really couldn't be doing this without you!!

Keep having faith in me and I'll keep giving you amazing works of edible art!!!