Saturday, February 28, 2009

Angel's cake

My friend Beth and I made this cake for her sister-n-law Angel. It is a single layer 9x13 white cake with decorator icing. Beth did all of the purple lace, which by the way, she did a great job. I made the flowers out of royal icing. I think this cake is cute. I'm trying to talk Beth into leaving computer programming and becoming a cake decorator. So far, thats up in the air. :-)

1st birthday


I made this cake for my youngest daughter's first birthday. The idea came from another cake website. It is a 2 layer 10 in. and 6 in. butter yellow cake. It is suppose to have a fondant #1 on the top surrounded by rolled fondant rose but they broke at the last minute and I didn't make any extra so I put a #1 candle and royal icing flowers on the top. Normally, if I was making this cake for some one else, I would have made extra and allowed for breakage, why I didnt do the same for myself who knows. Not my favorite cake but its ok.

Who..will be..the next...

I really like this cake. I got the idea from another cake website. I thought I did a good job on this one being it was the first time that I worked with fondant. This cake is a single layer 11x15 butter yellow cake with decorator icing. The stars,banner, and microphone are all made of fondant. I made it for my daughter's 6th birthday and it was a big hit. Everybody wanted a piece of the microphone. The only thing I would have done differently was make the banner bigger and do better placement with the stars. I think there were just a few too many. But otherwise a good cake.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Pink and brown polka dots

I love pink and brown! I also love polka dots! This is a cake that I made for my husband's friend Mike. He wanted to suprise his girlfriend with a cake for her birthday. She is pregnant with a little girl they will be naming Charley so Mike thought it would be a cute idea to put "charley's mom" on the cake. I thought it was really cute. This is a 2 layer 9x13 cake. It is a butter yellow cake with decorator icing in pink and the writing and the brown dots are chocolate butter cream.

The cake that tried to kill me...

This cake.... what can I say about it. I had felt bad all week and I was really tired. Not a good thing to be when making cake. This cake was for a baby shower for a girl named Jessica.
Her sisters were suprising her with a cake that looked just like her invitations. I thought that the fondant pregnant lady turned out really well. Its not that I don't like the rest of the cake, its just that there is sooo much GREEN! I didn't really know what else to add to it without screwing it up. But overall, I guess, it was ok. I think that if I had felt better, it would have looked alot better. But oh well.... live and learn right?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Latest creation....

This is the latest cake that I have made. I made it for one of the women that works at my daughter's day care. This cake was for her daughter's 8th birthday. It was a 60's themed/groovy birthday party. It is a double layer 10 in. and 6 in. butter yellow cake with decorator icing. It also had fondant groovy flowers. Overall, I think it turned out good.

I'm offically a BLOGGER!

HI! My name is Wendy. I am a self taught cake decorator. I started this blog to post pictures of the cakes that I make. I hope every one enjoys looking at my cakes as much as I enjoy making them. I will be posting the pictures soon so be paitent.