Charmed, I'm sure.

I made this cake for my friend Kristi's birthday. I tried a new spin on the gift box cake by making the lid out of gumpaste.



Inside the gift box was a fondant charm bracelet. It's hard to tell here, but it was brushed with shimmery silver dust so it was fancy. The charms are all "inspired" by Disney stuff, which the birthday girl loves.


The lid was a challenge because after I put the bow on, it started to collapse a bit. I had to do some re-engineering but it all worked out.

Aloha!

This cake was for my sister and bro-in-law's 15th wedding anniversary. They love Hawaii and I love Hawaii and I wanted to make a cake about Hawaii so it all worked out for everyone. The base had a grass skirt and the surfboards were hand-painted fondant.

Bunnies in the Meadow

This is a shower cake I did based on the bedding for the nursery.

Gift Boxes

This cake was for my best girls, Liz and LM. I went with a fairly simple main design but got fancy with the top and added little details that were specific to each lady. Most of the details were personal to me but since I made the cake, I can do that. This would also make a great anniversary or wedding cake. The top was orange cake with vanilla buttercream, the middle was yellow with chocolate ganache and the bottom was chocolate with vanilla.

Cake Contest

I've gone and entered myself in a cake contest put together by http://www.threadless.com/. You can view my entry at http://www.threadcakes.com/entries/view/278#0. I decided to also post the pics here so you can sorta see the process of making a 3-D cake. Here we go:


Here is how it starts. Every cake is made from scratch.



Baking. This is exciting, isn't it?


Uh, Jeff? Cleanup time, babe.


They started as blocks.


Starting to take shape.


Here I'm about half-way through. Each dude was made to order.


Voila! "The Last Piece" is born. That little sushi on the board is about the size of a Tic-Tac.


As you can see, one dude is wearing a shirt. No, he isn't cold, that is another contest shirt. It's a bunch of sushi taking revenge on their chef.


The rules stated we had to photograph us eating the cake. Here is the big chop. Notice the meat cleaver.
YUM!

There you go. I'm not giving away all my secrets because there aren't any but at least you have an idea of the process.

Giddyup!

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Overlord

This is youknowwho from youknowwhat. It was for my cousin Holly so back off George Lucas.