12-11-10 Laura's 2nd 29th Chicago Bear's Birthday Cake

So Laura's husband Brett decided to throw a surprise party for her 30th 2nd 29th birthday.  In trying to decide how to decorate the cake and what kind of decorations to have for the party a Chicago Bear's theme was decided upon.  I was a little nervous that she might not like it, but she loved it!

Another color flow icing creation.  The Chicago Bears logos and lettering are all handmade from color flow icing....I LOVE THE STUFF!!!!  The possibilities really are endless!

The cake itself is carrot cake with cream cheese icing...the icing didn't quite cooperate with me but it turned out ok anyway.

11-13-10 - Auburn University Birthday Cake

A co-worker went all over town trying to find a bakery that would make an Auburn University cake for her husband's birthday and she couldn't find anyone to do it.  She was talking to another co-worker who suggested that she ask me - they had both seen the retirement cake I had done for Marianne.  It was short notice but thanks to have the day off for Veteran's Day I was able to pull it off. 

The cake is yellow iced with buttercream and decorated with hand made color flow icing decorations that I made!

10-10-10 - Joey Maggioni's Baptism

Joey's mom saw the pictures of the cake that I did for Max's Baptism and she wasnted one, too!  Chocolate cake with buttercream icing, royal icing flowers, and pewter cross.

9-20-10 - Stephen and Charlene's Baby Shower

Another Stork fo another co-worker - this time for a boy.

Cake was chocolate and cupcakes were vanilla.

8/27/10 - Marianne's Retirement Cake

After 17 years our Immunization Coordinator for the Coastal Health District, Marianne Pappas, retired.  I was asked to make the cake for the party.  I started with this t-shirt - one that Marianne had gotten made many years ago.

I made a photo copy of the t-shirt and used it to trace the images of the shirt using Color Flow Icing.  The only time I have ever used the icing was when I took the Wilton Method cake decorating classes over 2 years ago.  It's similar to Royal Icing in that you let it harden and then you have sugary decorations that you can place on the cake.  You start with a thick consistency of the icing, place a piece of wax paper over the picture, and then trace the images.  Then you thin out the icing and fill in the designs.  It takes some pre-planning because the icing takes quite a while to dry, but I feel the wait is worth it!

The base cake is a 12" x 18" sheet cake - marble cake - iced with buttercream ising.  The duck is vanilla cake made using 1/2 of the 3-D Duck pan from Wilton, and iced withbuttercream icing.  The "Be Wise Immunize" design is made entirely out of color flow icing.  The words and balloon strings were made using one photo copy of the t-shirt placed on a cardboard cake board with a piece of wax paper over it.  The people and the balloons were made using a second photo copy of the shirt.  Once all of the pieces dried they were peeled off of the wax paper and placed on the cake.

The possibilities with Color Flow icing are endless...your business'es logo, a picture from a coloring book, an original design...pretty much anything is possible!

7/25/2010 - Max's Baptism cake

I was honored to be chosen by good friends Laura and Brett to be their son Max's Godmother. 

Of course I offered to make the cake!  It was a simple vanilla cake with buttercream icing decorated with royal icing flowers and a keepsake pewter cross.  I forgot how much I love working with Royal Icing....hadn't had a chance to make any flowers in over two years until this cake.

Lesson's learned from this cake:

When working with box cake mixes, stick to Duncan Hines...don't settle for any else!

7/24/2010 - Cupcakes - Just because

Had some extra batter from making the next cake I'm going to post and extra frosting from the previous cake so threw together some cupcakes just because.

7/17/10 - Diane and Dana's Birthday

Simple white cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.

7/3/2010 - Fourth of July Jello "cake"

This cake is not actually a cake, it's Jello covered with cool-whip and fresh fruit!

Baby Shower - Cristina Gibson 6/25/10

Had a baby shower at work for a co-worker.  This cake was made using the Wilton Stork Pan.  It was a chocolate cake decorated with medium consistency buttercream icing.

The cake wasn't that big so I made some cupcakes to go with it.  They were vanilla cake also iced with buttercream, decorated with plastic baby shapes.

Pink bootie, white chocolate suckers were the party favors for everyone.

Marie and Brad Morrison - Wedding Cake 6/11/10

6, 8, 10, & 12" round layers iced/decorated with buttercream icing.  6" = amaretto cake with buttercream filling, 8" = german chocolate cake with coconut pecan filling, 10" = vanilla cake with raspberry preserves, 12" = carrot cake with cream cheese icing filling.

Teresa Earnest of Memories n More Photography has a much better picture on her blog  Check out her June 12, 2010 post of pics from Marie and Brad's Wedding!

Wedding Cake "Cake Balls" - 5/22/10

These fabulous little wedding cakes are actually "cake balls" - a concept I found from Bakerella  You bake a cake, pulvarize it to crumbs, mix it with frosting and shape the "dough" into shapes, then dunk into melted chocolate.  The technique was a little harder than I thought, but they turned out ok!  These were the favors for Marie's Bridal Shower.

Bridal Shower Cake - Marie Foresman - 5/22/10

Chocolate Strawberry Dream Torte

Trista and Brett Best - Wedding Cake 5/15/10

Vanilla Cake with Buttercream Icing and real sunflowers. 6, 8, 10 and 12" round.

Yvette's Good Bye Party - 4/2/10

This cake was made using the butterfly cake pan from Nordicware and a regular square cake pan for the base. 

Laura's Bay-bee Shower - 2/6/10

I didn't know if this cake would actually happen.  I ended up getting really sick right before the baby shower and didn't think that I would be up for making the cake.  Luckily, I started feeling better and had just enough time to pull it off.  We threw a Bee Themed shower for our friend Laura because she was decorating her nursery in a bee theme.  It all turned out very cute!  This cake was made using the Wilton Lady Bug cake pan, which also includes directions for a butterfly and a bee.  From what I'm told the cake tasted good...I wouldn't know because I had no sense of taste or smell for about 5 days from being sick.  Anyway, the wings and tail are the only parts that are not edible.  They were made from cardboard and covered in plastic and decorated with icing before inserting into the cake.

The bees on these cup cakes were made by cutting gum drops in half and lightly flattening them a little.  The stripes and eyes were made with icing and the antennas were little chocolate sptinkles.

Connie's Retirement Cake - 12/18/09

We surprised Connie, one of my co-workers, for her retirement, too.  We used the same decorations from Jane's party only Connie likes German Chocolate cake so I made her a decorated one.  4 layers of german chocolate cake with coconut pecan icing filling and frosting the outside.  Decorated with buttercream icing borders and store bought candy snowflake cake decorations.

Wreath Cake - 12/11/09

This was made for a co-worker using a wreath bundt cake pan which had the whole design of the cake, pinecones, ribbon and all.  I just used buttercream icing to highlight the design.  It was for one of her granddaughter's birthday.

Jane's Retirement Cake - 12/8/09

We had a Surprise Retirement Celebration for Jane (the previous Safe Kids Savannah Coordinator).  We tied it in with our Annual Holiday Potluck Luncheon and the decorations were all blue and snow flakes so the cake was decorated to match.  The cake itself was marble decorated with buttercream.  I made up the borders and the snowflakes were store bought candy cake decorations.