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!

Welcome Cake - 10/6/09

We had 3 new employees start all on the same day here at our office so I decided to make a "welcome cake".  The flowers were left over royal icing flowers from when I took the Wilton Cake Decorating classes last year...and YES, they were still edible!  Keep them in an airtight container out of direct sunlight and they will last a very long time!  I should have used a smaller tip for the writing...what can I say, writing messages on cakes is defnitely not my strength!

For the sides of the cake I did a basket weave.  This technique is very tedious, but I love how it looks!

Diane and Dana's Birthday Cake - 7/18/08

My boyfriend's mother and sister-in-law have birthdays one day apart so we were celebrating them on the same day.  I decided to practice my gumpaste daisies a little more!  The cake itself was lemon flavored iced with buttercream icing.  Also was good practice for the square cakes...they're harder to ice than the round ones!

Flower pot of Chocolate Flowers - 5/13/08

For the 2008 Safe Kids Savannah Annual Awards Luncheon a Chinese Auction was held.  I made this pot of flowers as a prize to be auctioned off.