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!