Cake for my friend Kathy, wishing her well. 

My dear friend Rachel turned 40.  The party to celebrate her birthday was fantastic.  Photos here show my husband and myself at the party, our "Princess" Rachel, the cake set up with the theme "black and white party/Phantom" and a closer phote of the cake taken at my house once it was completed.

Phantom of the Opera Birthday Cake

My Son-in-law, Chad, recently turned 40 and we had a surprise birthday
party for him with a "Phantom of the Opera" theme.  Even the cupcakes had little fondant masks on them.  What fun!

Have neglected posing some of the cakes I've made....Here is one done a few months ago for a friend of my daughter.  Her little girl loves Hello Kitty!

Lauryn's Zombie Cake

Lauryn wanted a zombie birthday cake.  So....I took a photo of her and croped it to get just the face, printed it out and then took a charcoal pencil to make it "zombie looking".  I then scaned the drawing and saved it as a jpeg and had it printed out on an edible frosting sheet.  It was then put on top of a rice krispy fondant covered base to give it some dimension.  Fingers coming out of the ground were made of white chocolate and painted with food color to make them look grey. The dirt was made out of ground up gingersnaps and chocolate cookies and gummy worms were added for the final touch. 

Yo Gabba Gabba

My daughter has a friend whose daughter was turning 2 years old.  This little girl loves "Yo Gabba Gabba"  which I found out was a tv show.  I had never heard of this before.  Anyway, after looking it up on the internet, I soon learned all the characters and here is the result of the Yo Gabba Gabba cake. complete with all the characters.

Darth Vader Cake

Darth Vader Birthday
Cake for my son-in-law,
Chad

Unicorn Birthday Cake

Here is a unicorn birthday cake.  It is a 14" round strawberry cake, covered in while fondant.  The unicorn and flowers are fondant, and the pink border is modeling chocolate.

Strawberry & Kiwi Birthday Cake

This cake was made to celebrate 3 birthdays.  It was 3 layers, one vanilla, one red velvet, and one coconut. The fillings were bavarian cream and strawberry filling between the layers.   The cake was forsted in buttercream, slivered almonds put around the sides and white chocolate chips covered the top.  Fresh sliced fresh strawberries and kiwi decorated the top. 

Gretta's Owl Cake

My future Daughter-in-law, Gretta, loves owls.  Hence, the owl cake.  Square cake was covered in fondant.  A tree limbs went up the side of the cake, and small leaves in orange and yellow were placed on the limbs.  Larger leaves were placed on top and a small owl was made of rice krispy treats, covered in fondant, was placed in the middle.

Star Wars - Yoda Cake - Amanda's 17th Birthday

My Granddaughter, Amanda, is a hugh Star Wars fan.  For her 17th birthday, I decided to surprise her with a Yoda cake.  The the body was made with a round cake pan base and then the top portion of the body was baked in a stainless steel bowl.  The head was formed with rice krispy treats and then covered with fondant.

Amanda & Joey's Stargazer Wedding Cake

September 10, 2011

Amanda & Joey Huffman's Wedding Cake

Square - offset, 3 tier cake with butter cream frosting, and

decorated with purple ribbons and sugar star gazer lillies and orchids.

Sea Shell Wedding Cake

Doug & Melissa's Sea Shell Wedding Cake - July 30, 2011

(3 Tier chocolate cake with ivory colored butter cream frosting and decorated with chocolate sea shells)

Tangled Rapunzzel Birthday Cake

My Granddaughter turned 10 (double digits!) I can't believe it!  She was having a sleep over party and orginally I was to make a "sleep over" cake.  Unfortunately, I came down with the flu and was unable to make it.  When I got better, we had a girl's day and took her to see "Tangled".  That evening we had a small family party and I made her a Tangled/Rapunzell cake.  It was a triple layer strawberry cake with strawberry filling covered in fondant and decorations were made out of modeling chocolate. Yummy!

"A cake for all Seasons & Reasons"

 My friend Melissa said she had a "challenge" for me (and she really did).  Melissa has a large family.  It is very difficult for them to all get together for holidays. Well....the rare date came up in the beginning of November, 2010 where everyone could be together for a party and they decided to celebrate 4 birthdays, 2 anniversaries, Thanksgiving and Christmas on the same day!  So.................I made a large rectangle cake as the base and decorated it for Christmas with red fondant pointsettas and red and green border.  On top of the retangle was a cake baked in a loaf pan and covered with white fondant to resemble a table with a table cloth.  On the table are dishes, corn on the cob and a turkey.  Figures of pilgrims and an indian were made out of fondant also and put on a lollipop stick and inserted.  Little candy pumpkins were placed on the base of the table.  Then I made 2 small round side cakes.  One for the birthdays---decorated with 4 balloons which were attached to floral wire and fondant ribbon curls.  One balloon for each birthday person.  The other round was decordated with red and pink fondant hearts; two white swags and two white choclate heart lollipops.  This was, of course, for the two anniversary couples.  This was a lot of fun to make.

Halloween Party Cake

Halloween 2010

My daughter had a party at her home this past Halloween.  The skull cake was made from a guitar cake pan. I sunk in the eyes and nose and put black gel inside the eyes and nose.  Teeth were made of fondant and the worm going in the nose and out the eye was a gummy worm.  I placed the cake on crushed oreo cookies to resemble dirt and a gummy spider was placed near the skull.

Jets Birthday Cake & Bosses Day

Where I work, we have 3 bosses.  I made a birthday for one of them who is a hugh Jets fan and then tied in the theme for Bosses Day and made small 4" cakes for each of them as football players!  You'll notice that one of the bosses is a women so I added on a pink bow to her helmet and gave her pink lips. The sign on the cake states "Bill scored another year - Happy Birthday" and the sign where the 3 football players are says "Thanks to Tampa Bay CDC's Team Captains - Gregg, Carrie - Bill "

Chocolate Delight Birthday Cake

Tom's Birthday cake is Chocolate, Chocolate & Chocolate.  Chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge filling, covered in chocolate fondant and decorated with chocolate pieces and truffles!

Fondant Curls & Flower Cutouts Birthday Cake

Birthday cake for Beverly was done with two stacked layers 8" and 6" with fondant ribbons and flower cutouts.

Butterfly Birthday Cake

Flying butterflies is the theme for this birthday cake for Katie.  Butterflies were made of a combination of gumpaste and fondant and then painted with edible food coloring.  The flowers were made of fondant and the tree limbs were chocolate fondant.