Sweet 16 Cake

Totally fondant free:

I really liked the back of the cake, too:

Lego Cake

This one is a mixed bag.  I loved how the Lego man turned out but was disappointed with the Legos.
I have great ideas on how to do this better next time!

Spongebob

Not my favorite cartoon, but I think the cake turned out well.  This is mostly buttercream with a few fondant accents.

Tinkerbell Cake

I made this for a friend's little girl.  It was so fun to get to do a girly cake!

The topper is a candle and the flower petals, ribbon & nameplate are fondant.  The rest is buttercream.

Fall Cake

This was for a double birthday party. They were very specific about what they wanted: fall, but not Halloween. A scarecrow. Corn stalks. Fall trees. A pumpkin patch. A hayride. A hay bale.

It was a little complicated trying to fit all that into one cake, but I'm really happy with it!

This was my first attempt at basketweave. Once I figured it out, it was fairly simple. Just time consuming.

I loved that I was able to do this entirely without fondant. Fondant is fun, but icing is more fun. And tastes better.

Castle Cake 2

This was one of the hardest cakes I've ever done. Icing between those turrets? Not fun.


I'm pretty happy with everything except the door. I wish I would have taken a little more time to come up with a design (and to center it).

I also wish I had a better camera to take pictures of these cakes...

Tinkerbell Cake

My first attempt at a buttercream transfer (failed miserably). So Tinkerbell was iced by hand, eyeballing the picture I found.




This isn't my favorite cake, but since it was basically a donation, I'm okay with it. Definitely should have made Tinkerbell bigger, which would also have helped with the creepy eye thing--it's really hard to draw skinny black lines with icing...

Jasmine Cake

For my little sister's 19th birthday. She loved Princess Jasmine as a kid, so I figured it was only appropriate that she get a Jasmine cake.


This was in my pre-fondant phase, so everything is buttercream. Considering I whipped this sucker out in 30 minutes, I'm fairly happy with it. Even if Jasmine's eyes are a little creepy...

Spa Cake

This one was interesting: most of the spa cakes out there look like decapitated heads. Seriously--Google it. Not my style. So I had to come up with my own design. Unfortunately I had to get a hand in there somewhere--the girls were doing facials and manicures, so she wanted some painted fingernails in there. I did my best, but the hand is not my favorite part.

If I were to do this cake again:

• Different color scheme (not my choice in this case).
• No hand, if I can help it.
• No decorations on the sides. That was over the top.
  

Castle Cake

My first cupcake cake. And it was a massive beast--almost 50 cupcakes in that thing. Not my favorite medium--there's a lot of icing with not very much cake. But I think it turned out nicely.

Tiara Cake

Not one of my favorites. Do you know how hard it is to cut out a tiara cake? Next time I would change the shape a bit--lower the the two side points. Actually, what I really wanted to do was make a fondant tiara and put it on the cake, but she specifically wanted a cut-out cake.

Batman Cake

This one was lots of fun. I gave Garret the choice of a black or silver cake. He chose black--looks better, but has a tendency to turn everyone's teeth black. Maybe that was his intention...

The only thing I would change is my spacing--center 'Bat-Day' on the cake. And warn the parents about the black icing...

Lightning McQueen Sheet Cake

This is probably one of my least favorite cakes I've ever made. I wanted to put a lot more effort into it, but for the offered price I wasn't willing to do much more. Basically, if I were to do this cake again, I would change the entire background.

Race Track Cake

I think this cake is a lot of fun. The top picture shows the cake with the cars (actual toys) I put on.

If I were to do this cake again:

• Don't mess up the checkered pattern on the sides. Sheesh.
• The trophy is just ugly.
• Figure out some way to make the writing stand out better.
• Bigger squares on the flag. Obviously I'm not a racing fan.
  

Fairy Cake

My first commissioned cake, for a friend's daughter. I'm actually really pleased with how it turned out. Probably the only change I would make would be a smaller border--it's a little distracting.

The First Attempt

This was my very first attempt to make a cake outside the bakery. Considering I had no supplies and no decent icing recipe, I thought this turned out fairly well.



If I were to do this cake again:

• Optimus Prime in fondant. How much more awesome would that be?
• That blue color is hideous and has to go.
  

Lightning McQueen Cake

I made this for my son's second birthday. Since it was just for us, I didn't want to use fondant (none of us like fondant. Except Seth. Actually, none of us really like cake except Seth).




If I were to do this again:

• I would probably use fondant
• I would shape the sides of the cake more
• I would put the whole thing on a little platform so I could actually fit the entire wheel on the cake.