This first birthday cake was made to celebrate a little girl named Stella.  Her mom called the whole party a “Stellabration” which I thought was super cute!  The cake was decorated with different shades of pink.  The pop of color came from the rainbow and unicorn cake topper.

I made the rainbow in advance to give it time to dry.  Each color rope was formed using my clay extruder so I could get them looking uniform.  The rainbow was glued together with sugar glue and allowed to dry flat for a few days.  Then I attached paper lollipop sticks to each side using royal icing and propped the rainbow up on the cake.  The unicorn was made out of gum paste and was shaped by hand.  My favorite part is the rainbow mane!

Happy First Birthday Stella!

This second birthday cake was really fun to make.  I love being given artistic freedom to make the cake look however I like.  I haven’t made fondant curls in a while and I was missing them.  They give children’s birthday cake just the right amount of fun!

Here is a look at the characters I hand made for this cute birthday cake.  I cut all the pieces of the characters out of fondant.  Then I used a black food coloring marker to outline the faces.

The birthday boys name was made to look like the Sesame Street Sign.  I topped the cake off with 2 edible fondant candles to add to the fun.  Happy 2nd Birthday Noah!

This was a really fun cake to make.  It was made to celebrate a 30th birthday.  Dean loves his steak and Grey Goose vodka so I made them for him, but all out of cake!

The vodka bottle was a challenge, but I’m not one to turn down a challenge!  It was really tall so I applied the fondant in two pieces.  I wrapped one piece around the entire bottle.  Then I used a second piece to cover the cap of the bottle.  Once the cake was covered in fondant, I hand pained all the details onto the bottle.  I personalized the label to say “distilled and bottled for Dean”.  I thought it was a cute touch!

The steak was another fun challenge.  The inside of the cake is red velvet, so I’m sure it looked really cool when it was cut open!  I wanted it to be able to feed the whole party so I made it look like a really thick cut steak.  I wrapped a marbleized piece of fondant all the way around the steak and added extra pieces of white fondant to give the cake an even more realistic look.  It’s hard to tell, but I brushed the whole steak with a corn syrup and water mixture to give the steak some extra shine.  The steak was completed with a little tag to celebrate Deans 30th Birthday.