I made this cake for my niece Abby and her cousin Aaron.  They turned 2 years old and shared a party.  They were born a few weeks apart and love Dora and Diego.  The characters were made out of fondant and outlined in black using my Americolor food coloring markers.

Each figure took 3 hours to make.  They were really time consuming, but I couldn’t be happier with the results!  They look so much like the actual characters and that is hard to achieve.

My favorite part of the cake is the stars.  They are so cute and have so much personality!

I piped the eyes onto the stars using royal icing and I drew the black centers on with my food coloring marker.  I found a piping tip that I had that made the perfect mouth shape.  I just pressed it in slightly to imprint the tiny smiles on each star.  They were left to dry on metal floral wire and then twisted around a wooden dowel.  Cuteness!

I even love how the back of the cake looks!  Here you can really see all the details.  I airbrushed the bottom tier blue and the top tier purple trying to achieve a faded effect. Each blade of grass was cut individually and imprinted using a silicone leaf impression mold.  Happy 2nd Birthday Abby and Aaron!

My friend saw a baseball hat cake somewhere on the internet and realized it would be the perfect cake for his son’s 7th birthday.  His son loves the Yankees and would definitely go crazy over a Yankee hat cake.  So I was called for the job.  I made a baseball hat cake once before and it came out pretty good but not great.  I can’t even find any pictures from my first attempt, but that’s perfectly fine; there were a lot of issues.  The first hat cake was practice cake and this time, I worked out all of the kinks!

The first thing I did was mix up some navy blue fondant.  To get this color I used Americolor gel paste in royal blue, violet, and black.  Then I formed the brim.  To make the brim I used a real baseball hat and traced the brim onto some parchment paper. Then I cut out my stencil and cut the shape out of my royal blue fondant.  Before allowing it to dry I imprinted the brim with the seam marks using a fondant quilting tool. Then I placed the fondant on the parchment and then on the real hat to dry in a nice curved shape.  I allowed the brim to dry out for a few days.  When I was ready to assemble the hat I baked 3 cakes: an 8″ a 7″ and a 6″ layer.  This gave me the nice rounded shape to make it easier to carve. I carved out some dents to make the hat look worn.  Once the hat was covered with fondant, I made more stitch marks and used the tips of 2 different sized round piping tips for the eyelet holes.  I used a small piece of matching fondant formed into a flat round disc to form the fabric-covered button and attached that with a tiny bit of water.

I cut the Yankee logo out of white fondant and attached it to the front of the hat.  A number 7 was added to the back of the hat because the birthday boy turned 7 years old! Once the brim was attached and the cake was placed on the pinstriped cake board, I brushed the whole hat with a little vodka to give it a real fabric look.

Happy Birthday Avi!

This cake was made to celebrate Aiden’s first birthday!  He is the cutest little boy and deserves the cutest little cake.  This cake was inspired by a cake made by the Pink Cake Box.  Their cakes are fabulous and always inspire me.  All the little animals were molded by hand out of fondant.

This little elephant is so cute.  I love his floppy ears.

This is the mommy monkey.  She came out cute, but not as cute as the baby monkey…

Look how cute he is in his tiny party hat!! Love him.  All this little guys came out great, but here is my favorite one:

This lion is so cute!  I love the colors, they are so bright and match the cake so nicely.  Can you believe this is my first ever fondant lion?  Me either.

Happy First Birthday Aiden!