John and Joy's Wedding

The big day has arrived!!  

The cake was Red Velvet with Raspberry compote and Banana with Banana buttercream. 

The cake was covered in a pistachio green fondant with a brown tree growing up the front.  Crystals were added to give the design a little bling.  The blue birds represent the members of this new family. The lovely cake stand was purchased by the bride at Home Goods and she trimmed it with crystals. 

The overall design is a representation of the brides favorite designer, Vera Bradley.

(I apologize for the poor quality of the picture.  Again I forgot the camera so I took this with my phone and as the sun was shining brightly,  it washed-out the delicate colors.)  

Soccer

In the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of creating cakes for all the events building up to John and Joy's wedding.  This soccer cake was for the rehearsal dinner.  It was baked in the full size ball pan.  It is Hummingbird cake, a very dense banana cake with coconut, pineapple and pecans.  It was filled with Cinnamon buttercream and covered in fondant.   I scored the cake with a seam marker and painted the black diamonds on.  The grass is royal frosting done with the grass tip.

Ladies Golf

 Grove City Country Club hosts an annual Ladies Golf outing.  I have done event cakes for them 4 or 5 times.  They are 8" cakes the serve as a centerpieces at each of the luncheon tables.  

This year I choose argyle prints for the sides of the cake and each top was a different scene of golf,   from the driving range to golf shoes.   All the items are made of fondant or gumpaste. 

I understand the ladies really look forward to lunch and these cakes.  As all ten cakes were a different flavor, the ladies rome from table to table with their forks to sample the cake on their neighbors table.

Baby O'Hara

This was unique for a baby shower.  The parents decorated the new arrivals room in vintage trucks.  

The cake was a 15 x 17 sheet cake for 50 guest, half  Banana with Chocolate custard and half Almond with Raspberry compote.  

All the vintage trucks around the sides were printed on frosting photo paper.  The frosting was buttercream in a stucco pattern on the top.  I then airbrushed several layers of yellow and browns, while the color was wet, I used a wet paper towel to lay over the color and lift off some of the color off to give a vintage look.   The truck on the top o the cake was done in fondant and again airbrushed to give the antique look.

 On a personal note:  when I was a small girl my father had a truck just like this one.  We called her... Tin Lizzy.  My sisters and I had great fun riding in the back (it was allowed back then, does that mean I'm considered vintage now ;)

Elvis has entered the building!!!

ah Thank ya, Thank ya very much!!!

While a bride and her parents were looking over ideas for her wedding cake, the father asked if she would be willing to put Elvis on the top of her cake.  ...No... 

Well... the brides mom called a few weeks later and said her husband was retiring and she wanted to do the Elvis theme for his cake for his surprise celebration.

The bottom tier was Chocolate peanut butter cake with peanut butter mousse.  It was covered in buttercream and the palm trees and Vegas signs were fondant. 

The middle tier was marble cake with raspberry compote. On this tier I covered the board with fondant and airbrushed a roulette wheel. The numbers were cut out of white fondant.  The cake was covered in buttercream and the card suites were fondant.  

The top tier board was covered in a printed fondant to represent Elvis's scarf.  The cake was baked in the english pans (giving the curved top edge), it is covered in buttercream and is hand beaded.  The Elvis figure was sculpted from mexican paste (I love the curled lip) and the feathers behind him were hot-glued onto the base.  The dice  used as the separators were 5" blocks of styrofoam covered in fondant.

I finished the overall design with fondant money and poker chips.  

Bridal Shower 2

The cake is a 10" square serving 25 guest.  It was Raspberry cake with Raspberry Compote.  It is covered in sage green buttercream with the bridal silhouette in sage colored fondant. The roses in her hand are gumpaste and the veil is made of sugarveil.  The bright poppys' are made of gumpaste.  I really love this color combination.  Simply elegant.

Hot Stuff

A bride from last year requested a cake to look like a Tabasco bottle.  She said it was an inside joke.  

I made a cake pan out of a wine bottle by folding aluminum foil around the bottle.  The cake was Chocolate with Raspberry Compote.  It is covered in red fondant and the label was made with a food color printer.  The small chilies around the cake were also fondant.