Tina's 60th Birthday

This dear lady is a friend and her daughters' contacted me for a cake as her family was getting together for the celebration.  I "tried" to tell the girls that this idea may not be received as funny!  Well, all in good fun the women sent me a message and expressed how "yummy" the cake was.

I baked a 15 x 17 cake, 1/2 turtle and 1/2 white.  I carved the shape and covered the cake in fondant.  Using the JEM alphabet cutters I embossed the letters in the fondant before it crusted over.  I also used the Wilton baroque molds for the ornamentation at the top and bottom of the head-stone.  I then airbrushed the entire design with a dark gray color to "age" the fondant.  Using royal frosting, vines and flowers were added to the sides and message.

Happy Birthday Lady!

Stacey

This is a 13x9 sheet cake, 1/2 white cake with strawberry compote and 1/2 chocolate with fudge.  

The base buttercream is airbrushed with clouds and grass.  I outlined a vague shape for the horse.  

Using a very soft buttercream I piped the head in first and with a hot plate knife created the detail.  I then piped in the hind leg, and again, used a hot knife.  I followed with the mid section, then the neck and front legs.  The tail and mane where piped on and a comb tool used to make long strands of hair.  The horse was finished by airbrushing the detail.  The eye and nose where done in piping gel.

A reverse shell boarder was added and a grass tip was used to give the ground movement with very small deep-purple flowers (made of gumpaste) finished off the design.    

Summer time cookies

Sugar cookie order for office staff as school resumes.  

Hawaiian shirt and Solstice sun

Surfboards

 I just love the sunglasses

Cool lobster!

Mini polk-a-dot bikini

Pink Rose

 Love can be found at any age!  This couple are in their 80's and the only request the bride had was Pink Roses.

The cake was to serve 25 friends of the couple.  

The base tier was Strawberry cake with Strawberry cream filling, the top tier was White cake with coconut filling. 

I first frosted the cake in buttercream and then took stripes of fondant and wrapped it in layers starting at the bottom of each tier and working up.  I chose to add buttons up the seam to give a clean edge to the design.

This rose was the size of a dessert plate with many layers of petals.  I used an apple shipping liner for support while the flower dried (courtesy of Wegmans supermarket.)