Kathy and Joe

A former pastor and his wife are very dear friends and they recently celebrated their Golden Anniversary as a couple.

There sons arranged a wonderful intimate dinner party with 2 of the bridal party in attendance.

The cake featured a 12" square of Spice cake with a sour cream buttercream filling and a 7" square of Almond cake with fresh raspberry compote.  The frosting was buttercream with gold dragees.  The fall flowers were gumpaste, and included a tiger lilly, burgundy carnations, lotus pod, wheat and pinecones.  The fall leaves all around were also gumpaste.

What a lovely evening at an historical inn, good food, drink and visitation was enjoyed by all.  Congratulations Joseph and Kathy!

Olivia

Baby Olivia is due in January of 2012. Her Mom, Aunt and Grandma our over the moon about her arrival.  (I am sure dad is too)

The bassinet is all cake.  I used a large oval and baked two 3" high layers which were each split three times for filling.  The bottom was Chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse and the top was banana with banana custard.  The hood of the bassinet was made of royal frosting, and the baby was mexican paste and dressed in fondant

Air Soft

This sheet cake was for a young man who was receiving his first Air Soft Gun.  

The gun was made of mexican paste and then dusted with grey petal dust.  The cake is a 13x9x2 and was airbrushed in a camo motif with very small leaves for a true fall affect. 

Italian Cooking

This is a birthday cake for a man who loves to cook Italian food.  

It is a long loaf pan, Almond cake with Raspberry compote filling.  I covered the cake in fondant and then hand marked the woodgrain in the sides.  Next it was airbrushed a rich brown.  The top and cabinet doors were added next in white fondant and scored with their pattern.  

All the items were hand molded fondant.  The spaghetti is long lines of fondant piled in the pot and then I made the "water' out of a very small amount of isomalt.  The pan of sauce and meatballs are done by rolling small balls of brown fondant and rolling them in red piping gel, too cute.