My First Commission

Hey, guys!

So a month ago I received a call for a legit wedding cake! It was for a beautiful bride named Myra. After a consultation and cake tasting with her and her mother, we decided to make a four-tiered, cream-colored wedding cake with white fondant ribbon and bows.  The result is below! I am quite proud of it. =D

 The top three tiers are Almond Cream Cheese Pound Cake, and the bottom is Triple Chocolate Cake.

It took me running to literally seven different stores in the mall, calling two different Michaels, and searching through the notions and jewelry section of Walmart before I found the brooches for the bows. But luckily, right when I was about to give up hope, I found two gorgeous pearl bracelets with detachable pins that were only $5 each at Sears!Surprising, right? But beautiful nonetheless!

The chocolate layer was filled with chocolate ganache, and everything was covered in white chocolate buttercream. Mmmm.

The whole project took a solid week to complete (since I could only work at night after working at my full-time job), but I never could have finished anything without the help of my amazing mother! Thanks, Mama! She, my father, and wonderful friend Sarah helped me deliver the cake across town in the back of a mini-van. The amount of stress and ridiculousness that occurred that day enabled us to say, many times over, how we should have our own reality show. I'd watch that. ;)

And Saturday is my niece's 2nd birthday party. I can't believe it's been a year since her last one! You remember that cake, the Under the Sea cake?

Yeah, that one!

Well, this year, the party is Minnie Mouse themed. And the cake I am going to make for the occasion is sure to be adorable! Stay tuned! =D

Baby Cakes

Hello everyone!  So I know I haven't posted in a while, but be ready to get your face rocked off by adorable baby's first birthday cakes!

Back at the end of November, my nephew had his first birthday and the theme was animals/circus.  So this is the result:

I used to have more pictures, but my phone went wonky and deleted them all!  But as you can see, there's a lion, a giraffe, and a monkey made to look like stuffed animals that matched the decorations. Animal crackers lined the bottoms of the layers and I used the extra batter to make some cupcakes with yellow icing and rainbow sprinkles. Simple and cute.

The cake was blueberry pound cake with another layer of blondies on the bottom.  It says "Wild 1" on it.  Get it??

And today, six months later, was my niece's first birthday party.  Her theme was Under-the-Sea and I was "o-FISH-ally" invited! ;)

This cake was my favorite to make thus far.  I got to get all detailed with the animals and make them as cartoonish as I wanted!

They were a hit.

The octopus was actually made by covering a glass bulb decanter with fondant and pressing it into the cake.  It made her the perfect shape!

This is definitely the most detailed cake I ever made, but by far the most fun.  It's so girly I love it!

A sting ray. . .

A cute lil' crab. . .

Some sea horses, turtles and startfish!

 

My mom said that I should open a bake shop called "By the Pound" because all I make are pound cakes in a thousand different varieties.

I made a cookies 'n' cream pound cake for the occasion!

It was quickly demolished.

Looking forward to making the next one!  Any takers? ;)