A Star Wars Cake for a Six Year Old

Today's cake is a Star Wars themed cake that I did for a little girl. How fantastic is that?! Two-tiered and adorned with handmade fondant cake toppers. Iced is tasty buttercream I used my trusty airbrush to create an ombre effect to transition from Vader's "dark side" to Leia's side of salvation.

Super Mario Cake for a 7yr old

Look what I got to work on! I was able to practice several techniques with this Super Mario cake and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. 

Bumble Bee baby shower cake

This sunny three-tiered cake was for a repeat customer who was having a baby shower. The entire cake was covered in a traditional  vanilla buttercream. All the accents and the cake topper were made from sugar paste and fondant. Because some of the guests were vegetarian I was asked to make the top cake eggless. While I can make buttercream or cake eggless and still delicious, fondant and sugar paste need the help of egg whites for structure and any vegetarian guest would have had to pick those pieces off.

Dachshund dog and pillow cake for an 8 yr. old

Today's cake was such a fun one to make. For ages I've been wanting to do a pillow cake and try my hand at quilting fondant. Lucky for me the birthday girl also wanted a cake topper and I got to try out some new techniques there too. 

The cake is a simple 8" square chocolate and vanilla cake carved into a pillow shape. The larger dog was sculpted in styrofoam and fondant while the puppy was purely fondant.

If you would like to see a sequence shot of the cake being made you can find it on my Flickr account here.