Fairy Garden Stump Cake for a seven year old.

Today's post is about a cake that I made for my niece. Right now fairy gardens are all the rage and I had previously seen that my niece had made one herself. With that it mind I created a fairy home out of cake and buttercream and handmade some cake toppers out of polymer clay. Polymer clay is a great medium to use to create one-of-a-kind custom toppers that are meant to be keepsakes like the bride and groom for a wedding cake. I had hoped that once all the cake was eaten my niece would be able to add these pieces to her already cute fairy garden.

TomCat in a top hat cake for an 11 yr old

Today's cake was for a repeat customer who was looking for a cake that would look like her daughter's cat. The client sent me a bunch of reference photos and in one of them they had placed a top hat on his furry head. Too cute! That's the one.

This one was made out of "Oh my God" vanilla pound cake, vanilla buttercream, fondant and sugar paste. This was a super fun cake to make. I wonder what she'll get me to do next year?

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.

Birthday Cakes for 8 yr. old twins

Today's cakes were an order for some fraternal twins turning eight. Two separate birthday parties called for two cakes. The birthday boy is currently obsessed with bugs so I created a chocolate devil's food cake covered in buttercream grass. All the bugs were handmade out of fondant. The birthday girl's cake was a traditional girly cake with buttercream ruffles and fondant daisies.
 Happy birthday twinsies!