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?

Bollywood Style cake for a 50th Birthday

  Today's cake was for a repeat customer looking for a 50th birthday cake with an intricate Bollywood style. The interior was vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. All the decorations and coverings were made with homemade fondant. Elements like the centre pearl and the gold appliques were made shimmery with edible lustre powders.

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.

Birthday cake for a 9 yr old. boy

Today's cake was thanks to a repeat customer. I had created this Mod Monkey cake for a little girl turning two and her big brother thought that it was so yummy that he requested I make something special for him too. 

The birthday party was going to be at an air park so the cake was created to compliment the theme. The figurine and stars were made from sugar paste. The trampoline was created in vanilla cake that had been covered in buttercream, black fondant and blue modelling chocolate.

A rainbow sea-themed birthday cake*

Today's cake was for a repeat customer who enjoyed last year's dolphin cake so much they asked for another sea-themed cake. This cake's interior is a 6 colour rainbow filled with white vanilla buttercream. Meant to feed 30 people I created a second tier to hold a sugar paste dolphin and a rainbow. The rainbow was a good test in my cake engineering and it's easy to forget that you always have to work against gravity.

 The final additions to the cake are handmade gum paste figurines. One turtle, a beluga, an orca and a seal pup. This little girl loves her sea animals. Such a fun cake to make.

    

60th Ruffled Rose birthday cake ombre style

Today's celebration cake was an elegant and simple ruffle rose ombre cake for some repeat customers. The cake was chocolate devil's food cake with real buttercream icing. I really enjoyed decorating this cake and I loved creating the ombre effect. What do you think of the little candy pearl additions.

Peanut Butter and chocolate birthday cake with a tabby cat topper

What do you think of my little kitty? This 8" chocolate devil's food cake was covered in a peanut butter buttercream. It was an order for a repeat customer who had requested a tabby cat as a topper. I think I'm still pretty new to sugar paste sculpting but I'm happy with how this little guy turned out. Does he look guilty about trying to open that gift?