Casino Slot Machine Cake for a 57 yr. old

Today's cake is a vanilla butter cake sculpted into a casino slot machine for a fan of the one-armed bandits.

Wishing you a fun-filled and winning 57th year Alicia.

Wine Bottle Birthday Cake

Today's cake was a last minute order for a 3D wine bottle. It was created out of vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. I surrounded the cake with modelling chocolate wood shavings and created a faux-bois box out of gum paste. There were a lot of fun elements to make on this cake and I was thrilled to be able to learn how to make my bottle shiny with edible varnish.

Faux Asian Noodle Bowl Cake

Today's cake is a type of cake I've been wanting to do for a while. This gravity-defying faux asian noodle bowl cake was created for my kid's spring carnival cake walk. The bowl is made of vanilla cake and then covered in fondant that I hand-painted. A support dowel runs through the centre to hold the noodles and chopsticks. 

Would you like some soup?

A Buzzard cake for a 75th birthday

What happens when you turn 75? People make you buzzard cakes of course! This fun-to-make cake was for 12-15 people.Vanilla cake was filled with traditional buttercream and then topped off with a fondant plaque. I like using fondant this way because it gives people the option to remove the decoration easily. While my homemade fondant still tastes very good, black and grey food colouring does horrible things to people's mouths and teeth and I like to avoid it if I can. He was one tasty bird otherwise. ; )

Two-tiered "Masquerade" cake

I thought you might like to take a look at a recent cake I did for someone. The theme for the party was "masquerade" and they asked for a two-tiered fondant covered cake in chocolate and vanilla. The 10" bottom was chocolate devil's food and the 8" top was vanilla. 

It's kind of hard to tell in the photos but all the yellow decorations were painted or dusted with gold. The masks were made of sugar paste and royal icing while some of the applique decorations were made of fondant.

Favourite part to make on this cake? The masks of course! I loved creating the gold tipped feathers.