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 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.

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!

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?

Monster High Frankie Stein Cake for a 6 yr. old

Today's cake was created for my niece's 6th birthday party. I heard she wanted a Monster High cake so I asked her to look on Pinterest for some ideas that she liked and I would come up with something.Confronted with too many choices the task of designing the cake was passed back to me.  For this cake I took bits and pieces of design elements I liked and created a two-tiered cake made with a zebra-style (chocolate and vanilla) batter.

I covered the cake in pink and purple buttercream and then added fondant accents. The top portrait plaque was made entirely of fondant and was created much like a jig-saw puzzle. Frankie Stein looks pretty good made out of sugar, don't you think?

3D Minion Birthday Cake with minion cupcakes

Today's birthday cake is a 3D Minion cake from the movie Despicable Me. Four 6" vanilla cakes were stacked to create this fondant covered cake. This was a really fun cake to make and thanks to this fantastic tutorial put out by Ann of How to Cook That it was pretty stress-free. Trying to deliver it and deal with a four car accident on the way was most certainly stressful. Thank god I had air-conditioning in the car.

The customer also ordered 30 Minion fondant face cupcakes to feed the birthday girl's class at school. How lucky are they?