Halloween Eyeballs

Cookie & cream cheese eyeballs for halloween – yum and gross all at the same time!

Spongebob Squarepants & Krabby Patty Cake

This cake was made for our grandson’s 2nd birthday. The cake had to travel 5 hours to Montana so I tried to come up with a method to have Spongebob laying down so he could take the trip better – but not just have him laying flat on a cake board – so that’s where the giant krabby patty came into play.

where’s waldo… errr.. I mean, spongebob!

The bottom and top bun are 10″ round yellow cake each covered in fondant. The “krabby patty” is a 10-inch round brownie. The lettuce is fondant. I tried to research if a tomato or sauce/ketchup… or anything else was showing and got a lot of different answers so I decided to create my own special krabby patty sauce and attach the lettuce with it.  Spongebob is also made from cake and fondant with some hand-painting and was removeable from the krabby patty. The board is covered in 2-tone fondant and hand-painted. The birthday boy got to have Spongebob and we all ate krabby patty.

I had a great new assistant to help me with the final steps of the cake. She created her own spongebob for practice as I was making mine. This was her first fondant cake and she did a fantastic job! We ran out of time and it was getting late and she had class in the morning and since it’s close to halloween.. decided to get into the spirit early and finished her armless & legless sb with a gorey twist… so, if you  may not want to show this last photo to small children… it’s a bit gorey.

Purse Birthday Cake

A birthday cake for a friend. Chocolate, chocolate chip cake with buttercream filling covered with fondant & fondant decorations.  Double sided – flowers on both sides. 

Western Horseshoe Wedding Cake

3-tier western wedding cake with horseshoes. Covered in fondant with faux wood fondant covered base. Real rope trim on top and bottom layers.  (16″ base tier) There was a topper the family had that was going to be added at the reception.

Lion Cake

Another 1st Birthday Cake! This time it’s a lion!
The lion body is made from a 3D “lamb pan” turned lion.  Fondant on baseboard, grass, face, tail and ears. Body is done in buttercream with chocolate buttercream for the mane and the end of the tail. Party hat is of course, an ice cream cone with some buttercream decorations. The birthday boy’s  name is in Sparkle Gel. 

 

This little guy had to travel across Northwestern Wyoming and through Yellowstone Park to get to the party… and he didn’t have a good trip. We told everyone he was attacked and maimed by a Bear in Yellowstone – but yes, it was probably my driving that made his head fall off. Fortunately, we had a lion first aid kit with us, and his head was successfully re-attached before the party.  So, if you make one of these and it  has to travel – Secure The Head and Slow Down on the Curves… and Watch Out for Bears!  

The face was built out quite a bit with buttercream so I used “straw implants” to help keep it from sagging.  Tail & ears took a long time to become solid enough so make them ahead of time!  Also, something I learned… The grass was pretty sharp on the ends. We had to remove the grass before giving it to our 1 year old grandson so he didn’t hurt himself.  

Cupcakes – Big Ones

A REALLY BIG cupcake – made for my co-worker’s b-day. Whipped icing on top, chocolate ganache on the bottom with fondant flowers and initial. 

Sun Dogs

A sun dog or sundog (parhelion) is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously.

I took these pics North of Powell on 1/27/09 around 10:00 a.m.

Madison posing

Peanut posing

Baseball Cake

1st Birthday Baseball Cake - baseball is done in buttercream on a  fondant, hand-painted baseball field. 

Calla Lily Wedding Cake

3 tier wedding cake with buttercream icing and handmade gumpaste calla lily flowers, miniature roses & leaves:

closeup of topper

Gunbarrel Wildfire Photos 08/02/08

Photos of the Gunbarrel Wildfire between Cody, Wyoming and
Yellowstone National Park in the Shoshone National Forest.

As of 08/03/08 fire was reported at approx 22,000 acres.

 

 

 

Forgot my tripod at home…. Keep one in the truck now.  

taken from Powell on 8/3/08