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. 

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

All Cakes

Mini Birthday Cakes
5 chocolate mini-cakes with chocolate ganache icing, chocolate mosaic and sugar flowers.
March 2008

Love Birds – 65th Anniversary Cake
2 layer white cake with buttercream icing, sugar flowers & leaves, sugar birds & birdsnest – I have much more respect for birds now… after making each twig by hand then constructing the nest one twig at a time!
March 2008

Fall Leaves / Fall Wedding Cake
3 teir fall wedding cake covered with fondant, with sugar leaves, berries & twigs. Hand painted vines. Ribbon is non-edible.
Fall 2007

Flip Flop Cake
2 chocolate cake flip flops with hand-painted & shaped fondant & sugar straps. This cake, by the way – was never eaten… she said it was too pretty to cut.  what a great compliment!
August 2007

Spaghetti & Meatballs Cake
1 layer white cake with buttercream icing, fondant “spaghetti”, chocolate covered cookie & creme cheese “meatballs”, strawberry “tomato” sauce, green chocolate “oregano”, white chocolate “parmesan” and real parsley.  If I ever had to make it again, I would use some kind of icing instead of strawberry sauce because it ran down through the cake an seeped out around the outside of the cake and made everything a little messy – but it tasted great!

Seashell & Calla Lillies Wedding Cakes
2 layer white & chocolate cakes with buttercream icing, sugar calla lillies, white chocolate  hand-painted seashells, royal icing coral, and sugar pearls
Spring 2006

hmmm… bad lighting – looked much better in person

Fuzzy Brown Teddy Bear Cake
3D mini-bear with white cake and buttercream, colored with cocoa powder instead of food coloring dyes for 1 year old b-day party.  Looks like this little bear had a long winter…