Flaming Cancer Ribbon Derby Car

Our 2 year old granddaughter was recently diagnosed with cancer and I was lucky enough to find someone that was already doing a cancer themed car for the derby so they let me help paint it!  We’re doing fundraisers during the fair and the derby so I thought the cars might tie it all in together.  I did the roof ribbon, whale and flames. Ran out of time on the wheels… we’ll have to go back and paint those.  My cancer tribute was in support of our granddaughter, Mazie and in memory of my Great Aunt Norma Bowman – one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever known.

yes, the car is “flaming” in reverse only

Cinderella Carriage Cake

Cinderella Princess carriage cake for our oldest Granddaughter. She just turned 5 and loves everything princess!

The base of the cake is actually foam because it was a small party so only the carriage is cake covered in fondant.  The wheels and all other decorations are also made from fondant because I thought 5 days would be long enough for them to dry – I was wrong and they needed a lot of support (aka tiny flowers, pumpkin vines & royal icing) to make sure they didn’t collapse. If I were to do it over again, I would have made the wheels and front seat base out of gumpaste instead,  which I did consider, but thought it would be okay. The front seat support really couldn’t hold it’s own weight but the wheels did okay with support.  There’s another cake online very similar to this that I used as inspiration and hers was really beautiful.

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.

Also, check out my horseshoe, brand, barbed wire birthday cake, click here!

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. 

Check out this fabulous baseball wedding cake on Shelly’s blog – click here