St. Patrick's Day Birthday

I made this cake for my dad's 51st birthday. I decided to honor the St. Patrick's Day part by making a multi-layered cake with different shades of green. I used butter cream frosting to frost it and then piped a green shamrock on top. I also placed green shamrock sprinkles around the bottom. In honor of his love of the Chiefs, beer, and popcorn I molded a little version of him out of gum paste and fondant to stick on top. Everyone got a kick out of it!

Flower Birthday Cake

This was a birthday cake I made for a spring birthday using gum paste and frosting flowers. It was a strawberry cake with generic white frosting.

Pabst Blue Ribbon Cake

This was a cake requested for a 60th birthday party. It is a German chocolate cake baked in a tomato juice can. I put German chocolate frosting in between layers and covered it in white frosting. The beer can design was made out of marshmallow fondant. I cut out shapes and used white icing to write on it. It was glued onto the cake with extra icing.

Here is the recipe for the fondant:

http://candy.about.com/od/fondantcandyrecipes/r/mm_fondant.htm

20th Birthday Cake

This was a birthday cake for someone who doesn't like a lot of color or detail. It was a chocolate cake with butter cream frosting. I decorated it with chocolate clay flowers and ribbon as well as chocolate rosettes.

Pina Colada Cake

Pina Colada cake is very moist and fun to make. I used a yellow cake mix but added crushed pineapple before baking. I added a little bit of a pina colada mixer to the frosting and covered the whole thing with toasted coconut.

Chocolate Flowers

This was a chocolate layer cake with strawberries in the middle. I piped some white and chocolate frosting around the sides and used white frosting for a swag around the top. The chocolate flowers on top were an attempt at chocolate clay roses.

Here is a link to the recipe for the flowers:

http://www.extremechocolate.com/edible-decorations-how-to-make-chocolate-flowers.html

Go Hawks!

My Iowa Hawkeyes brownies covered in chocolate frosting and some yellow frosting.