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.

Valentine's Day

I decided to make something special for Valentine's Day and came up with a red velvet cake with a strawberry filling between each layer. I cut a heart out of the top layer and covered the whole thing in a cream cheese frosting. Then, I drizzled the heart with melted chocolate and piped pink icing around the bottom layer. It was really yummy!!

Panther Pride

This cake was just for fun during basketball season. It was two small white cakes stacked on top of each other and decorated in school colors.

Ivory Indulgence

This is the first real cake I decorated. It is a French vanilla layer cake with butter cream frosting. I used white frosting for detailing and the ribbon roses.

Birthday Cupcakes

These are the very first flowers I ever made after receiving a cake decorating kit for Christmas. I decided to make cupcakes for my mother's birthday. I just used frosting out of a can and food coloring.