Purse Cake

My first purse cake! I made this cake by baking a 9x13 inch sheet cake and cutting it crosswise into 4 sections roughly 4", 3.5", 3" and 2.5". I stacked the sections largest to smallest, crumb-coated it and froze it for 1 hour to firm it up for carving. After an hour in the freezer, the cake was firm enough to be carved into a more purse-like shape. I added a layer of buttercream frosting and covered in pale green fondant. I then added bright pink fondant flowers and a silver handle. The handle was made by threading fondant beads onto 20 gauge wire and inserting the ends of the wire deep into the cake for support.

Pink Pirate Cake

I made this shocking pink and black pirate cake for a little girl's 5th birthday party. The top of the cake is a frozen butter cream transfer. I made it by printing the picture of the pirate as a mirror image and taping it to the back of a smooth glass cutting board. I then taped a piece of wax paper on the other side of the cutting board, so the image could be seen through the glass and the wax paper. I traced the details, beginning in the middle of the image with black icing, then filled in the other colors, starting with the smallest details first. I smoothed the icing as I went, then filled in the background color around the skull in a square exactly the same size as the top of the cake. I placed it in the freezer for over an hour to allow time for it to harden. I then carefully removed the wax paper from the cutting board and flipped the image over onto the cake, peeling off the wax paper afterwards. I had to trim some excess icing from the edges, and fill in the sides of the cake with icing... and voila... a smooth "copy" of the image on top of the cake. The little cross bones are made from marshmallow fondant.

Trivial Pursuit Game Piece Cake

This is an 8-inch 2-layer round cake decorated to look like a filled Trivial Pursuit game piece. I was asked to make this cake for a Trivial Pursuit game lover... she always uses the green game piece and wins fairly often. I made the game pieces as frozen butter cream transfers so they would be as smooth as possible on top.

FL Gator Cake

I made this one for a little boys birthday. Tebow is his favorite college football player. I used a #21 star tip for the green and pulled the stars out a little as I piped the icing to make them appear more like scales.

Safari Cake

This is a cake I made for a baby shower. It's a 10-inch tier on top of a 12-inch tier (both are single layer 2-inch deep cakes). The animals are hand molded from marshmallow fondant, and were made over a week in advance to allow time to dry. The tiers are frosted with butter cream and covered with mm fondant. The pink border is butter cream.