School Buses

These were made for a retirement party for two school bus drivers.  They were a lot of fun to make!  They are approximately 8" long by 4" wide, 2 layers of cake in the tallest place.  The hood of the bus is slightly carved, as are the wheel wells- to allow room for the tires under the bus.  The bus is sitting on it's own base, which is hot glued to a smaller stack of cake-boards covered in black- this black base is hot glued to the main cake board to make certain the bus won't slide off the board..  This gives the impression that the bus is sitting on it's tires.    The tires are cookies (Oreo style) that have been covered in black fondant.  The buses were frosted with buttercream, then covered in mmf.  All details are mmf.  The writing on the cake was done with a food marker and the white lines on the windows was added by dry brushing with a tiny bit of Wilton white-white.  The mirrors are made like stars on wires... by using water to glue two pieces of fondant on either side of a piece of wire.  The "road" is black mmf and the grass is buttercream.

Lime and Hot Pink Zebra Print Sheet Cake

This cake is for a surprise high school graduation party.  It is an 11x15 inch strawberry sheet cake decorated in lime green buttercream icing with hot pink buttercream trim.  The dots and zebra stripes are hot pink mmf.

Zebra Print with Purple Gerber Daisies

This one was a special request for an 18th birthday party.  Zebra print with bright purple flowers.  I love how it turned out.  It is based on a cake I made last year-- zebra print with pink flowers.  It is a 6-inch chocolate square on an 8-inch vanilla butter square.  The pearls are mmf that was rolled into balls then coated with Wilton's white shimmer glitter/dust to give them a pearly appearance.  The daisies are artificial and were purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Camping Cake

This is an original design that I created to enter in my first theme cake contest for the Cake Walk to benefit Adult Life Programs in Hickory, NC.  It was a 6-inch chocolate round on top of a 10-inch vanilla butter round.  It was frosted in butter cream icing and covered in mmf.  All of the decorations are hand-sculpted from mmf.  The fisherman's pole was the end of a plastic paintbrush, with clear thread as the fishing line.  The tree trunks were dowel's covered in chocolate.  It was a lot of fun to make this cake... my husband and boys all had a hand in designing it.