Dual Cake

My brother-in-law just got out of the army about 2 weeks ago and my cousin graduated from college a couple of weeks ago. My mother-in-law threw a party for both of them at her house, so I decided to make a cake for both of them. This is what I came up with:

I thought my cousins school colors were green and white, but I found out after I made the cake that they were actually purple. Oh well, the two greens just clash a bit.

The boots took me so long to make. They were really fun to make and I learned a lot while making them, but they took quite a while.

(Sorry about the poor pictures. Most of them accidentally got deleted, so this is what I was left with)

3rd Birthday Cake

My daughter turned three last week and this is the cake she requested that I make. I had a different design in mind, but she saw a picture similar to this and wanted it really badly, so I changed plans at the last minute and did what she wanted.

This cake was made from scratch, not from a box. It is a from scratch Summer Strawberry cake with a raspberry cream filling (also from scratch). Very delicious!

Flowers and borders

This was my final cake for course 2. We learned the basket weave and a bunch of different flowers.

Jungle Cake

I made this cake for my Fondant and Gum Paste class final cake. I loved making it. It was a ton of fun and, as always, learned a lot while doing it.
The tree trunks are Pretzel Rods and the "sand" they are in is brown sugar. I tried making the animal figures, but it was pretty tough, so I found these little figures at Party City for $0.25 each.

The bottom layer is Swiss Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing. The top layer is strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream icing. The filling on both cakes is whipped cream with crushed oreos. I also made marshmallow fondant for the first time and used that on my cake. I am so excited to taste this. Yummy!

Valentines Cake

I made this cake for my husband for Valentines Day. I really liked how it turned out.

Fondant Sampler

This was my very first cake using fondant. Once I got past the frustration of rolling it out, I loved working with it. I worked my fondant too much that I layed over my cake, so it got a little dried out, but I know how to fix that next time.
I call it the sampler because we learned a bunch of different designs and put them all on one cake.

Temple Cake

This is a cake I decorated for my brother-in-law when he went through the temple for the first time.

Definitely looks like an amateur decorated this cake (which I am one), but it was a lot of fun and I now know how to make it look great if I ever do one of these again.

1st Birthday