The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This is one of my favorite cakes ever.  The buttercream went on perfectly.  All around the cake is the food the caterpillar eats in a book.  The junk food is on the top layer, and the fruit is on the backside of the bottom.  Mitchell got his own smash cake which is the apple to the left.

 

Cupcakes

Fire truck themed birthday party.  Hannah had her own chocolate cake at the top, and everyone else got flaming fire cupcakes.

Fondant monkey and owl cupcakes with pastel yellow buttercream for a baby boy shower.

NBA Cake

Two brothers, Kent and Wyatt both turned 12 and love basketball.  I used edible images for the LA Lakers and the OKC Thunder.  My husband had to engineer the goal to get it to stay up and to get the basketball to go through.  He was a big help!

Fortner Wedding

I didn't have my real camera on me at the time, so my phone doesn't show all the details.  The top and third layer have a paisley design imprinted into buttercream, and the other two are just plain.  It was sprayed with a pearlizing spray, but the lighting on this picture does not do it justice and makes it look a bit splotchy.  It was much prettier in person.

Mickey and Friends

My more recent clients have all been under the age of five, and they have the best reactions when they see their cake.  This cake is all chocolate for sweet little Mason.

Thomas the Train

Chugga Chugga Choo! Choo! Making cartoon characters make me nervous since they have a very distinct look and Thomas the Train's high cheek bones are the worst!  He turned out just fine though.

Whinnie the Pooh

Kind of hard to see from this angle, but this is a Whinnie the Pooh book, for yet another baby shower at  church.  So many babies!

Spider Man 2

This cake is for a little Ryan who turned 5 this year.  I really like this cake, but it wasn't until later that I noticed my spider looks more like a tick, haha.

Hot Tub Party

This hot tub cake was for a coworker of mine and a lot of fun to make.  The paneling is textured like real wood. 

Minions

2 year old Dominic loves the movie Despicable Me. His mother, Aida, requested that the movie be represented on the cake, so I thought the cute minions were the perfect touch.  I did forget the hair on the middle one; he's not suppose to be bald.  Aida always orders her cakes with a chocolate and a vanilla layer, the best of both worlds.

Engagement Ring

My sister-in-law, Maddy, was proposed to this weekend by her fiancee, Clay, and She Said YES!  He had planned for all of us to get together after the proposal, so I made the cake to match her engagement ring (not the actual size of course) and its box.  I hate that you can't see how blingy it is with this picture, but it was glitzed out.  And of course, this cake was chocolate with chocolate icing because it was for my in-laws.  Congrats guys!!!

Lolo's 1st Birthday

The sweetest girl in the world turned one in April, Loralei Dove Gleason.  Lolo is my niece, and she needed a fun cake to celebrate her first year in our lives. I know it looks like 2020 is 1 at first, but I got carried away with  the L's. This was my first cake that I used my bavarian cream filling.  It is a beautiful thing when you wed bavarian cream filling with yellow cake.  Mmm : )  The little birds are fondant.  I'm already planning her 2nd birthday cake.

Ruff Wedding

Cory and Courtney Ruff were married this past weekend.  Another August wedding cake, but we made it through it!  They had a very rustic wedding, so the buttercream texture is stucco.  The flowers that are on here are not the actual wedding flowers, but I used some that I had so I could take a photo before I delivered the cake that next morning.  Congrats Ruffs!

Robot for Baby Jack

A lot of our Sunday school girls are pregnant right now, so check back for several cakes soon from baby showers.  This one is for Laura and baby Jack.  I told you teal and orange are in for baby boys.  He is all encased in fondant.  I painted him silver to give him a metal look.  He was another hard one to cut.  It's always the ones with faces.

TI 84 Plus

This is another cake for an extension of the Blankenship family.  Daniel is pursuing an engineering degree at the UofA, and Katie said she needed something "good and nerdy" for him, like an exact replica of a TI 84 plus calculator.  I had to use a sharpie to write on the buttons, but a call to poison control confirmed that the small amount of ink was in no way toxic to the cake consumers.  Who eats the fondant anyway??

Kohler Shower

This is for a couple at church who is getting married, the Kohlers.  The K is fondant, and the coral part is all buttercream.  Again, it's quilted with pearls at the intersection.  Simple yet elegant.

Look Whooo's Having a Baby

This cake was for the Alberson's baby shower at church.  The bottom picture gives a better look at the owl.  They gave me the owl they were using for the nursery, and I made it identical to that.  Teal and orange are so the new baby boy colors.

John B is 50!

I had the privilege of making this cake for my high school debate coach, Jane Balgavy.  When I was in her class, I was just making sheet cakes.  8 years later she called me to make her husband's 50th b-day cake which they celebrated on New Years Eve.  She said for me to make it "funky", my favorite adjective for cakes.  This is what came out!

Sweet Sixteen

I never make cakes for my students, but I just had to for Madison.  We went to church together, so I actually knew her before I taught her Spanish.  The fondant is quilted with gold pearls at each intersection.  The 16 is all glitzy with pixie dust, and she requested that there be a peacock feather somewhere on it, so I thought it would be a good background for the numbers.  She's a chocolate girl, so it is chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling and chocolate butter cream topped with chocolate fondant. 

Chenal Book Club

Another cake for my patron, Aunt Nancy.  She is a member of the Chenal Book Club, so I made this cake for their Christmas gathering.  The picture cut off about an inch of the Christmas tree, but there is a star on top.