If the shoe fits...

These are fondant shoes I made for an event my sister did in Phoenix, AZ. It was for a church Young Women's evening and the theme was the "Worth of Soles" - the shoes survived a FedEx trip and arrived in good condition, I'm told. These were SO much fun to work on - mostly late at night or early in the morning when the kiddos were all sleeping. The purple tennis shoe was a little difficult to figure out, but I think the basic idea comes across all right. I hope to do more of these in the future, with even more details.

Wild Topsy Turvy

This was so fun to put together! Each layer of this cake is vanilla cake with strawberry filling - pulled together for our friend's 6th birthday. I loved doing a topsy-turvy again - and the mom was an excellent cake designer. I love when people can give me a clear description of what they want... I especially liked the feathers on top - such a girly touch!

Spiderman!

This was for a 4-year old friend's birthday party - we perched a Spiderman figure on top and it looked great! It's chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse filling - and it disappeared quickly at the outdoor party. Happy Birthday, Dominic!

Mater

And this little guy was lucky to make it out of our house - Liam was thrilled with this little cake, it was hard for him to part with it! I feel another Mater cake coming in the near future... This was a chocolate cake with vanilla icing and chocolate fondant as the majority of it's covering. Again, like Lightning, I figured if I could get his face to look right - particularly the eyes and the mouth on this one, that the rest of the features would just seem to fit. I was pleasantly surprised with the end result. I've heard through the grapevine that the 2 year old recipient dug right in and enjoyed the end result, too!

Lightning McQueen

To go with the sheet cake below, I was asked to make a small single serve cake of both Lightning McQueen and his pal, Mater. This is how Lightning turned out:

Not too bad considering he's all cake and icing and fondant! Lightning was made out of vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream. I figured if I could get the eyes, the color and a few lightning bolts on him, the rest would kind of take care of itself.

Here are both cakes waiting in their box - I thought they looked really lifelike in there, so it was actually hard to close the lid on them!

CARS emblem sheet cake

This sheet cake was made to serve 30ish people for a joint 2nd birthday party. The theme was CARS (the movie) and the invitation had this emblem on the front. The emblem is made out of fondant (I wasn't up to dealing with the royal icing in humidity this week) and the cake is vanilla with strawberry cream filling. I've heard that it was pretty tasty and enjoyed by all - that always makes me so happy!

Orange & Fuschia Wedding Cake

This cake was made for a wedding with fuschia and orange as the color choices. I didn't have swatches to work with, so I did the best I could with colors and was relieved to deliver the cake and see balloons, daisies and roses in the same hues. This cake was made to serve 100 people (not including the top layer) and flavors included: chocolate cake with coconut cream filling; vanilla cake with red cherry filling; red velvet cake with key lime filling and icing. Possibly the most delicious flavor combinations I've made to date!