Star Wars -eeeek

I love all things Star Wars and when a friend asked me to make her hubby a Star Wars themed cake, I was sooooo excited. After looking around online for ideas, it was obvious that there were lots out of my league. So I decided to stick with simple.

Which meant a fondant covered blue cake with cut out white stars and the logo in white. Then figures of the characters out of fondant sitting around the tiers of the cake.

I didn't take a picture of the actual cake - sorta forgetful that way :-) - but I did get some awesome shots of the figures.

Update ** friend of mine sent me a pic of the finished cake :-)

Homemade with Love

Made these for friends of mine as a result of a Facebook challenge where we need to exchange a gift this year that is homemade. Took me almost 8 months to come up with the following, but I like the end results.

Winter Field

Spring Field

All things halloween

ahhhh - Halloween - I love this time of year! Goblins, gremlins, mummies.... oh my!

Fish!

At our workplace recently we had a week of activities for the employees that celebrated the Fish philosophy as part of our EAP week. We also had a potluck and our department brought the dessert. A awesome fish cake was made, along with fish cupcakes. Also present were squirrel and bird cupcakes (funny story there :-)) I made fish cake pops as my part of dessert.

Forgot to take a picture of the bunch I made, and these 2 little guys were all were left for my kids.

I had a heck of a time with the orange - for some reason the first batch refused to melt. So strange. The second batch had what must of been a drop of water or steam from the stove and it solidified immediately. Third batch finally worked.

Retirement Desk

A good friend of mine recently retired and I knew immediately that I wanted to make her a cake that represented her desk. The desktop itself didn't work out exactly like I wanted - some of the gelatin didn't take, but overall I'm really happy with it. She still has yet to tell me how it tasted though!

Happy Somewhere over the Rainbow

A friend of mine turned 40 this weekend and is in love with all things Wizard of Oz. She asked for a theme cake for her birthday and this is the result - It actually tasted pretty good :-)

Firefighter

A friend of mine has a son that's a firefighter and asked if I would make him a firefighter themed cake. Originally she wanted a cake in the shape of a firetruck, but when I googled them, they were either incredibly detailed or very childish looking. We found one with the fire hydrant and hose and I added the boots and his helmet. Need the logo for the front of the helmet but otherwise all done! I noticed in the photo the cracking in the icing under the weight of the hydrant - quickly added more grass growing down the side of the cake. Fingers crossed it makes it until morning for the delivery!!

Pretty in Pink

Princess cake for a friend of mine - her little girl is turning 6 and my youngest (also 6) was thoroughly disgusted with this cake - all pink and stuff.

little orange

Made a cake for a co-worker for a Christening. I found a swirl cake that I was wanting to do and when she saw the pic she loved it. She wanted a little bit of orange incorporated into the cake.

It's creamcheese and chocolate cake marble. Little on the heavy side but the fluffy creamcheese icing should offset that.

blank spot

There's a blank spot at work where a picture needs to be. I've been trying to think of something to go there and while going through the internet I was inspired by a picture of birch trees.


I almost ran out of white paint, but I kind of like the rough effect of the paintings not being perfect.

creative craving satisfied

Had one of those days today when I desperately needed a creative outlet. It was either reupholster a piece of furniture, find a wall to paint, rearrange furniture, or paint an empty canvas picked up yesterday. The rearranging and canvas won :-)

still obsessed with Wall-e

My youngest claims to be Wall-e's number one fan and has the utmost respect for him (his actual words) so when his 6th birthday was arriving, he knew exactly what he wanted for a cake. Considering that I've forgotten his birthday before and he only wanted cupcakes last year, I agreed a Wall-e cake would be done.

I did feel a little rushed with this guy and the fondant was really soft - but since he's my first fully detailed cake - I'm pleased with the end result. He didn't turn out too bad :-)

EEEEK

I forgot to post one very important pic - my Valentine's Day gift :-)

I love my husband!!!

I'm Irish - NOT

St. Patty's day came to work with a fundraiser again. This time with a green theme. I wanted to make cake pops for this fundraiser as well, but unfortunately I ran out of time, so at the last minute I whipped up some green cupcakes with icing and fondant decorations on them.

The icing turned out really glossy looking, but wasn't that soft.

Valentine's Day

I made these Teddy Bear Cake pops for a fundraiser at work. Got the idea from Bakerella. I couldn't find all of the items that she had, so I tweaked it a bit. I like them, they really turned out well :-) I hope the Valentines that get them enjoy them too.

Cougar in Training

A friend of mine asked me to make cake pops for a friend's "over the hill" birthday with a cougar in mind. I googled Cougar and cake images and after I filtered all the X-rated content, there really was nothing out there! I tried a couple ideas and after nothing was working and one of the cake pops was eaten out of frustration and anger, I decided to go with more of a cartoon image and joke idea.