Delilah Turns 3

6"-8"

Ballerina themed cake for Delilah. I used the awesome tutorial from Peggy of Peggy Does Cake for the ballet slippers. =)

Parisian Bridal Shower

4"-6"

A little Parisian themed bridal shower cake. The poodle and bow were made with fondant. =)

Tori's 1st Birthday Cake

4"-6"-8"

Tori's mom threw a Minnie Mouse Bowtique themed party for her 1st birthday. I made a coordinating 4" baby sized cake for the birthday girl. =)

Cake #2 For Charity Paige

3"-4"

So my baby sister, Charity's birthday is October 1st. I made her a cake for her birthday. Our other sister, Bethany's birthday is October 25th and my birthday is September 30th. We decided to celebrate all 3 of our birthdays on October 25th, Bethany's birthday. So I went ahead and made a super mini cake for Charity on Bethany's birthday so that they would each have a cake. So Charity got 2 cakes this year. =)

Happy Birthday Bethany Joy!

3"-4"-6"

I made this cake for my sister Bethany Joy. I decided to put her middle name on the cake so that I could use bigger letters since her first name is so long. She has 2 shih Tzu dogs so I made them out of fondant and put them on her cake as well. =)

Baby Camila

4"-6"-8"

A cute little panda bear baby shower cake welcoming little Camila! I made the panda with fondant, taking inspiration from one of Brenda's creations from Sugar High, Inc. =)

Baby Malani

4"-6"

This cake was for a baby shower welcoming baby Malani. =)

Lingerie Bridal Shower Cake

8"

The plan that I had for this cake was to make it shaped like a corset, where it would look cinched in at the "waist", in the middle. Instead of making the tier like I usually do, which is 2 cakes with filling in between, I added an extra cake and filling so it was cake/filling/cake/filling/cake. This made it taller than usual and I loved that! So I went about carving in at the "waist", which I've done on cakes before, but because this one had 3 layers of cake and 2 layers of filling, I was having issues getting it smooth and perfect. The dam that I had piped to keep the filling from coming out kept being taken out in chunks by my knife. I put the cake in the freezer for a little bit so that it could firm up and make my carving a little easier. After I finished the carving, I iced it and then covered it in fondant. I could see bumps under the fondant here and there but I knew that the zebra stripes would cover them. Well, the more I decorated the cake, the more the base fondant bulged and bubbled. There was no way that the decorations would mask all of the flaws that kept popping up now! Grrrrr! I made up my mind that I was going to throw the cake in the trash and start over completely...but then I decided to just strip all of the fondant off of the cake, carve the sides straight and leave out the cinched waist part and then go from there. So that's exactly what I did! So my 8" round turned out to be more like a 7-7 1/2" round instead. Haha! So in this case, I needed either a sturdier cake or a better knife. Or both...