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  • White Horse Cake

    For this Horse Cake, I used a 16 x 3 round pan. I used vanilla cake batter from scratch and filled it with chocolate icing. To make the horse’s head, I utilized a homemade cut out template.
    I rolled out white fondant and laid it across the cake. While smoothing it out, I put in [...]

  • Two-Tiered Rose and Butterfly Wedding Cake

    This was a two tier strawberry cake I did for an informal wedding reception for my friend’s 2nd wedding. She had butterfly invitations so I bought paper butterflies and roses for toppers. I also used sugar sheets on the sides. I hid the seams by piping on green stems and leaves. Then I piped small [...]

  • Lightning McQueen Fondant Cake

    Here’s my own take of a Lightning McQueen birthday cake! The cake itself is red velvet since the whole ‘car’ is red. I used the recipe for Southern Red Velvet that I found on the FoodNetwork site.
    This whole idea came from the scene in the movie “Cars” where Lightning crashes into the cactus [...]

  • Cooking Stove Cake

    For this cooking stove cake, I covered every inch of the cake in fondant. I made use of rice krispie treats to mould the frying pan and knobs for the cake stove.
    Early on, I learned how to work with fondant and how heavy it could get so I used a small spring to lift the [...]

  • Two-Tier Floral Cake

    This is my fourth time decorating a cake and I apologize if I use the wrong terms. I hope to someday take a course in cake decorating so that I can learn the proper techniques and correct name for all the tools.
    The Two-Tier Floral Cake cake was created using an amazing vanilla recipe I [...]

  • Walleye Fish Cake

    This is the first ever Walleye designed cake I ever made. I learned that working with rice krispies, fondant and molding chocolate wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Painting fondant was so easy and fun too. I made this cake for a friend’s father’s birthday, who is an advent Walleye fisherman from [...]

  • Bird’s Nest Cake

    I have always wanted to design an organic-feeling cake and after seeing a little bird’s nest in the tree outside my kitchen window, this cake became the perfect choice.
    The Bird’s Nest Cake is a made of two tiers- an 8″ three layer devils food cake with vanilla buttercream and a 6″ three layer vanilla cake [...]

  • Baby Girl’s First Birthday Cake

    This Baby Girl’s First Birthday Cake is a 2-tier chocolate mud birthday cake. It was made using a homemade mud cake recipe.
    The decorations were made using white icing that was colored with various food dyes. It was all made by hand and everything is edible including the flowers, little balls and the number 1 [...]

  • Baby Winnie the Pooh Cake

    I baked a Genoise cake, filled it with whipping cream and fresh fruits diced, covered the cake with butter cream, and then covered it with marshmallow fondant. The Pooh figure is also edible made of cake, sculpted
    it, covered it with colored fondant. The bees and the flowers are made of gum paste.
    This cake was made [...]

  • Fairy on Toadstool House Cake

    I started cake decorating in November 2009 for fun with some girlfriends. Of all the cakes I have made to date, this is my favourite as it is the one I would have wanted as a little girl.
    The cake itself is two chocolate cakes cooked in 1 litre glass Pyrex bowls. The cakes were neatly [...]