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  • Cherry Blossoms Cake

    The cake is a lemon-flavored Madeira cake. I have covered it with white readily-bought sugarpaste and used modeling paste to create the tree and its boughs. The main trunk was attached to the side of the cake and then I laid the rest of the boughs over the surface of the cake to have [...]

  • Zoo Animal Cake

    This was my first ever go at decorating a cake. I spent hours looking on the internet for inspiration, and couldn’t find the perfect cake, so I ended up taking ideas from about 5 different cakes to come up with the final concept.
    I used Petinice ready to roll icing and food colouring to make the [...]

  • Three-Tiered Hexagon Cake Set

    This cake is the sixth cake I’ve ever made and/or decorated that I’ve made especially for my mother’s wedding.
    It’s a three tiered hexagon cake positioned on a 17-inch fountain set with a 15-inch Styrofoam base, a 12×5 inch tier of french vanilla cake with strawberry filling and 5-inch crystal pillars separating them. The last tier [...]

  • Realistic Kidney Cake

    A good friend of ours was celebrating the 2nd anniversary of a successful kidney transplant, and his partner asked if I could create a kidney cake for him. I decided to make the cake a little more “realistic” rather than “fun”, although i did have a concern that the visual may take away from the [...]

  • Blue and Yellow Cake

    To make the cake, I started by hand kneading the fondant to the perfect shade of soft powder blue (my daughter picked the color) and covered the entire cake with it. I also used extra stiff yellow butter cream frosting and a open star tip to pipe two layers of shell border around the base [...]

  • Tree Cake

    This tree cake was made for a 6 year old’s birthday that had a Tinkerbell theme. The base of the cake was made of Red velvet cake and iced with buttercream and marshmallow mint fondant. The trunk is made from homemade Rice Krispies Treats that is supported with a 3/8″ dowel rod and then covered [...]

  • R2D2 Star Wars Cake

    This is my steampunk version of R2D2. The cake is yellow butter cake with chocolate buttcream frosting, then covered in fondant. I used four 6″ round cakes with 2 half ball cakes. The half ball cakes are on the top and bottom. The arm/legs are made from rice krispy treats covered in fondant.
    The body has [...]

  • Tractor and Farm Animals Cake

    This is just my second cake that I have decorated for someone using fondant and it was so much fun to see it come together. I had a friend ask me to make it for a baby shower after she had tried a cake that I had made for an anniversary.
    The cake is a [...]

  • Three Tiered Rose Wedding Cake

    This is a three tier wedding cake done for a couple that the groom is in the service. It is all yellow cake with white chocolate mousse filling and buttercream frosting.
    Each of the tiers are two layers high. Every rose was hand made from candy clay. The candy clay is made from candy melts [...]

  • Kayak Wedding Cake

    This wedding cake was made for a bride and a groom who loved to kayak. The bride provided me with the two “kayak people” who sit at the top of the cake. I used my basic yellow butter cake for the top and bottom layers and filled them with white buttercream icing and raspberry [...]