Cousin's Birthday

I made this cake for my cousin's birthday. I know it looks a little weird, but let me explain the story. The monkey and the lizard were taken from a drawing she made of her and her boyfriend (those were their nicknames for each other). But even if you didn't know that, I'm sure you can appreciate the texture of the tree and how it wraps around the entire cake. The vines and lives were piped vanilla frosting. I actually bought the sugar flowers from a cake decorating store because I didn't know how to make them, but they were always my cousin's favorite, so I knew she would enjoy having them on her cake.

Candy Mountain

For anyone who has ever seen "Charlie the Unicorn," you will appreciate this cake. It is made to look like Candy Mountain from the cartoon. Okay, so it's not something I would ever sell, but it was fun to make, and very amusing for all my friends.

Easter Basket

Meghan and I made this really fun cake to look like an Easter basket. The inside was just plain yellow cake. We used brown buttercream to create the basket weave. We used green-tinted coconut for the grass. We rolled out some bread dough and braided it, then baked it to make the handle. Then we added peeps and Starburst jelly beans. It was a big hit, and many people thought it was an actual Easter basket!

Gab and Gab

We made this cake for our home teachers Gabriel and Gabriel. We called them both Gab. Hence the "Gabs" written on the cake. It was all made from scratch using dairy substitutes because one of them was lactose intolerant. The inside was all white cake, but half of it was colored blue so we could make it checkered.

Happy October 8th!

There's actually nothing special about October 8th, but Meghan and I wanted to make a cake and needed a reason. It was just a simple rectangle cake with vanilla frosting that we made for our friends in apartment 130. Even if it was just for fun, I do think it shows how well I can do text on cakes.

Cake Design Class (4)

Here are the last few pictures I have from my Wilton classes. The first cake was a chocolate cake decorated with chocolate buttercream (and some brown-colored vanilla buttercream). The top seems a bit extreme to me, but I was just following their design. This was the first time I did a side basket weave and I decided to do a two-tone weave. It was a lot more intense than I thought it would be, but I think it came out absolutely beautifully.

The second cake was fairly simple. I did the roses and leaves first. The coin purse was white chocolate that had been set in a mold. Then I decorated it with edible shimmer dust and put it on top of the cake.

Cake Design Class (3)

Here are some more cakes. I think I was in the level 2 Wilton class by this point, but I'm not sure.

The first cake was one that I made for my friend based off the cake I had decorated in class. I stuck pretty close to the same design, but made a few changes. I was getting pretty good at writing with frosting by this point.

The second cake was my first time decorating a large cake. My family wasn't complaining about getting a cake every week, but I didn't think I wanted such a huge cake lying around the house tempting me. So I made this cake to celebrate the 1-year mark for me and all my fellow co-workers who had been hired at the same time. I brought it into the break room at work, and everyone hugged me with joy. It was gone by the end of the day.