Karma's Kindergarten Graduation Cake

My baby girl graduated from Kindergarten and I was asked to supply the cake for the celebration. Paddington Bear is the Kindergarten class mascot so the teacher gave me free reign as long as he was incorporated in some way.

Paddington is made from rice crispies and covered in store bought fondant. Home made fondant is too soft, and it's difficult to get these bright, rich colors, so even though I can't stand the stuff, I used store bought to make his little outfit.

The cake is two separate 11 x 15 cakes, each cut in half and stacked on top of itself. That way, I could make one side of the cake chocolate, with chocolate mousse, and then the other side of the cake was vanilla with vanilla mousse. It's iced with vanilla buttercream and the suitcase details are fondant and chocolate clay.

Toyia's Engagement Party Favors

As matron-of-honor, I offered to provide the party favors for my best friend's engagement party. These are rolled sugar cookies hand decorated with royal icing; there are edible pearls on the dress cookie and edible glitter on the ring. I made the tags as well and used them to seal the bags. They were definitely a hit and I just might be crazy enough to make a few for her bridal shower in a couple of weeks...

I've decided I'm not a huge fan of decorated cookies =) but they do serve a purpose.

Milan's 4th Birthday Cake

A Disney classic - Alice in Wonderland. This cake is a single tier rich vanilla cake with raspberry mousse filling and airbrushed vanilla buttercream. The tea cup on top has a mini cake of the same flavor and filling, topped with melted chocolate to look like tea. The customer supplied the toy figurines and asked that I work them into the design. All other design elements are edible. Complete 360 degree design!

Jayda's 6th Birthday Cake

This is a three tier hawaiian themed birthday cake. It's a rich vanilla cake with a creamy strawberry mousse and fresh strawberry filling, iced in strawberry buttercream and topped with homemade fondant. The tiki mask is hand molded from homemade chocolate "clay" and the tiki torches, surf boards and bamboo plaque are all hand decorated gumpaste. The bottom tier is an airbrushed sunset, the middle tier is hand painted hibiscus flowers and the top tier is a fondant grass skirt edged with a leaf lei. I had also made a flower lei which I accidentally left at home as I was rushing out of the house thirty minutes late to deliver the cake.

I think this is my most favorite cake by far! I used a few new techniques and I was really happy with the way things turned out.

Chloe's 7th Birthday Cake

This is a vanilla cake with raspberry mousse filling, iced with vanilla buttercream. The decorations are gumpaste flowers tinted shades of blue and dusted with pink luster dust, and the topper is a bamboo number seven made from gumpaste and hand painted.