Isaiah's 5th and Dominique's 8th Birthday Cake

This is a three tier mad hatter style cake. All three tiers are 8" rounds, covered in homemade fondant and topped with gumpaste candles. I also made the birthday kids individual chocolate cakes topped with strawberries.

April's 25th Birthday Cake

This is a two-tier stacked gifts cake. Vanilla cake with strawberry cheesecake mousse and fresh strawberry filling, iced with strawberry buttercream and covered with homemade strawberry fondant. I hate to say this - but it's probably the best fondant I've ever tasted!

I had made a beautiful gumpaste looped bow but on the night before it was due, our new cat found where I had hidden it and subsequently dropped it from the highest point in the house. Of course there was no time to recreate...so I had to improvise...

Taylor's 2nd Birthday Cake

This Spongebob Squarepants cake is a White Almond Sour Cream cake filled with strawberry mousse and fresh strawberries. The flavor of the mousse reminds me of Nestle strawberry milk. The pineapple is made from the same flavor cake.

Spongebob, Patrick and the number 2 at top are rice krispy treats covered with gumpaste and hand decorated. Gary is all gumpaste and hand decorated. The flower shapes are candy melts and the happy birthday sign and streamers are gumpaste. Spongebob is even holding two candles for the birthday boy!

Summer's 13th Birthday Cake

This is a two-tiered cake, covered in mostly homemade marshmallow fondant (the black is store bought), zebra stripes and sugar pearls. Chocolate with chocolate mousse filling for the bottom layer and funfetti with homemade strawberry/blackberry jam filling for the top layer. Gumpaste stars on top.

I can see where little fingers decided to pick at the pearls ;) and test or maybe redistribute them?

Giselle's 3rd Birthday Cake

This cake was made for my niece's 3rd birthday. She loves the cartoon Ni Hao Kai Lan and wanted a Kai Lan birthday cake. The cake is a two-tier rich chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling, iced in buttercream with fondant accents. The characters were hand decorated, made from gumpaste.

Eagle Scout Court of Honor

I was asked to make the cakes for another Eagle Scout Court of Honor celebration. This means a lot to me, not only to be supplying the cakes for this milestone, but also because the cakes I supplied for the last celebration made an impression! Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and white almond sour cream cake with lemon curd filling.

2009 Monterey County Fair

Well this year it was all about second place. People tell me I should be happy with second place. Well, I'm a sore loser...when I enter a competition, I enter to win baby! I entered a decorated cake in the fair theme (which was Reel in the Fun), shown here: I also entered a cake into the special event category which won Viewer's Choice in addition to second place, which I was very excited about. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of that cake...but it was good! It was called Hummingbird Cake, which is like a banana/pineapple/pecan cake with cream cheese frosting.

Softball Party

This is a cake for my daughter's softball team party. Yellow/chocolate marbled cake with chocolate-chocolate chip mousse filling and buttercream frosting. The jerseys and softball are made of fondant; the jerseys are identical to the ones they wear during games. I also made rolled sugar cookies as gifts for the team.

Eagle Scout Court of Honor

These cakes were made for an Eagle Scout Court of Honor. They are both 12" rounds; one is chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and the other is white almond sour cream cake with homemade lemon curd filling. They are iced in buttercream. The topper is a handmade Eagle Scout medal, the ribbon is fondant and the "metal" pieces are gumpaste, hand painted with food coloring and/or luster dust. The medals are laying on a piece of fondant used as a sort of handkerchief or piece of silky fabric.

Summer's 12th Birthday Cake

This birthday cake is three layers, covered in homemade marshmallow fondant and chocolate fondant. The layers are funfetti (birthday girl's request) with strawberry jam and cream filling and chocolate with candy studded cream filling (good n' plenty filling, see sidebar for more info).

Chocolate Hazlenut Cake

Chocolate hazlenut cake filled with chocolate hazlenut mousse mixed with Toblerone candy pieces. Iced with a chocolate icing/Nutella combo and topped with Ferrero Rocher candies.

Good 'n' Plenty

This picture provides a look at the inside of a "Good 'n' Plenty" cake. Please see the side bar flavor combinations for more detail on this cake. The cake is covered with fondant and decorated with a free hand dot art design. Just playing around on a rainy Sunday!

Washtub Baby Shower Cake

Lemon cake with blackberry filling and lemon cream cheese frosting. The washtub boards are fondant.

Bass Fish Cake

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The bass fish is made from rice krispie treats, covered with fondant and hand painted with food coloring and luster dust. Since this was an out of town order, the customer was given additional decorations to place on the cake prior to serving. The smaller picture was taken by the customer after she assembled the remaining decorations.

Chloe's 5th Birthday Cake

The bottom cake is chocolate fudge with a hostess style cream filling. The middle and top cakes are funfetti with a strawberry jam/whipped cream filling. The cake is iced with a whipped cream/cream cheese frosting. The flowers are fondant ribbon roses of various sizes and shades.

Karma's 3rd Birthday Cake

Top layer is pumpkin cake with ginger cheesecake filling, middle layer is carrot cake with maple cream cheese filling and bottom layer is chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling. Iced in buttercream tinted a light sage and decorated with three different shades of purple fondant flowers. Each flower was dusted with luster dust, a shimmery glittery type of powder.

Softball Cookies

These are rolled sugar cookies decorated with royal icing for an end of the year softball team party.

Launch Party - Tiara Event Planning

Toyia Connor, my best friend for the last 19 years, recently held a launch party for her new business, Tiara Event Planning. I made this cake for her, using her favorite colors, red and yellow. The tiara is made from candy melts. The pillow is the actual cake, covered in fondant with a fondant rope border.

Black and Pink Flame Wedding Cake

This wedding cake was originally supposed to match the bride's dress. Unfortunately she wasn't able to get the dress she wanted. It's a three tier cake iced in black chocolate buttercream with pink fondant flames. The topper is a gumpaste monogram.

The Big One - 50th Birthday Cake

This cake was made for several birthdays that all fall on the same day. It's a two tier cake iced in buttercream with cheesecake filling. The bass on top is hand molded from rice krispy treats, covered in fondant and hand painted. All of the decorations are edible, except the fishing pole.

Asian Themed Birthday

This cake was made for an Asian themed birthday party and includes fondant cherry blossoms and bamboo. The fan and the text plate are candy melts. The text plate says Happy Birthday Summer in Japanese kanji. The "sushi" are rice krispy treats.

70th Birthday Party

This cake was a joint effort with me and my cousin. It's a three tier cake covered in fondant. There are edible images along the bottom tier. The second tier is quilted with silver dragees.

Mini Cheesecakes

These are mini cheesecakes I made for a get together at my house. They are topped with chocolate, caramel, strawberry and crushed heath bars. Of course the topping choices are endless. These would be nice at any event.

"Spaghetti" Cake

This was a little experiment for April Fools Day. It's a cake covered in buttercream strands of "spaghetti," the meatballs are home made chocolate truffles and the sauce is strawberry jam.

"Cheese"cake

I made this for a meeting at work. It's a "cheese"cake with fondant mice. It was an experiment that I had been wanting to try.