Recent Cakes

I have had quite a few cake orders these past few weeks. The first up is a quinceanera cake for my friend Maribel's sister.   This majority of this cake was red velvet and the frosting was buttercream. 



This cake was ordered by my friend, Erandy.  She was hosting a bridal shower for her friend and she requested a Mexican themed cake.  I decided to do a papel picado decoration with a simple red rose.  I think it is simple but pretty.

My friend, Norma, ordered her in-laws spring birthday cake again from me.  She requested something floral and "springy".

Elizabeth's Wedding Cake

So as always, I have a lot of blogging to do!  I have been a bit busy lately, so sorry for MIA these past few months.

This wedding cake was for my friend, Helen's, co-worker, Elizabeth.  She got married in April.  Her colors were black, white, and red.  This cake was one of my first tiered wedding cakes even though I have done other tiered cakes before.  I was super happy to do it.  The only issue I had was the delivery!  45 miles one way in pouring rain. But I made it successfully and it looks like Elizabeth and her husband had a wonderful wedding.  Congratulations!

 

Easter Cake Pops

I took an Easter Cake pop class at Decor, which was the first class I had taken since Christmas.  I was too busy with school so it felt good to be back!  I forgot to take pictures of the individual pops since I gave them away before I could eat them all!  We made a bunny, birds nest, chick, cross, basket, and an egg.  Looking forward to taking more classes now that I am done with school!

Guitar and Lakers Cakes

These cakes were made for a very talented friend named Erandy.  She is a professional hair and make-up artist and you can see her work here at http://www.erandymoreira.com/. She has asked me to make two special cakes.  One for her son, Elijah, who was turning ten, and the other for her husband, Beto.  They share a birthday weekend.  I made the guitar for her son and the Lakers cake for her husband.  The guitar was the most technically challenging, since I wanted to make an actual guitar.  I used my fiance's, bass guitar at home as an example to follow.  Covering the cake in fondant was pretty tricky, but it came out well and the details make it look more authentic.  The strings are made from gum paste that I rolled out thinly.  I think it came out well even thought it was not really to scale.

 For the Lakers logo, I printed out the logo on paper and then used an Exacto knife to trace the logo onto fondant.  A little difficult and next time I think I would use gum paste for something so detailed.  But in the end, I was pretty happy with both results.

Elephant Birthday Cake

One of my friends asked me to make her dad a birthday cake. He really likes elephants, so I decided to make one out of fondant to put on top. This is a simple but really cute cake and I think he really liked it.



Motorcycle Birthday Cake

This was a last minute order for a motorcycle birthday cake for a little boy. I was sad that I was not going to have time to make the motorcycles and decorations out of fondant or gumpaste. So I had to resort to buying premade items to place on the cake. This was a fun cake to make. I wanted it to look like a landscape scene and I think that I managed to pull it off.



Christmas Treats

This past December I took a Christmas cake pop class. We learned how to make ornaments and different notable Christmas figures. I also made some Christmas cookies for my friend Helen's co-workers.