Mickey Mouse Theme Cake and Cupcakes

Personally, I like this cake and cupcake design.  It's simple and fun!  The cake has Mickey's silhouette.  The cupcake has Mickey's ears.

Well, this cake was made for my co-worker's sister-in-law's son's first birthday.  She wanted a simple birthday cake for her son.  But, it didn't turned to be just a simple cake...it's just so adorable.

When I came to deliver this cake, I saw her creative and fun dessert table.  I love it!  There were so much sweets, candies, pretzels, kisses, and many more.  As soon as the cake and cupcakes were added into her dessert table, viola the table was full of delectable goodies that is hard for anyone to resist.

This cake was a vanilla cake with strawberry filling.  The cupcakes were chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge filling and topped with food-colored vanilla icing.

Princess Castle Cake

Last year, I made an Abby Cadabby cake for my co-worker and this time she came back an requested to have me decorate a cake for her daughter's first birthday.  The theme of her daughter's party was a princess theme.

The bottom tier was a vanilla sponge cake with strawberry filling while the top tier was a chocolate cake with chocolate filling.  The towers were made from fondant-gum paste mixture and airbrushed with pink food coloring.  The princess crown was also from fondant-gum paste mixture, with the exception of the gems.  The flag was also edible.

Dancers' Birthday Cake

Lucia and Giana, both lovely nieces of my colleague at work, Barbara, celebrated their birthdays with this surprise birthday cake.  Both girls love dance and jazz.  So, the theme of the cake was focused on the dance - black shoe.

The shoe was made with fondant and gum paste mixture.  Then, the shoes were airbrushed with black food coloring to give it a nice jet black color. The cake was a delicate and moist chocolate cake filled with super rich chocolate butter cream.  The cake was adorned with Satin Ice vanilla fondant.

Krista's Neighbor, Totoro

I was so delighted to be asked to make a birthday cake for a gorgeous young lady, Krista.  Her mom, Sara is our very good friend, asked me to bake a Totoro themed cake for her daughter.   As soon as I heard Totoro, oh boy, I was so excited.  It had been a couple of years since I saw the movie.  So, I pulled out my DVD and enjoyed watching the movie again, but this time with my baby boy, Benjamin.  I just adore Hayao Miyazaki's movies.

This is one challenging sculpted cake to make.  The cake was a vanilla sponge cake, which is not intended to be used for carving cake because of its delicate texture.  However, I managed to pull it through as shown in this picture. The filling was a delicate and rich chocolate Ghirardelli buttercream.

The cake was covered in fondant.  Piped grass was made of vanilla buttercream and adorned with cut out colored flowers.

Dog Cake 2

This is an incomplete picture of a Yorkie dog cake.  His name is Buster. I didn't had the opportunity to take pictures of the completed product.

He was one adorable piece of work. 

This cute dogie was made of vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.  His back feet were made of rice crispie treats.  The two (2) front feet were wooden dowel supporting the cake and covered with modeling chocolate.

Ruffles Dress Cake

My inspiration for making this cake was my sister's, Sheena, dress.  She showed different pictures of her trying on red dresses that she planned to wear for the holiday.  One dress that I find her beautiful was a red ruffle dress.  I changed the color from red to a Lakers' trademark color - yellow and purple. 

This cake was placed 2nd Place in the Tiered Non-wedding category for the Advanced Division at the National Capitol Area Cake Show in Annandale, VA.

Masquerade Mask Wedding Cake

My inspiration for making this cake design was one of Martha Stewart's Wedding Cake.  I always wanted to make a masquerade them cake or Mardi Gras theme cake.  Rather, I stuck with my plan to make it all white cake with lace trim designs with four (4) half-face masquerade masks and a full mask.  The masquerade masks (full and half masks) were made of gumpaste.  The feathers are the only non-edible accent on the wedding cake.

Dog Cake

He's name is Kyle.  I was planning to make a Yorkie, but ran out of time.  I accidentally over did the airbrushing, which made the pup look way much darker.  The brown was supposed to be an accent, but inadvertently made it darker than I anticipated.

This dog cake took home 1st Place for the Sculpted Cake Category in the Advanced Division at the National Capitol Area Cake Show in Annandale, VA.