So in the past year since the birth of my at home cakery I have provided cakes to all whom I know. Here are some of them;
This is the first cake I was ever commissioned to make. It was very exciting for me. The customer had requested yellow cake and a bright tropical, beachy baby shower cake in pink and green. Again I was given free reign so I created these palm trees out of pretzle rods and royal icing, the hammock is also made of royal icing and the baby is molded out of fondant. You can't really see from this angle but the sides are a bright pink.
This was my first fondant covered cake, and boy was it a challenge! I took on a lot with this one. I had decided to make my own fondant so that had to be done several days in advance. The cake was a delicious sweet and tangy key lime with white chocolate butter cream. The "margrita" was dyed cornsyurp. I brushed the surface of the fondant with blue shimmer dust and dye to give it a deeper marbled effect. I made it for my Aunt Kelly's 50th birthday, which was a surprise, so sneaking this 20lb cake around was no easy task. Not to mention the cake had to be transported from Jacksonville, FL. to Welataka, FL. which is about an hours drive, in the middle of summer. Thank goodness for air conditioning!
This next cake was for my Husband's best friend Lee. He loves carrot cake and I was determined to make a homemade carrot cake. Lots of love and time went into this cake and when it met with an unfortunate end, there was a very angry Sarah-Jay. I no longer make cakes for my Husband's friends.
I made this cake for my sweet niece's 11th birthday. She had a candy themed party. Now, Lexi is very artistic her self and had given me several drawings of the cake she wanted all of which were beautiful and fairly impossible for my skill level. But in the end we came up with something she liked that I could actually make. She loved it so much! It was every sugar starved child's dream! The top tier was an enormous cupcake with a ring pop cherry. The bottom border is alternating chocolate whoppers and strawberry whoppers. Tootsie roll pops, Hershey's hugs, and sparkling candles covered the bottom tier. A chocolate bar served as a plaque for the birthday girls name!
This was my second fondant covered cake, and one of my very favorites. I was asked to make this for a friend of a friends birthday party. I was told she like fairies and I went from there. Most of the cakes design came out of trying to repair everything that went wrong! I was having so much trouble with the fondant cracking and tearing. I had kneeded and rolled and draped over and over and I was ready to rip my hair out! Finally I draped it without it tearing but there were still many cracks. I was able to repair them with lots of smoothing and tiny bits of water to mold them back together. Even after all that the surface still looked dry and cracked so I covered the major cracks with hand cut and painted flowers and medallions around the edges. Then I finished the look with hand painted twisty vines winding their way all over the cake. The sculpted fairy was my favorite and a lot of fun to make. I painted her skirt to look like tigerlilly petals. She ended up a little more busty than a fairy should be but who am I to judge the bodies of fairies? Her wings got very heavy as they dried and ended up falling off and breaking so I quickly fashioned a pair out of vellum paper which looked much nicer but went against my "everything must be edible" vow.
This is me working diligently at 2 in the morning on the fairy
