Umicar

 Months ago, Eli asked me if I could make his cake. He requested a picture of Umicar and kept going back and forth on if he wanted lemon or chocolate cake. 

I decided I could do a little better than a picture. Umicar is lemon cake with lemon buttercream. The bottom cake is chocolate with vanilla buttercream. Milli, Geo and Bot are ricekrispy treats. 

This is my first carved cake, I am really happy with how it turned out :)

Grey and yellow bird cake

I love the grey and yellow color scheme! So, I loved working on this cake. I was giving several pictures of cakes to work with and ended up mixing and matching ideas to get to the final design. 

Marble cake with mocha filling and vanilla buttermilk icing. Covered in fondant with fondant details

Coast Guard Cake

Chocolate cake with chocolate and peanut butter icing. Yes, there is two layers of icing under the fondant! Yummy! Fondant and hand painted details.

Baby blue and Gold cake

This was a first for me. I was asked to make a cake for a meet the baby party. The grandma was having a party for her friends to meet her grandson :) 

 Simple baby blue cake with a gold crown with the baby's name on it. Lemon cake, vanilla buttercream covered in fondant. The crown is also fondant.

Game night cake!

A friend of mine asked me to make her a 2 tier cake to celebrate the one year anniversary of her company's game night at a local restaurant and to maybe add a couple logos. I went a little above that, lol. I really enjoyed working on this cake. It ended up being much more detailed than I have planned, but I LOVE how it cake together :) 

Bottom tier is buttermilk cake with almond/vanilla icing and top tier is chocolate cake with almond/vanilla icing. 

Rocket cupcakes

I really enjoyed making these cupcakes! Yes, I realize I say that about pretty much every project! These were made for Luca's 7th birthday. One of the first cakes I ever made, while I was taking Wilton Classes, was a start tip lighting McQueen for Luca's 3rd birthday.

 I have improved a littler since then, lol. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing, fondant details.

 They were going to Duke Gardens to play with model rockets. 

Turtle themed first birthday

I have had the pleasure of making this cake and cupcakes for a friend's little boy. Chocolate cake with vanilla/almond icing and buttermilk cupcakes with vanilla/almond butter cream, fondant details.

Olympic & Brazil cupcakes

Every year, my little brother asks for an ice cream cake. To my surprise, he requested Brazilian/olympic themed cupcakes this time. I decided to do the olympic rings and Brazilian flags. Chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing and Buttermilk cupcakes with chocolate icing. Fondant details.

Olympic cake

This was another fun birthday cake request. I used to babysit Naomi when they lived in the U.S. They moved a few years ago and were back for a visit during Naomi's birthday. Chocolate cake with chocolate icing covered in fondant with fondant details.

Ohio State cake

 

Chocolate cake with butter cream icing with fondant details for a big Ohio State fan

I am told it tasted even better than it looked :)

Yellow flower birthday cupcakes :)

These were made for a friend's birthday. Chocolate cupcake, vanilla icing. 

Playing around with the black, grey and yellow color theme again :)

80s themed cupcakes

These were so much fun to make!! They are going to be given away tonight's game night  (Tomato Jake's at Southpoint @9pm) and were made to promote the 80s prom coming up. 

Buttermilk cupcakes with vanilla/almond icing 

Ruffle flowers cake

 I am far from girly, the only pink you will find in my closet is the pink in my Dr. Seuss's converses. But, I love DIY projects and anything crafty! I am also a huge fan of black and grey. For this project I decided to play around with the idea of fabric flowers. I love the colors! I am thinking I may do a tiered version of this and add more yellow :) 

The cake is actually a styrofoam dummy, so I made cupcakes too:

 

I am a huge fan of chocolate, caramel and pecans. So, that's what I played around with for these cupcakes and mini cupcakes. They are a deep chocolate cupcake with pecans mixed in through out and pieces of caramel. Pretty yummy! Very brownie like :)

Marvel superhero cupcakes :)

The original plan was to do a 3 tier cake, unfortunately, we all got sick this past week and didn't have the time/energy to do a big cake. Friday night I was felling a little better so I decided to adjust the design into cupcakes (with the birthday boy's help). Justin decided you cannot mix DC and Marvel characters, so he picked Wolverine, Spiderman and Ironman. 

                                 Fondant details, Ironman's gold was sprayed with Wilton's gold spray, the blue 

reactor piece was covered in silver/blue pearl dust.

I am hoping next year to get to do the 3 tier super hero cake, or I may wait till his 30th birthday.

21st Air Force Glider cake

 This was a fun challenge! I was asked to make a Glider cake for a 21st birthday celebration. Mike is in the Air Force Academy and flies gliders. This is the original glider he first started with. Mom didn't remember what the number of the glider was, so we decided to go with 21.
The glider was a challenge with the crazy heat and humidity we have had the past couple days, but I am happy with how it turned out.

 I also really like how the mountains came out. You can't tell, but the snow caps have a light dusting of silver pearl dust to add a little shine to them.

Fourth of July Cupcakes

I had seem a few pinwheel cupcakes lately, and decided to try my hand at them. Jack wasn't feeling so good, so we ended up staying at home for the 4th, so I only made a few cupcakes. Buttermilk cupcakes, vanilla/almond butter milk

Ninjago take 2

I was asked to make a dozen marbled cupcakes with Ninjago characters. The colors were left up to me, so I decided to do a mix but stick to four of them. I really like how the yellow helps the fondant characters pop.