One of my best.  I can tell I’m improving the more and more I do this.  This time, I spent a lot of effort on hand crafting all the additions to the cake.  Everything is edible (including shells), but the octopus and mermaid do have foam inside, so I wouldn’t suggest it.

Hours to make: about 15

Supplies: $60 ish

How much this cake would cost you (supplies plus $20/hour):  $360

My besty is getting married, so we celebrated her engagement at our house.  Made her a pretty cake cause I love her soooo much!

9-10 hours to bake and assemble.

Wow! So, I haven’t posted in absolutely forever but honestly I’ve been SOOOOO busy! The momma g and grandma moved into our house, and we are still adjusting.  Luckily, the house fits us quite comfortably and we hardly ever even run into each other.  Since the last post I’ve made a few more cakes but here is just a few:

ROBOT AWESOME BIRTHDAY CAKE:

Unfortunately, It was raining like no one’s bizz on the way into chuckie cheese, so the robot eventually decided to melt. Haha.  He lasted long enough though.

Next fav:

Sarah and

I’ll post some more of this cake as soon as my husband gives me the pics. Haha!

ELEPHANT BABY SHOWER CAKE

Whew! I’m exhausted!

I did a few adjustments and new techniques with this cake.  I’m using higher quality (albeit more expensive) ingredients, and I’m taking much more time and mental effort to make sure my cakes are straight and the highest quality covering I could do.  I think it paid off, because I’m extremely proud of this cake! The bottom tier is covered with handmade pure vanilla butter cream only at the client’s request.  I usually don’t do butter cream without fondant; but paired with the upper fondant decorated tiers, it still looks balanced.

CAKE BREAKDOWN

Bottom tier: Marbled french vanilla and devil’s chocolate cake. Hand made pure vanilla Butter cream frosting only.

Middle tier: Marbled french vanilla and devil’s chocolate cake.  Hand made pure vanilla Butter cream frosting.  Fondant with fondant decorations.

Top tier: Hand carved to unique diameter. Marbled french vanilla and devil’s chocolate cake.  Hand made pure vanilla Butter cream frosting.  Fondant with fondant decorations.

Elephant decoration: Rice crispy treat, dowel rods, fondant.  Hand painted and sculpted.

Amount of time on cake: 8-10 hours including baking.

Amount of supplies: $50-$60 (not including cake stand and pre-owned decorating/baking tools.)

PLANS

The invitation on the left hand corner shows the color scheme.  Originally, I planned to do both elephant and girl decorations at the top of the cake.  I settled on the elephant only because it turned out so darn cute and I wanted her to be the main focus.

THE FINAL PRODUCT:

TROUBLESHOOTING

I had a bit of a rough time with the fine lettering.  My first try was to use a small tipped icing bag with black tinted piping gel.  I couldn’t get the piping as small as I needed, so I went ahead and hand painted the lettering with a gray piping gel.  Figured black would be too high of a contrast since there is no other black on the cake.  My newest goal is to learn how to do very fine piping.

For linda’s daughter’s wedding tomorrow.

I originally wanted to do a bowl of spaghetti on a table, but it ended up being a pizza instead. haha.

Bree’s baby shower cake was due today.  I found out as I was kneading the fondant that I’m really weak today.

Concept:

Final design: