Carnival Birthday Party

My poor twins haven't had a birthday cake made by their mom in 2 years.   People would say to me, "aren't you a cake maker?".  The constant creating of cakes for my clients left me too tired to make one for my own kids' birthday party.  But now that I'm on a cake hiatus, they finally got their cake... and ate it too.

We celebrated with a vintage style carnival cake, cupcakes, cookies, cotton candy, popcorn and more candy.

My favorite part of the table was my cute bunting banner made by Frosting & Ink.  All of the signs, cupcake toppers and favor tags can be found and purchased on her Etsy site.

Happy Birthday to my favorite twins, Preston and Shelby.  You will never go without cake again.

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Orange Ombre Cake and Fondant Swags How-To

I really love the clean look to this orange ombre 10th anniversary cake.  This cake's beautiful shades of orange and fondant swags made it so elegant and classy. 

The topper was handmade to match the family.  So cute!

I can't believe after 5 years of cake making that I've never made fondant swags like this.  I figured out how to do it and here it is!

Roll out a thin piece of fondant and lay it over 3 dowel rods.

Gently slide out the dowels and pinch the ends together.  Trim if needed.

Glue the swag to the cake with gum glue.  Repeat on all sides of the cake.

Add a pretty pendant to cover the edges.

Wedding Cake for Cake Central Magazine

I'm excited to share that my purple and blue inspired wedding cake was featured in Cake Central Magazine.

I have been wanting to make an ombre cake for some time, so this was the perfect excuse.  An ombre cake is one with graduating layers of color.

My first step in making this cake was to create hundreds of gumpaste flowers in all the pretty shades of blue and purple.  Each flower was handmade with Satin Ice gumpaste and dusted with petal dust. 

The picture frames on the bottom tier were also made with Satin Ice Gumpaste and created using an exacto knife, circle cutters and a clay extruder.

The sweet little blue birds were hand sculpted out of modeling chocolate.  

My favorite aspect of this picture is the glimpse of the cake stand which belonged to my late grandmother.  I can only imagine the joy she'd get out of finding it hidden in the picture. 

Thank you Cake Central Magazine!

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