1st Birthday Cake

My cake designs are usually one-of-a-kind for my clients.  I try not to duplicate any previous cakes so everyone has their own custom details.  In this case, the client wanted the same cake as I previously made, except a bit smaller.

I still made a few slight modifications to the nose and the tail.  Isn't that a cute face?  :-)

 The cake was chocolate sour cream cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream.

40th Birthday Cake: Disco Cake

What a fun fun fun cake!  I was asked to make a colorful disco-themed cake to celebrate a 40th birthday.  I have made a disco ball before for a dessert table, so I was excited to re-create it.  So I added in lots of color like disco lights and a disco floor with a sprinkle of edible disco dust.

The dancers were free-hand cut and after I took these photos, I added in a few more dancers.

A view from the top - isn't this super fun?

1st Birthday Cake: Topsy Turvy Cake

I was given a lovely color palette to create this 1st birthday cake.  I just love how this topsy turvy cake turned out.  Both tiers were chocolate sour cream cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream.

Winnie the Pooh Cake

Many of you might know that I just adore Classic Pooh cake designs and my daughter loves her Pooh Bear.  I was excited to do a 1st birthday cake with the modern and more colorful Winnie the Pooh characters.

There is Tigger hiding in the back of the cake.  You can also see how I put my wires in the cake, I've been meaning to put together a blog post about "Should I put wires directly in my cake?"  Let me know what your thoughts are on that.

Baby Boy Cake

A cute cake to welcome the arrival of a baby boy.  The flavor was strawberry vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream.

 A close-up of the handmade sugarpaste shoes.  Enjoy your week!

Baby Shower Cupcake Tower

I love how creative and cute baby shower invitations are these days.  It's always fun to match the cake and cupcakes to the design.  For this cupcake tower, see the cute invitation below which was the inspiration.

 A view from the top of the cake and cupcake tower.

 A close-up of the chocolate sour cream and strawberry vanilla cupcakes.

Wedding Sweet Table

I had the pleasure of doing another sweet table at Cedar Ridge Creative Center.  It was the same place that I had my wedding almost 2 years ago.

It was a very long Sweet Table and the bride also added in a little candy station and do-it-yourself s'mores station.  Don't you just love that "Just Married" banner which the bride purchased on Etsy.

The color theme was canary yellow which was very fun to coordinate in the sweets which included:  mini zesty lemon cupcakes, mini cinnamon rolls, cookie dough bites, lemon crinkle cookies, rice krispie dipped in chocolate, triple chocolate brownies, kettle corn and a 3-tier strawberry vanilla cake.

Here's are some photos of the wedding cake with handmade sugarpaste peonies.

Dogbone Cake

I've seen this design many years ago and have always thought it was so cute!  I was finally able to create it for a surprise groom's cake.  The bride wanted handmade sugarpaste characters of their two cute bulldogs.

 The dogbone cake was vanilla bean butter cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream.

1st Birthday Cupcake Tower: 3 Little Monkeys

Monkey's are always a popular theme for first birthday cakes and cupcakes.  Now that I have a little one, I can see why - they love to monkey around!

This cupcake tower was to celebrate a 1st birthday for a little boy and his two grandpa's.  The little boy loves monkeys, so why not have 3 little monkeys on the cake to celebrate all 3 birthdays!  :-) 

4-tier Wedding Cake with Sugarpaste Orchids

Oh, how I love orchids!  When I create them out of sugarpaste, I love the process of creating each petal over the course of the week, dusting them with petal dust, putting them together and then finally placing them on the cake.

Ever since I made this bridal shower cake, I couldn't wait to make this wedding cake.  I loved how it all came together when I set it up at the wedding venue, The Church at Berkeley.

The flavors were chocolate sour cream cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream (bride's favorite) and zesty lemon butter cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream (groom's favorite).

The very next morning, I received this email from the bride, "Thank you sooo much. You truly outdid yourself this time! That cake was STUNNING!! People couldn't stop talking about it! The orchids?!! Oooh la la!!!! A-ma-z-ing!"  That sure made my day... actually, it made my week!  I love what I do!