cakes, cakes and more cakes!

Along with creating Dora files for my cricut and making tear bears I also have been spending some of my time making cakes for family and friends....

I decided to try decorating cakes about a year ago when I decided to try to make my daughter's 1st birthday cake.  It was a lot of hard work but it was fun! I think I'm addicted!  I obviously have far too many addictions but all are harmless - well except to my waist line!

All of these cakes were made in the past year.  I'm self taught - have read a few books, articles online, watched some youtube videos and asked qeustions on some cake decorating forums.  I would love to get some feedback so please leave a comment.


This is a picture of my first decorated cake! It was for my daughter's 1st Birthday (last year). The bottom is chocolate with whipped chocolate ganache filling, the top is lemon cake with lemon buttercream filling. I used the paper towel method to smooth out the buttercream and then made a lot of butterflies, lady bugs, snails, bees and flowers out of fondant to decorate the cake. The finishing touch was a flower fairy that I spent a lot of time on just to have her fall off the counter and smash (on the morning of the party!). Luckily I had made a second one for fun, not as detailed, and ended up using her. I had a lot of fun making this.  I am now officially addicted to making and decorating my own cakes!

This is a picture of cake made to resemble a little girl's dress. It was a 'practice cake' for my daughters baptism. Chocolate cake with a berry filling. I used fondant for the dress. Hand carved/shaped the dress. This was made last summer. But due to time constraints and the fact that we were in another country for the baptism we ended up buying a cake.

Next is a maple pecan cake with maple buttercream icing. Wrapped in a white, dark and milk chocolate ribbon. Pecan's and chocolate dipped manderines on top.  Yummy!

I set up a halloween party/playdate for my daughter this past October and wanted to make a special cake. I purchased the Wilton pumpkin pan at Winners and then made a citrus cake which was covered in fondant. All figures are hand made of fondant or gumpaste.

 I had seen something like this online and couldn't resist trying it! Made these Mummy Pops and brought them into work for everyone to enjoy at Halloween. Made out of chocolate cake, dipped in white chocolate.

Next I made this retirement cake for a lady at work. Since we work for the 'telephone' company I made a little retro style phone and added to the top. Also added a white fondant flower to the front. Chocolate cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling, and white buttercream icing. She loved it!

And finally, the other day I made this unicorn cake.  A friend requested that I make her a 'pretty unicorn' cake for her birthday. This is what I came up with. Carrot pecan cake with cream cheese icing, covered in home made marshmellow fondant. Added some shimmer dust to add some sparkle and some diluted food paste for accents on the ears and lips. This was hand carved/shaped.

The next cake I plan on making is my daughter's 2nd Birthday cake... Since she loves Dora it is going to be a Dora cake... I still haven't decided what it will look like but I do know that all of these cakes take a lot of time and effort so it might be a while before I make another one!