Graduation Cake

This is a graduation cake I did for my neighbor's daughter.

 There are three tiers of WASC cake with buttercream frosting and then covered in fondant.

Letters and numbers are royal icing and the top of the hat is cardboard covered in fondant.

Relay for Life Bake Sale Cakes

This is a cake I made for a bake sale fundraiser at work to support our Relay for Life team. It's a two tier 8 inch chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. It is covered in fondant. The tree trunk is chocolate fondant and the remaining decorations are vanilla fondant.

This is another fundraiser cake I made for the bake sale. It's a two tier 8 inch white vanilla lemon sour cream cake with a lemon curd filling and buttercream frosting. It is covered in fondant. All decorations are vanilla fondant.

This is the final fundraiser cake I made for the bake sale. It's a two tier 8 inch red velvet cake with buttercream frosting. It is covered in light blue fondant with chocolate brown and white vanilla circle decorations.

Hokie Bird Graduate

A friend of mine's daughter is graduating from Virginia Tech this week.

So, of course being a Hokie myself, I had to make her a Hokie Bird Cake!

The cake is a double layer Lemon-Almond-Awesome Pound Cake covered in buttercream frosting.

I then covered the cake in fondant. The wording and "Hokie Feet" are royal icing.

The Congratulations banner and graduation hat are gumpaste.

Thomas the Train Cake

This is a cake I made for my son's friend's birthday.

It's a two tier yellow sponge cake covered in buttercream frosting. The decorations are all fondant (except for the train....that's not edible :-) ).

The clouds and name were made with royal icing.

Starbucks Frapp Cake

This is a cake I made for a friend's daughter, who loves Starbucks Mocha Frapps. The cake is a 10 inch double layer chocolate cake with a mocha chocolate mousse filling. It is covered in buttercream and fondant. The Frapp was handpainted onto the fondant and the writing is royal icing. Of course, I had to get a Frapp as part of my "research" ;-)

Baby under construction

This is a cake I made for a friend who is expecting a baby. Since my friend is a guy, I wanted to keep the cake somewhat masculine.


The cake is a two tier chocolate fudge cake with a chocolate mousse filling.


The cake was then covered in buttercream frosting and fondant.


The tools are gumpaste and the tool belt and construction border is fondant.





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Monkey Viking Tank Cake

Ok, so this cake needs a little explanation. This is the cake that I made for my second son's first birthday. Over the past year, we have affectionately nicknamed him "Tank" and I have called him my "little monkey" several times as well. In addition, my husband and I call both of our boys "Vikings" because our house regularly looks like Vikings have run through it. So, when it was time to create Tank's birthday cake nothing could be better then a monkey wearing a viking helmet on top of a tank! Perfect!

The cake is my Lemon Almond Awesome Cake with a chocolate mousse filling. The bottom tier is a 16 inch square double layer cake. The Tank is a triple layer carved cake.

All of the cake is covered in fondant and buttercream frosting. The number 1 and bananas are made of gumpaste and the barrel of the tank is a large straw. I made the monkey out of modeling chocolate (think: Tootsie Roll) with gumpaste decorations.

Also want to give props to my mother who assisted me with the decorating.

Here's a close up with me and the monkey post-party. It survived!