Topsy Turvy Cake

This past weekend we created a Topsy Turvy cake. They are a lot of work to create, but so worth it in the end and look so much fun! This one was created for a little girl who turned 3 and was having a Mad Hatter Tea Party. We created the cake to be bright, fun, and whimsical. I was really happy with the way the design and colors all came out.

The cake was 3 tiers, each tier a different flavor.

1st tier: Buttermilk cake with Buttercream
2nd tier: Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting
3rd tier: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

R2D2 Cake

One of our first cakes we made was for our son's birthday and he requested an R2D2 cake. We had a great time creating it and we had the honor of creating one again for a birthday boy who LOVES Star Wars. This one turned out great and we were able to get so much more detail on it and it looked amazing. It was a lot of fun delivering this cake and seeing his eyes light up!

The cake was Buttermilk with Pastry Cream and fresh strawberries. The arms were made up of rice krispy treats.

Von Dutch Tattoo and 1949 Mercury Cake

This cake was created for a client whos brother has a Von Dutch style tattoo and loves old cars. We incorporated both of these things into his birthday cake. The tattoo and car were each hand painted onto gumpaste and they turned out amazing!

The cake was Chocolate with Peanut Butter Mousse filling.

Wizard of Oz cake

It was a very crazy and busy week...but I feel incredibly blessed and excited to see our business and hard work paying off.

There are going to be a ton of pictures....but so worth looking at!

The first cake from this weekend was a Wizard of Oz cake, created for a birthday girl who loves the movie.

This cake has to be the most time consuming and hardest cake we have made! I absolutely love it and am so happy with the way it turned out.

All the characters are hand-made by my partner, my incredibly talented husband. We wanted to keep it as authentic as we could and really bring the essence of the movie into the cake.

The shoes were made with gumpaste and each sequin was cut out and glued on. Tedious work, but in the end it totally payed off!

I hope you enjoy looking at this cake as we had creating it. Sorry for some poor shots....I think our camera is nearing its end.

Bird of Paradise Cake with Green Tea....yum!

We had the honor of creating a fun colorful cake for a beautiful birthday girl! She loves the flower Bird of Paradise and Green Tea. So I got to try out a new recipe and was really happy with the way it turned out.

The cake was a vanilla cake with a Jasmine Green Tea wash and filled with Green Tea Cream Cheese frosting. It was sweet, light, and had a wonderful nutty Green Tea flavor with a hint of the Jasmine. I would recommend this flavor to anyone who is a Green Tea fan!

The cake itself turned out gorgeous, with fun bright colors and amazing depth!

Enjoy.....

The frosting....




Filled and ready for some carving, we wanted to make it a tall column shape, something a little different.



The finished cake...

Disney Cake and Sandbox Cake

We had several fun cakes this weekend and one of our more challenging one was the Disney cake that we created for a little girl turning 2.

Each character was hand drawn and painted onto gumpaste and I thought they came out amazing! The cake was girly, fun, and simple since we wanted each of the characters to be the main focus on the cake.

The bottom tier was Chocolate cake filled with White/Dark Chocolate Ganache and oreos. The middle tier was Buttermilk cake with Raspberry Meringue Filling and the top tier was Chocolate cake filled with Kahlua Espresso Cream Cheese frosting.

Sorry for the poor pictures, we were down to the wire to get this cake delivered...so it was pretty rushed.











The other cake was a blast to create and it came out great! This client wanted something fun and playful for her friend who was celebrating her birthday, so she asked for a sandbox cake.

The pail and shovel are made of gumpaste and I decorated the pail with some fun jewels to brighten it up. The sandcastle was created out of rice krispy and sprinkled with our edible sand (brown sugar, graham cracker crumbs, and raw sugar). The wood slats for the sandbox were created out of fondant and then hand painted to give a wood effect.

The cake was homemade Funfetti, Vanilla cake with sprinkles and filled with Chocolate Mousse Buttercream.

The cake that began it all.....

I first got the cake decorating bug just this past April when I decided to create a cake for my daughter's birthday party. The theme was a "Mad Hatter Tea Party" and after researching ideas I wanted to make a topsy-turvy cake. Unbeknown to me, this is a difficult cake to make, but if you know me, once I get my mind on something, well there is no stopping me.

The baking wasn't an issue...I've been doing that for years, but the carving and decorating with fondant brought me into a whole new world. Overall I was so happy with the final outcome, and most important, it tasted delicious!