Colts Hat!

Colts Hat!!!! Yummy and delicious chocolate cake with a rich chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant. There is so much detail in this cake! I have been dying to make one and I am so glad to have finally gotten the chance to give it a whirl! I think this is one of my best cakes to date :D

Dessert style carrot cake

Simple but delicious! Finally, I have found a recipe I love! This one is an ole' timey one I found in one of my husbands great grandmothers cookbooks. I tweaked the recipe just a bit to fit my own taste, and it is AMAZING. This cake shown is as simple as it can get, but raisins, pecans, or coconut can be easily added if desired!

Monogram B-day cake

The cake is a vanilla cake with cookies and cream butter cream filling, covered in fondant!

Dallas Cowboys!

Jersey cake! Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing! 24 cut out by hand, and hand painted "Happy Birthday Jerrik"

Secret birthday cake ;)

 This cake is a sooooo yummy sooooooooo soooo yummy vanilla cake, with cream cheese icing and strawberry filling!! (absolutely my favorite of all time!)  Covered in fondant and decorated with an airbrushed Fleur De Lis symbol on top! The cake is a surprise for a friend, so I wrapped the box to look like a Christmas present!!

Zebra Birthday Gift!

  This cake was created for a friends birthday!! She showed me a picture of a cake she loved, so I recreated it! Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, covered in a thin layer of buttercream and decorated with fondant! Fondant bow and zebra make this cake a real stand out!

Skull!

    This cake was created for a pre-med student, wanting something special for the last day of class! The cake is a lemon cream cheese pound cake, covered and filled with a lemon buttercream, then decorated with a mixture of white modeling chocolate and fondant. This is probably the single most challanging cake to get right, but I LOVE the end result! Has all the details you would expect to find in a real skull :D

Hat Cake

This cake was created for a Kentucky Derby themed wedding shower! The cake was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing, covered in fondant. I hand carved the dome shape for the hat, then finished it by airbrushing the entire cake with pearl shimmer!

Leopard print purse!

  Surprise cake for a friend! Her boyfriend called me up asking to make her a secret cake for her secret party! The cake is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant and modeling chocolate handles! The Leopard was hand painted with food coloring.

Thanksgiving Day Cake

This ORANGE, not PINK pumpkin cake was created for our Thanksgiving dinner! The cake was a cinnamon raisin cake (completely original recipe created by yours truley :D ) Covered in cream cheese icing and fondant vines and leaves, with a modeling chocolate stem and vine around the base! Yummy yummy yummy!!!!

Housewarming party

This Saints themed cake was created for our dear friends housewarming party! Fondant cake and details, with a hand cut Fleur de lis. The cake was vanilla cake with a white chocolate buttercream (yummmm!!!)

Super 5th Birthday!

 Extra special cake :D This is the Super Mario themed birthday cake for my son!! HE LOVED IT!! The cake is a vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream, the top dome is made from Rice Krispies treats. I covered the cake in fondnat and made little decorations from fondant. Elijah even helped me with his cake by attaching all the small bricks and question mark blocks!

Cake Song

A castle for a princess

  First time to ever use the Wilton castle cake kit, and it turned out so cute! The cake is a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, and all the little decorations were buttercream as well. I have to admitt, seeing all the little pieces that came with the kit, freaked me out a bit, but once I started, I got into my "zone" and I think the cake turned out stunning! In the picture, the pink looks more orange than it should thanks to my camera! It is a hot pink however!

First birthday cake!

    This cake was created for a friend's daughter's first birthday! The large cake was chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream on top, strawberry with buttercream in the center, and vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream on the bottom all covered in fondant! The "mini me" version of the large cake, believe it or not, is a smash cake, only it was covered in buttercream! Both are topped with gumpaste bows. Adorable cakes...

Fashionista's 21st Birthday!

    This cake was created for a 21 year old girl's birthday! She requested a red shoe and black shoe box, and her favorite brand was Jimmy Choo! The shoe is made of gumpaste, and the cake was a chocolate cake, with chocolate ganache and strawberries inside!! Sooooo YUMMY!!!

Chocolate cake, Chocolate ganache, and strawberries!!!

 Oh wow!! Can we say YUMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! I was craving chocolate, so I created a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, accompanied with a layer of strawberry filling, and a final coating of ganache on top!! This cake is soooooooo unbelievably delicious it'll make you want to slap somebody! This is the perfect cake for any chocolate lover! And the strawberry filling is perfection with this rich moist cake!

Happy Birthday Purse

    Pretty real looking huh!? Its a cake! This cake was created for my beautiful sister-in-law's birthday! It is a cream cheese pound cake with butter cream icing. The cake is by far my most detailed cake yet. I love how it turned out!

Black and Gold

   Another Saints cake! I made this cake for one of my friends, she requested just a small simple Saints cake so I made an 8in square cake cut it down to an octagon shape. The bow on top is made from gum paste.  The cake was a vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream. Very simple, yet beautiful!

Girl's First Birthday

    This cake was created for a friend's daughter's first birthday pictures! (whoo, thats a long one to say!) The cake is not the actual birthday cake, but a special cake she gets to smash for special birthday pictures! The cake is a very simple, small vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream. Hopefully I will have a picture of this cake under "professional lighting", because if  you have not caught on yet, I am not a photographer...LOL!

Pink Purse

   Wow, I think this is one of my favorite cakes so far!!  This is a pink purse cake made for a friend's birthday! The cake is a vanilla cake with strawberry filling and butter cream icing. This cake was so much fun to make! To give the cake some sparkle, I airbrushed a bit of pink shimmer onto it! LOVE IT!

Army Tank

   This cake was made for a good friend's son's 6th birthday! The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate peanut butter icing.(MMMMM Good!) I made the tracks with modeling chocolate. It was my first time working with it, and I am not sure what I did wrong, but I was not happy with it's texture, but it still looked cute on the cake! The "sand" is peanut butter with a mixture of granulated sugar and brown sugar sprinkled on top. I was going to put regular Oreos for the tires, but I found these, Target brand Oreos and I thought they looked much more like wheels! All in all, great cake, and I am happy!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

  This is a super easy and fun recipe to make! This one I love to make with the kids because there is no "perfect" ways to make it. The are a drop cookie, meaning you just simply grab a spoon full of cookie dough and "drop it" right onto the cookie sheet! Perfect recipe for getting your kids (or husband) cooking!
    What you will need:
1 Lightly greased cookie sheet
1 Large mixing bowl
A rubber spatula for all who want to stir (I let each of my kids stir this one...2 spatulas was a must in our house!)

   Recipe:
Ingredients:
  1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
     1/2 cup vegetable shortening
     1/4 cup butter, room temperature
     1/4 cup water
        1 egg
  1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
       3 cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
       1 cup all-purpose flour
     1/2 teaspoons baking soda
     1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
     1/2 teaspoon salt
        1 cup raisins
  
    Preheat oven to 350' F. In large bowl, cream together butter and shorting. Add sugar, water, egg, and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Add oats, flour, flour and baking soda and just fold together until all ingredients are combined and moist. Add raisins*. Drop about a tablespoon of dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake for 8-10 mins until just lightly golden brown. Cool completely before removing from pan and storing.
* Optional additions: 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 1/2 cup flaked coconut.

Feel free to ask me any questions about this, or any other recipe!

XBOX 360

   This XBOX cake was created for one of my husband's friends. The console was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing filling, covered in a thin coat of butter cream so the fondant wouldn't show chocolate icing. The controller was a vanilla cake with buttercream icing, and I  must say, the vanilla cake was the best I have ever made! I could eat ten of these cakes...YUMMY!

Geaux Saints!

    Saints football helmet cake! As cool as this cake looks, it tastes even better! The cake is a cream cheese pound cake with butter cream icing! It is covered in a yummy marshmallow fondant and I got the chance to use my new airbrush machine to paint on the gold!

Pac-man

    How cool! A retro Pac-man cake! This cake actually was VERY scary for me to make, I had never carved a sphere from cake before! Not to mention, all of the horror stories about sphere cakes being structurally unsound and falling apart ahhh!!!!!! I think it turned out great though! The cake was made of a vanilla pound cake, with vanilla butter cream icing. I used a bowl to get that top dome shape, and then baked cakes in round pans and carved to get that spherical shape. The little ghosts I made from gumdrops! I just made a few cuts in the bottom and pinched the little flared shape on them to give them that "wiggly" ghost look!

Lemon Cake

    This cake is not a custom cake, I know, but I had a request for one and how could I say no!? The little roses are made of the lemon peel, with a few sprigs of mint for garnish. I think this cake came out very cute, and as always, I had a blast making it! Who doesn't love lemon cake!?

Mini lemon cake with butter cream icing

   Okay, this is the absolute BEST lemon cake recipe in the world! I dressed the little lemon cakes like pumpkins just for fun (running around with ideas for fall, except the real pumpkin cakes later will be covered in orange fondant). I found the recipe on foodnetwork.com, by Ina Garten. However, her recipe called for WAYYY too many lemons, giving the cake a bit of a sour taste, and by a bit, I mean enough to make your lips pucker! So, I doctored the recipe, added a bit of  "me" to it, and I am very pleased with the results! This is what I am going to call the "Perfect Lemon Cake"! The butter cream I made was also a new recipe and will now be MY butter cream that I will use regularly! It has a nice texture; sweet, but not so sweet you can only have one bite! (actually, I had lots of left over icing from this cake that I couldn't stop eating alone!) If you love lemon cake, this is the cake for you! Sorry about the very blurry picture...Its mainly just for fun!

Topsy Turvy

YAY!!! I finally got the chance to create my very first topsy turvy cake! It turned out sooo cute! My son helped me make some of the little fondant balls around the bottom, (and also helped me eat the scraps from carving!) This is actually my first butter cream covered cake too...That is just butter cream and no fondant with the exception of the ribbons and polka dots! Hope to make another soon! Oh, and the cake tasted really good too, a vanilla pound cake with vanilla butter cream :)

Yee-Haw! Cowboy Birthday Cake

  This may be my favorite cake so far...The cake was a chocolate vegan cake with chocolate icing. I sculpted the little cowboy hat a week in advance from gum paste, then dry brushed a darker brown on top to give it an aged leather look. The rest of the details were all made of fondant, I free handed the paisley detail on the bandanna!