A BEATLES INSPIRED DRUM SET!

THIS cake was probably one of the largest that I have had to make (and carry!) so far!  My coworker John wanted to get something special and very unique for his brothers birthday celebration.  His brother is a huge BEATLES fan and wanted to incorporate a drum set somehow.  The party was for a large group of people, and so instead of creating a cake with fondant drums on top; we decided to create each different cake as an individual drum! Each cake was decorated around the base with a specific hit album, and the top of the drum displayed the title.  Also incorporated were a set of drum sticks & a golden GIL symbol with a bright 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' message across it.  This cake-sorry-these FOUR different cakes were a ton of work, and more than 10hours of detail work (mainly the Yellow Submarine inspired design!!) but the result was a set of gorgeous hand crafted and baked from scratch drums that was phenomenal!

Four Cakes;

Tiramisu w/ Cognac Mascarpone Frosting

Vanilla w/Strawberry Compote &Cream Cheese Frosting

Chocolate w/Banana Custard Filling

Red Velvet w/Cream Cheese Frosting

LITTLE ELEPHANTS!

A sweet little cake for Evelin's Mom, Evelin asked for the cake to have four elephants representing her mother, herself, and her two older siblings.  Such a cute &simple design around the entire cake, and backed by her mom's favorite color, baby teal!  It made for a SWEET birthday gift!

One Tier, Two Layer Vanilla Cake

{2-6 inch rounds}

Homemade Strawberry Compote Filling

&Vanilla Frosting

LITTLE BOY BABY BLOCKS!

Baby showers have got to be one of the best occasions to create a cake.  The possibilities are endless! My friend Tracey came to me asking to create a sweet little design for her dear friends' baby shower and their soon-to-be-born son, Lucas!  More than happy to accept, Tracey and I talked about numerous different designs and ended with a classy modern design to compliment the mommy-to-be.  With a Gorgeous Deep Blue & White Chevron base, the black and white baby blocks POPPED almost as much as the matching blue cake on the inside! The Vanilla cake was dyed blue and filled with a fluffy raspberry chocolate mousse filling; capable of satisfying the most intense sweet cravings!!

{Custom Carved Cake}

Vanilla [blue] Cake 

w/ Raspberry Chocolate Mousse Filling

Ready To POP!

The Adorable Mommy to be, Roxanne &Her Hubby Charly

THE WALKING DEAD!

An intriguing request from one of my best customers and coworker, Jorge wanted to have a 'Walking Dead' themed birthday cake! He had an idea of hands/arms/zombies trying to get out from a door, that he requested be modeled after his apartment.  After googling some inspirations I got to work creating my very first fondant hands, and after a few tries nailed it! This cake was so much fun to make!! The eerie hands wouldn't be complete without some gory blood all over (red food coloring) which I dipped each of the hands in and smeared across the cake before I set them in place.  To make it look even more forbidding I created fondant chain links and a lock 'latching the door shut' and spray painted them with edible vanilla silver coloring AND painted across the door "DON'T OPEN DEAD INSIDE".  The cake was a humongous hit and I couldn't have been any happier with the results!

One Tier, Two Layer Vanilla Cake

{2-13x9 inch rectangles}

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

CHIC LACE LOVE!

A long time coworker and friend of mine, Raoul, has been commenting about ordering a cake from me for a long time now.  Finally the time came where he needed a cake, for his sweet mothers birthday!  He told me to 'have fun' with the cake design, that he just did not want anything to frilly/girly, that his mom liked more of a classy look.  He also requested 'Happy Birthday JuJu' to be on top of the cake.  I wanted to stick with a black and white design, and opted to try out a new technique...LACE!  Unfortunately I have no lace tools so after reading and watching quite a few different tutorials online, I opted to make lace the hand-made route!  I started by cutting large circles, and working my way into the center of the circle creating a pattern using my fondant knife tools, and all the various sized frosting tips I have!  The work took the better portion of four hours in order to get the rhythm down and make sure all of those darn little circles cut out all the way! But the finished look was even better than I had hoped, AND I learned a new technique out of it! This is what I love SO much about what I do!  Thank you Raoul 'Rizzle' for your order!

One Tier, Two Layer Chocolate Cake

{2-6 inch rounds}

Chunky Whipped Oreo Frosting

LANA DEL REY INSPIRATION!

Miss Evelin came to me last month requesting a special little cake for her younger sister's birthday.  She explained to me how crazy her sister was about the new artist Lana Del Rey and all of her music.  Evelin asked if I would be able to incorporate that into a cake, of course!  She was amazing and found me exactly what I was looking for - a Lana Del Rey silhouette.  I was able to create a card stock stencil by hand from the picture she sent me and use it to cut out a black fondant silhouette of Lana Del Rey!  Adorned on top was a 3D Bright Red Flower and Black Sparkly piping gel 'Lana Del Rey' along the front/side of the cake just like on her Paradise Album.

One Tier, Two Layer Chocolate Cake

{2 - 6 inch rounds}

Marshmallow Cream Cheese Frosting

A BOLD CHEVRON BIRTHDAY!

Liz is a bold character, to say the least!  Already having ordered numerous cakes for other people from me, this time she was ordering a cake for herself!  She told me the flavors, and gave me free reign of the cake design.  Knowing her personality I wanted to do something bold and really eye-catching! What better than a Chevron print cake?  Red is one of her favorite colors so I paired it with black and white, offsetting the red and white cake with a red and black bow.  Liz completely adored her cake, and what made it even better when I delivered it was her other coworkers thought I had purchased it somewhere! Happy Birthday Liz!

One Tier, Two Layer Red Velvet Cake

{2-8 inch squares}

Sweet Cream Cheese Frosting

POLKA-DOT BABY LOVIN'!

Another order from the wonderful Escobar's, Claudia contacted me and explained that her best friend was pregnant, and that she was going to throw her a baby shower! She asked for a cake to have for the special occasion and I was more than happy to help out.  Plus I've been wanting to design a baby shower cake for a while now!  She sent me a few pictures she had seen that she liked for ideas, and her favorite one was a pink polka dot cake with baby shoes on top! It was extremely cute, although I wasn't sure about how to create the shoes!  After searching around to find some ideas and techniques, I stumbled upon converse shoe stencils! Too perfect.  I chose to incorporate a soft gray color, and two different shades of pink like Claudia had asked.  The shoes came out even better than I had hoped, I was SO excited, and when Claudia saw them she was thrilled too!

One Tier, Two Layer Carrot Cake

{2-9 inch rounds}

Sweet Cream Cheese Frosting

LEAHS WHIMSICAL BIRTHDAY CAKE!

My Sweet friend Leah celebrated her birthday last week and I wanted to make her a very special, unique cake.  It was a complete surprise so I asked her boyfriend Kyle for her favorite flavor cake (Tiramisu, yum!).  For the design I wanted to do something very different than normal, and something that represented Leah.  Leah is a sweetheart and a loving free spirit! I came up with a whimsical fondant design incorporating bright vibrant colors that I know Leah likes.  As much as she is a sweetheart she also packs a personality *punch* so I finished the cake off with a large black fondant '26 & BADASS' on the front of her cake!  When I showed up at the bar with her cake in hand she was SO excited, the bar staff was fantastic helping me set up with candles and the whole place sung her 'Happy Birthday'! It was a wonderful surprise, and even better people thought I had purchased the cake from a bakery! Everyone that had a slice thought my tiramisu recipe was fantastic, most importantly the birthday girl ! Happy Happy Birthday Leah! 

One Tier, Two Layer Tiramisu Cake

{2-9 inch rounds}

Mascarpone Cognac Frosting

SWEET PRINCESS CUPCAKES!

Second Year in a row that I've been asked to make Dinet's Birthday cake!  This year Malleli, her older sister and a friend of mine, chose to do dainty princess cupcakes instead.  She requested plain cupcakes, with the exception that she did want one golden fondant princess crown topper for the birthday girl.  Dinet loves anything pink, so we kept the Vanilla cake its natural color (last year we did an ombre pink cake!), but chose to add a little coloring into the frosting and it turned a gorgeous pale pink that Malelli and her sister loved!

One Dozen Cupcake Order

Sweet Vanilla Cakes

Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting-Dyed Pink