Boxing Ring

Jack-o-lantern

Once a Pirate, always a Pirate

My debut into high school logos ha ha. My football helmets are getting A LOT better. Thank goodness since they seem to be a reocurring request!

Lime green slugbug

Slugbug, what color?
The request was very specific. Lime green slugbug with a "Hawaiian flower" on the hood.But I had to be a little creative with it so I made the inside tie-dye.

Jaegermeister

These pics are a little off because I took them with my phone instead of my camera but you still get the gist of the cake. When Kelten told me he wanted a jaeger cake all I could think of was those drunks puking it back up... so I put it on there ha ha. Sorry... if you ask me to do a cake you ARE going to get a bit of my personality wrapped up in it somewhere. He loved the puker though, and just like my fingerprints on the tiny lampshade of the crime scene cake, I giggled out loud all night over this little drunk.

Sk8 Park

Ayden is amazing. Did you know he can do a back flip? He showed me. I've never been able to do a back flip. Ever. Not even on a trampoline and this kid just did it from a standing jump on the floor. Impressive. Ayden is also an 8 year old skater boy. Happy birthday Ayden! I didn't get a picture with the cake after McKell put little skateboards all over it but it looked really cool with or without them, if I do say so myself (and quite often I'm saying so myself LOL). I think I nailed the concrete color, which was pure luck on the first try ha ha.

What goes better with Saint's football than ESPN on a flatscreen TV? We had lots of flavors going on in these cakes. Carrot cake, chocolate chip cookie cake, vanilla cheesecake cake, and spice cake. Still not a fan of my helmet carving abilities, but it's a better shape than my last one. which is a good sign that my next will be better too :).

Spiral hearts

My daughter's request for her 7th birthday cake was "blue hearts". I wanted an excuse to try a spiral cake, so this is what we ended up with. Not the cleanest best spiral, but I learned a lot with it and very much want to try it again! I also got to play with pearl dust and liquid pearl which I love. Notice the nice shimmer on the hearts? Two of my other daughters did the pearls around the bottom, they wanted to help and were so cute with doing it for their sister. Inside this cake was a yummy chocolate with layers a caramel filling. My favorite at this point. Man, that caramel is so good!

Seattle Seahawks

A neighbor wanted this for her son's 20th birthday... he's avid into the Seahawks. My first helmet... I needed to cut the length in half, it's very elongated. As luck has it, I have another football cake, this time for the Saints, coming up, so I get to try it again. This time I'll have a better idea of how to carve it. Overall I'm happy with the logo and the field. I made the face mask out of gumpaste and let it dry over night, but it turned out that wasn't long enough. I broke when I tried to put it on the next morning. And crumbled with all my efforts to put it together again. With my neighbor coming to pick it up I was able to use a support of florist wire and toothpicks to make a fresh face mask. This cake was a good learning experience!

*Caution-Crime Scene*

My co-worker is into CSI. Not the TV show, but the real field, she's taken a lot of forensic classes and her favorite was finger printing. My co-worker also recently bought an extremely tacky 90s velor, teal couch. And she LOVES it. So for her bday I decided to put those two aspects together. I even put finger prints on the lamp and lampshade. Speaking of lampshade... I giggled all night over that little thing, I was so in love with it. I know, I amuse myself.

Lightning McQueen, Ka-chow!

My friend asked me to do a Lightning McQueen cake for her son's bday next weekend. But then she sent me a text Thursday asking for it this weekend instead. I already had the Batman cake I needed to do, and we had plans to go out of town. I told her I would do it if I could. But after battling the bratty Batman cake I knew I wasn't going to get the Cars cake done. But I've know this friend FOREVER so I told her I would do it while we were gone and bring back with me for her to have. Which I did.

And it worked just fine until... the whole entire side of it melted from the sun. This is definitely getting racked up to one of my "cake disasters"! I tried my best to make it look OK for my friend, who said she loved it any way. Here's the final tweaked result: This cake was milk chocolate with cookies n'cream filling.

Camaro... Transformers edition

I now know that the difference between a regular yellow camaro, and the Transformers edition is... the racing stripes. Yup, that's it. So, here it is. I kind of thought that my first carving experience was going to be in about two weeks on a couch project (that's going to be an awesome cake by the way! Stay tuned, you don't want to miss it), but as it turns out, I ran into this little project last minute. Carve a camaro. OK, for the girl who when asked, "what kind of car was/is it?" answers, "yellow". As usual the perfectionist in me is screaming at what I see to be wrong with it, but I think overall in a cake carving experience, this was pretty good. And the man mentioned getting me a sprayer when he saw the racing stripes. Yes! I need one for the tattoo cake I have coming up in May (another one you should stay tuned for!). He's an ice cream freak, so the best I could do was make the base an ice cream cake road. Asphalt pie. I can't carve ice cream. Sorry, I know you're all disappointed with that discovery.