Dinosaur

I was givent this picture:

 and asked to make a birthday cake out of it.

3-D rainbow cake with glitter fondant how to and rainbow how not to

My cousins baby turned one. Michelle's order went something like this "her birthday is on St. Patrick's Day so I want it springy and St. Patricksy, but not TOO St. Patricksy." I thought of this St. Patrick's day cake and started thinking about how I could tweak it to be "not TOO St. Patricksy". Here's what I came up with. The cake with a matching smash cake. So, the crack in the rainbow... my husband did that (bless his soul). He wanted to know how hard the rainbow had gotten so he pinched it... babe, it's not metal in your garage, it's gumpaste in my kitchen. He felt bad, but we rolled with it. Note, do not squeeze your rainbow to test its hardness. :) A general tip, I love, I mean L.O.V.E my matt. I got it at Orson Gygi's and it's right up there with my pizza cutter. I will not make a fondant cake with out it. Just dump a little powder sugar on it (a little bit goes a long way). And spread it around into a very thin layer. If you don't spread it in a THIN layer then the fondant, after you flip it over on to the cake, will have a visible white film of sugar on it. I didn't call attention to it yet, but I decided to play around and discovered how to make my fondant glittery (take a closer look at the finished pictures). I took these glittery color flakes to match the color of fondant I was using (found at cake supply stores and craft stores) and after I spread my sugar out (see how thin my layer is? You can barely see it), I sprinkled the glitter flakes all over my matt. Then I rolled my fondant out on it, hoping it would stick into my fondant. Guess what? It worked! How sad is it that I was bouncing up and down and giggling over my new found glitter fondant? I used gumpaste for my rainbow. I can get away with being lazy and using fondant for smaller things, or bulkier things that will settle on itself andhold itself up, but the rainbow needed to firm up. I mixed up my gumpaste (found in cake supply stores and craft stores in powder form), rolled it out and cut out my rainbow shape. I debated between coloring the fondant and piecing it together or making one solid shape and painting on the colors. I decided the less pieces I needed to hold together the better it would be so I settled on painting. I really think this was a good idea. I used some wooden skewers and then also added some toothpicks to hold the rainbow on the cake. When I used gumpaste on this cake I put it in a warm oven (it was off, but still warm) to harden the gumpaste quicker. My oven on this cake had just been on so I switched it off and threw the rainbow in to it to harden while the it cooled. This would be a how NOT to. The oven was still WAY too hot and after only a few minutes my rainbow had puffed up like a baking sugar cookie. I quickly pulled it out. It was a little misshapen, but I could work with it still. If you want to harden gumpaste fully you should make your piece days in advance. That's the only way to do it. Or keep your oven no hotter than 200 degrees, though that will just harden the outside enough to use it, the middle will still be soft. (As we discovered when my man pinched the rainbow. *smoosh*, nope, the middle is definitely not hard. Thanks for checking that out for me). I painted the colors on, added the clouds and flowers. This has become one of my favorite cakes. I love it!

Over the Hill bowling ball

Daniel turned 40. Daniel had bowling league on his birthday. Daniel got surprised at the bowling alley with an "over the hill" cake.

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.

Baseball diamond grave

For a 60th birthday... this shape was a little more tricky to get than I first expected, but I got it eventually. I painted the green on, thinking the paint strokes would add a cool texture to the grass.

Rock N' Roll Bedroom

The "before" pictures of this room are gone, lost with a memory card that I can't find. It was a plain white bedroom with nothing in it but a long desk attached to the wall and a foozball table. We removed the foozball table, took the three girls to the store where they picked out this lovely mint green that we were a bit uncertain about and we started painting. I think the green turned out awesom. They wanted a music theme, which, after painting and finding wall accessories turned more into a rock n' roll theme, but that's basically the same thing, right? I had an idea to trace them onto the wall and this is what I finally ended up with: My man was amazing and built a triple bunkbed onto a wall for them, incorporating dressers. We were trying to fit all the necessities in with out taking to much space away from them. I think we did a good job, and the girls love it. That's all that really matters.

Intoducing... Mega Cupcakes

I put these together for a fundraiser auction for Girl's Camp. I had so much fun doing these, and they were a big hit too, which made me feel good :). I made a cupcake in each value's color.

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!

St. Patrick's Day

This was actually for a birthday, but they wanted it to be St. Patrick's themed. At first I didn't like it, it felt to plain and dull, so I kept going until... wa-lah! It's all in the details :) You can't tell from the pictures but the colors on the rainbow have shimmer dust on them.

Cake Ball cake

Frog face birthday cake/cupcakes

Flower bedroom