Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Circus Cake







This cake is for a little girl who likes horses. Her mom found this set of circus horses, so we made a circus. The horses are galloping in graham cracker crumbs.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

New Years Cupcakes






For New Years Eve I made cupcakes for a party. I love to get whimsical. And you can try something new with every cupcake!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Viva Pinata Cake







Marlene's friend Grayson wanted a Viva Pinata Cake. Since he is not a fan of chocolate, I made a vanilla butter bundt cake. It was cut into various pieces to make a snake type Pinata. I usually do not like cakes covered in start tip dots, but it worked very well for the pinata. The kids loved it and there was nothing left over to take home.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Baby Shower Cake in Chocolate











When Beth asked for a cake fore her baby shower, she wanted it to be covered in chocolate. I made a chocolate cake and layered it with cookies and cream filling. The cake was covered with chocolate butter cream. Over that I poured a thick layer of dark chocolate ganache. The decorations are made out of white chocolate. And, yes, you guessed it, for all we know, it is going to be a boy.

Spring Flower Cake




For my friend Paula's birthday I made one of her favorite cakes. Here we have a Banana Cake filled with vanilla pastry cream. I made this cake once for a dinner party and Paula took home a piece. The whole day she was looking forward to have the cake after dinner, but when she got home she discovered, that her parents had visited and eaten the cake. It was a great disappointment. This time she got a piece, but still no leftovers. The last piece had to be split three ways by popular demand.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Spiderwick Chronicles Cake


It was a last minute decision to make Logan's birthday cake according to a Spiderwick Chronicles theme, so I kind of ran out of time for all my ideas. But here it is. Butter-vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. The house is made out of chocolate cookie dough. The recipe worked pretty good since it did not run during baking.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Red Velvet Wedding




When my friend Christie got married, she wanted a red velvet cake. And since the wedding was held in the Chinese Room of the Smith Tower she wanted an Asian inspired design. So we settled for a three layer square cake (12", 8", 4") with white cream cheese frosting and red and violet royal icing flowers.