More Cake

Here's another one I did for class. Part of the border just fell off - don't know what happened there. The flowers are made from royal icing and gum paste. My favorite are the daffodils, my favorite color is the roses, a deep orangey-red.

Library Bag for Spencer Wayne

This one is for Mr. Spence who just turned 2.

Lady Bug

This one is just for fun and practice. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It took a LONG time to color the icings, both true black and red are challenging to achieve. I started with chocolate for the black so I think that helped, it still took a lot of coloring though. The red took even more - I finished off one container of coloring plus an entire new one! I just partook of a piece of cake and it was DELICIOUS - triple chocolate cake, with chocolate and vanilla flavored buttercream.

Covering a cake with stars takes a while, and definitely works the hand and arm muscles. I beginning to see the appeal of using Fondant.

"Grand Finale"

Here's my cake from the end of my 2nd cake class

Top View


Side View with Birdie


Close Up of Flowers


Close Up of Basketweave

A Springtime Project

This one was started and finished this year. I even finished the frame myself!


A close-up of the saying.


This one is for these delightful wee ones.

On Friendship

I can't remember when I started this one, probably early last year, but it was one of my first finishes of 2010. This one was given to my sister.

More Cakes

This is my "final" cake from my first class. The trick I was taught to smooth it out actually made it much much worse - opps! This cake was lemon with strawberry filling, and lemon butter cream frosting - it was delightfully delicious and the lemon made it light and refreshing!

Here's a close up of the roses and sweet peas. They are far from perfect, but I think for my first go they're pretty good :)


This was for Easter. The cake tasted good. It's not suppose to be lopsided, and I think they eyes make it look a bit possessed but oh well, all things considered it turned out fine. A learning experience for sure. Next time I make the ducky I'll avoid having to transport it anywhere - that was a huge contributor to the lopsidedness.