I am a student at Le Cordon Bleu and this is a cake I submitted for a “spooky” Halloween cake challenge we had at school. It is a lemon pound cake with lemon curd filling and vanilla bean buttercream frosting. I worked on it a total of about 12 hours (includes baking time). My favorite … Read more
My son and his future bride asked me to bake their wedding cake for them, all chocolate inside and all white icing outside. I used the groom’s fudge cake from the Wilton site except I used 4 squares of chocolate instead of 3. I baked and froze all the cakes and then 2 days before … Read more
I made this Iggle Piggle cake for my son’s first birthday. It was a three packet buttercake mix, made in a baking tray. I then made a template of Iggle Piggle out of baking paper, placed it on top of the cake, and cut the shape out. I then iced it with two shades of … Read more
I knew that this cake had to be have pink & purples as it was for a little girl. I made a batch of marshmallow fondant tinted pink. I also made a batch of butter cream icing tinting purple. Then I made a separate batch of white icing. I then baked the 3 cakes. The … Read more
One of my girlfriend’s daughter’s turned 1 and Elmo was her thing so, she got my first Elmo cake. This is one of my first portrait cakes using buttercream as my “paint”. This is a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. I printed Elmo’s face, cut it out, traced the outline with a toothpick and copied … Read more
12 inch round chocolate chip cookie cake. I used colored icing to create the character. The kids loved it!
Herbie the Love Bug was a vehicle that was put into a few movies years and years ago. Most young children might have seen the “Herbie Fully Loaded,” movie that starred Lindsey Lohan. For my younger brother’s 3rd birthday, I thought hard about what I could make his cake look like, or a certain character … Read more
This cake was simple, but time consuming. I made a 3 tier cake, the bottom chocolate, the middle white, and the top funfetti, so that everyone would be happy. I used regular decorators frosting with leaf green coloring. I used a Wilton tip to give it the “grass” look on the sides. I made the … Read more
My son is a big train fan and so initially I started enquiring all the stores nearby if they had one for his 2nd birthday. What I realised was that they would just offer me a rectangular cake with a train toy on it. So then I decided to bake a cake myself to make … Read more
My brother-in-law saved up for years to buy a Nissan 350Z. He was crazy about it, even getting a specialized license plate that said “Z Junkie”. Because I was known for my creative cakes, I was asked to do his birthday cake. I made him a sports car cake. I baked up a 9X13 and … Read more
My boyfriend drives an older red jeep cherokee and I wanted to make a cake to look like his jeep for his birthday. I used a homemade recipe for the top of the cake and a box devil’s food cake for the bottom. I cut the top to look like a windshield and used the … Read more
