Featured on Aphrodite's Wedding Blog!

So I am super excited to share a wedding blog that I recently found two of my cakes in! I feel a little famous, haha. I am also super excited because this wedding was absolutely beautiful and I was soooo sad that I forgot my camera when I delivered the cake. Here is the post about Abigail + Brooke's special day. Scroll down a bit and you will see the "cake" section. So fun!!

3-D Police Officer Cake

 I made this cake for a retirement party. I made a cake very similar to this one a few years back. Everything is cake, except for the gun and cuffs (those are made from fondant and gumpaste).

50th Anniversary Cake

Yay! I finally have a few minutes to blog (if Landon doesn't wake up from his nap). In May, I resigned from teaching Art and now I am making cakes and staying home with Landon. I am amazed about how God has really blessed me with just the right amount of cake business to make staying home with Landon possible. Anywho, I am definitely a busy stay-at-home mom and find it almost more difficult to find time to blog now! Here is a cake I did about a month ago for some sweet ladies who asked me to make a cake for their inlaws 50th wedding anniversary. They had the location site for the party decorated beautiful and I could tell they put so much work into making the party special.

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

I haven't mentioned this yet, but I am super excited to announce that I will be doing more cakes now! This was my last year teaching Art full time. I will miss all of my sweet students - from their notes to their excitment about getting creative. Although I will miss teaching Art, I am ready for this new chapter in my life being a SAHM and hanging out with mu lil' guy everyday, all day :)

Here are some pics of the 2nd cake I made this weekend. I actually made this little boy's birthday cake last year as well. This cake was special to me because I LOVED Mickey Mouse when I was a little girl. I would spend hours upon hours in my room drawing Mickey.

Frank from Cars

I'm so excited about this post! This was a fun cake decorating weekend for me. I had two "Disney" orders. The first one was a 3D cake from Cars for a little boy's 4th birthday. I went to Meredith with his mom and was so honored she asked me to make the cake! I honestly didn't remember who Frank was at first so I had to do some reasearch and watched the tractor tippin' scene on youtube. I can't wait until Landon starts to like these movies, they are so cute. Here is Frank:

Everything is edible...the cake is white almond and it is covered with buttercream and fondant.

Dinosaur 1st Birthday Cake

I'm lovin' this Dinosaur themed 1st birthday! I made this cake this past weekend for a little boy's first birthday. I loved the invite his mom sent me to design the cake from and the color theme. She was actually one of my first cake customers a few years back! I made her little girl's first birthday cake as well.

I cut the dinosaur shapes (inspired by the invite) out of fondant and "glued" them with clear vanilla around the white almond flavored cake (yum yum). I like to use clear vanilla for my "gluing" because it doesn't leave blotches when it dries.

 After delivering the cake, my boys and I spent some time shopping at Southpoint. Doesn't Landon look so cool and grown up with his sunglasses? Dave looks pretty studly himself ;)

College Mascot Cake Topper

Ok, I am super excited about this post! A friend of my from college (she went to State and I went to Meredith) asked me to make her wedding cake topper. She wanted something that would last so I sculpted these little figurines out of polymer clay. It was a lot like using gumpaste, just a little stiffer and it will last a lifetime. Here are the little cutey pattooty figurines - Mrs. Wolf (NC State) and PeeDee (ECU). Carolyn thought that one day she would have a Mr. Wolf next to the Mrs. Wolf but life surprised her with a PeeDee! I am thinking I might open up an etsy store to sell these...anyone have any experience with etsy??

Downhill Ski Cake

We have had the most mild winter so far so I was happy to get to see some snow this week! My snow consisted of white fondant, but it was still fun to get in the wintry mood. This cake was for a 30th birthday party and the birthday boy loves to ski. It was quite a challenge, but these are my favorite cakes to make. I like to get creative!

Here is a portrait of the lil' ski dude. He turned out so cute I hated to say goodbye to him....

Here is another pose. He was quite the model.

These little pine trees were so much fun to make! My mind went crazy with possibilities for next Christmas. I rolled the gumpaste into a raindrop shape, took mini scissors to cut the branches and sprinkled a little snow on them.

And now here are a few pics of the messy project, but first take a look at my lil trooper. He was so good while I made this cake ...just chilled in his little chair and listened to mommy explain the steps of making the cake. I think his favorite part was watching me make the trees.

Here is the tiered cake ready to get carved. The bottom two layers are yellow butter cake with raspberry filling and the top tiers are triple chocolate.

A little messy carving....

and....wa la! We have a mountain like shape.

Rolling out the white fondant. Let me tell you, this step sure does work my arm muscles....I really want one of those slab rollers for fondant.

Here it is before I trimmed it up. I kind of think it looks like a ghost...

Here is a little peak of the molding process...my little ski dude was about to get some legs. I hope everyone enjoyed the cake!

Chandelier Cake

Hello there...hope you are having a great weekend! I just finished up this birthday cake with a chandelier motif and standing monogram.  The party is taking place at the Angus Barn tonight and I must admit that my mouth is watering right now. The cake is the popular white almond with buttercream and covered in fondant. I piped the chandelier motif with royal icing and let me tell you our kitchen sink, as well as my fingers, turned a nasty black as I added the food coloring. I need to start wearing gloves, but I am not the neatest artist! Well I am off to spend the afternoon with my 2 boys who are currently watching the Syracuse basketball game. Dave is training Landon to cheer for Syracuse at 2 1/2 months old...I personally think he needs to just be a State fan. Happy weekend!

Happy 2nd Birthday Emma!

Here is my sweet niece, Emma Grace, who turned 2 this past weekend and celebrated her big day at Chuck E Cheese! She is in love with fairies, princesses, Dora and anything girly. Her new favorite Disney movie is "Tangled" so I made her a Rapunzel birthday cake. In this post I am going to try to give you the "how to" in making a princess cake. I have been really slack on taking pics during the process of making my cakes, but actually took the time to do so with this cake. So here it goes....

I bought a cake pan made for doll cakes and a Rapunzel barbie doll. I usually don't like putting things on my cakes that I have not made/molded from fondant, etc. I want my cakes to be 100% created by me, but in this case I thought it might look cheesy if I made the doll out of fondant. So I set aside my pride and went to Target to buy Rapunzel. I had so much fun browsing the aisles of barbies and baby dolls. Don't get me wrong, I love my little boy, but I do think it would be fun to have a girl one day :) Anywho, I found "Punz" (this is what Emma calls her) and had a lot of fun spending a few days playing with her...

Here she is just hangin' out in the kitchen while I make her dress out of yummy chocolate cake!

Here is the pan that I baked the cake in. I was surprised how even it cooked given the shape.

I iced the cake with buttercream and then started the fun part of creating the dress! Added this lighter shade of purple fondant for the inside part of her dress and.....

I start to make some edible paint by mixing clear vanilla and food coloring. This is one of my fave things to do - painting cakes! Here I am painting away and getting purple fingers in the process.

And here I have added another piece of fondant for the outer layer of the dress. Just need to clean it and trim it up.

This is where I ran into a problem. I have learned through making cakes to allow time for trial and error! At first I though I could leave her legs on and stick her down in the cake...well she ended up being too tall so I decided to break off her legs. I thought they would easily pop back on like they did on my barbies when I was a kid but I was wrong. Apparently, Punz is a much better quality and she didn't like being torn apart. The doll was also part of Emma's present so I hate that I broke her. Sometimes I have to take extreme measures to make a cake look good!  

Do you like how I gave Punz a bathing suit?? Gotta keep the blog family friendly :)

And here she is in her new attire. I added a little "bling" (not edible) and added her bodice. I always use clear vanilla as a glue to stick everything on my cakes. You can do this process with any barbie and you can also buy generic dolls specifically made for this type of cake that come with no legs.

 Gotta run cause my lil guy is hungry! Have a great day.