Madison's Birthday Cake

I did a chilled buttercream transfer that I iced up the night before I decorated the cake. I apologize for any copyright infringements I might cause. I am not distributing this picture to make money. :o)This was a simple two-layer lemon cake with lemon pie filling. It was very good. I went really thin on the buttercream icing and managed to use only one recipe to make Elmo, ice, and decorate the cake.

I've decided that even with stencils, my hands are too shaky to make a straight line. I think next time I would do it like a line border and see if its straighter. A larger tip helped a little too. Note to self: More practice and figure out how to keep my hands from shaking.

Baby (Girl) Shower

I quite enjoyed making this cake; aside from the 12 hours of almost solid labour and a glass of red wine spilled across the top moments before I was done the beading on the border, I would say all went well. Thank goodness fondant is forgiving and didn't absorb any liquid! Emotionally though, I recommend leaving out the red wine (smirk).

This was based on a cake in the Wilton Yearbook; but I modified it to what I had available - Chocolate with Raspberry Buttercream underneath all that pink fondant. I didn't have the template book either so I eyeballed it from the book; the letters took forever because the chocolate fondant was getting too soft to work with - the knife would just drag the fondant around the table; so I had to sit and poke it to death with a tooth pick, lol! Needless to say I have since bought the fondant cutting tools for the more intricate work and should be able to pull it off in a more timely manner. I also am looking forward to my purchase of the template book.

7 Year Anniversary

The first picture is of our original wedding cake - made by Twig n' Berries, whom sadly are no longer around.

The shot doesn't do the floral arrangement justice. My actual bouquet had another callalily in it that was kind of orange.

I painted the fondant callas with edible paint to look similar to my bouquet more so than the original floral cake top.
This is what I did for my smaller version last Friday without breaking the bank so to speak.