Shop 'til you drop!

My Zumba instructor asked me to make this cake for her daughter, friend, and friend's daughter who were all having a joint birthday party.  The one thing all three ladies had in common was they all loved to shop.

This was a 14" round cake covered in fondant.  The base was trimmed with black and white polk-a-dot ribbon attached with royal icing.  All the figures on top of the cake where molded out of fondant including the sofa and lady on top. The bags around the sofa where various shopping bags accumulated from a long day of shopping.

The Wonder Twins!

Chuggington, Chugga Chugga, Chugga Chugga, Chuggington!

Princess Aurora for Princess Cassidy!

These cakes where made for my friends' twin boy and girl. They celebrated their 3rd birthdays at Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland Hotel.  So it was fitting that both twins had their favorite Disney characters as a theme for their Birthday cakes.

Boy twin Dylan's cartoon of choice is Disney's Chuggington.  His mom told me his 3 favorite trains on the show so I molded each one out of fondant and placed them on top of the train tracks on the cake.  The sign with his name was made out of gum paste and placed on the cake with skewers.  The whole time I was making this cake I could not get the theme song out of my head I was singing it so much that it spread to my 3 year old daughter who would not stop singing it as well.

Girl twin Cassidy's favorite Disney princess is Princess Aurora and also has an obsession with the color pink.  I used a brick impression mold for the sides of the cake to make it have somewhat of a castle effect and draped white fondant all around the cake.  The princess was a Wondermold topper that I draped with pink fondant adding curled pieces of fondant all around the skirt.

Fun in the Sun!

I made this cake to donate to my friend's daughter's preschool.  They were having a bake sale to raise money for tornado victims in the south.

My friend asked if I could do a beach them cake for them so I came up with this cake.

On the side of the cake I free handed waves made out of fondant and placed starfish sprinkled with graham cracker crumbs.  I also molded some small flowers to put them around the side of the cake.

The top of the cake was topped with graham cracker crumbs to give it a sand affect with a towel and flip flops to represent the beach.

I'm happy to say that this was the only cake at the bake sale that they kept whole instead of selling by the slice and decided to do an open auction instead.  The cake ended up selling for $25.00 which went to a good cause.

It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse come inside it's fun inside!

Smash cake just for the Birthday Girl!

This cake was for my niece's 1st Birthday.  As you could tell she is really into Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!  I'm sure she was singing the Hot Diggity Dog song in her head when she saw her cake. =)

For some reason the weather was not cooperating with me while I was making this cake and I was having issues with the fondant lifting from the cake, but I worked with it the best that I could.

The three tiers where 6", 8", & 10".  The bottom tier was the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse scene cut out in fondant and the middle and top tiers where accented in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse colors along with Mickey Mouse Heads to tie in the entire theme together.

The smash cake was a 4" round matching the tiered cake for the special birthday girl.

Harajuku Lover

This cake was a surprise for my cousin's 30th Birthday.  She is a true, "Harajuku Lover" so I thought this cake would be perfect for her.

I made the girl with fondant using a round cutter for her face and just cutting out the shape of her bangs by hand.  I used edible maker to draw her eyes and cut out hearts for her mouth and hair accents.

The side of the cake was decorated by using a diamond cutter and round cutter all the way around the entire cake, and I used a silicon pearl mold to make the trim around the base of the cake.

Hot Diggity Dog!

This cake was made for a friend of mine that was having a hot dog themed party.  It was my first 3D cake ever, so I was a little nervous to make it!  The entire piece was made out of cake including the hotdog and french fries.

I started out by using an 8" square to make the base of the cake.  I covered the entire base with white fondant and then cut out red squares and attached it to the base to make the checkered affect.

The hot dog and hot dog bun were made by using a loaf pan.  I cut out the center of the loaf to create the bun and kept the center piece to mold out the hotdog itself.  I covered the hotdog bun with brown fondant and painted water mixed with brown food coloring onto the bun to give it some texture.  I made the hotdog by crumpling pieces of cake and mixing it with icing.  I shaped the hotdog and placed it Saran wrap and stuck in the freezer for about 30 minutes. After the hotdog was firm, I wrapped it fondant and placed the hotdog in the bun and topped it off with mustard colored buttercream.

The french fries where simply pieces of yellow cake that I toasted in the oven to give it a nice crisp look.

I was very happy it only took me 1 attempt to make my first 3D cake.  I thought it turned out pretty well considering I don't have an air brush yet.  I hope to get my first air brush system in the near future.  Any recommendations?