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.

Aloha Oe!

This cake was made for my parents' friend having a surprise Luau for his 60th birthday party.  This cake was a half sheet red velvet cake filled with chocolate cream cheese.

The entire cake was iced with buttercream.  I added texture to the sides of the cake and added graham cracker crumbs all around to create a sand effect.  I also added texture to the top of the cake to create waves and used blue color mist to color the water blue.

The Hibiscus was made using royal icing that I piped in a flower form.  My intent was to make about 6 or 7 Hibiscuses for this cake, but they did not dry in time.  I was only able to salvage 1 out of my whole batch and I was bummed because they came out beautifully.  As back up, I made Plumeria flowers out of fondant and some yellow flowers out of royal icing.

The palm trees where all piped using buttercream along with the leaves for the flowers.  I used a rose petal tip to make the trunk of the trees and a large leaf tip to make the branches of the palms.