Ice Cream Parlor Cake

I made this cake for my youngest daughter, Nia (Nia Cakes) who was celebrating her 2nd Birthday.  We celebrated with her at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor so I thought it was fitting to make an ice cream themed cake.

The sad thing is we never even ended up eating the cake.  There was so much ice cream and food that the cake sat in the frig for 2 weeks with no one touching it.  So we ended up throwing it away.

Garden Party

This was a 10" cake and cake pops for a garden theme birthday party.

Pink Party!

This was a pink theme birthday party.  6" round cake with mini cupcakes for a cupcake tower.

Carousel Cake

This was a carousel themed cake and smash cake for a 1st birthday party that was held on the Santa Monica Pier.  The entire piece was made out of cake and almost completely edible.  The only part of the cake that was not edible were the horse poles and flag pole which were lollipop sticks.

I used a candy mold to mold out the horses on the carousel and used fondant to make the mane, tail, and saddle of each horse.

The smash cake was a single horse that matched the carousel made especially for the birthday girl herself.

Woodland Creatures Cake and Cupcakes

This cake was for Isla who was turning 3.  The theme of her party was woodland creatures.  Her mom sent me a picture of a pin cushion and asked me if I could make it into a cake.

The cake was made using 2 types of pans.  The bottom part of the cake was a round 10" cake covered in fondant.  I gave it some ridges to make it look similar to a tree stump.  For the top part of the cake I used a magic mold to create the hill mound.  All the creatures and mushrooms were made out of fondant.

Along with the cake I made mini cupcakes to match the theme of the cake.

Hello Kitty You're so Pretty!

This was a Hello Kitty themed party with mini cupcakes and 6" cake.

The cake was covered in fondant with a marshmallow Hello Kitty lollipop topper.  The side of the cake was embellished with Hello Kitty rings and fondant cutouts and placed on top of a 3 tier cupcake tower.

The cupcake tower was the center piece of the Hello Kitty candy bar.

Vintage Bling

 This cake was a made for a little girl named Bella who was turning 4. She loves thing very Blingy and she is a little diva in the making.  Her mom gave me the rhinestone trim and the rhinestone monogram for the top of the cake.  She also provided me with some pre-made Anemones.  I did however, have to make an extra 7 or so Anemones to fill the gaps on the cake.  The rhinestone boarder did not go all the way around the cake and I had to improvise to fill the gap.


This cake was a 12" round and about 6 to 7 inches high.  The cake was a chocolate cake with raspberry preserve filling coated with a white chocolate butter cream.  The entire cake was quilted all around with the accessories added to it.

Marshmallow Hello Kitty!

I made this cake and matching mini cupcakes for Gianna who turned 5 years old along with her twin brother Mark (who's cake you will see on my next entry).  The main requirement Gianna requested for this cake was to have a marshmallow Hello Kitty on topper.  Luckily I was able to find this marshmallow Hello Kitty lollipop at Walgreens to use as the topper, these suckers were hard to find.

Gianna's cake was an 8" yellow cake filled with fresh strawberries and whipping cream.  I rolled out balls of fondant for the border in different pastel colors.  I decorated the side of the cake by cutting out flower shapes and sticking hello kitty rings on the side.  I also cut out circles and added the number 5 all around the cake.

The mini cupcakes were simply topped off with mini flowers in the same pastel colors as the cake.

Castle Cake for my Princess Carina!

I made this cake for my daughter's 4th birthday.  This cake was inspired by her.  She told me she wanted a castle cake and let me know what colors she wanted it, what flavors, and where to put her name.

I started out with a 8" and 6" cake covered both tiers with fondant and used a brick impression mat to make the brick imprints on the castle walls. I made the decorative border on top of each tier by cutting out a 1 inch strip and used a square cutter to cut out the indentations on the border.  The steeple was made by shaping out a piece a fondant and covering it with pink circles placing them all around the steeple.  I sued a diamond cutter to make the flag on top and wrapped it around a tooth pick to place it on top.

The door was made by using a bamboo impression mat and cutting it down to size.  I used a small flower cutter to make the flower accents and added a sugar pearl in the middle of each flower.  The vines where piped with royal icing around the cake and the flowers were placed on top.

Starwberry Shortcake

This cake was for the last of my daughter's BFFs.  Samantha celebrated her birthday at her favorite diner, Ocean Diner in Hermosa Beach and then spent the rest of the day at the beach with her friends.

The theme of her cake was Strawberry Shortcake.  This was an 8" cake covered in red fondant.  I made Strawberry Shortcake's house in fondant for the topper of the cake.  I used molds and cutters for the other embellishments on the cake.

Carnival Ferris Wheel

This was for Jaelynne who was turning 2.  She was celebrating her party at the Santa Monica Pier.  Her theme was a carnival theme focusing on the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

The cake was an 8" cake that went on top of a 5 tier cupcake tower.  The Ferris Wheel topper on the cake was made out of gum paste.  I also made 6 dozen mini cupcakes to go around the cupcake tower.  3 dozen cupcakes were topped with fondant pinwheels and ride tickets.  The other 3 dozen were decorated with red sprinkles.  The cake with the number 2 on it was the smash cake I made for especially for Jaelynne to match the rest of her cakes.

Hello Maya!

This cake was for another one of my daughter's BFFs turning 4.  Maya had a Hello Kitty themed tea party for her Birthday.  All her friends were served lemonade in tea cups and sandwiches and were given gloves, hats, and boas.

This was a 10" chocolate cake with fresh strawberries and whipping cream as the filling.  The whole cake was covered in pink fondant.  The flowers where made using white fondant colored by brushing on pink, blue, and green petal dust.  The center of each flower had white sugar pearls.  Hello Kitty and the number 4 were made out of gum paste.

Ella Gets Tangled

This cake was for one of my daughter's BFFs for her 4th Birthday.  It was a Tangled themed Pump It Up party.  Her mom gave me the figurines on top to mimic the lantern scene of the movie.  The boat that the figurines came in was too big so I made my own boat out of fondant to fit the cake.  The waves were made by cutting out a bunch of circles and cutting them in half and then placing them around the boat.  I used a braid mold to make the name and boarder around the cake.

The cupcakes were decorated with fondant cutouts.  Rapunzel's Braid, a number 4 for Ella's age, and flowers.

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.

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.

2 is better than 1

Both of these cakes were made for a friend of mine.  Her son was celebrating his baptism and her daughter was celebrating her 2nd Birthday on the same day.  So she asked me if I could make two 6" squared cakes for her kids.

The baptism cake was a chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache filling.  It was iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant and royal icing.  The cross was made with fondant and cut out using a cookie cutter.  In order to accent the shape of the cross I piped royal icing stars around it.  The top and bottom border or the cake was also made with fondant using impression molds.

The birthday cake was a girly Dora the Explorer inspired cake.  Pinks and purples were the mom's request for her little girly girl.  This cake was a yellow cake filled with whipping cream mixed in with strawberries and blueberries a perfect flavor for the summer.  The cake was iced with buttercream and decorated using all fondant.  The flowers were made using different size flower cutters, and the buttons in the center of the flowers were made using impression molds.  Unfortunately for this cake I could not get the buttercream as smooth as I would like.  The consistency was a little too dry.  I adjusted the next batch for the baptism cake by adding a little more milk.  As you could see in the baptism cake picture above the buttercream came out a lot smoother.

NiaCake's 1st Birthday

I had a Hello Kitty themed 1st Birthday Party for my younger daughter Nia back in February.  I decided to put my cake decorating skills to the test by making a 6" cake and about 75 cupcakes and mini cupcakes for her party.  I made a cupcake tower using foam board and cement glue trimming it with decorative ribbon as well as the toothpick cupcake toppers to match the theme.  The cupcake flavors were a strawberry cake with whipping cream,  chocolate sour cream cake with cream cheese frosting, and an almond butter cake with butter cream.