Down Under Delicious! Australian for CAKE!

Well my husband (Brian) took me to Australia for our honeymoon! It was amazing, but that's a whole other blog! His birthday was only a week or so after we returned to the States! I thought it was only appropriate that I make him a cake to commemorate the best vacation we've ever been on...EVER!


This was a cake shaped like the continent of Australia - two layers thick of the best chocolate chip vanilla cake ...tinted to match the red sands of the Outback! I filled it with some homemade cannoli cream too!


It was iced in a red sand-tinted vanilla cream and highlighted by some white ocean waves. The cake rested upon oceans of blue fondant with a few edible white-tipped reef sharks, to add an element of DANGER! Everything was edible by the way... I like the challenge!


Sitting atop the cake was my edible husband complete with snorkel gear and a little koala to keep him company...her name was Chelsea (so named after the koala we met and HUGGED whilst in Oz!)



Obviously, he loved it!


I don't know what he wished for though...he did already marry me! ;o)

Scrabble-tastic Cuppycakes

My aunt loves Scrabble so when it was time to make her birthday cake, I decided that this called for Scrabble cupcakes.


The cupcakes were an organic chocolate cake, topped with a blue-tinted vanilla buttercream and decorated with fondant wood grain Scrabble tiles - which, of course, spelled out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNI"




I believe it's VERY important to play with your food! And the birthday girl loved them!

Spidercake, Spidercake...Does whatever a Spidercake can!

Okay, so Nick (my nephew...see his 1st!) was turning THREE and was at the time a BIG Spiderman fan! When it was time to make his cake, it was a no-brainer!


This one explains itself BUT... it was a vanilla layer cake with chocolate pudding filling, iced with vibrant, comic book-colored icing. Towering atop the cake, stood a 10-inch delectable skyscraper made of purple-tinted, chocolate chip, vanilla cake! (Because if you were three, wouldn't you want to eat a skyscraper made of purple cake??) On top of that, stood Spiderman himself, who took the liberty of writing Nick his own birthday message in a frosting web!


The birthday boy loved his cake. So did his friends... As I recall, they were particularly fond of the purple cake part! But like I said, wouldn't you be? By the way, Spidey wasn't edible - he doubled as a toy for the birthday boy!

With this Choco-box...

Inside this box was an engagement ring! Not mine... but it was still exciting! When someone asked me how to they could make this Valentine's Day proposal extra sweet, I was like "Uhh, Chocolate Box!" So I designed this little box to hold THE ring!


She popped the box open, not realizing at first that you could open it at all, saw the ring, burst into tears...and then said "YES!" ... and then she ate the box! Ahh, love!

Classic Cuppycakes!

Nothing says "Happy Birthday" like a classic vanilla cupcake with gooey chocolate frosting, topped with a few M&Ms! This is how I do cupcakes!

Ashley's Sweet 16!

Nothing could make a Sweet 16 sweeter than a cake from Cheeky Cakery. I designed a stacked present cake for Ashley... complete with a birthday message on edible diamond tiles in her favorite colors - all tied together with a fondant bow. It even had her monogram on the top!

Everything about this cake shimmered and sparkled with sugar glitter.




The cake was a triple-layer chocolate-chocolate chip cake, filled with chocolate pudding, iced with a vanilla buttercream and sparkly purple icing accents! The three flowers represented the past, the present and the bright, happy future for the birthday girl!




When I presented it to the birthday girl, she absolutely loved it.

Sharon eats sea shells by the sea shore...cake

My (now) mother-in-law, Sharon, was celebrating her birthday and I was excited to make a cake for her...


She loves anything to do with the ocean...(she's a closet Discovery Channel addict.)

So, I made some of her favorite sea-creatures out of sugar dough and created a vanilla triple-layer cake filled with chocolate-chocolate chip pudding filling.


The creatures included are a sea horse, a sea star, a white-tipped reef shark, an angel fish, a clown fish, an octopus, a seagull... and then of course, some anemone, branch coral, brain coral and kelp!

It was iced in a ocean-tinted buttercream and set upon a bed of sand. (Uhh, that's graham cracker crumbs.) Every single creature was edible...you could even eat the buoy.


As I recall she didn't want to cut it. I LOVED making this one!

Spring Birthday Celebration!

When I say "Garden"...you say "Cake." A friend of a distant family member needed a birthday cake for their "hard-core" garden fanatic, so I took the theme and ran with it. Lots of lady bugs for good fortune and some vines and flowers to welcome spring! (All of these elements are edible by the way!) It's a cheery cake from Cheeky Cakery.

Another First Birthday!!

A friend of ours had a beautiful baby girl who was turning one! I LOVE first birthdays! I designed a 3-D teddy bear that she could smoosh and eat all by herself! It even came with the teddy's own pink, sprinkled cupcake. And a little candle upon which she could make a wish!

A FIRST for baby ...and me!

I recently got married...and with that came two nephews (who were unofficially nephews to begin with but I digress.) Way back when I was just the "girlfriend" and no one's "Aunt M"...Nick was turning ONE and I had offered/been asked to make his first cake! A total honor!


You haven't fed a family until you've fed Nick's family! I took the job seriously and made a full sheet cake...TWO layers, filled with a TON of cannoli cream and iced with a tinted buttercream. I figured a one-year-old would like a toy-box themed cake, with blocks that spelled out his name. SO that's what I designed. The wood-grain was edible sugar dough, and all the toy appliques were also edible. The blocks were tiny individual cakes that Nick could smoosh one with his hands without ruining the whole cake! By the way, the cake weighed like 30 pounds...and I'm pretty sure they all finished it within a few days! Haha!

This cake predates any formal training, but Nick seemed to like it!

Jungle-icious!

So, when I had to make my nature-nut boyfriend his birthday cake, his only request was that it had a monkey. If you know him, you know that he wants a monkey every year in some form...




I designed the cake to be an edible ecosystem! This was my version of a triple-layer chocolate cake, with chocolate icing, filled with cannoli cream, complete with a monkey on top. All the animal-elements were edible and included two hidden elephants, a few snakes, and eyes from some other shy jungle critters. Perfect for an over-grown child with a large imagination. It's perfect for regular-sized children too!



I wish the pictures on this one were better, but at the time, I didn't have a good camera!