Candy Christmas Tree Cake

I made this cake for my choir's Christmas party at church. It is a devil's food cake (yes, I get the irony) with white icing (tinted, of course) and chocolate candies. The trunk of the tree is covered in chocolate icing and Hershey bars. The star is supported by 4 Reece's cups, and the decorations are M&M's and fondant rope. The presents under the tree are thinly iced brownies.

The Barbie Cake

This was my first attempt at making a stand-up doll cake. I had no plan when I started - I just sort of winged it. ;0) The base is a 12" 2-layer round, and the dress was baked in an 8-cup glass measuring bowl.

The Guitar Cake

This is a cake I did for a friend's son. He loves music, especially when one of the guys at their church plays his guitar & sings. So for his birthday, his mom had this man come to "perform" at the party, and wanted a cake to look like his guitar.

The Toy Story Cake

These are cakes I made for a little boy's 1st birthday. The small cake was just for him, and the larger one was for everyone else. Mom knew what she wanted for the top & bottom tiers, but wasn't sure about the middle. So I got the idea to make it about lots of different types of toys. I started with blocks, which I used to spell out his name, then added balls, toy soldiers, a robot, a radio, and an etch-a-sketch (which I forgot to take a picture of!). We added the toy figures at the very end. I really liked how colorful it all turned out.

The Bama Baby Rattle Cake

This is a cake I made for a baby shower. I am assuming that the mom-to-be is a major Alabama fan. ;0) This was my first attempt at houndstooth - which is VERY difficult to recreate in icing! It would be easier in fondant, but I am not a huge fan of fondant taste, so I try to do as much as I can with icing. They got the point, anyway, and I even got another order for a houndstooth cake from this shower!

The Harry Potter Cake

This is a cake I made for a friend's daughter's birthday. Since I know absolutely nothing about HP, I searched the internet for ideas that were not too theme-specific. I found a cake similar to this one, and decided to try it out. I was pretty pleased with the results. It is an 11x15 cake cut in half & stacked, the iced in white. The "pages" are piped on, but the cover is made from fondant.

Olivia's Auburn Cake

My daughter, Olivia, is a huge Auburn fan (mostly due to me, of course). So she requested an Auburn-themed birthday party. At first I was going to do one large megaphone out of cake, but decided it probably wouldn't have been enough cake. I also thought it would be better not to have the entire cake covered in orange & blue icing - more likely to stain the teeth. ;0) I made the megaphone out of an ice cream sugar cone covered in fondant, and the pom-pons are just a small ball of fondant covered in blue & orange fondant strips. I cut the AU out of fondant as well, layered them, and placed them on the cake. Finally, I piped the edges with blue & orange icing. She loved it!