A Bitter Sweet Adieu

This luggage cake was made for a surprise bon voyage party for Maxim, who's going on a pretty intense euro trip. I was given a nice long list of cities he'll be visiting, and I was asked to include a few of them as luggage stickers. He was visiting so many fun cities that I couldn't resist including as many of them as I could fit! Also, to stay within the theme, the inside was a cake version of the amazing Italian dessert, tiramisu! Delizioso!

Tiny Sugar Dancer

A little while ago, I was asked to make a cake for a girl's 21st birthday. She sent me a picture of herself in the dress she was going to wear for her party, and asked for a figurine of herself in a dancing position. I love replicating things in sugar, and people are always a great challenge! Here's one of the pictures she sent me. 

And then... my sugar version!

It's a tiny, edible version of herself! 

Little Mermaid Cake

It's that time of the year! When my niece's birthday comes around, and I get to go all out, push myself to the limit, and make something completely insane! Unfortunately, this post is not about that cake! That post will have to wait until I get a chance to sort through a whole bunch of pictures/videos... 

Instead, here's the cake I made for her birthday party at her daycare. I was asked to make an Ariel cake, pretty simple, but still very cute! 

I made an airbrushed sparkly-blue cake, with some royal icing waves, and of course a fondant figurine of Ariel.

Cake of the Living Dead

I cannot describe how excited I was about this cake order. For those of you that don't already know this, I'm a huge fan of zombies! Man if there was a zombie attack, I'd be the first one out there with my uzi and chainsaw! Muahaha! From zombie movies, to killing them in the game Left4Dead with my boyfriend, to dressing ourselves up as the undead and scaring kids on our lawn on Halloween... Gosh, I love those ugly things!

So, needless to say, when I was asked to make a creepy zombie head, something similar to one from The Walking Dead, I couldn't contain myself! I swear the pictures don't do this guy justice, but here's what I came up with.

Once again, gotta love my amazingly talented boyfriend for helping me carve the head! I guess after doing our zombie makeup each year, I already had a bit of experience under my belt on how to make this guy's bloody wounds and scars... and veins!

I also put a few bloody fingerprints on the bloody message.

Tadam! I think I killed it ;)

The Taste of Music

A couple of my most awesome customers had a second daughter last year. That means they get to order two cakes from me each year! How lucky! ;) So for the little one's first birthday, they sent me pictures of her favorite toys -- a set of musical instruments -- and asked me to replicate them on the cake. Sounds good!

So I made them all out of fondant, fully edible for the little ones.  On top, I put her favorite one (and mine!), the xylophone. The other instruments decorated the sides of the cake, along with a bunch of bright music notes. 

They like to have two separate parties for family and friends, so they keep the top tier for the next day's party. Instead of actually stacking and gluing the two tiers together, I built each cake separately on its own board and no royal icing between the layers, for easy disassembly :)

Simple But Sweet

Last week I was asked to make a simply sweet cake for a lovely lady's birthday.  She wanted it to have a bit of bling, a touch of class, and a beautiful flower to top it off. I started off by making this magnificent magnolia. I love this flower!

And then made a black and pink criss-crossed ribbon with bling! And I obviously had to airbrush a bit of sparkle all over! 

Finally, a little message on top...

Et voila! 

My New Airbrush!

I have the. best. parents. ever. For my birthday this year, I got a super fancy airbrush, and boy do I adore it! Over the past couple of weeks, I've had the constant urge to airbrush everything in sight. I've also been looking pretty sickly blowing purple out of my nose after inhaling plenty of the over spray... must start wearing a mask! That, and I need to figure out a way to stop my floors and walls from turning multicolor. Suggestions!? 

I don't think you'll see a single cake of mine that isn't airbrushed for a little while. Airbrush ALL cakes! In case you didn't notice, I found ways to use my airbrush in my last cake too! (Tale as Old as Time) And then I made this one, where I used it to get that ombre effect...

So much fun! :D