Birthday cake for the my boss's boss

I was approached by my manager to make a birthday cake for her boss. She really likes chocolate (I mean REALLY likes chocolate) so I decided to do a two tier cake with chocolate buttercream icing. The bottom tier was chocolate cake and the top tier was yellow cake. Then I added some decoration to it with some pink fondant polka dots and a couple of bows. It was an extremely stressful cake to make, but I think the end result was a good one, and everyone seemed to enjoy it (or at least they pretended that they did)

Mom and Dad's 30th Anniversary

It was Mom and Dad's 30 year anniversary in February so I made them a little cake to celebrate. This one was only a 6 inch round cake since it was just for the two of them. I ended up doing a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. On top I put some royal icing lillies and on the side I did little swirls.

Baby Shower Cake

My Sister In Law asked me to make a cake for her baby shower last week. I went online to the Wilton website to try to get some ideas. I saw this one and figured it was cute and looked easy enough. While it wasn't HARD, it was still very time consuming. I'm glad I didn't choose something more elaborate because I'm not sure if I would have had time to sleep!

The head of the cake was vanilla with vanilla cream filling and vanilla buttercream icing. The body of the cake was swiss chocolate with mint buttercream filling and icing. It was covered in a ton of fondant and the feet, arms, and ears were made of cake board covered by fondant.

Final Wilton Class cake

Well, I took my last Wilton cake class the week of Thanksgiving. This was a tiered cake. I wanted to do the version where the layers sit right on top of each other but for a couple of reasons I decided to stick to the columns (which are plastic and pretty eh). It would be easier to transport the cake this way, and then my instructor was supposed to bring things that would help us with the cake (hedge clippers, a little hammer, etc) but she didn't bring them. She actually offered to go around the corner to the store to buy some more but I wouldn't let her.

We had a choice of different flowers to make from all the flowers we learned in the class. I started off by making some fondant roses, but they were so time consuming and I had zero desire to spend both days of my weekend making fondant flowers. So I switched to royal icing flowers instead. I was done in a couple of hours. Much better!

Since I worked from home the day after making this cake, this is the only one that I didn't take to work to get devoured. I took it to the Hartgrove's house for Thanksgiving, then to my parent's house, and there was still so much left over. And I even threw away the top tier because it had cream in it and I didn't refridgerate it. So much cake!

Course 3, Class 2

I am now taking the last cake class that is offered at Michaels. I am kind of sad, but will be glad to not have to prepare icing or cake every single week. I think this was my favorite cake of them all so far. And from the comments that I got from people who saw it I think it is a favorite of others as well. It is a cake that is supposed to look like a present. First we covered our cakes in fondant, then created the bow and cut outs to put on the cake. The rest of the class was spent learning how to make the fondant roses. I think our final cake is supposed to have an insane number of fondant roses on them, so I think that this next week I'll be spending my free time making fondant roses.

This next class we don't have to make a cake, we just have to bring a ton of different colors of royal icing. We will be learning how to make a few more flowers like lillies and poinsettas.

Here are more pictures of the cake. This one was a little boring - just a butter cake with vanilla buttercream filling. I was rushing to get it baked and frosted so now fancy filling this time.

Cinderella Cake

One of my coworkers had joked around about me making a cake for him one day. Then he suddenly came to me and said he was serious. It was his daughter's 6th birthday and he needed a cake to feed 25 - 30 people. And that his daughter wanted Cinderella. It took a lot of prep, and I definitely came out in the red after he paid me because I had to buy a bunch of new supplies, but here is the final result. He said that she loved it!

Birthday cake for my in-laws

My mother and father-in-law both went to Louisiana State University for college. They also have birthdays in consecutive months. So since we had one celebration for both this year, I decided I couldn't go wrong by making an LSU cake. So here is the cake along with the inspiration for the cake. Unfortunately I only took a cell phone picture: