Music Themed 80th Birthday Cake (and IMBC Recipe)

My Great Uncle was a singer and has sang in choirs his entire life.  So, for his 80th birthday with family, I made him simple, 9" round cake:  White Almond Sour Cream (WASC) filled with fresh strawberries and Strawberry Italian Meringue Buttercream (IMBC) - Delish! (recipe is below).  The outside was covered in Vanilla/Almond IMBC, hand-piped black Color Flow/ Royal icing and finished off with a red fondant bow.

Mini Clutch Purse Cake-let

I made this for a friend who likes purses.  It's a tiny, individual cake measuring 4" wide x 2" deep x 4" high.  I baked one 6" round cake (2" high), cut it in half down the middle to get two, half circles, stacked the two halves together for a 4" high cake.

Making Fondant Cutouts: Kai-Lan and Friends

There is so much to learn about cake decorating, the different tools and techniques, and from so many wonderful and talented people!  Although I'm still learning myself and have only been decorating a handful of cakes for family and friends, I do enjoy sharing and helping others, so ask, and you shall receive.  One request I get a lot is, how did I make the Kai-Lan characters used on my cakes.  So, here they are, detailed and complete with pictures so you too, can make them.

Dental School Grad Cake (and Pink Lemonade Cake Recipe)

This was very unique and fun cake to make for a friend’s husband graduating from Dental School.  Below is a brief explanation of how we pulled the cake together by baking a doctored cake mix, carving the dentures from the cake, covering it in marshmallow fondant (MMF), and making anatomically correct teeth with fondant.

Rock and Roll Guitar Cake

My little niece asked for a chocolate cake with a pink guitar standing up on it, and this is the design I made her, a 6" cake with matching, hot pink electric guitar-topped cupcakes.  Super girlie, very pink, and very rock and roll.