Baby Shower Cakes

These are some baby shower cakes that I have made over the past year. Just as in my other posts, some are better than others. It is easy to see the areas that I need to work on. Like the writing on the one below. I was pleased with the rest of the cake. It was made to match the invitation.
This cake was for a co-worker that was having her fourth baby. Finally a girl! Next time I will not mix fondant feet with butter cream icing.

Yes - this is actually a baby shower cake. The bedding for the baby to be was black and white. The pattern on the linens was toile, however, I was not ready to tackle that. Thank goodness the bed skirt was polka dotted!

These next two pictures are from a shower cake, however, I did not choose the color scheme. I was pleased with the fondant baby.

Car Cakes

Since I started decorating cakes about a year ago, I have made several car cakes. These are all made from Wilton shaped character pans. The Speedracer cake was baked in the Nascar pan. Hopefully I will learn the art of cake carving one of these days. That sure would free up a lot of space in my kitchen not having all of those shaped pans.

Ta-Ta Cakes

Amazingly enough, I have found my niche for making naughty, naked cakes. It all started with a friend that wanted one as a joke. Through my sophisticated research through Google, I found all kinds of pertinent information on "boob cakes."

Well, one prank cake led to a cake for a bachelor party, which led to a cake for someone recovering from ...ahem....enhancing surgery.

Typically, I am not one that is easily offended by nudity (obviously). However, being the responsible blogger that I am, I chose to censor these cakes. I will just say that the censored part was very realistic looking, and made from fondant.

My first boob cake.

The next two are a little better. I guess practice makes perfect.

Football Cakes

In this post, I am going to add a few pictures of football cakes I have made over the past year.

Here is the first football cake that I made.

This cake was really easy to make, although I had trouble finding a pan. My friend, Carla, found the pan at a specialty bake shop and got it for me.



I used the Wilton football shaped pan for this and all of my football cakes.

Here are some more football cakes that I have done. Some were decorated with the star decorating tip and on others, I smoothed the icing.

Apparently, a real football has a certain number of "stitches" across the top. I have no idea about this, but naturally, my husband knows all about it. Needless to say, some of these footballs are more realistic than others, depending on the likeness of the icing stitches to a football's real stitches.

All of these football cakes so far have been chocolate cake. (That is the only way you could get me to sit through an entire football game - bribe me with chocolate!)

Pizza Birthday!

I made a pizza cake this weekend for my daughter's seventh birthday party. We celebrated at a local pizza restaurant where there are tokens, rides, games, and pizza. I'll bet you know what I am talking about!

This cake was one of the easiest I have ever done. It is french vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. The only non-buttercream decor was the cheese. I chopped up some white chocolate for that. I started to grate it, but that was pretty time consuming. (It was late!)

I guess I will have to make some business cards. I don't have any, but was asked twice for one this weekend. I had the 'pizza' in the front seat of my car while I was driving through McDonald's, and the lady working the drive through was impressed. Then when I got to the party, the restaurant manager asked for a card, also. She loved the pizza cake!

I have to say - it was a hit!!

These are my cakes...

This is a blog that follows my cake-making attempts. Some cakes posted here will be great, and some will not. I am NOT a professional baker or decorator, but I just like to decorate cakes. Occasionally I will fill an order for a birthday or shower cake, but not often. I am a full time teacher and just don't have time to turn this hobby into a business.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy seeing the progress!