Zoo Animal Baby Shower

This is a baby shower cake that I did over the weekend for a friend. The bottom tier is vanilla bean with vanilla buttercream frosting. The top tier is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. It was cool being able to use my airbrush machine for color instead of just a glitter shimmer. It adds such a richness to the color that you wouldn't be able to achieve otherwise. The animals are made of fondant and were a lot easier to make then I had expected. 

Rockstar Baby Shower Cake & Cupcake Tower

A dear friend of mine is having her second child. For her baby shower I made a guitar cake that that will match the bedding. The name in the stars reads "Tommy" but it is a little hard to see in the photos. The cake and cupcakes are vanilla and fudge marble cake with cream cheese frosting. The cupcake stand was also made by yours truly.

Jungle Baby Shower

I recently got an order for a half sheet cake for a baby shower. The invitations were a perfect match to the bedding for the new baby. The mother of the mother-to-be asked that the cake look like the invitations to match the theme. The cake was vanilla with custard filling and buttercream frosting. All of the accents are done with fondant.

Baby Shower Cake Balls

I have gotten a little behind on posting pictures of my creations lately. These were cake balls that I made for a friends baby shower. The color of the picture is not great.. the cake balls were a soft pink, not this weird salmon looking color the picture shows. The cake was strawberry cake with a cream cheese frosting and chocolate candy coating. I added some pearl sprinkles to add a little something to them. They were quite the hit. Cake balls/pops are the new thing right now. I have seen them done in so many different ways. It will be a fun and exciting new fad.

Erin's Baby Shower Cake

One of my dear friends from all the way back to elementary school is having a baby girl. For her baby shower we decided to do a onesie cake with some sparkly gumpaste Mary Jane's and little rose accents. The cake is white cake with a lemon curd filling and fresh strawberries with lemon cream cheese frosting. I also did cupcakes with the yellow frosting and edible pearls to bring the two together. The baby's name is Claire so we definitely had to incorporate that somewhere. This was my first experience with a onesie cake and it turned out really well for my first time. It was definitely interesting having to carve the cake and make sure that both sides were even. Carving cakes can definitely be a daunting task for me, but it turned out great! My favorite was the little Mary Janes with some sparkle. They turned out amazing! Everyone was super impressed and Erin loved it..

Baby Shower for a Co-Worker

A woman in my office was getting ready to have a baby so the office threw her a baby shower. I offered to make a cake. The first thing that popped into my head was rubber duckies. I searched high and low for plastic rubber duckies. I had thought about making them out of fondant, but was afraid of how horrible my sculpting skills would be. Maybe I should have tried it.. I don't know. At Rite Aid I finally found this cute set of rubber duckies. My thought was to have the three small ones on the cake and give the big mama to the mama. I had such problems with this cake that I needed all four to cover up my blunders. It all goes back to that bad flour. This cake basically crumbled into pieces, but somehow I thought I could salvage it and put it together. After a little phone call to the mom and another to my best friend, I started putting the pieces together with buttercream. It actually turned out really well. No one could really tell that it was a big ball of cake before I had buttercream glued it all back together. The cake was chocolate with buttercream and buttercream suds... again, I know, needing to branch out here. At least the rubber duckies were something totally different, being that they were plastic. She loved the cake and loved that she got to take these rubber duckies home. Everyone seemed to love the idea that all of the baby ducks fit onto the back of the mama duck. It was very cute.