soft romance

Fresh pink roses and greenery bring romance to this vanilla buttercream cake.

round 'em up cowboy!

teddy bears in tutus

Check out these teddy bears! They were so fun to make. I fashioned them out of gumpaste and then attached their pink tutus--also out of gumpaste. The one climbing up the side of the cake is attached with royal icing. She stayed secure even on the bumpy ride across town. This cake was delicious chocolate cake filled with vanilla buttercream speckled with dark chocolate shavings.

brushed embroidery and gumpaste flowers

I covered this cake with blush pink fondant. I used white royal icing to create the embroidered floral design. The ivory peonies, roses, berries, and leaves I made from gumpaste. Satin navy ribbon and a romantic Willow Tree figurine complete the look.

buttercream and fresh flowers

I love the vertical stripes on this buttercream cake.

birthday balloons

This was a fun cake to make. The bottom tier was orange vanilla cream; the top tiers were lemon with lemon buttercream. I covered the cakes with sky blue fondant and then painted on a silhouette of the little boy and girl. I cut out 48 colorful gumpaste circles for the balloons. For the clouds I cut flowers out of white fondant and then rolled the "flowers" flat and into cloud shapes. Everything came together with puffy royal icing trim.

sweet simplicity

blossoms and flourishes

German chocolate cake with coconut pecan filling 

and white velvet cake with raspberry and coconut buttercream.

rustic woodland charm

This semi-naked vanilla buttercream cake was filled with lovely lemon curd and cream cheese frosting.

blue buttercream and swirls

This white velvet cake was filled with delicious raspberry fruit filling and frosted in smooth blue buttercream and decorated with white buttercream scrollwork and fresh garden flowers. The reception was inside a white tent, making a lovely canvas backdrop for the cake.

swiss dot and gold

graduation mini cake

This 4-inch mini chocolate cake 

filled with chocolate raspberry truffle frosting 

was a sweet gift for a special graduate.

marbled fondant and gold blossoms

ice cream cake

My seven year old son requested ice cream cake this year for his birthday. We combined two kinds of ice cream, LOTS of crushed chocolate cookie pieces, peanut butter cups, and to top it all off --peanut butter whipped cream. He said it was "exactly how he wanted it" :)

sweet valentine

blossoms and lace

textured buttercream