Stripes, Dots, and a Cupcake on Top

I made this one for a 1st birthday cake.  The cupcake on top is removeable for the birthday boy (or girl) to play with.  The customer put her own candle on top of the cupcake for the child to blow out, then SMASH!  It is butter cake with buttercream and fondant decorations.  I'm not crazy about how the colors turned out, especially how they look in the picture.  The customer had a t-shirt she wanted me to try to match, and it had these colors in it.  It did look better in person, but I think I would do the colors a little different if I could do it all over again, but still it was a cute cake.

3-D Teapot Cake

Round Cake with fondant spout, handle, lid and flowers.  This cake was made for my customer's mother for a birthday tea.  She added an order of delicious, buttery thumprint cookies.

 

50th Birthday Cake with Fresh Red Roses

My husband made these beautiful cutting boards.

I helped my friend give her step-mother a wine and cheese 50th birthday party.  I made the cake, the nuts, and helped with flower arranging and set-up. 

My husband, Joshua, made the beautiful cutting boards that the cheese is displayed on.  He is really talented.  Check out his blog  woodworksbyjoshua.blogspot.com .

The cake is white velvet (my new favorite) with fresh strawberry filling and citrus buttercream.  There are beautiful red roses arranged on top with thin sparkle candles.  The nuts are Union Station Bar Nuts deliciously made with brown sugar and rosemary.  There were fruit skewers, 3 types of cheese and crackers, hummus with pita chips, Bruschetta with Panetini, chocolate covered cherries, and of course...wine.  It was a beautiful party and everyone had a great time.

Pregnant Belly Cake

I loved making this one.  It is covered in fondant and decorated with chocolate fondant.  It's great for your baby shower, or it could be done a little differently for a bachelor party!

Peanut Butter Cup Cake

I donated this cake for a cake auction for a benefit dinner.  It is chocolate fudge cake with rich creamy peanut butter buttercream icing.  It is garnished with Reece's Cups.

Stawberry Delight Cake with Fresh Strawberries

This is the best strawberry cake EVER!  It is strawberry delight cake which is made with real strawberry puree and cream cheese.  It is iced with whipped topping and garnished with fresh strawberry halves.

Teddy Bear Cake and Petit Fours

This cake was made for my friend's baby shower for her gift.  The bear was baked in a molded cake pan with fondant accents for his face, feet, and bib.  He is made from pound cake and is covered with buttercream piped with a grass tip for hair.  I used food markers to write the name and color the eyes.  Vanilla and chocolate petit fours were made to match.  She loved the bear so much she didn't let anyone eat it at the party!

Peanut Butter Cake

Yellow or white cake layers with rich peanut butter icing.

Coconut Cake

3 Layers of moist cake with rich coconut icing and coconut flakes.

Miami Hat

Yellow cake covered in buttercream, decorated with marshmallow fondant.

Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Strawberry cake with fresh strawberries inside; cream cheese icing poured all over. YUM!

Pound Cake

Delicious, dense, buttery, rich, moist, fattening, fabulous Pound Cake!

Whoopie Pies

WHOOPIE PIES!!

Mom's Graduation Cake

This is a graduation hat cake for my Mom's graduation ceremony this weekend. She went back to school to Virginia College in Birmingham, AL and is finally graduating! She is an inspiration to follow your dreams, and to be successful. I am so proud of her. She has not seen this cake yet, and it is a surprise. So if you see her, DON'T TELL!! The cake inside is super fantastic too. It is Triple Chocolate Truffle Cake. Two chocolate cake layers, chocolate truffle filling, and chocolate ganache. Good Lordy, what could be better!

In The Beginning...Roses, Roses, Roses!

These are some pictures of cakes that I did a while back. They are some of my very first cakes I did at home. Some good, some not so good! Lots and lots of roses in the beginning!

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

"IT'S FOOTBALL TIME IN TENNESSEE!!"

We look forward to a winning season with the Vols new head coach Lane Kiffin!

GO VOLS - BEAT UCLA!!

This is my new giant chocolate chip cookie cake! It is inspired by Great American Cookies cookie cakes. It is homemade chewy chocolate chip cookie with homemade rich buttercream and fudge icing. This is a 12x8 size which will serve 15-20 people. It can be decorated any way you like for birthdays, showers, ball games, parties, or for your own indulgence! You can go to http://www.greatamericancookies.com/ to see great designs for your cookie cakes!

Pink Fantasy Flowers

Decorated with gumpaste fantasy flowers and black piping, this elegant but fun cake is perfect for anyone's birthday. This one was for my sister-in-law Trisha. It is a pistacio-almond/chocolate fudge brownie icecream cake. The flowers and piping can be any color, and the icecream can be your favorite flavor. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISHA!! Thanks Trey!!!!

Chocolate Mousse Cake

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! Chocolate cake, Chocolate Mousse icing and filling, Chocolate Ganache on top, Chocolate curls and shavings on sides. That's all I've got to say about that!

Topsy Turvy Cake

I've been wanting to make a topsy turvy cake for a long time. So I just made one for myself this weekend. It's a very interesting process and was a ton of fun to make. Usually the first time I do something new, it turns out to be a total disaster. But I had no trouble with this one. Even the fondant turned out nice on the cake. It's just the second time I've tried covering a cake with fondant and it worked out great. Also my first time making the wire topper. Finding the right kind of wire is difficult. But this worked well. My original idea for the decorations was pink and brown with flowers on the top tier and a bow. My chocolate fondant didn't work. It was too dry to use, so I changed the whole thing. I love pink and green just as much as pink and brown. The cake inside are new recipes too. A new version of strawberry that is absolutely fabulous, and a chocolate fudge brownie cake on the bottom tier. It is so moist and fudgy. My favorite chocolate cake now. I have two strawberry recipes now. The one I made for this one which is Extremely Strawberry and dark pink, and the Strawberry Delight which has real strawberries and cream cheese. Strawberry Delight is a delicate strawberry flavor, light pink, and the cake is so moist and creamy. It is really my favorite one, but Extremely Strawberry is good too. Well, I'm glad I know I can make one of these cakes now and look forward to the next one. Look at http://www.pinkcakebox.com/ for great designs for your topsy turvy cake order!

Chocolate Cake

Delicious chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream icing. I was practicing basket weave and rope borders for a grooms cake coming up in September. I've never really done basket weave before. It was surprisingly simple. I used a star tip because the basket weave tip I have is really small. I'll have to get a larger one and it will look even better. I am surprised that no one orders chocolate icing more often. It is soooo good! How can you not love chocolate cake with chocolate icing!