Under the Noms

Here's a fun little cake I whipped up for Sean B., another friend of mine from work. It's a little merman on top of a tiled fondant cake, complete with Mardi Gras mask and sugar pearls!

Chocolate Noms

Recently I made this little beauty (with some tiling help from Mike B.), done in chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream, tiled in milk and dark chocolate tiles and surrounded by chocolate covered raspberries and chocolate raspberry cake balls. So pretty!

 

 

 

Art Noms!

Again, my dear artistic boyfriend Mike B. got himself into another art show (check out his blog here!). This one was rather informal, but I brought along some Om Noms, bakesale style!

Two flavors here, carrot with cream cheese icing (in pink and black!) and COMPLETELY VEGAN OREO FLAVOR! Who knew Oreos were vegan? Yummmmmm...

Om *hic* Nom

My dear boyfriend, Mike B., went to an ArnoCorps concert this summer. As such, I felt it necessary to bake some "ballsy" cupcakes. Here is the result:

 

I know what you're thinking, "Cupcakes aren't ballsy!" Well, these cupcakes were made of chocolate rum cake and had rum icing, totalling about 1fl oz of rum PER CUPCAKE. 

Don't eat them too fast...

Playhouse Om Nom

I'm a big fan of Playhouse Disney, so naturally I wanted to recreate the cake that Goofy makes for Minnie Mouse during the show:

 

... and here's my replica!

 

Three tiers of om-nommy white cake goodness with buttercream filling. My first three-tier cake!

CAKE BALLS! (Put 'em in your mouth!)

With all these cakes, I was bound to screw up sooner or later. That's when I discovered Cake Balls, FailCakes, and Balls of Broken Dreams. I take my cake shavings or broken tiers, add icing, roll them into balls, then roll them in chocolate. Here are some of the results!

 

(Almost) Vegan Cake balls in Oreo cookie and white chocolate

 

Peanut Butter Chocolate and Raspberry Chocolate

 

Patriotic Cake Balls! White cake with a cherry inside, covered in red white and blue chocolate and pop rocks!

 

Simple chocolate with red chocolate tops and heart sprinkles

 

Mickey Mouse cake ball!

Quick-Fire Noms

Now, some of us at work like to have what we call "Top Chef Thursdays" where we would all bring in delicious food surrounded by a theme. Here are only a few examples of our om-nommery:

 

These aren't burgers, but cupcakes! Yellow cake for the buns, chocolate cake for the patty, and buttercream ketchup, mustard, and lettuce.

 

This is the original FailCake. The challenge was to make something from your kitchen without going out to buy anything. I scraped together a cake and made some buttercream, but didn't have enough shortening to stiffen the icing! That combined with a rather hot day resulted in some of the cake melting down. Luckily, it still tasted good!

Happy Om Nom to You!

This was my first attempt at fondant sculpture. Little Conner N. needed a first birthday cake and a "smash cake" so he could have one all for himself! I based the design off of the invitation and did all of it in fondant. 

 

Conner had a "smash cake" all his own so he could play in the Noms! I made that guy out of buttercream for optimal smushiness.

So cute!

Om Nom Bells are Ringing!

The big day! This beautiful cake was Erica J. and London B.'s wedding cake for their June wedding. They wanted a simple cake in lemon and raspberry with buttercream frosting and gum paste flowers. This was my first foray into gum paste (with all those flowers!) and buttercream in the outdoors. 

Let me just say, I love fondant. Fondant is strong, it's pretty, and the kind I make is actually tasty. This poor cake began sagging in the heat and required a few extra flowers to balance things out. Too bad, there was some interesting sugar pearl swirls under all those flowers!

 

  

  

The cupcakes were also lemon and raspberry, with buttercream icing and fondant monograms. A few edible sparkles were added to each cupcake after I heard the groom saying how his new bride made him "sparkle". How adorable!

Hasta la Om Nom

Why do all my friends leave me? *sniff* These little cupcakes were for a dear friend of mine, Jason H., before he left to go dance on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. I made a few carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and a few fondant embellishments: