The Shower Cake!

Well, turns out no one could give me the cymbidium blooms I needed, so I hit up my local crafts store and got some silk flowers that actually turned out rather nice (and they're food-safe!). Again, buttercream was a challenge in the heat and humidity of my kitchen, but all in all it turned out rather nicely and the client was really happy with it. Silly me though, I forgot my phone AND my camera during delivery! Fortunately, Stephanie W. was nice enough to snap a shot on her phone and send it to me. 

 

I also added some pearl accents to the sides simply because I couldn't resist. This was a hard one only because my directions were "clean lines" and "Hydreanga green and purple". It was neat to see how it differs slightly from my original mockup though! Turns out stencilling is something I can only do on fondant. Boo. 

Om Nom Shower Part Deux!

I recieved a new cake order from the lovely Stephanie W. Her sister is getting married and the shower is this Saturday! We managed to get a quick phone consultation in, and here's the mockup for the new cake:

 

With any luck, one of the florists around my house will be willing to sell me some loose blooms to finish it off. It's also done entirely in buttercream, which will be a challenge given the warm weather and the stenciling I want to do on it. We'll see how this one turns out...

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!