Yoda cake

Yoda I am glad that you are done. Surprisingly enough the head was actually the easiest part. I made the head out of crispy treats and covered it with green fondant. The ears are also fondant. When I tried to make the body I used four 6 inch cakes stacked. When I tried to put on Yoda's cloak the fourth cake layer started to crush. It was so frustrating. I ended up making the body smaller and then putting him on a sheet cake so that there would be enough cake to feed 30 people. I also wanted to do arms under his cloak. I tried to make them twice. Once out of fondant and once out of crispy treats. The fondant arms were too heavy and the crispy treat arms just wouldn't stay put, they kept slipping down even with skewers in them. I just skipped the arms and hoped no one would mind. I will probably make another Yoda cake for one of my boys and hopefully that one will be better. I learn with each cake. Well Yoda, Done you are. Happy I am.

First Birthday cake

It is so nice to make a cake for one of my own kids once in a while. It is so much less stressful, I just baked a 9x13 cake and cut it into a 1 shape and frosted it with butter cream, so simple.

Roller Skate cake

With this cake I made a sheet cake and just cut it into the shape of a boot and then added wheels and stoppers. The hardest part was covering the wheels. I tried to frost them but they didn't quite look like roller skate wheels. I covered them with fondant and they looked much better.

Graduation cake

This was my first attempt at books. Not perfect but okay. I made the hat out of a cupcake and the NHS out of a cookie.

Cookie Monster cake

Cute!

Elmo cake

If I did this again I would have made Elmo's nose 3d like his eyes. You can't see it in the picture but around the edge of the cake I wrote the ABC's. Jacob loved it!

90th Birthday cake

It's not often that anyone gets aked to make a cake for a 90th birthday party! The cake is decorated with little fondant figures to represent his life and hobbys. There is a golf bag and hole, an iron foundry man, a tuba, a black lab and an old buzzard. The old buzzard was requested after they saw my Over the Hill cake. There are actually 90 candles on top. I was told that when they tried to light them the top of the cake turned into a little fire ball. The candles all started to melt and make a mess! It would have been funny to see.