"Oh Boy" baby shower cake

 This cake is for a teacher at the Intermediate School.  Some of the girls from church are having a surprise shower for her after school. 



The baby is made out of gum paste with a 1st impressions mold and the little shoes are gum paste too.  They are actually pretty easy to make.  If you ever need to know how to make them cakecentral.com has a very simple printable pattern.  I'm so glad that so many talented people have put free patterns on the web for beginners like me.  For the Oh Boy lettering I busted out my cricut cake machine.  I am still getting used to using it.  I don't like it as much as I thought I would.  As you can see it made my letters a bit rough around the edges.

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

 My very favorite cakes to make are the cakes that I make for my kids!  Aubrey is turning 6 and she wanted a Strawberry Shortcake reading a book in the grass cake.  I usually don't let the kids help with cakes because they are being sold but because this was her cake I let her help.  She was so excited!  Aubrey put all the little indents on the strawberries and painted the inside of the flowers then she made the little kitty, Custard, for the top.  She was so proud of her work!  We may just have another cake decorator in the family!

Fishing Retirement Cake

I always have a hard time photographing cakes and it is especially difficult with a cake with all over decoration.  I never know which angle is best.  The picture above makes the top look lumpy but it is really flat.

                                       Okay so I can't make fish!  The ducks are cute though.

                                               The turtle was Aubrey's great idea.

Relief Society Birthday Cake

For Relief Society birthday cake I wanted to make something elegant.  They are doing something with keys as a theme so that's why there is a chocolate key on the top.  I made several keys but they looked funny on the cake so I just put the one on the top.  The RS seal is printed on edible paper and then outlined with edible pearls.  If you ever need anything to be copied onto edible paper most grocery stores will do it for about $10 a sheet.   

This is just a little cake that I made to go on the side, just to make sure that there was enough cake.

Moving Cake

 This cake was made for someone moving from Texas to Minnesota.
I tried to do a Texas type theme on the bottom and a cold Minnesota type theme on the top.  I only had a few hours notice to make the cake, had I had a little more time I would have done a little more with it.

Pink Quilted Daisy Cake

This cake was really simple but everyone seemed to like it.  I always like to make a quilted cake because it looks beautiful with very little effort.

Hawaiian Beach Birthday Cake

For this cake I was asked to make a Hawaiian beach cake similar to the first Hawaiian beach cake that I made a few years ago.  I really love the lei around the bottom.  I think it makes the cake have the Hawaiian feel rather than just being a plain old beach cake. I have put palm trees on several of my cakes and every time I make one I love them.  The trunk is just a pretzel rod and the leaves are gum paste. 

                                 The kite was put on to cover a little dent-  I do like the kite so, I'm glad for the dent or I wouldn't have thought to put the kite on the cake.

                         



The little blue lump there is sunscreen.
It says SPF 30 on the little label. I painted the Happy Birthday words onto the fondant.
 I did this with the "Happy Fall Y'all" cake too.  Painting words on is my new favorite!