Simple Wedding Cake

I was asked to make a simple wedding cake so this is what I came up with but, then I thought that it needed something.  Maybe a topper of some sort.

One flower???

A flower and a bow???

Three flowers???

Three flowers and a bow???  I was having a really hard time with this one.  It would have been nice if I had had a crystal temple to put on top.  That would have been perfect.

In the end I did one flower on top and one on the side.  The "bling" in the bow is a fancy button that I found at the Wal-mart fabric department.  They only had one.  I would have liked them to have two so that I could have used it on another bow.

Motorcycle Cake

This cake was made for a motorcycle club.  I made the guns and the handcuffs out of chocolate and sprayed them silver with edible spray.

Burger and fries

How to make Chocolate Fondant

Usually I do not post "how to's".  Mostly because everything that I do I've seen somewhere before and everyone seems to have great "how to" videos and tutorials on everything cake.  I just don't need to post "how to's".   That being said I think that someone out there might benefit from my chocolate fondant recipe.  When I first wanted to make chocolate fondant I did lots of searches and tried lots of recipes.  Not a single one of them came out great so I made up my own recipe.  It is easy and includes only those ingredients that I keep in my cupboard all the time.  I don't have all kinds of pictures but here are the simple directions.

1. Pour  one 10 oz bag mini marshmallows into a large microwaveable bowl. Add 2 T. water.
2. Microwave for 1 minute and then stir.  Continue to microwave and stir at 30 second intervals until marshmallows are all melted.
3.  Sift 1 cup cocoa powder over the marshmallow mixture and stir.
4. Sift in powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time until the mixture is too thick to stir.
5. Dump out onto a counter dusted liberally with powdered sugar.  Knead until smooth, adding powdered sugar until non-sticky.  If your fondant gets a little too dry just add a few drops of water and knead until desired consistency is reached

That's it!  It's easy!  This chocolate fondant can be seen below on the Oreo Cake.  When I roll out chocolate fondant I find that it is sometimes difficult to brush off all the cocoa powder or powdered sugar from the fondant so once the fondant is on the cake I take a damp paper towel and wipe the cake.  This makes the chocolate fondant shiny and nicely chocolate colored.

Hopefully these directions help someone out there in cake land!

Oreo Cookie Cake

For this cake I made two 9 inch chocolate cakes and then filled it with vanilla butter cream.  I stirred in about 30 crushed up oreos into the frosting.  It was tasty filing.  For the top I made my homemade chocolate fondant.  The sides is just white mm fondant.  I think it looks okay.  Like a giant double stuf oreo- yummy!

30th B-day cake

This cake is supposed to be a "this is your life" type of cake.  On the cake are things from her life like favorite TV show as a kid, high school, college, and then I put some black boards and an apple for her being a teacher.  

                I tried to make the family, they came out a bit pudgy.  In real life these people are fit and trim so hopefully no one gets offended by my chubby fondant family!

           Here you can see her college logo and a chalk board and apple because she is a teacher

Her favorite TV show as a kid was 90210 so I found a pic of the cast to add to the cake.  Also, her high school and favorite football team are represented.

I have lived in Texas for about 10 months and I have made several cakes here so I have learned a few things.  One thing is that Texas too hot to make cakes in the summer.  Even the AC has a hard time keeping up with the hot Texas weather.  I can start making a cake smooth and then the heat causes the fondant to ripple a little bit.  I had this problem with the Nascar car cake and with this one a little too.  So, that being said, I am not going to make anymore cakes this summer except for one cake already promised in August.  So if you are thinking of ordering a cake in June, July, or August you will just have to wait until the fall.  Sorry-  Have a happy summer y'all!

Nascar Cake

I don't feel like I ever got a really good picture of this cake.  I finished it pretty late at night and just snapped a few quick ones.  The bottom tier is supposed to be a waving race car flag.  If you look closely you can see ripples in the fondant.  Those are supposed to make it look like it is waving.  It is not a perfect cake but it's okay.  I really like the tire on the top.