Kaitlyn turned the big "13" this past July 4th! I thought that she needed to have a more girly cake and do away with the patriot stuff just because she was born on the 4th of July. I asked her what colors and flavors that she wanted and that's all. She didn't know what kind of cake she was getting! She wanted a chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling and the colors of purple, pink and orange.
Kaitlyn
I have seen some cake boards with a lined groove in them and have been trying to figure out how they made them. So here's my version of it.
I first covered my cake board with fondant. This was a 16 inch wide 1/2 inch particle board.
Trim off excess.
Find the middle of board. Using a very large skewer, I just pressed it into the fondant, going all the way around. It was kind of hard to keep it centered.
The middle doesn't look great, but it was going to be covered anyway! I let it dry for a few days before adding any cake.
I then made flip flops. I just cut a shoe shape, added the little flowers and pressed a patterned mat on the top.
I then poked the holes, rolled out a strip of fondant/gum paste and gave it some stitching. I folded it in half and rounded the middle between my fingers a bit and put it in the first hole at the toe of the flip flop.
Then take some plastic wrap and put on the flip flop. Take the ends of the straps over the plastic wrap and break the excess strap off where the other holes are, rounding the ends a little to fit into the hole. I added the little flower in the middle just for and extra touch. Let dry for a few days.
When it was time to make the chocolate cake, I used a 12" x 18" pan to bake the cake. I cut it into fourths and stacked with cookies and cream filling in between the layers. The top half was carved to make it rounded and the sides where angled some. Pink fondant covered the whole cake. White fondant was added over the pink and the stitching effect was used on the edges and straps. I made a simple cord strap to the purse.
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Decorate the Cake. I used her Studded Oval Buckle to make the buckle on this purse. The buckle was made from gum paste and I let it dry for a few days. Silver luster dust was then painted on it. The purse strap was threaded through the buckle.
You can find the buckle on her site
here.
I also used Melissa's 5 Petal Blossom mold. They are really quick and easy to make. Just dust a little cornstarch or luster dust onto the mold, add the gum paste or fondant, press the molds together and voila! Easy peasy!!
You can find this mold
here.
This gift bag was made from another 12" x 18" pan cut in half and layered with filling. It's covered with purple fondant and stamped with a regular stamp using a deeper purple luster dust and lemon extract.
Nail polish bottle is all gum paste painted with sparkle dust on the bottom and luster dust on top.
This was a fun cake to make!!
A client emailed me about 6 months ago to make a cake for her son's first birthday. I penciled her in and waited. She sent me a link to these paper goods she was using for the party to use to create a design for the cake.
This is what I came up with. The bottom layer was chocolate with strawberry filling and the top layer was white cake with lemon filling. The smash cake was also chocolate. I really loved the way the smash cake turned out. Here's a close up:
Last weekend I made these mini-cupcakes for a client who was having a baby naming celebration. The little one's name started with an A, so I made tiny letter As and little flowers to go with them. They were so cute. My kids ate a batch that were a little overcooked (this was my 1st time making mini-cupcakes, so I had to play with it a bit). They still loved them and especially liked popping the whole thing in their mouth. 
I had a customer order this cake for her own birthday. It is nice to do something like that for yourself - I typically get Hostess Cupcakes for my birthday, which I love, but a cool cake not made by myself would be nice. The bottom layer was white cake with a strawberry cream filling, the middle was chocolate cake with a custard filling, and the top layer was lemon cake with a lemon jell filling.
My friend was throwing a party for their parent's 40th anniverasry and asked me to do a cake with roses. I had always wanted to make a cake like this. I frosted the cakes and piped cornelli lace on them. I stacked them with those plastic columns then hid the columns with fresh roses. The only glitch was that the columns were taller then I wanted so I had to have my husband saw and sand them down to the proper size! 
