Christmas cake

Christmas cake, originally uploaded by tiersofjoy73.

Here is a cake I made a couple of years ago for Christmas that I want to try again sometime... Maybe this Christmas I will! I really like the drizzling of the chocolate ganache on the cakes. The poinsettias need some improvement though!

First wedding cake of the year 2010

...and I'm not sure of the Bride and Groom's name. I have it on the contract in another room and don't want to get up to look. I will later and fill it in. The Bride's mom is the one ordering this cake - Cheryl. Its supposed to be mostly white. Very easy lady to please. The wedding is actually for next weekend, so the cake isn't even made yet! But I just got done with the flowers! The wedding colors are white green and a bit of tan, so I made white roses and calla lilies and some tan filler flowers. The leaves added the green.

The cake will only be two tiers, so these will really make it stand out! I'm very excited to make this cake and can't wait to post the pictures of the finished product!!!

This is the wedding cake... took me a while to add the picture of the cake!

Pam and Roy's cake

Pam is a chaplain at a hospital nearby. I came to know her when I went to speak to her as I struggled with the death of my mom and the reality of moving to a completely different country. We soon became very good friends, and when the time came for her to marry Roy, she contacted me to make her wedding cake. She was really excited about her cake. They were both excited about the cake. It was refreshing to see the groom really interested in the cake! It was a little tricky to make their colors (spice and white) look good on a cake. This is what I came up with:

They said it looked prettier than they ever imagined.

The buttons are to match the ones on Pam's wedding dress.

I really loved the topper of this cake! People came up when I was dismantling the cake and they saw me take it off and were shocked to see me take off the roses and that they were gum paste. They were like... "They're not real?!!!!!"
It was a BEAUTIFUL  cake day! Everyone was happy!

Christmas cakes

Well, its December! Always puts me in a mood for a "christmasy" cake! Last year I made this one:

The year before that I made these to put on a ganache-drizzled cake:

And this year, I made these:

This year's are my favorites so far! Now I just need to put them on a cake. I'll do that and post pictures by the end of this week! Wish me luck!

So this is what I came up with for these poinsettias. I think the cake came out pretty good. I almost didn't want to have to cut it!

Darci's Birthday cake...

This cake was actually really made out of one cake:

I cut out a wedge of the cake and decorated it to match the rest of the cake.... Everything is edible too, including the candle!

Eden's 1st birthday cake

Here's a cake I made for my favorite little girl on her first birthday:

I enjoyed making the ribbon rose and smiling flowers!!!

She enjoyed looking at the cake and eating it too!!!!

Rainbow cake

This cake was not for any particular occasion, I just wanted to make a fun cake. So from the outside, it looked like your regular, average decorated cake:

....But the fun actually started when you cut it!

Very colorful and quite a surprise to cut into!!!