Woodland Creatures

Reena is Three!

Her party was a Woodlands theme, and her mom wanted me to make an ombre rosette cake. I have seen these on Pinterest and have been dying to try it out!

This was a 8" round vanilla cake, but was really tall and had 4 layers of cake inside! It was a little tricky getting the right shades of brown. At first, I was going to make two-toned rosettes (white/brown) and attempted to do that for the bottom darker rosettes. I didn't like how they turned out, so continued to do the rest of the cake with just single-toned rosettes.

Ariel View

Reena's mom (aka Sophie's mom) is an awesome party decorator - look what she did!!

(photos courtesy of their mom, Nivetha Yogeswaran)

Boys and their cars!

Another friend's son is turning two, and also loves cars! She saw the cake I made for Xavier (click here) and wanted something similar, except all in fondant.

I made a 2-tier cake, all vanilla, the top 6" and the bottom 8". I covered both in blue fondant and stacked them. The birthday theme was red, blue, and white so I stuck to this as much as I could.

The top tier resembled the air, so I cut out pieces of colored fondant to make planes, one pulling a banner saying "2". The other sides of the top tier had helicopters.

The bottom tier resembled the ground, so I lined the bottom of it with candy pebbled, and made fondant cars. As the mother requested, I made a stop sign with her son's name in it.

I wanted to make train tracks running around the edge of the cake, so I used shoelace licorice to create tracks.

Ariel View
I piped clouds on top, since this is where the candles were going

Happy Valentine's Day!

I made these for work: red velvet cake balls and mini cupcakes!

The mini cupcakes are topped with a swirl of cream cheese icing and a candy heart.

The cake balls were dipped into melted white chocolate and drizzled with pink icing.

 

Since I have many of my coworkers on Facebook, I posted the picture below with a description reading "for those of you who work with me, these will be waiting for you in the morning!" :)

I also made chocolate-covered strawberries for lunchtime dessert, because who doesn't love fruit DIPPED in chocolate?? The things I do for the people I love...yup, i'm looking at you!! teehee <3

Planes Trains & Automobiles

Xavier is turning two, and of course like most little boys, is in love with all things cars!! So I made him this 8" round cake covered in buttercream icing and adorned with fondant automobiles.
Each one had multiple pieces to it (i.e. wings, wheels, windows), so I had to cut out different parts of colored rolled fondant before I could put the pieces together on the cake.

Top of the cake

Xavier's Train
I piped on the letters

Plane

Taxi



Fire Truck
I piped on the black ladder

Pickup Truck