Roxana

 

This cake was for a beautiful bride Roxana.

The cake is an orange cake with a mandarin orange cream filling. This is a new cake recipe I have developed using fresh orange juice and orange zest. It’s covered with vanilla butter cream and vanilla fondant.

The bride and grooms initials are hand piped on the front of the cake and surrounded by fondant accents and teal and yellow roses. Each layer is bordered with silver fondant pearls.

 

The first time I made this orange cake I made it in cupcakes and frosted it with an orange chocolate frosting. It was a huge hit. The orange cream filling is a fun variation as well.

Ashley

 

I got to do this fun cake for my niece Ashley for her wedding shower.

It's a nice vanilla cake with chocolate raspberry filling and cream cheese icing.

The cake is topped off with some fondant ribbon roses in her colors of teal and coral.

I'm so happy for you Ashley and thank you again for letting me do this for you.

 

For my students, I'll show how to make these roses in a future post. :)

Mary, Snow fall cake.

This beautiful snowy cake was for my friend Mary.

I love how every cake I do is so different and reflects the people that want them.

Here is an updated picture of this cake. thank you Mary.

The snowflakes are royal icing with an eatable sparkle to them to give them that wintery feel of fresh falling powder snow. They wanted alternating layers of chocolate and raspberry swirl cake separated by raspberry cream filling in each layer. The whole thing is covered in Italian butter cream. In between each layer are three royal icing snowflakes standing up together.

Again I'm sorry it’s not a great picture. I have a picture of it just before I delivered it down below to show the details better.



Darlene

Congratulations Ken and Darlene! I'm a little behind posting this, but here it is. I was so happy to do Darlene’s cake and Ken’s grooms cake. I love you both.

I'm afraid my camera wouldn't take a good picture of it from the front, as you can see below, but the side view shows it better. It's almost the tallest cake I've ever done. I couldn't fit it in my car so thank you to Jason and Amman for being my drivers for this adventure.

The bride wanted a few different flavors. The top and seconded layers are red velvet cake with cream cheese icing for filling. The 3ed layer is chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling. The 4th layer is a key lime cake with key lime curd and Italian butter cream for filling, yum. That was a new recipe for me and one of my new favorites. The whole cake is covered with Italian butter cream and fondant over each layer. Each layer is accented with sliver sugar lace. The florist at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building did a wonderful job placing the flowers. (I would trust there them with any of my cakes.  The florist did such a wonderful job. She may not see this post but thank you anyway.)

I almost forgot, the bottom layer was actually fake. There was enough cake with the other layers so to create height and not more cake we added a fake layer.

(A little hint for my students: I covered the fake layers with royal icing before i cover it with fondant so it would create the same look as the other layers. It helps the fondant stick as well. Royal icing also cleans off the fake layers cleanly and easily with hot water. That will keep your fake layers nice and ready to use for your next cake.)

Fall Wedding cake

This was a lot of fun. Its just a small wedding cake for the fall. Fall gum paste leaves were so much fun to make. I cut some out of red, some out of yellow and others from orange gum paste. I used the colored powders to paint them and used floral tape to hook them all together. The cake is chocolate with a raspberry cream filling, and covered with white fondant with a chocolate fondant ribbon.

working with Anne

This was one of my favorite cakes so far. It was defiantly one of the most detailed ones. I got to help Anne with this cake. She is an amazing pastry chef and very talented.  I got to do the bottom layer, part of the next layer and the leaves. Thanks Anne for letting me help with this one. :)

Stephanie

Here is my niece and her husband on there wedding day. Isn't she beautiful! I know I'm really late updating my blog. I'm catching up.
She had a chocolate caramel cake with Italian butter cream caramel icing. There is white chocolate fondant covering it that had hand painted fondant ribbons made to look like aspen bark. This cake was a survivor, it had a very ruff time driving up the canyon and needed to be repared once I got up there. Delivery is always the most stressfull time in doing a wedding cake. I'm glad it turned out well in the end as I wanted my nieces day to be the best ever.

A friend of my parents is a wood worker. he made the cake stand for me. He even made a new tool so he could make it.

Love you Stephanie and Slade.

Georgia

This cake has a fun story behind it. The bride let her sister plan the wedding for her since she was out of state. The bride didn't even know what the cake looked like until she got there. That is trust. Georgia’s sister is very smart letting her plan it. It was a beautiful reception from what I saw.

This is a Chocolate caramel cake on the bottom and a white chocolate cake for the top layer. Since they didn't need as much cake the middle layer is rice crispy treets. The layers are taller than normal, the bottom is 7", the middle is 6" and the top is 5". They are covered in caramel Italian butter cream and then chocolate fondant. Dark chocolate is used to pipe the dark scroll work and a white chocolate is used to make the white drapes that wrap around the cake. They match the pleats on the brides dress. I had never done the pleats and drapes before. I learned a lot on this cake. It was so much fun.

That is the first time I worked with this kind of white chocolate pearl clay too. It worked real well once I got the hang of it. My hands are hot so I had to be careful to not get it too warm. It tastes very good too. I got the pearl clay recipe from one of Jennifer Dontz CDs on fondant cakes.

Kelsey and Riley

This was Kelseys wedding cake, simple and elegant. She is the daughter of a lady I work for and a friend. It’s covored with a marshmallow fondant, decorated with dark brown icing and fresh flowers. Below is the grooms’ cake that the bride surprised the groom with. He is a Boston red socks fan and she wanted a cake with their logo on it. He was surprised and very happy.

rose cake

This cake was for the daughter of a friend of mine. The little bride didn't realy like cake so she wanted just a fake cake. So I made it out of ricecrispy squaires and covered it with fondant. There are fondent roses on the side of the cake with icing leaves and vines.

Bow Cake

This cake is a fondant covered cake with a fondant ribbon around the base of each layer and a fondant bow. The cake is decorated with the couples initials and small white icing dots.

virginia

Here is the wedding cake. The top layer is the apple spice cake that I posted earlier with a caramel filling, the two side cakes are chocolate lovers chocolate cake with chocolate chunks in it, with a strawberry mousse filling. The outside was painted with an eatable silver paint. It was a fun cake to do. Thanks for letting me do your wedding cake Virginia and Scott!

lily wedding cake

This is the cake I did for my final in school. It was for the class on wedding cakes, gum paste flowers etc. The toper that looks like cut lace is hand pieced. The lily, flowers and leaves were made out of gum paste. The flowers on the side of the cake were hand painted as well. I used flower and leaf cutters to cut out the toppers design and pieced them together in a bowl and let them dry. I used royal icing to pipe the smaller decorations and attached them around the edge of the toper as well. The cake is covered with fondant.

Kristin

This was a very tall cake. Three layers stacked on the bottom and then three more layors stacked on pillars above it. Part was grerman chocolate cake with chocolate filling, white cake with a fruit filling and becouse the bride didn't need that much cake, and to keep the cost down, the two middle layors were rice crispy treats. The layers were covered with textured buttercream and the dusted with pink edible powder to higlight the cake details. Then toped with cascades of flowers.

Lisa

Here is the wedding cake that went with the grooms cake woodland. Its a buttercream icing with iceing flowers with silver centers dotting the cake. It had spice cake for one layer and carrot cake for the other with cream chease filling. simple and elagant.

These are the wedding cakes I did for my nieces. I named the cakes after the beautiful brides.

Sandy

This cake is a red velvet cake with a thin chocolate coating topped with cream cheese icing for the filling. Covered with rolled fondant and decorated with hand made pearls and piped designs and a ribbon border.

Amanda

This is a carrot cake with creamcheese icing filling and covered with rolled fondant. The bride wanted a damask style cake in blue, white and black. The bottom and top layer are hand piped designes. the middle layer had fondant that has been pillowed.