Sweet innocence...

This was one of my first religious baptism cakes. Because the religion meant so much here, I needed to draw my inspiration from something that would encompass the message and meaning of the baptism. So, I thought to myself... where do people draw their religious inspirations from? The church of course!

The cake here was completely inspired by the beautiful architechture of the Catholic Church. The colour makes it suitable for a boy, but it is not too stereotypical of gender. I wanted the doves and wings in the gothic style windows to give the overall cake an innocent and uplifting quality, while the cake topper provides a warm familial quality. I went for subtleness in that the angel wings of the cake topper actually form a heart shape around the little simplified baby. (September 2007)

Edible satin and white roses

For the romantic in me, I adored these cakes. This was the first that I had done in creating a draped look with the fondant. The bride had given me a picture of what she liked, but to make it different and more creative I drew my inspiration from white satin and lace wedding dresses and roses.

Again, the white draping is completely made of fondant but arranged just so it looks like heavy satin. The detailing was piped and finally the fresh long stem white roses topped the cake for an elegant finish. The entire cake is edible except for the roses. (September 2007)

LV

So, for the love of purses I made this LV cake for a friend of mine. The detail is not where I would like it to be, but the idea behind it was fun :) This cake was GIGANTIC!! Good thing her husband was strong hahaha. (September 2007)

Pretty in pink baptism cake

This cake was made for a little girl's baptism. The requirement for the cake was not very big, so we stuck to one tier only, but it was made to be very girly but with a softer tone. I loved the wings on this cake, my first set of wings :)

To accentuate the height of the wings and banner, I sculpted the cake so it was not flat across on the top but angled. The wings and banner sat at the highest point on top of the cake and it is slopped downward so as to show off the cake topper. (August 2007)

All petals

This cake was completely inspired by a thought that I had for how beautiful I thought cascading rose petals looked. This bride came to me asking for something different and creative, but she really like roses.

The cake was made in 3 square tiers, each a different flavour if I remember correctly, then completely covered by hundreds of individually hand shaped rose petals made of fondant. If you click on the picture I believe you should be able to see the individual petals more clearly. The entire cake is edible. (July 2007)

1971 Plymouth Barracuda

Since this car was made for Father's Day, I had to add a special license plate to it! Again, you can't really tell in this picture, but the tail lights actually shimmer and the silver bumpers have been brushed with silver metallic petal dust.

... 1971 Plymouth Barracuda! The car was made by creating relief and sculpting the fondant for detailing. The rims were detailed as was the grille, which had to be the most intricate parts of this cake. I know I picked the easy one (haha) for my first attempt at a car cake. (June 2007)

Lots of flowers!

So this cake was completely covered in these little purple, pink, and golden flowers... confetti style! After pressing out all the flowers, I attached them to the cake one by one. The flowers were then brushed with iredescent petal dust so they shimmer and glitter in the light. I don't think these pictures really do that justice, but they're glittery :) The final step was to pipe a little yellow drop in the center of each flower for added flowery-ness!

This was made for a bridal shower. (May 2007)

Periwinkle and paisley

Vanilla lemon wedding cake with fresh white long stemmed white roses. This was my first cake where I attached fresh rose buds. I didn't want the cake to be contaminated by inserting the stems right into the cake, so I took all the greenery off the rose buds, cut off the stems, and attached the bud by using globs of fondant like glue at the base of the bud. Worked wonders!! Those roses aren't going anywhere and the cake is not being contaminated by sprays used on the flowers :)

The piping was just done free hand with whatever pattern my hands decided to make at the time. Haha. (May 2007)

Poker

This cake was made for a friend of mine who's father is in love with Poker and casino games. Again, everything you see here is edible including the dice, cards, and poker chips. The cards, dice and poker chips were handmade with fondant, as with the poker table. The 'felt' table top was done with green coarse sugar for the shiney felty texture. The inscription on the front of the cake reads "Happy Birthday" in Farsi. (June 2006)

Cala lilies

This cake was the second wedding cake created. A florist took care of the flowers for the cake... as much as I loved the cala lilies, the doiley thingy on top I wasn't too pleased with. YAY for fall weddings though, the colours were amazing! Everything on this cake is edible including the paprika ribbon made of fondant. (September 2006)

Pretty pink bridal shower cake

For a bridal shower, pretty in pink! Again, this cake is completely edible with small flowers punched out of little flower cutters, then detailed and shaped to look three dimensional. This was one of the first fancy cakes I had ever done, so my piping work was still a little unpolished... :)

(June 2005)

The very first wedding cake...

This cake is one that is close to my heart as it is the first wedding cake I ever created.

The chrysanthemums are handmade out of fondant and brushed with a pale pink. Everything on this cake is completely edible :)

(June 2005)