Star Wars Clone Trooper

My 9 year old LOVES Star Wars and Lego so this year he decided on a Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper cake.

In order to make this cake, I baked two 9x13 chocolate cakes.  I made templates for the body parts and used them to help cut out the body parts from the cake.  This guy was big...about 2 feet tall.

The head is made from both cake and Rice Krispie Treats....the bottom layer being cake and the top layer being RKT.  It was the easiest way to mold the mask as needed.  The arms are just made from RKT.

All the design on the fondant was painted on with a paintbrush using airbrush food coloring.  It took A LOT of time!!

Always well worth it if you end up with a happy child on his birthday!

Who ya gonna call?

My four year old son is a HUGE Ghostbuster's fan to say the least!  After hearing him sing the theme song over and over one day, I knew I had to make a Ghostbuster's cake for his 4th birthday.

 This ended up being a huge project about 20+ hours long.  My son is allergic to wheat and eggs so I decided to make the main cake Wheat/Egg free and do separate cupcakes using regular cake.

I started out by making all the Ghostbuster's symbols for the cupcakes (see below).  That took about 4 hours total for 13 symbols!  They were all hand cut.

Next, I worked on Mr. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.  He is made out of Rice Krispie Treats and then covered in fondant.  He was really quite funny when I was done with him!

Next I worked on the buildings, figuring out how tall I wanted them compared to Mr. Stay Puft.  One of the buildings is GF/Egg Free strawberry cake and the other was GF chocolate cake.  The strawberry one actually tasted pretty good for a GF cake!  Definitely not as light and airy as regular cake, but it was certainly edible.




Some of the building parts were made from RKT because I didn't want to overdue it with the cake.  The only real trouble I had was with the GF chocolate cake.  I used a box mix and it was very crumbly and didn't want to take the frosting.  The homemade strawberry cake wasn't that way at all.  

The cupcakes were a lot of fun.  I made a marshmallow creme filling for the them and dyed it green to look like slime.  They were super yummy too!

It was definitely a lot of work, but worth it to see the smile on my little guys face!!

Gerbera Daisy Graduation Cake

This is a High School graduation cake I just finished.  I also made 2 dozen matching cupcakes and 40 cake pops.  It took me over 21 hours to do!!

This cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting on both tiers.  The graduation cap is made from Rice Krispie Treats.  The top of the hat has a thin piece of cardboard between two pieces of fondant to help it hold it's shape.

The flowers took about 4 hours to make.  I had to make 24 flowers so there were lots of flower cutouts to do. Each flower consisted of 2 large daisy shaped cutouts and 4 1/2 small daisy cutouts.  To make the center of the flower, I cut the small daisy in half and then snipped each petal in half.  Those were then layered around the center.  

The cupcakes and the cake pops are both strawberry cake.  I used a cake pop machine to make the cake pops and then dipped them into melted chocolate.  They were delicious!!

For the stripes, I ended up using royal icing.  I had originally planned on using an edible writing pen, but I didn't like how it was coming out. I also did the same for the zebra cupcakes.

This is what the party table looked like...how fun!!

Cake Classes

I have two fondant cake classes coming up....May 26th at 2pm and June 23rd at 10am.  Spots are limited so sign up asap to reserve your spot!  Please see the "Fondant Class" tab above for all the class details!

Lavendar 80th Birthday cake

This was a birthday cake for an 80th birthday celebration.


Both tiers were raspberry cake (super yummy!!) and the buttercream was vanilla (smoothed to look like fondant).  

This was my first ever flower arrangement, but I was very happy with the end result.


The flowers are set into a small, plastic bowl.  After I took this picture, I actually carved a little bit out of the top of the cake so that it was set into the cake a little bit more.  


I also added some ribbon around the cake board.  

Urban Organic Wedding Shoot

A rare rainy day in January was the setting for this Urban Organic wedding shoot I was asked to participate in.  Taylor Proctor of Taylor Made Weddings and Events wanted to create a very modern and authentic look using the natural elements of an urban setting.  This shoot was done here in St. George and featured many talented individuals to help pull it all together.  

The design used a mixture of blacks and whites along with splashes of silver and green.  All of the elements tied in together beautifully to create a very elegant look.  The droplets of rain seemed to enhance the organic quality to the shoot, although my cake (by the end of the shoot) wasn't in agreement.  Let's just say that rain and black food coloring don't mix.

The design of my cake was intented to represent all the surrounding elements.  I copied the design on the top of the black wedding dress for the top tier.  As you can see, the bottom tier was made to look like the silver placemats.  I thought the green ribbon in between the layers tied in the organic, green color nicely.


I was honored to be a part of this shoot and it was a lot of fun to watch everything come together.


This shoot (& my cake) have currently been featured on a couple different blogs:
Inspire Smart Success
The Bride and Groom.com




A special thanks to:

Taylor Made Weddings and Events (Wedding Planner)
My Favorite Flowers (Florist)
Photo Love Stories (Photography)
Lauren James Bridal (Wedding Attire)
JK Jewelers (Jewelry)
Beauty N Brows (Hair & Makeup)
Natalie Kehl & Cole Chollet (Models)

The Minion

Months ago, my husband saw a similar cake and said that he wanted a cake just like it.  So, I decided to make him one for his 40th birthday this past week.

This cake was a total surprise for him, which created a whole new challenge...trying to make the cake while he wasn't home and in the few short hours I had available to do it.

I am proud to say I pulled it off!  He had no idea!

This cake was 4 layers of 8" chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  I used a bowl and Rice Krispie Treats to shape the head.  The legs and feet were also made from Rice Krispie Treats.

The hardest part of this cake was placing the yellow fondant over the whole thing.  If you've ever done a fondant cake before you know it's difficult to place fondant over a tall cake without getting lots of wrinkles.

Because I was pressed for time before my husband got home, I wasn't able to get it as wrinkle free as I would have liked.  I needed to clean up all the cake evidence in such a short amount of time!

I trimmed the bottom of the yellow fondant to cut off some of the wrinkles.  It was going to be covered with the blue overalls anyway.

For the eye, I just cut a small circle of white fondant and covered it with brown and black for the pupil.  I then gave it an eyelid and used part of a canning lid for the goggle.

As I was doing the hair, I thought it would be really funny to add some gray hairs since it was his 40th birthday.  I just poked a hole into the yellow fondant and then added small bits of fondant for the hair.  I added gumtex to the fondant to allow it to hold its shape.

I did the apple (bapple, if you've ever seen the Despicable Me shorts) last as a finishing touch.

He was very surprised and happy with his cake.  I'm still not sure how I pulled it off without him knowing.  I STILL have red food coloring on my hands from the apple, two days later!  Talk about almost being caught red handed!

Chocolate covered, peanut butter eggs

All week I've been staring at these chocolate covered peanut butter eggs on Pinterest.  I couldn't resist any longer and had to give them a try!

Anything I can make Gluten Free for my 3 year old, is worth trying as I always feel he gets left out.

You will need:
4 cups of powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups of creamy peanut butter
1/4 pound of butter
3 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips
2-3 tablespoons of milk
1 tablespoon of shortening

I used my mixer to combine the powdered sugar, butter and peanut butter.  I warmed up the butter and PB to help it combine easier, although the original recipe didn't say to do so.

Once those ingredients are combined, add the milk one tablespoon at a time until you reach a playdough type consistency.












Form the "dough" into egg shapes, place them on wax paper and put them in the freezer for about an hour (I only did 45 minutes because I was impatient).

In the meantime, melt the chocolate chips.  I used a double broiler method, but you can also do it in the microwave.  Add 1 tablespoon of shortening to the chocolate chips.

Coat the peanut butter eggs in the chocolate.  I tossed mine into the chocolate and then scooped them out with a fork, allowing the excess chocolate to drip back into the pan.  Place them on the wax paper and once they are all done, place them in the freezer.

I ended up with over 50 eggs about 1 inch in length.  This was a LOT of eggs, so I think next time I will only make about 1/2 the amount.

I also ended up with excess chocolate so I decided to drizzle some over the eggs for fun....can't have too much chocolate, right?  We'll pretend I'm not on a diet for now.

Here is the end result after being in the freezer.  I have so many, I'm going to keep them in the freezer for now and hand some out to friends!!

Hamburger & Fries

This "cake" was actually my son's idea for his 11th birthday.  At first we were thinking one big cake, but I thought that having individual mini cakes for each child, would be a lot more fun.


Although they weren't that tricky to make, they did take quite a bit of time considering I made a dozen of these.  They were a lot of fun though and a big hit at the party.  The kids were a bit confused eating them!

The "buns" were made from the tops that I cut off of cupcakes.  The "cheese" was made from fondant.  It was probably my favorite part because I made it the exact color and thickness of sliced cheese.  It looked EXACTLY like cheese!  The "lettuce" was also made from fondant.

The "hamburger" is brownie.  I used the bun as a guide and cut out the brownie using a fork to give it a rough edge. 


The "mayo", "ketchup" and "mustard" are just buttercream frosting, as well as the "sesame seeds".








The fries were really funny too.  They were made from white fondant and then I used my airbrush to spray them.  They turned out a little darker than I was going for, but they were still fine.

 We told the boys to come to eat and had the table set up for "dinner".  They were quite confused when they saw their plate!  I will definitely have to do these again...they were great fun!