Rebekah's Twilight Cake - April 2009

Rebekah Schvaneveldt celebrated her 18th birthday and wanted me to do her cake. It was my first paying job, so I was nervous. She is a twi-hard! I made a cake that had an element from each cover of the Twilight series books. The apple (it was a real apple), the ruffled tulip petals (I made them out of gum paste), the red ribbon and torn red ribbon (made out of fondant), and the chess board and chess pieces (made out of fondant). The cake was a red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream frosting and then covered in white fondant.

Relief Society Birthday Cake - March 2009

I was asked to make the birthday cake for the Relief Society Birthday celebration again. I was just put in as 1st counselor in the the new presidency and taught what the heck. A few days before the party, Henry's sister passed away. We ended up flying out of town for the funeral that night. So I made the cake, dropped it off at the church on the way to the airport. I was told it was good. It was a two tiered cake with chocolate cake and coconut filling, and white cake with raspberry filling. The cake was covered in a royal/electric blue fondant. The writing was all in golden yellow. These are the Relief Society colors. The top tier had the year the Relief Society was formed, the bottom tier has the Relief Society motto (Charity Never Faileth) and the top number is how old the Relief Society is. All around the cake is wheat in buttercream which is all over everything having to do with Relief Society.

Kyle's Dinosaur Cake - January 2009

Kyle's birthday party was at the Golden Train Museum. We rented the red caboose and the rental included a train cake so I didn't get to make a cake for his party. However for the family party I made a stegosaurus cake. Kyle was into dinosaurs and his favorites were stegosaurus and triceratops. This cake was so cute, I had to make it. It is a half circle cake with cookie pieces for the neck, head, tail, and legs. The spikes were melting chocolate molded into circles.

Arrow Of Light Cake - November 2008

I made yet another Arrow Of Light Cake. This time it was for a smaller group so I made the cake too.

Pull-A-Part Jack-O-Lantern Cake - October 2008

For Halloween night I make a pull-a-part cake that was a jack-o-lantern cake. These are hard to decorate! The cake kept pulling up. They are easy to serve though, jut pull a piece off, hence the name. They are hard to store too.

Relief Society Mid-Week Cake - July 2008

I taught a little mid-week class on the basics of cake decorating. I made a cake to show what they could do with what I would teach them that night. Everything on the cake was taught in that class. I bought the pan a while ago and was dying to make the cake. This was the perfect opportunity!

Silent Auction Winner - July 2008

For a youth camp fundraiser, I donated a custom cake. The Cottle's were the winners of the cake. They had me make a cake for Drew's Birthday. He is really into Harry Potter so I make Harry Potter.

Amy Haight's Wedding Cake - April 2008

A friend of ours (we are also loosely related too, long story) got married. I made her wedding cake and gave it to them as a wedding gift. She wanted a square cake with 3 tiers, and the tiers were to be stacked off. She didn't want the tiers squared or even. She also wanted the cake to be an off white color with dots (it was supposed to go with the beads on her dress and hat). Then we put real flowers on the cake. It was really nice. The bottom of each tier had a brown and green ribbon on it. The green ended up getting mostly covered with the shell border.

New Beginings Wedding Cake - March 2008

The Young Women in our ward had there new beginnings and the theme was temple marriage. I was asked to make a simple wedding cake for their refreshments. Here is the finished product. It is a two tiered cake with whipped frosting. It also had royal icing drop flowers. Elegant, but easy to do.

Papa's Chocolate Birthday Cake - February 2008

Once again, Dad got a chocolate birthday cake. This cake is a fanci-fill cake. The center is hollow and it is filled with whipped topping, chocolate chips, and coconut. It is soooo goood! He didn't want it decorated so I just put some edible cake sparkles on the cake in Utah colors (he is a big Ute fan, as is the rest of the family). Not much to look at, but worth eating!

Kyle's Train Cake - January 2008

For Kyle's 2nd birthday I made him a train cake. He was obsessed with all things that moved. I couldn't find a Thomas Cake that I likes and this was more kid friendly. He had not yet really gotten into Thomas at this point.

Halloween Fondant Cake - October 2007

I made some cupcakes and had extra batter left. I made a couple of 6" cakes and decided to play with the fondant and get some more practice covering cakes with fondant. This was the end result. We gave the cakes to a few of our neighbors.

Kendall Baby Shower Cake - October 2007

I made a cake for our neighbors baby shower. It was a two tier cake with each tier being a different flavor. It was covered in fondant decorated with baby clothes on a clothes line. I used the people fondant cut out and cut the clothes to fit the baby theme. I used patel colors. The buttons were also made from fondant.

Arrow Of Light Cake - July 2007

I made a cake for the Arrow of Light ceremony. I bought the cake from the grocery store just plain, iced white. I just decorated it with the Arrow of Light logo and the names of the boys who recieved the award.

Stacy's 2 to the 5th Birthday Cake - May 2007

A friend of mine was having a suprise birthday party. Her husband had me do the cake. He works for Lockheed Martin, that is important here! He figured it out that is was her 2 to the 5th birthday (looked like 25 but it was her 32nd I believe). I made 2 cakes for her. The colors of the party, and her favorite colors, were black, pink, and red.

Above is the Strawberry cake. Below is the side view.

Brian's Superman Cake - May 2007

Brian, my brother, has always been a fan of Superman. I saw this cake and had to make it for him.

Jared's Google Eyed Event Cakes - April 2007

A boy in our community passed away from cancer. He loved to read and couldn't wait for a library to be built in our area. He didn't live to see that so his parents put together a community event to raise money for the new library. I volunteered to make some cakes to be sold in the bake sale.

This cake has whipped frosting and is decorated with purple drop flowers made from royal icing.

This cake is a chocolate cake with strawberry filling and is iced with chocolate buttercream. The top has a chocolate drizzle and real strawberries.

This cake is covered with fondant. The bow and flowers are made with fondant too.

Relief Society Birthday Cake - March 2007

I was asked to make a birthday cake for the Relief Society birthday celebration. I made 2 cakes (one chocolate and one white). They were decorated the same. I did a basket weave and made a lot of flowers to decorate it. I looked like a basket with flowers. The numbers were cookies iced with color flow.

Aloha Cub Scouts! - February 2007

For the Blue and Gold Banquet our theme was Aloha Cub Scouts. I made Hawaiian girl cakes. There was one for each table (so about 8) and then I decorated them so they would look like Hula Dancers. The flowers were made of royal icing. I made a lot of extra flowers and we sprinkled them around each hula girl on the tables. I tried to make each cake different (diferent cake flavors and filling combos).

Valentine's Cupcakes - February 2007

I hosted book club in February so for treats I made some Valentine's cupcakes. The hearts are cookies and frosted with color flow. I used a 1M tip to frost the cupcakes and then used sprikles.

Papa's Chocolate Cake - February 2007

My Dad is a huge fan of chocolate. The more the chocolate, the better. So I made a chocolate cake, with chocolate pudding filling, frosted ith chocolate frostings and decorated with chocolate frosting. Rich!

Kyle's 1st Birthday Cake - January 2007

For Kyle's 1st birthday cake I made a two tier cake. Each tier had a different flavor. One was chocolate cake with coconut pudding filling and the other was white cake with raspberry filling (family favorites). I also made a small teddy bear cake and put it on top of the tier cake. It was a chocolate cake decorated with pull out stars ffor the fur effect.After we sang Happy Birthday, we took the teddy bear off and gave it to Kyle as his "smoosh cake". He tore it up!

The 1 is a cookie, and the hat is an ice cream cone cut short and decorated.

The dots are made with fondant.

Halloween Cupcakes - October 2006

I made some cupcakes to take to some neighbors and friends. I wanted to play with some new techniques and toys.

Mary's Violet Cake - October 2006

I made my sister-in-laws birthday cake. She is a huge fan of purple so I made violets out of royal frosting and decorated the cake with them.

Bevan's Chocolate Cake - October 2006

Henry's step-dad was in town for his birthday so I made him a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I also made the chocolate truffles on the cake. The truffles had a coconut creme filling. and the cake had a coconut pudding filling. See how it went together?;)

Henry's Fisherman Cake - September 2006

For those of you who don't know Henry, he is an avid outdoorsman. For his birthday I made him a fisherman cake.

Weber Baby Shower Cake - August 2006

A friend of mine had a baby shower so I made the cake. It was a two tier cake and was covered with fondant. The babies were all made from fondant too, and yes I made them all from scratch. It took a few hours to make them and have them be the same size. But in the end it was wirth it because the cake turned out really cute.

The little babies upclose. you can also see the buttons and the quilt stitching in the fondant.

The cake from the top.

A better view of the sleeping baby on the top of the cake.

Mother's Day Cakes 2006

These were my first cakes I made that weren't for a class. I made two cakes for our Mother's Day celebration. One was white cake with raspberry filling and the other was a chocolate cake with coconut pudding filling.

Wilton Course 3 Cakes

Course 3 was the more difficult one. It was tiers and fondant. The tiers were easy, but I am not a fan of the fondant. It looks cool, but tastes gross. And it is hard to work with. It will get easier the more I work with it.

This is the practice fondant cake. The bow and flower are made with fondant too.

This is the course 3 graduation cake. The has to have elements from all 3 courses (5 elements total). I went with a music cake because I teach piano and love music! You can't see it but the writing is a music phrase.

Wilton Course 2 Cake

This is the Course 2 graduation cake. The birds are made with color flow . The flowers are mostly royal icing, a few are made with buttercream though. Henry claimed the cake had too much frosting! With the basket weave and rope border, it was a lot. And he always says "the cake is what holds up the frosting" so you know it had to be too much frosting.

Wilton Course 1 Cakes

I took the Wilton Cake Decorating classes at the local Michaels store. I have always wanted to learn to decorate cakes. After my son was born, I decided now would be a good time. I could do his birthday cakes and save money too. Here are the cakes I did for course 1.

This is an archery target that I did for a friend of ours who was sick with cancer. He owned the local archery shop at the time.

This was the course 1 graduation cake.