The Camo Cake

Since Phil is just all about the Army, I had to make a camouflage cake for him. I watched some videos. It wasn't difficult to make but the fondant stretched a lot more and I felt it would have looked better if the pieces were smaller...anyway, next time. The little grenades were easy to make and the letters came from my new letter cutters. You really have to hit them hard against the edge of the table to get the letters out but they look so much nicer than the block letters. Phil did really like this cake. It was a green key lime cake.

4th of July

This was not exactly what I pictured when I pictured my flag cake but it was really, really warm in my house this day the the fondant did not want to cooperate and the flag wanted to fall apart...still it wasn't too bad. I got to cut out some letters, make lots of stars, and do a cake that was 2 colors. I did not do so good at smoothing the buttercream but the house was so hot that I just couldn't spend a lot of time on it.

A Birthday Cake for Maddie

I agreed to dry and do a Frozen-like doll cake for my niece Maddie's 4th birthday. I was so nervous about it. I already had a doll and had watched the videos. I did have a moment of panic when I found I didn't have any snowflake cutters like I thought, but I ordered them and had them sent with 2 day shipping. I made a blue raspberry boxed cake for this with some substitutions (butter for oil, milk for water). It was also frosted with blue raspberry buttercream frosting (another little packet of flavoring). It was 4 layers.

I had never really worked with fondant before and didn't really realize how much it stretches and can break. A few nicely placed snowflakes took care of it. I didn't like the seam in the back so I put snowflakes all down the seam. If I had had any little bow molds it would have been better (I have them now) but it still looked much better with the snowflakes.
I was so incredibly pleased with this cake and so was Maddie.

A Chicken Cake

This cake was made for my sister-in-law who discovered the joys of owning chickens after I gave them some for Christmas. This one had cotton candy flavored frosting. I had gotten some little packets of cotton candy flavoring at the store and decided to try it on this cake. It was actually pretty good. I really enjoyed doing this cake because I got some practice on a lot of techniques like making the chicken out of fondant and making the feathers by clipping it with a very small pair of scissors all over. I also got to make those nice long leaves and use my new letter cutters. I felt this cake turned out pretty good.