Happy New Year!

Joe gave me topsy turvy pans for Christmas and I was eager to try them out. This is my first attempt at a topsy turvy cake, I know my next one will be better. Happy New Year!

Mom's Birthday Cake!

I would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to my Mom and my niece who share a birthday on Christmas Day!



A close up of the trees and the bunny. Sorry it is blurry but trust me it's cute!

Taz Cake

This is a birthday cake for a friend's husband. I made Taz out of gumpaste and I am really happy with the way he turned out! Happy Birthday Kevin!

Tinkerbell Cake!

I am so excited I finally got an order for a Tinkerbell cake! I love Tink and am pretty happy with the way she turned out.


This is the sweet little Tinkerbell cake in full view.

Cake-A-Mania!!!

This is the end of the year cake for Chikara wrestling! I made this cake for the season nine finale in Reading. Everyone enjoyed the bottom layer, the red velvet cake, the most. Even in cake form, no one likes the BDK! The symbol in the middle of the ring is the symbol for Chikara Pro.


The design on this cake matches the design on Eddie Kingston's shirt. Happy Birthday King :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

From April, Joe, Christopher and Samantha, hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Golf Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday Dr. Erhard! This is just a little birthday cake I threw together. I was going to make a golf bag with clubs but I ran out of time.



A close up of the little guy trying to blow the ball into the hole!

Our Anniversary Cake

This is the cake I made for our anniversary. I wanted to make little ghosts but I ran out of time :(



A close up of the graves. I got this idea from a cupcake my friend Shiori had!

Engagement Cake

This cute, little engagement cake has chocolate as the bottom layer, vanilla as the top layer, dark chocolate icing filing and is covered with buttercream and fondant. The calla lilies were left over from the cake last week. I love being able to reuse things! I think it turned out cute.

Cocoa & Kiwi Wedding Cake

Congratulations Audra & Ryan! Audra had a cocoa & kiwi color scheme for her wedding. She wanted a very simple chocolate cake. I had trouble getting the fondant the right shade of green so I ended up using a real ribbon. I am so happy with the way it turned out!



A close up of my calla lilies. They are my mom's favorite :)

Cakes for Kids!

Today I had a kids cake class at Micheal's. I think all the girls cakes turned out really well. Jessica made a cake for her Aunt Patty's birthday. Ally made a soccer cake for a party tonight. She is on the a team called the Stoners and they kick butt! My cake is all about liking cake. Elena (she's shy) made a cake for her brother. Blue is his favorite color and she put lots of fun designs on it. Great job girls, your cakes look awesome!

Damask Wedding Cake

Congratulations Amber & Chris! Amber had a Damask theme for the wedding. Using stencils I painted the damask designs onto small diamonds of fondant. Amber used fake flowers for the wedding party's bouquets and had a few left over to use on the cake. The cake ended up turning out pretty nice.

Love the Arts Cake

This is the cake I made for my music teacher, Phil Mancini's, summer picnic. The name of the school is "Love The Arts!" so I really wanted to make that POP on the cake. So I decided to make it POP out of the cake in a celebration!


I hand painted the sheet music to the song, "Music Hour". I thought it was appropriate since the song is all about practicing your music lessons. Unfortunately I ran out of room to write the lyrics in the sheet music.


A close up of the roses, they always look so pretty on a piano. I am so proud of this cake because it was my own design and it turned out better than I expected!

Tammy and Jeff's Wedding Cake

Congratulations Tammy & Jeff! This is the finished cake after the florist added the fresh flowers. I think the florist did a nice job with the placement.


Here is the cake before the fresh flowers were added. The cake had three tiers of red velvet and two tiers of white cake all covered in butter cream icing then fondant. Next, I covered the cake in piping gel and sprinkled each tier with sparkling sugar for a very soft and elegant look.

Demo cake for Michael's

I made this cake for a demo at Michael's. I think it turned out cute, it was Joe's idea to do all stars and one moon.



This is a vanilla cake with fudge filling, butter cream icing and fondant on top. The decorations are fondant on-lays (where the stars are stacked) and fondant in-lays (where each star is nested in the next).

Display cake for Michael's

This display cake had to be this design to promote our new Gumpaste and Fondant course. Display means the "cake" is actually Styrofoam...yum! You can visit this cake LIVE and in person starting Monday at Michael's in Wilkes-Barre!

Banana cake

I wanted to try a new banana cake recipe that was given to me by Rita. I went with a boiled icing which tasted great but it was too thin to decorate with. Thanks Rita, it was delicious!



The flowers on top were left over from the cherry blossom wedding cake. Since they get really hard and you do not eat them, it came in handy that I had some extra!

Tri-force Cake

For those of you not in the know (aka not geeks), this is a cake with the tri-force from the video game series, the Legend of Zelda.



As you can see, my nerd brother-in-law loves this game. Happy Birthday, Tony!

Fancy Cupcakes

My co-worker Rita ordered these for a party. I can not take all the credit; Rita put together the baskets with the blue liners. They looked adorable!



Up close of the flowers on each cupcake.

Elliott's First Birthday!

Happy Birthday Elliott! Elliott's mom and dad liked this design by LoriMC on Cake Central, a site I use for inspiration on cakes. The only difference is they wanted a lion and not a panda.


Here is a close up of the monkey, bees and ladybugs. I thought the bees turned out just darling!


The lion was all my design!


The Elephant turned out great even though I had tons of trouble with him! The heat and humidity made the trunk almost melt right off his little face! Even with supports to hold it up.


This is Elliott's smasher cake. For those of you who don't know, on a kids first birthday, he/she gets a small cake of their own to make a mess! I heard Elliott made no such mess, he wanted nothing to do with it :(

Hailey's Birthday Cake

Just one picture. Next week, I have another birthday cake.

Thom & Alison's Cake - the Finished Product

After I stack the cakes, I hammer a long dowel rod down the center to keep the cake from falling over.



This is a beaded boarder to cover the seams where the cakes come together.



The branches I made out of fondant and tacked into place with gum-glue and toothpicks.



A close up of the flowers with the sparkles on them!



The finished cake! Congratulations Thom and Alison!

Thom & Alison's Wedding Cake - Before

Since the site is now up and running, I figured I'd give you a sneak peak on how I put my cakes together. Here is for our friends Thom and Alison's wedding on 05/15/10:



This is the first layer of white cake. The flowers I made a few days in advance they still need the sparkles at this point...



Next step is to put the dark chocolate icing on top for the filling of the cakes.



I have added the top layer of white cake. Think of it as a giant reverse oreo cakester!



Now to cover the cakes in vanilla butter cream icing.



These are the cakes covered in fondant.



Here I have inserted the dowel rods to prepare the cakes for stacked construction.

You are now up to date on Thom and Alison's wedding cake. After they get married, we will head over to the reception hall to put the cake together. I will have pictures up of the completed cake on Sunday!

Wedding Cake 04/25/10

I am so happy with the way this wedding cake turned out!



These gumpaste roses take about 2 hours to make 12 and I needed a total of 75, so I enlisted the help of Jamie. Thanks, Jamie!



A close up of the cake topper