Hello Kitty

This was a fun cake to do. A co-worker got this for his girlfriends birthday. She loves Hello Kitty and also likes the Lakers so he wanted to try to incorporate Laker colors. All details are fondant. The Hello Kitty is color flow icing. Cake was chocolate with strawberry filling.

"St. Jude by the Seashore"

This is the cake I made to donate to St.Jude hospital's Cancer Survivor celebration. The theme this year was "St.Jude by the seashore". The sandals are marble cake with almond filling and icing. The pail is chocolate cake with almond filling/icing. The towel and glasses are fondant. The sand castle in the back is made out of chocolate. I asked some of my past and present students if they would like to donate cakes to be raffled off to the cancer patients. We had a total of 8 cakes. Thank you Meesha, Chandler, Samantha, Paula, Arely & Janet, Sandy and Jonel for your beautifully decorated cakes. A special "thank you" to Jonel, her husband Eric (whom I work with at Sam's club) and their son, Brandon, for sticking around and volunteering at the event.
It was a lot of fun. The survivors LOVED their cakes that they won. I donated cakes last year but was not able to go to the event. This year I volunteered and I have to give a HUGE pat on the back to Executive Chef Will Gotay, my friend and head chef at St.Jude hospital, for putting on this wonderful event, complete with live music, games, face painting, and lots of delicious food and drinks. This is one of those events that I want to be a part of every year!

Birthday cake for Kailyn

This was for a co-worker's daughter. It turned out cuter than I had hoped. One of my favorites. All the animals are made out of gumpaste. The cake was white with chocolate mousse filling and creme bouquet buttercream.

Mother's Day Bonnet

A cute little Bonnet for Mother's Day. Cake is chocolate with almond buttercream filling and icing. Covered with fondant with buttercream flowers.

Sarah's Communion

This is a special cake for me to have made. It is for a beautiful young lady that I have known since she was 4 months old and I used to take care of her in my daycare. Sarah made her first Communion on April 30,2010. The cake is chocolate with Creme Bouquet buttercream inside and out. All of the flowers were made with Almond buttercream for a little added flavor. Congratulations Sarah!

Jamie and Dan's Baby Shower

This cake was for my daughters baby shower. Her theme was jungle animals. The tree was made out of modeling chocolate and I made all of the animals out of gumpaste. There was a Lion, Zebra, monkey(holding a baby bottle), a cow (with a pacifier in his mouth), 2 giraffes, a little snake and an elephant. The bottom tier was White/strawberry filling, the middle tier was chocolate/ chocolate mousse filling and the top was Lemon/raspberry filling. My daughter loved it! And that is all I needed.

Sugar net

This is a fun new technique I'm doing using sugar. The cake is yellow with raspberry and lemon filling then iced with almond buttercream. It's covered with chocolate fondant then draped with a sugar net. The hearts are made with royal icing. All edible.

Lori and Jay's Big Celebration!

This cake was for multiple celebrations. The couple recently married, they are moving away, Lori is retiring and Lori turned 50. I didn't get photos of all sides, but on the top tier of the cake, I included photos of their two dogs, and on the bottom tier, I included "Adios Orange County" (with a photo of tinkerbell), "Bye Bye California Beach's", "So long California" (with the outline of the Cali. state), a logo from their favorite restaurant and a couple of other things that they will miss here in California.

I wish them the best of luck.

Easter Chocolate Wrapped

I really enjoy making these chocolate wrapped cakes. The cake is iced orange (not flavored orange), and wrapped with a white chocolate swirl design. I used different colored buttercream to make the rosettes, then sprinked the top with flower shaped candies.

The cake is double chocolate with hazelnut filling.

Andrew and Alicia's wedding

This 3 tier wedding cake is covered in Ivory fondant with white fondant accents. The top tier has an overlay with pearl beading, the center tier is quilted with pearls at each intersecting points and the bottom tier has white stripes.

The grooms cake was a surprise for the groom from the bride. She wanted a cake of his favorite college football team.

The wedding cake is chocolate with chocolate mousse and raspberry filling.

The grooms cake is yellow with chocolate whip filling.