Cake Assist: 'Nerdy 30' Cake - February 2014

My sister Casandra asked me if I could make the decorations for this cake.  Her husband, Joe, baked and iced the cake (both which he made from scratch).  Casandra was turning 30, and she wanted a 'Nerdy Thirty' themed cake.  She told me some things that she'd like to have represented, and then told me to make whatever else I thought would fit the theme.

Daddy Rubik's Cube and Baby Rubik's Cube :)

Live Long & Eat Cake :)

"I'm Batman"

All of the decorations were made out of fondant.  Details were added with fondant or painted on with food coloring or a food coloring marker.  I had figured out how to make the letters of her name out of fondant Tetris blocks, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to make them.

She loved the cake & the party was lots of fun!

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Gender Reveal Cake - It's a... ??? - November 2013

When my sister Valerie was pregnant with their second baby, she and her husband decided to find out the gender.  After some persuading from her friends :) they decided to have a gender reveal party, and they asked me if I would bake the cake for it.  My mom offered to decorate it, but they didn't want us both to know the gender ahead of time, so after I baked and assembled the cake I frosted it with a layer of icing that would conceal any of the colored cake before handing it off.  Then, my mom finished frosting and decorating it.

I baked French vanilla almond sour cream cake in 2- 9 inch cake pans and French vanilla almond sour cream cake tinted 'the mystery color' in 3- 9 inch cake pans.  Since I was using a crystal cake stand, I put a round cake circle on the stand under the cake so no one would see the color of the cake through the crystal.  ;)  I alternated layers of colored and white cake and iced them with white frosting in between as I stacked them.  When all the layers were assembled I iced the cake with a crumb coat.  After the crumb coat set I iced the cake with just enough frosting so my mom couldn't see the color of the cake when she went to decorate it.

My mom iced the cake with white frosting and made little peaks on the sides.  My sister had asked her to write 'Oh, Baby!' on the cake, so she piped it in green icing on the top.  Then she used pearlized pink, blue, and green sixlets around the base of the cake and several on the top.

The cake turned out really cute and sweet, and when they cut the cake everyone was excited to find out they were having a... 

...BOY!  :)

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Cake Assist: Bowling Cake with Rice Krispies Treat Bowling Ball - October 2011

My mom was making a cake for some ladies in a bowling league that she was participating in, and she asked me to help her cover the rice krispies treat bowling ball with fondant.

More pictures and details to come... :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post.  :)]

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Cake Assist: That Cake is Dynamite! - August 2010

This is a crate of dynamite cake that my sister, Casandra, made for her husband, Joe.  When I got to her house for the party, she asked if I could help her out by painting the wood grain on the fondant boards that were on the cake.  So, I did.  :)

More pictures and details to come... :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there.  I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

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Cake Assist: Baby Rattle Cake - May 2010

My mom was making a baby shower cake for someone, and she asked if I could help her out with part of it.  She was making a 3D baby rattle and asked if I could make the handle.  Then she would take it and attach it to the ball part of the rattle that she was making from cake.

More pictures and details to come! :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

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Cake Assist: Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Cake... - January 2010

My mom was making a baby shower cake for someone, and she asked if I could help her by doing the hand painting on it.  The shower coordinated with some nursery rhyme plates and napkins, so my mom asked me to paint three of the scenes on some circles of fondant for her.  After I was finished she took the fondant circles home, placed them on the cakes she had baked and iced, and finished decorating around them.

 This was my part.  :)

This was the plate from the shower's theme.

This picture my mom took at the shower turned out a bit blurry, but it still shows how cute the cakes looked on the table.

More pictures and details to come!  :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Cake Assist: Bowling Ball Cake - May 2009

This is a bowling ball cake that my mom made, she just asked me to help her with part of it, hence the cake assist :) .  It was a birthday cake for a good friend of hers.  She thought of the idea and baked the cake in my ball pan.  Then she asked me to help her cover the ball with fondant... not such as easy thing to do we found out.  :)

More details to come, and there will be more pictures once I get them from my mom showing how the finished product looked after she added some special touches to it.

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :) ]