Get Your Motor Running....

I got to use more of the candy molds this week, and tested out my motorcycle and made more cars. All the cars and motorcycles are made from Almond Bark and painted with food coloring. I've decided that I HAVE to find something different than Almond Bark, as it doesn't really like to be painted... but need something that will go into, and come out of the molds really nicely.

This cake was a 2 layer 9X13" marble cake with a caramel frosting filling. it was covered with marbled fondant and letter stamps were used on the top.

Dakota Growers Retirement Cake

So... I may have said that I didn't have a picture of this cake, but Woo Hoo!!! I found it on my phone!!

This is a full sheet cake (18X24) all white cake with vanilla frosting. The logo and the inscription are made from fondant, and the logo is hand painted with food coloring.

This is the second one that I have done of this size for the pasta plant, and have adjusted little things each time to try and help make it easier each time that I do it.

Confirmation cakes

I was asked by my church to make the cakes for the Confirmation class. I needed to make enough for 150 people, so I made 3 half sheet cakes. 2 white cake and 1 chocolate. They were all covered in vanilla frosting, and 2 of them were decorated with drop flowers, and the third was the "show' cake that was decorated with a fondant cross.

Hello Kitty-- version 2.0

I was asked to do a Hello Kitty cake like the one I had done for my daughter last year. I made this one quite a bit smaller, but other than that, it was pretty much the same. This cake was a 3 layer, 8" round cake with 2 layers of strawberry and 1 layer of vanilla cake. It was filled with buttercream and strawberries, and covered/decorated in Fondant.

Thomas the Train

Thomas the Train was done for a little guy who was turning 4. The cake was an 8" round, 2 layer marble cake with a fudge filling. Covered and decorated in fondant.

It was really funny because when I delivered the cake, the little guy asked if it was a "Cars" cake, and when he was told that it was Thomas, he replied that he didn't like Thomas anymore. I love how fast little kids can fall in and out of love with cartoon characters... reminds me of my own kids!

Cake class cake

We went to a cake class the 13th of this month in Vermillion, SD (thanks Mommy!!) and got to take a class on fondant. Although I didn't learn a ton more than I had already learned on my own, I did get to pick the teacher's brain after the class for some tips and advice... completely worth the room being 86 degrees in a room with no windows or fans.

Here is one of the 3 cakes that we ended up making... unfortunately, we didn't get photos of the other 2. This one was made with my baby brother in mind, who just recently went off to basic training.

Big RED Tractor

9X13, 2 layer white cake with buttercream raspberry filling. Covered in Fondant, with a Red Tractor on top. And yes, it HAD to be red.