Cakes by Steph

I have a LOT of frosting in my fridge right now to use up.  And also a bunch of cake in my freezer as well   But this cake (well the flower shaped one) was in my fridge from a recent cake I made…extra batter   The round tier on this one is fake cake (styrofoam).  The gumpaste flowers I had previously made up.  So I mixed up some green icing and iced this up.  Didn’t take even an hour I think.  My eldest daughter said what I was thinking ” home come there are no roses on the bottom?”  And to answer this question – because I didn’t have any more   I only had this many and I wasn’t up for making more   But I did add pink dots in the grass to bring out the pinks more.

I had some cupcakes from some leftover cake batter…what to do….  I was a little unsure what to even do with them this time.  I was feeling uninspired.  And of all the horrors, my hubby ate one before I got a chance to decorate it!  He tells me *gasp* he doesn’t really care if there’s frosting on it! :O  I’m not sure what’s wrong with him

In the end I came up with two styles…one more fancy, one fun for the kids.  The black and pink ones have fondant flowers on them…one I did a fondant gerbera daisy (or a variation of one   ).  I don’t normally use fondant for this type of flower but it worked ok.   The rainbow cupcakes I did with my girls in mind as they love rainbows.  Hubby ate one of these as well LOL

I do confess – I love Star Wars.  Well mostly the original 3.  I *heart* Han Solo   So making this was a fun thing for me despite having 2 girls and doing lots of girly pink stuff most of the time.  The birthday boy this is for loves Star Wars as well.  This cake is a 9×13 covered in buttercream icing.  The storm trooper and wording (in Star Wars font) are done in color flow.

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If this doesn’t say spring I don’t know what does!  This cake is a shameless knockoff of a cake done by Whimsical Bakehouse.  They rock…seriously.  I hope I did it justice…If you go to their site you can see their version on the gallery page…its the 7th pic I think.  This cake is all buttercream icing.  And other than piping all the lilacs it went pretty fast.  Happy Spring!

This cake was made to celebrate the birthday of my mom’s coworker.  He likes beer from what I’m told   So here is a big mug of … cake   And no – it doesn’t taste like beer   This cake is about 6″ in diameter and 8-9″ tall with a gumpaste handle.  Cheers!

These cake and cupcakes were done for a friend’s daughter who celebrates her birthday this weekend.  The egg is fondant covered with a gum paste bow and the cupcakes have buttercream icing with gum paste eggs.

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Had some extra cupcakes to play with…all of the items are made from gumpaste.  I think my favorites are the daffodils.  I do love daffodils

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My mom commissioned me to make this cake for her boyfriend, George’s, birthday.  The cake itself is a 10″ carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. All icing except the figure – and the ball which is a fondant ball on a wire. My sister Shelly came over to help me out and helped me sculpt the fondant “George” for on top   She did the wacky and wild pants…woo hoo   I made the head which had us cracking up.  We have too much fun doing this.  We asked all of our kids who it looked like and they all told us “George!” so we must have done good.  He loves golfing…so that’s where the design came from.  Below is a pic of him so you can do your own comparison.  Happy Birthday, George!

George…

And his fondant likeness…