Cakes by Steph » Kid’s Cakes

Fancy Nancy

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:42:47 +0000

This fancy cake was made for my niece turning 6…and she loves Fancy Nancy and all things fancy herself. This is a 6″ round cake with buttercream icing. Fondant bow and “ribbon”. The crown & glasses are gumpaste and the necklace is made of sugar pearls.

Mod Monkey Cake + Smash Cake

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:40:42 +0000

This cake was made for my sweet little niece turning 1. The main cake is a 6″ – 8″ tiered cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents. The smash cake is a 1 layer 6″ cake with all buttercream. Monkey face is gumpaste.

1st Communion – Cross

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:42:41 +0000

Another 1st Communion cake – this time an 8″ square buttercream cake with fondant dots.

1st Communion

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:04:17 +0000

Two tier cake (6″ – 8″) for a little girl celebrating her 1st Communion. Gumpaste cross and roses. Buttercream icing with fondant accents.

Horse

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:37:51 +0000

This cake is for my youngest daughter – her cake to celebrate with family. I wasn’t sure how this would turn out but overall I’m pretty happy with it – and she loved it. Its fondant covered…chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate fondant. She’s in heaven!

Guitar Cupcakes

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:43:44 +0000

So its my oldest’s birthday tomorrow (she turns 7!!!). A couple weeks back we started talking more about her birthday and what theme she wanted…and she decided on rock star. This girl loves guitar hero, rock band, guitars and all that goes with it. Yet in the next breathe she plays barbie and my little pony. I can’t figure it out! So when it came time to pick a cupcake for school she said “guitars!!! or drums…or maybe a microphone…” So we settled on guitars as that was probably easiest (and most fun) for me. She picked the colors and wanted this style of guitar.

The guitars are royal icing piped (I made 30 of them! Only broke one – yay ). The stars are cut out of fondant and left to dry so they harden. Then there’s icing and pink cake sparkles. There will be more guitar cakes to follow as the celebration continues

Click the pics for a larger view…

Winter Lamb

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:50:06 +0000

This was a 1st birthday cake – winter themed. The lamb was requested because the little girls nick name involves the word Lamb I had so much fun sculpting these little lambs out of fondant. All I could think about as I made them was that saying “Mares eat oats and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy. A kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?” When I was a kid we went camping in northern WI (Hayward) and they had a few animals at the camp ground – one of them a lamb called Lambsydivy (not sure how they spelled it though!)… Lambsydivy = lambs eat ivy For some reason I’ve never forgotten about that lamb.

But enough about my lamb filled childhood – we need the rest of the cake details! There are 2 cakes, sizes 8″ and 10″. Both pink butter cream icing with royal icing snowflakes I piped out, then painted with a pearl luster dust when dry. Below the cake pics are a few close ups of one of the lambs.

Tinkerbell

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:53:21 +0000

This cake was for a friend for her twin daughters’ bday party. She gave me the party napkin so I based it off that somewhat. All icing with a gumpaste flower and a real candle on top. Pic of the napkin is below the cake pics.

And here is the napkin design:

Word World!

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:09:45 +0000

“Welcome to the place, where words come alive … let’s build a word – WORD WORLD!”

Any of you with PBS loving small children will understand this creation My “baby” turns 4 today and she loves this show. On one of the shows they create a C-A-K-E! Mine is different colors but more girly In one episode they build the cake:

All of the figures are from fondant/gumpaste – including the C-A-N-D-L-E. Chocolate cake as she requested and I threw in a peanut butter & chocolate filling. Yum!

And these are the actual characters from the show:

Island Princess Cake

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:37:01 +0000

Here she is … Emily’s Island Princess cake for her party with family tomorrow. I had to fight with Barbie a little to cooperate and almost took a friend’s suggestion to take her legs off LOL But a little knife work later {to the carboard base, not barbie } and she got in there far enough. Icing is all buttercream and the dress is covered in a shimmer pearl dust. The flowers on the cake corners are Frangipani (a tropical flower – she IS the island princess you know ) and it was my first time doing them. I was suprised at how easy they were. Those are made of gumpaste. The barbie cake was made in a pampered chef 8c measure bowl (glass) and the base is a one layer 10″ square.

This smaller cake is a 4″ one made with some extra cake batter I had. Thought it would make a fun “personal” cake for Emily. Again has the Barbie’s dress pattern on it and the shimmer dust.