Cakes by Steph » Novelty/Unique

The grad cake

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:27:22 +0000

This cake was a labor of love for my mom and my little sister, Kelsey. My mom graduated in May with her Master’s degree and my sister graduated from high school in June. So proud of both of them! Their party was this weekend and I had seen a cake done in this structure last year some time. I loved how fun it looked so I sweet talked my older sister into helping me and we planned out the design last week. Then spent over 4 hrs decorating it together. The top two tiers on this cake are fake cake because they didn’t need quite that much cake for the party – however this type of cake can be done with all real cake. Its all a matter of physics people All of the tiers are 8″ squares, covered in fondant.

They loved the end result so that made us happy as can be! Hope you enjoy it too…

Ahhh…that’s refreshing!

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:22:00 +0000

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!

All about fashion

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:15:49 +0000

My little sister turned 18 last week and we celebrated her birthday party this weekend! She is all about fashion, design and shopping (and her cell phone ). This cake was all about her. My older sister and I designed and created this together – another fine S&S creation Some details…

The purse and the shopping bag are cake, covered in fondant. The tissue in the gift bag is gumpaste. The handles on the purse are fondant as are all the decor – except the piping…which Shelly painstakingly piped for THREE hours! She has a cramped hand now But she did a great job! Meanwhile I put together the gift bag and dress model. The model is all fondant that I sculpted and then made a fondant dress for. It is embellished with some piping. We finished off the “Louis Vuitton” handbag with both tan and gold painted embellishments (including a zipper pull that Shelly embossed with a LV logo. Its all about the details, folks The shoe and cell phone I made a few days earlier from gumpaste. They are painted with luster dust to shimmer.

In the end it took us just about all day to do this cake….lots of putzy time (and kids interrupting) went into this! But well worth it.

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Pot ‘o Gold

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:26:53 +0000

This is March’s birthday cake for my husband’s work. Two days after St. Patrick’s Day so we did a themed cake. The pot is cake, covered in fondant, base is cake with icing. The only things non edible are the coins ~ just didn’t have time to make something. But its all good. The rainbow is gumpaste. The base cake is 10″ square to give some size reference…

Another Giant Cupcake

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:09:06 +0000

Here’s another variation – similar to one I made recently but with some awesome lime green added in! This is a great big cupcake cake.

More BIG Cupcakes

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:24:07 +0000

Here are some more giant cupcakes! This time for a male so bring on the blues To give some reference the base on these has a diameter of about 5-6″ and they are about 7-8″ tall.

Purse & Bag

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:24:16 +0000

There are few women who don’t enjoy a bit of shopping. This cake was created for a lady who loves to shop. She is a co-worker of my husband’s and they are celebrating her birthday tomorrow at work. So for this I created a purse cake and a shopping bag … after I finished I thought the shopping bag could be interpreted for just a gift bag but really either work for the occasion!

The purse is about 6″ wide x 6″ tall. The gift bag is 7″ long x 6″ wide and 4″ tall. Everything is edible except the wires inside the handle to form it Even the “tissue paper” in the gift is fondant. The purse is painted using a pearl dust to make it shimmer.

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Gobble, Gobble!

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:17:06 +0000

Here is another creation for my hubby’s work ~ turkey cake! Made up of cake and 4 waffle ice cream cones “Stuffing” is cut up cake – lettuce is … well real lettuce This cake went really fast and turned out better than I had thought it might LOL

Pumpkin

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:00:51 +0000

I was going to title this post “the great pumpkin” ~ referencing the Charlie Brown movie ~ but then I decided that sounded kind of conceited LOL Though I am happy with the outcome and the fact that it went together very quickly. This festive pumpkin was made with 2 bundt cakes and then covered in fondant. The leaves/stem/vines are all fondant too. I also added some petal dust to accent the pumpkin.

Arrrrr matey!

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:05:13 +0000

Ahoy thar ~ this be the pirate ship SS Halderand! And along with that ~ another S&S Creation (and Halderand is a mix of our two last names ). My sister came over this morning to help me deck out this cake. I had it carved & base iced and we went to town. Each board is individually cut, wood grained and placed on the cake. Took shorter than I thought it would (which is great) but even at that with the cake carved & iced it still took us 2.5 hrs to do the actual decorating! So everything on there is fondant with the exception of the sails, which are gumpaste with – of all things – pirate tattoos affixed on them! They are fastened to dowels. This was really fun to make…