Crown Royal Cake

I made this cake for a birthday party. The birthday boy enjoys drinking out of a Georgia tumbler, thus the G cup. This took me roughly 14 hours total. Phew!

Chanel Purse Cake

Chanel Cake

Busy Busy Busy

I have been so busy cake making! I had six cakes on my calendar for this week. I love being so busy and having the time to create. Posted above are pictures of a unique cake: 6 Pigs at the Beach.

Bear Bryant Cake

Here is a cake made for an anniversary party for two Bama Football fans. This cake represents the a groom's cake. Instead of buying houndstooth edible paper I decided to hand paint the pattern. I have to give a special thanks to my very pregnant sister for helping me when I went cross-eyed. I knew it would take quite a while to paint the image but I think it was worth it. Lot of love went into this one!

Alice and Wonderland Cake (Tim Burton)

This was for my niece's 3rd birthday...

Tinkerbell Cake

I made this for my daughter's 4th birthday....

The Carnival Train

Okay, here is a cake that took me endless hours to create. If I were to do it again, there would definitely be a few things that I would change....such as more precisely shaping the cakes that fit inside the train boxes. The mathematics, as it were, stumped me. What can I say, the creative side of my brain is much stronger. As always, it was a learning process and I was pleased with the results considering this was the first time I had ever used so much gum paste and created tricky shapes.

Odds and Ends

I have been pretty slack about not posting on my Blog!! So here are odds and ends of work that I've been doing the last few months:

Above is a birthday cake for a Fireman. I did my best to make a replica of his helmet.

This is a "Crayola Crayon" cake. I loved working on this one. It took me a few weeks of planning and trial and error to figure out how to make the crayons. They are made Gumpaste and were formed into crayon shapes and then I literally sharpened them to get the crayon ends.

Dora and Diego Cake

Under the Sea cupcake

David and Julie's Wedding

Wow. Okay, so I just made it through my first wedding and groom's cake. I'm not 100% that I would have taken on something like this had it not been for the most awesome couple in the whole world. Cheers to my brother for marrying such an awesome gal!

I must say that the hardest part was the weather. It was about 90 degrees inside a barn. Having a fondant cake with buttercream icing = me freaking out. It wound up being great. I absolutely loved making the armadillo cake. The wedding cake was a huge challenge. I think the hardest part was figuring out how many layers were in each tier and how many cakes to actually bake. I also had to guess how many rose petals and how much icing and fondant I would need to make. I worked a little on it everyday. I'd say preparing 2 cakes for one event on the same day is challenging. I definitely do NOT have great time management skills but I'm managed to rock this. Enjoy the pics! The wedding cake was lemon and the armadillo was appropriately red velvet.

The Dream Painter

Please follow my other blog with all of my paintings! It has finally been updated.

thedreampainter.blogspot.com

Baby Shower Cake

This cake was made for baby Chloe.

Fire Trucks

I really loved making the Fire Truck! It was ordered for a 2 year old's Birthday Party. The cake was a basic, simple, easy to sculpt shape. Nonetheless, it still took me plenty of time! This was the first time I used homemade fondant. It worked surprisingly well! I love using all organic products and knowing that everything is from scratch...even the fondant.

Fire Trucks

I've got a great project ahead of me. Next up on my list will be a Fire Trck and cupcakes for a two year old's birthday party. I'm super excited about jumping on this train. Check back soon for photos!

Paintings

If you are interested in checking out my artwork, I set up a new blog. Check it out!

http://thedreampainter.blogspot.com/

I am trying to paint as much as I can at night and on the weekends. Good for the soul.

Kate's Cake

Three days of baking and icing have finally come to an end! I had a blast tweaking homemade cake recipes and icing techniques. Here are some pictures of my work. I think it took me a total of 16 hours. Keep in mind I made 100 cupcakes and a mini cake. I'm including grocery store runs in my time! I didn't think I could go through 4 boxes of butter...

Ready to Work

I've got the goods coming my way in the next few months. This Friday I am making close to 100 monogrammed cupcakes and a mini cake for a child's first birthday. I'm ready to jump in a get busy. I also have 2 more birthday cakes due in November. My plan is to challenge myself to a 'tospy-turvy' cake. Woo-hoo! Should be interesting to say the least.

The Nemo Cake

I made Nemo for my niece's 2nd birthday. This one was my second sculpted cake. I'm sure it will take me a while to get used to that aspect of cake making. I love a challenge. This was loads of fun...I could let my creativity go. 

The Skull Cake

This is a cake that I made for a friend of the family, Jeff. This one was particularly special to me because Jeff is an artist too. It was suggested that I use a piece of his art to create the cake - so that is what I did. I would LOVE to do a whole series of Jeff Stewart cakes! I had a lot of fun with this one playing with all of the unknowns. The cake was a huge trial and error process for me. I did not realize the amount of time it would take to get right. You never do though! The great thing about doing what you love is that the time flies by.

Welcome to Fondantopia

Welcome to my Blog! I'm new to the world of blogging. I thought it would be a great way to document my journey through cake decorating.

I am a mother of one and an painter at heart. With a toddler around I decided to change my medium from oils to cakes. I have always had a love for sweets and a slight obsession fondant.

Cake decorating is a newly discovered passion of mine. I have only made a handful of cakes. Enjoy peeking around at what I have made so far. I will continue to post as I continue to bake!