Tuesday, December 13, 2011

How it all began....

Last February I watched 2 seasons of Cake Boss in a 3 week period. I said, "I can do that!" I got some ingredients and made a cake and experimented with fondant. Well, There were some learning time in the beginning!! I learned from my mistakes and the cake making just took off from there!

This was my first attempt with fondant and found that if it is not cold enough, the filling will ooze out! It tasted wonderful! Just looked terrible! :-)


 My second attempt was a bit more successful. I experimented with sponge cake for this one. 


 My Valentines Day cake was chocolate cake with buttercream icing and ice cream filling. The flowers were also made from gum paste. The fondant is getting a bit easier too at this point!


 St. Patty's day cake. I found a graphic online and made a stencil for the top clover. This was 3 layers of vanilla cake with a chocolate cake layer in the middle with butter cream icing. 


 Having a bit of fun for an ice cream social we had at church. An ice cream cake with no ice cream IN it. :-) I used spice cake for the top and vanilla cake for the cone part. This was a lot of fun to make!


 I made this one for the MARK INC press release for their military PTSD resources. I was honored to make this for the occasion. 



 My Easter Cake creation. I saw something similar online and decided to make one too. Every flower was hand made and all the butterflies are edible as well. This took sooo long to make, but I am so happy with how it turned out! 



 This cake was made for one of my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday. I had alot of fun with this one too. 




This one was for a friend of mine who had foot surgery. Her hubby thought she would get a kick out of a foot on her cake! lol. :-)


This one I made for my Chiropractor. :-) Chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. Yum!



My latest creation. This one was made for my friend's parent's 50th anniversary! This was done over the Thanksgiving holiday! I had 26 people in my house the day before this was to be made and delivered! I was stressed and rushed and if not for my sister and brother and hubby there to help it would not have gotten done in time!!! It turned out great tho and got to the party in time!! :-) 


1 comment:

  1. Awesome cakes, Jolene. I wish you lived a little closer to me. I'd love to have you make cakes for my girls' birthdays. The cake you made for Easter is gorgeous.

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