More cakes!

I've been really enjoying my cake decorating class. Each week it gets a little bit easier, and I get more adventurous with my designs. Here are the latest cakes I've made:


This is the cake for Oliver's first birthday. I almost didn't make one because I had another cake that I just made for class. I'm glad I didn't get lazy and just had a cake that was not made especially for him. It turned out really cute. It was a carrot cake with Buttercream icing for the water and grass. Then I made a lily pad out of homemade marshmallow fondant, and gum paste frog with marshmallow eyes. The sign is cut Special K chocolate meal bar with icing lettering. And then there are the gold fish crackers. Oliver was very excited about the frog when he saw it!


This is my first fondant covered cake. I made the fondant from a marshmallow recipe (it was fun making it, much easier than I expected) We were supposed to make an 8x8 square cake, but I didn't have a pan. So I decided to make it with my 8" round cake and cut away the sides in to a square. I doubled up the layered and make a 5 inch cube. The design for the class was to cover it with flower shaped fondant cut outs, but I went for the more modern simple dots instead. And a Tiffany-ish blue ribbon.


This was the final cake for Course 3. All the flowers are piped royal icing. The ruffle was really hard to do, but learning how to stack and secure the tiers was fun.


This was a father's day cake for Chris. He liked lemon cake, so I did a lemon slices line art in a brownish yellow color. I was very shaky making the outlines, but I like the style of it, and would try to practice more in this style of cake decorating.