Toilet Bowl Cake

"bathroom floor"

"poo" is chocolate buttercream, "water" is piping gel colored blue

This was my first toilet bowl cake.  Apparantly, there is a bunch of these made, be it for an "Over the Hill" birthday, plumber school graduation or just to be funny.  I researched  the web for ideas before I started and was amazed at some of the toilet cakes that have been created.  Buddy on the "The Cake Boss" made one that actually flushed--mine does not!!  Most of the cakes were saying "Everything turns to S*** after ##.  We decided to change it up for younger eyes. 

I had some trouble with structure and getting the cake for the bowl to stay up--so it looks like its tilting- oh well.  I don't think it's too bad for my first try.  The tank is made out of RKT and I built a support platform for that to sit on out of a cardboard box.  The lid is a styrofoam board that I wrapped in fondant.  I made the water from piping gel and added some blue coloring.  The "poo" is chocolate buttercream.  The board is also covered in fondant - I measured out squares and then painted them to look like a bathroom tiled floor.  And of course, you can't have a toilet without a plunger nearby.

All in all, I think it turned out ok.  Of course, I am my biggest critic--well maybe 2nd to my husband.  -- but he is also my biggest fan!  It took me 7 hours to make start to finish with several breaks in between. 
I hope the birthday boy gets a kick out of it!!

Princess Cake with Crown Topper

Princess Cake

Smash Cake



We all think that our little girls are perfect princesses and what better way to let everyone else know they are than to celebrate their first birthdays in royal fashion with a beautiful princess cake.  This cake is a 3 tier marble pound cake with buttercream icing and filling.  The details are done in fondant and gumpaste.  The crown, wand and butterfly are gumpaste and were make several days in advance.   Such a fun way to spend a week-- making a perfect cake for a perfect little princess!
I have to give credit to Pink Cake Box for the design of this cake.  The girl I made it for, found this cake online and loved it, so I did my best to recreate it. 

Adult Female Birthday Cake

My sister was in a bind to have a cake decorated for her, so at the last minute, I decorated this cake.  It was for a woman who was turning 30-something and was commissioned by her loving father.  The flowers are stamped out of fondant.

Icing - lesson learned

So, this past week, my mother found a new "discount" store and wanted me to go with her. They had some powdered sugar there for a lot less than what I spend on it usually and I thought - what the heck, I'll try it. So, this morning, I am in a big hurry and start making my icing using this new sugar and look into my mixer and it looks like a big blob of glue. Needless to say, cheaper is not better by a long shot. I had to scrap it and go back to my old faithful. The icing turned out perfect. Lesson learned is- if it's not broke, don't fix it!!!!

CARS----Mater the Towmater Cake

My husband and I had never seen the entire Cars movie, so when I was asked to make a Mater cake for a friend's son's 2nd birthday, we sat down with our girls and watched the movie all the way through.  This is the first movie that they sat all the way through and watched.  For 18 months, we thought that was pretty good.  So after watching the movie and searching through some other cake pictures, I got inspired and this cake is what I came up with.  I am getting big into using Rice krispy treats, because it offers an alternative to cake at parties.  So, I made Mater our of RKT--had to make 3 batches because my husband ate the back half of Mater.-- ("that was the taste test"). The cake is half chocolate and half butter/vanilla sponge.  I covered with white buttercream and airbrushed some green over the entire cake for 2 reasons: 1. to give a variation of green to look more like ground and 2. to avoid having green teeth when it was eaten.  I used brown sugar--some of it was already in the stone look-- I didnt' smooth them, so they looked like rocks beside the road.  I had a lot of fun making this cake--it was a little tricky because this was my first vehicle--but pretty much everytime I make a cake especially shaped cakes- it's a first.  Always learning and loving what I do!!!!  Keep the requests and ideas coming!!

Love and Peace Cake

I was reading the cake wrecks blog and saw where so many people make the mistake of how they draw their peace signs-- they always forget the middle line goes all the way down..or they do it upside down.  Anyway for this cake, I made sure I got it right.  This is a birthday cake for a girl that is into peace/love.  I tie-dyed the fondant and covered cake that I had cut out into the letters and placed them on top of a butter/vanilla sponge cake with butter cream icing.  This brought out my hippie for a day. I even had my girls wearing bell-bottoms.
Peace and Love to all of you. 

Cat in the Hat Baby Shower cake

This past weekend, I did a Cat in the Hat baby shower cake.  I formed the hat out of RKT and then covered  it in marshmallow fondant.  The cake is butter/vanilla with buttercream icing and fondant details of Who-ville trees with a clothesline between them with onesies, socks and bibs hanging from it.  I had a lot of fun making this cake, especially since it was Dr. Seuss's birthday today.-- What a coincidence.  I have been reading Dr. Seuss to my girls and they absolutely love the stories.  Hope you enjoy the pics.
A PERSON'S A PERSON, NO MATTER HOW SMALL....