Boss's Grave Cake

This cake is for my boss, greatest boss of all.  Can you tell I'm sucking up?  Just kidding.  This is a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream that I dyed black.  I had to practice black for a bridal shower cake for this weekend.  Today is Halloween so I thought this would be the perfect cake for my boss.  The "blood" is corn syrup mixed with red food coloring.  I have a tombstone cookie cutter so I thought that would be perfect for the top.  I was a little hesitant about the color at first but after the frosting had set a while it got blacker.  My hands were purple though for a while from the coloring but it all washed off eventually.

King of the Jungle

This is a baby shower cake I made this weekend.  I made the palm tree out of modeling chocolate and the leaves were gumpaste/fondant. 

Christening Dress

 

This is a Christening Gown cake I made.  It's chocolate cake with buttercream icing.

 

And this is what it looked like when it was finished.  I decided to make the gown look like real material that was flowing.  I also made the name sign.  For the rounded sleeves I used a mini ball cake pan.  I shaped the dress from a 1/2 sheet cake and used a template I drew.