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. 

 

Baby Booties

 

My first attempt at making baby booties from fondant.  Not perfect but not bad for a first time.  I found some new templates that I'm going to use so I'll post pictures as I figure it out.

Monster Cake

 

Finished Monsters cake.  I didn't put the monsters on top of the cake because I was afraid it wouldn't transport well so I boxed them all up for the next day when the party was.  The monsters turned out just like the picture!  I'm so proud of them!

Little Monsters 1st Birthday Cake

 

 

1st step in making a Little Monsters cake - make all of the stars for the cake and cupcakes.

 

 

Then add the wires for the star burst.

 

 

 

Then mold the mosters out of rice krispy treats and cover them with icing and fondant.  Molded the eyes for the orange monster separately and let them dry so they wouldn't fall over.  My daughter Kelsey helped by molding the rice krispy treats and she made the orange moster.  She also fixed the blue monster's mouth - her OCD didn't like my mouth.  LOL  I was up at 5 am this morning, couldn't sleep so I decided to finish the green monster by putting the blue waves around him. 

 

 

Added some flat monsters and stars to the sides of the cake.  







Chocolate Cupcake

Made some awesome chocolate cupcakes from scratch today.  My first batch and they will not be my last batch.  This is my chocolate recipe from now on.  The chocolate frosting has 10 oz. of dark chocolate chips in it and it is sinful!  I added a raspberry to make it cute.  As a side note, the next day the frosting had a chance to set up and it turned into a wonderful fudgey frosting.  The whole thing just melted in your mouth!