Disney's Frozen Birthday Cake

For Addison's 9th Birthday...

 Vanilla buttercream rosettes in a blue to white ombre.  Blue blueberry flavored hard candy broken to make ice.  Disney characters purchased through Amazon.com and Elsa on top is from the Disney.com

Recipe for hard candy:

2 C sugar

1 C corn syrup

1/2 C water

stir at medium high heat.  Make sure all sugar dissolves.  Use a candy thermometer and heat to 290 degrees.  Or use the ice water method and drop hot sugar liquid into ice water it it turns solid like hard candy then it is done.  Turn off heat and add food coloring and flavoring if desired.  Let cool in a Aluminum foil lined pan that has been greased with oil.  Poor hot sugar liquid into pan and leave it to cool.  Once cooled you can break pieces for ice.

Purple Ombre Wedding Cake

I made this cake for a friend as a wedding gift.  This cake turned out better than I had expected. The bride's only request was that it had purple in it everything thing else was up to me.  My original plan was to make a white fondant cake with purple flowers.  After hours of baking I nixed the fondant idea and decided to stick with buttercream (plus it tastes better).

I used 12 in, 9 in, and 6 in cake rounds. Each tier has two layers of cake.  Bottom tier is white cake with tundraberry jam filling, Middle is chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, and top is a strawberry flavored cake with vanilla buttercream filling.

After frosting each tier with a layer of buttercream I piped simple roses using Wilton's 2D tip.

 Making the buttercream roses is a very easy process.  You just start from the inside working out and spiral around in a circle. The 2D tip is what makes this look beautiful. There are numerous You Tube videos on how to do this... here is one: Rose Swirl 2D tip

 

After making all the rose swirls I felt like the cake needed something more.  So I made these cute white ruffle flowers. 

For the leaves I just cut out leaf shapes and used my fondant ball tip tool and rolled it around the edges.  The centers of the flowers are edible silver dragees glued with a little corn syrup.

Isn't it gorgeous!

 The bride gave me a lot of flexibility on this one.  I am glad it turned out well.

Wedding Cake for the Hughes

I made this cake for Lori (Keller) Hughes and Gerald Hughes wedding.  3 tiered cake. Bottom and top are Devil's food chocolate cake with cherry pie filling and the middle tier is white cake with orange flavored buttercream.  All covered in fondant and decorated with pink roses.  This took about 3 days to complete.  On the 3rd day I stood back and I saw everything that I had made, and, behold, it was very good. And on the 4th day... I rested :-)

 

This photo was taken before I added the flowers I wanted you to see the details on the trim.

 

...because mini cupcakes are so cute.

 I made this cute little things last summer but forgot to post.  Just a chocolate mini cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting and and a fondant flower with a pearl non-pariel in the center.

 Chocolate mini cupcake with tundraberry buttercream frosting, white fondant flower

 tie dyed cake mini cupcake (red white and blue) with whipped cream strawberry slices and a tundra blueberry.

Tinkerbell Cake

Tinkerbell cake that I made for my daughter's 6th birthday.  Made with buttercream frosting and gumpaste.  I got the the idea from http://makemestudio.blogspot.com/2009/03/tinkerbell-cake.html

 Happy little girl!

Fairy cupcakes

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Strawberry Shortcake Cake that I made for my daughter's 5th birthday.  Buttercream and rolled fondant.  Inspired by Little Sugar Bake Shop photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/claricakes/2581258610/#/photos/claricakes/2581258610/lightbox/

 Mini buttercream strawberry cake with fondant flower and pearl non-pariels