Sailin' On

It had been awhile since I gave away a custom cake on my Facebook page, so to make up for it a couple weeks ago I gave away three! One of the winners claimed her cake this week. And of course @fauxamor requested a challenging cake. lol

Here's what she wanted.



I said in a recent post I do not like 3D cakes, but since I like Pamela so much, I accepted the challenge. Here's how it turned out.



Not too bad. She loved it. That's all that really matters. :)

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark is a popular baby shower theme, but until last week I had yet to make a cake with that theme. Weird! The cake didn't need to feed a lot of people, so I wasn't able to fit tons of animals on the boat. I definitely had to squeeze in two giraffes though!

NASCAKE

3D cakes are not my favorite. I've only made a couple and every time I wish for death. I got a request for a Jimmie Johnson car cake. He's a NASCAR driver. Thankfully I had a 3D car cake pan, so making this cake wasn't so bad.



Jimmie Johnson's car

That Little Blue Box

One of my favorite customers celebrated her 40th birthday over the weekend. The colors she had for the invitations were coral and Tiffany blue, so she wanted those colors for the cake. She also wanted the cake to look like gifts. I've done a lot of gift cakes before, so this was easy squeezy!



It's hard to tell in the pic, but the top "gift" has a diamond pattern with blue sugar pearls. So cute!

Childhood Memories

My mom used to make me smashed meat on bread when I was a kid. It's a recipe she got from my grandma. The title says it all: smashed ground beef on bread, cooked in the oven. I'd eat it with ketchup. It was simple and delicious! My grandma's birthday was last week, so I thought I'd pay tribute to her recipe by making it a cake!

It's in the Bag

The same co-worker who ordered the penny cake, also ordered two purse cakes. She wanted one leopard print and one Coach print. The Coach logos look so good because it's an edible image. haha But I did draw the leopard spots.

A Penny for Your Thoughts

I make a lot of the same theme cakes. Of course I love making them all, but it's nice when I get a request for something different. A co-worker wanted a birthday cake for her dad. He collects coins, so she wanted a 1943-S penny. I guess it's a rare coin. I don't know anything about coin collecting, but I was excited to make this cake! Instead of "In God We Trust" I put her dad's name. And instead of 1943, I put his birth year.