Anna's Baby Shower Cake!

This weekend we had a baby shower for Baby Will! There were lots of family in attendance which made for a really good time!

The bottom layer is two 9 inch funfetti cakes with a chocolate filling and chocolate buttercream frosting. I added some big, light green fondant polka dots to go with the baby boy theme.

The top layer is an oval funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The back is made from half of an egg pan. Covered with light blue fondant, buttercream border, and small, light green polka dots to tie in with the polka dot theme on the rest of the cake. Needless to say we had some good times and delicious cake!

Truffles!

So I finally created an Etsy shop to sell some of the fun things that I make. One is truffles and they are so yummy. They are milk, white, or dark chocolate ganache dipped in milk, white, or dark chocolate. They turned out so good!


These are a mix of milk and white chocolate ganache dipped in milk chocolate!

The white chocolate ones are really good!

These are white chocolate ganache dipped in dark chocolate. Delicious if you're a dark chocolate fan.

If you want to check them out, you can see them at http://mandyssweetcreations.etsy.com !

Autumn Leaves Cake

To celebrate the fact that Fall (winter) has finally arrived in Utah, I made this cake over the long weekend. I wanted something that reminded me of Fall without being too much on the Halloween side of Fall. It is a fudge chocolate cake, vanilla filled, and frosted in chocolate.
This was my first time working with the mini-pumpkins, and for the trials I did, I think they came out pretty well, and bring across the Fall theme very well.

The leaves were made out of royal icing, and I tried to get some really great colors that remind me of Fall and the leaves falling from the trees.

The sides of the cake were frosted in a basket weave style. It really made it look like a basket full of pumpkins.

Wedding Cake

On August 1, my Uncle got married. In about April we were discussing their wedding plans, and Aunt Janet described what she wanted in a wedding cake. I told her that sounded pretty simple and she asked if I'd like to do the cake. The wedding was about four days after I got home from school, so it was a little crazy and I was very busy.

The cake was a three tiered white square cake. The top and bottom tier were filled with strawberry cream and the middle layer was a vanilla filling. The cakes were frosted with vanilla buttercream and then covered in a white fondant.

On top, we did evenly spaced dots in sets of three and green ribbon around each layer. Finally we placed a small arrangement of white roses on top. I really liked how smooth the fondant turned out and the dots were nice and even.

Camoflauge Hunter Cake

This cake was made as a birthday present for my brother-in-law whose birthday happens to land on the fourth of July. He loves hunting and such, so that is what inspired the camoflauge design.
The day of we went to Bear World and found these figurines that we thought would be great to finish off the cake.

This is a funfetti cake filled with chocolate buttercream and decorated with vanilla and chocolate buttercream frosting!

Lillies and Roses Wedding Cake

December 2008, my brother got married. They decided they wanted cheesecake for their Washington reception and their wedding planner asked if I would make flowers to decorate the cake.
The blue roses are made from royal icing and the lillies are made out of fondant.

The night before we got the cake all decorated. The next day however, we noticed that the roses had gotten too warm and slid down the side of the cake. To hide the discoloration, we did two rows of buttercream shells.

Christmas Tree Cake

For my final in my cake decorating class, since we were nearing Christmas time, my brother gave me the suggestion of doing a 3 dimensional Christmas tree and this is my final product.

We worked on these finals for a couple weeks, with Thanksgiving break breaking up our time, so I chose to work with rice crispy cakes. It is a four layer cake, one for the trunk and the other three make up the rest of the tree.

In this cake I used all the different mediums that we worked with during our class. The trunk, border of the tree skirt, garlands, and texture on the angel's dress were buttercream. Most of the angel and the tree skirt were made from fondant. All of the needles, bows, snoflakes, and the angel's wings were made from royal icing.

And here is the final product. I really like how it turned out overall. There was some great texture in the needles of the tree and the decorations turned out pretty well also.