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.

Turtles and Flowered Cakes

In my BYU-Idaho cake decorating class, we were instructed to come up with our own designs for our first two cakes. This is what I came up with.

This was my very first cake where we were given specific requirements that needed to be included on our cake. I really like the way that I was able to get the icing nice and smooth and the border fairly even for a first attempt.


This was a practice cake that I made for my brother and sister-in-law who were pregnant. My brother always joked when we asked if it was a boy or a girl that it was going to be a turtle, so this was specially made for them. I thought the turtles came out really cute on this cake.