Baby Shower Cake

I love baby shower cakes!! No the duck and blocks are not edible, come on!  We made this one for my coworker whose wife is due next month. Congrats!!

The cake was french vanilla with strawberry preserve filling. This cake was so much fun to make; who doesn't like babies!?! I was a little worried that the fondant was too dry (cracking) but it turned out nice.  Yeah!

Zombie Cake

For my nephew's 13th birthday we made a zombie cake. The house was made to look like his house.  The house was made of pound cake covered in fondant and the base was made of confetti cake covered in butter cream. The pillars were made of rice crispies. We put raw sugar on top of the base to look like the rocks in his yard.  The zombies were bought online and they glow in the dark. 

It was more work then we thought it would be but it was worth it. The zombie party was awesome!!

Tool Cake

We made this tool cake for father's day 2011.  The cake was double chocolate with a chocolate mouse filling.  All the decorations were made from marshmallow fondant.  There was a little tear in the fondant, which we made the back of the cake (see picture 2). 

Lightning McQueen

Happy Birthday Jack!   I made this cake for my bff's son's 2nd birthday.  I used the Wiltons car pan as a starting point, then carved it for more of a race car shape. I used between 1 and 1.5 boxes of french vanilla cake.  The details were made with marshmallow fondant.   

Box Cake Mistake

After seeing cakes in the shape of a box, we thought it wouldn't be too hard to make.  In September 2010 we decided to try it ourselves without researching techniques.  We were also practicing with making the bow, disaster.  This is our first fondant cake that looked ugly but it still tasted great!

Fondant disaster

Yesterday we had to toss out our first batch of fondant.

Lessons learned:
1) Don't use older marshmallows
2) Use extra Crisco during dry summer months
3) Be careful with the mixer speeds (accidentally put faster speed and powdered sugar went everywhere)

Fondant recipe

We use the following recipe to make our marshmallow fondant.  It tastes great and isn't too hard to make.