My Sweet 16

This cake was actually for my own Sweet 16 birthday party. Yes, I made my own cake for my own birthday. :) As you can see, I LOVE bright and happy colors. This cake was the first cake I ever tiered! It was a pretty big deal for me.

Note: again, fondant would have much better achieved the look I was going for, but again I used buttercream icing instead, because at the time it was the only frosting I was most comfortable using, and it's more tasty.

Here's a fun photo with all of my wonderful buddies, and of course, the cake.

Easter Bunnies

My favorite part about this cake, was making all the little figurines out of fondant. I did this cake for a very cute little girl whose birthday was close to Easter time.

She wanted raspberry frosting. How do you create/find raspberry frosting?! Well, we simply tried adding some raspberry extract, which actually came out to be pretty tasty.

Though, adding any kind of sweetened preservative, such as raspberry jam, will make any frosting taste fresh, incredibly delicious and sweet! Just sayin. Strawberry jam/jelly added to buttercream frosting is one of my favorites! Also, cherry jelly mixed in with buttercream frosting tastes great with devil's food cake, and any kind of chocolate cake if you appreciate the cherry/chocolate combo.

BYU Football

Yes! That is right, Brigham Young University, represent. This was a cake I was asked to do by the mother of one of the football players currently playing on the BYU football team. What a FUN cake this was!

I even got to hang on to one of the official BYU helmets for a while as a model! This felt like a pretty big deal.

This cake was not only fun to do, but man was it one of the most challenging cakes I've done. It appears to be such a simple cake to do, but when I really got down to the technicalities of it, wow, I definitely learned from trial and error pretty quick.

Note: the cake was made from a ball pan, and I just eyeballed and carved the cake to take the shape of the football helmet.

Trick and Treat

Here's a fun little furry looking Halloween surprise for you! I made this little guy for a cake walk our church was having that year, it was certainly a fun cake to do!

Note: the spider is two cake sphere halves put together. Tricky eh?

Savanna's Cake

I remember it was my friend Savanna's birthday, and I made this for her. I'm honestly not sure which birthday it was for... maybe it was her 14th? 

Savanna loved LOVED pink and pretty things. So, what's a better suiting cake than a pink dress with pearls?

And no, please no, I was trying to avoid that generic "Barbie Doll" look. Hopefully I dodged that one.

Note: the actual dress is covered in fondant. (Notice the wrinkles on the dress. Eeps! I didn't know how to smooth fondant then, and I still don't!) Also, the dress is a half sphere of cake, it's this special pan that has half sphere molds in it. I love that pan, it's very useful. So if you find yourself needing to make little cake spheres, then go get one! The Wilton brand sells them.

Despereaux's Castle

This one is probably one of my favorites. This was done for the son of one of my church leaders: Melinda. At the time, the movie The Tale of Despereaux had just come out, and her son was pretty excited about it.

So since the theme of the party would be kings, knights, and medieval festivities, she asked me if a castle cake would be possible. And here is the result.

Note: the four corner towers are made of twinkies. Also, those little stones all over the castle are candy stones. The mice, cannon, and the tops of the walls are made with fondant. The cannon was made by my brother, I promised him credit for being the one to make it. So there it is bro. :)

Sara's Grandma

I had a good friend in high school who was always very supportive of my cake decorating: Sara. We were practically training partners on the track team, specifically, the long distance running team. We ran many great races together.

Her grandma was having a birthday, and she asked me to do something classy, and CHOCOLATE. So this was the result. And might I share that the frosting I came up with, was absolutely delish, I remember I couldn't stop eating it.

Note: If you have taken Wilton cake decorating classes, this arrangement of roses atop the cake might look familiar to you.

Tasia's Sweet 16

Oh my, where to begin! I guess here is a good spot. Just to warn, these photos aren't going to be in chronological order. (I wanted to start with the cakes I did when I was younger, but all those photos of all the cakes I did got lost when our old laptop crashed back then. It's still sad when I think too hard about it)

This Sweet 16 cake was done for my best friend Tasia. She was just taking driver's ED, and she was way excited about driving and the whole car world. So her party theme was a cute road signs/driving theme! It was a very fun cake to do.

Note: I did not use fondant on this cake, though fondant would have been best for the design I was going for. I just used regular buttercream icing. Honestly, I still have not had very much experience with fondant. Personally I don't appreciate its flavor. But I am told that making it by scratch is the most delicious.

And a blog was born.

I was nine years old when my dream of someday becoming a successful cake decorator was born.

It all started with a mother/daughter bonding activity, which consisted of signing up at the local craft store for a beginning-level cake decorating class. My whole life I have been "the artist" of the family, and it was no surprise to my mom when I fell in love.
My love and passion for cake and the elements of design continued to grow as my experiences with cake shaped the knowledge I gained throughout the following nine years after taking that class, which is where I stand today;

a passion driven, determined, day-dreaming college student currently studying for a career in biotechnology.

So what am I doing starting a blog about cakes then? (Cake obviously doesn't equate to biotechnology)

To be quite frank, I don't know. (Which seems to be a common answer to many questions among my fellow college students out there. Sometimes, we just don't know)

All I know is that I love cake, and decorating them. I love all types of art, and perhaps that's a reason why I love cake so much, it's a delightful and delicious challenge.
To create a work of art that's edible, that's taking the arts to a whole different level.

So on this blog, I plan to publish photos of all my previous cakes, helpful notes on some of them, and hopefully along the way share the things I've learned and the experiences I've had throughout the nine year journey up to this point in my life. Of course, following all the cakes I've done up until now, I will continue to record the new experiences of today and of course, photographs! 

So here I am blogger world! And here comes the cake.