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.

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.