Baby Converse and Patches

What a joy to have a new baby in the neighborhood!  Sweet Mindy and husband Gil are expecting baby Davis in December.  We had a great time helping her celebrate at the shower.  Chocolate cake and mocha buttercream covered in light blue marshmallow fondant.  Cameron was my helper on the shoes - all brown pieces are chocolate fondant.

Bee Cake

Scarlett O'Hara Dress Cake

Chocolate cake and chocolate icing for a friend's 40th bday.  I covered it in white fondant and Cameron did the rest!

Tea Party Cake

A cake right up my alley for a sweet little friend turning 7.  Cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream.  All decorations are fondant.  Also, first time using my new silicone fondant rolling mat - loved it!  Works great - no sticking!

Baby Bum Cake

White Almond Sour Cream and vanilla buttercream.  All decorations are fondant.  (Cameron made legs and feet).

Wedgwood Cake

This cake was inspired by the beautiful Wedgwood china. I have one small Wedgwood cream pitcher that belonged to my grandmother which helped me get the color right. This cake was a surprise and the recipient (in the picture) just happened to wear the same color shirt! Lemon cake and lemon buttercream covered in marshmallow fondant. Stenciling done in royal icing. Bow made of gumpaste.

White Button Wedding Cake

Congratulations to Lindsay and Calvin!  We had such fun working on this cake and the wedding couldn't have been more beautiful in picturesque New Braunfels.  This is a design Lindsay found on The Knot and we altered it slightly, adding the bottom tier for more servings.  Bottom tier is a regular 10-in., 2nd tier is an extended 8-in., 3rd tier is an extended 6-in. and top tier is an extended 4-in.

She asked for White Almond Sour Cream cake with vanilla buttercream. The cake is covered in white marshmallow fondant.  This was our second experience with extended tiers except this time there were three!  We learned even more than the first time.  The gorgeous gumpaste peony was done by Cameron.  It's tinted to a coral color to match the bridesmaids dresses and then dusted with pearl dust to sparkle.

Our youngest daughter, Margot shot these photos and she and Cameron did some pretty lighting editing on the first two.  TFL!!

Homewood Graduation Cake 2012

Congratulations to our Cameron's homeschool graduating class of 2012!  I'm so thankful I got to make this cake for the reception.  The edible images on the middle tier were Romans 8:28 - "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" (the class Bible verse) in varying fonts.

My first try at an extended tier and, as always, I learned a lot!  An extended tier is like two cakes stacked in one tier and then iced or covered in fondant.  All cake was White Almond Sour Cream and all icing was vanilla buttercream.  All tiers covered in fondant with silver dragees, edible images and black chocolate fondant.  "2012" numbers and plaque are gumpaste.

Cameron Graduates 2012!

We are SO excited to graduate our daughter Cameron - first graduate of the Smith Christian Homeschool Academy!  She had a really fun party with two lovely friends - Jamie and Stephanie.  They asked friends to meet at the Houston Galleria at 10:00 pm for a game of exciting broomball.  Dads even participated in this fast-paced (dangerous?) event.  I decided I liked my tailbone too much to get on the ice!

The cake was designed by the girls and they each got to pick their favorite flavor.  Bottom tier was Chocolate cake/mocha buttercream;  middle tier was yellow cake w/ fresh raspberry filling;  top tier was Snickerdoodle cake w/ cinnamon buttercream (a new favorite!).  Cake is covered in fondant stripes and middle tier is stamped w/ an impression mat and dusted silver.  "2012" numbers are gumpaste and the fondant balls are on wires at the top.  Names and photographs were done with edible images.

Each grad girl was represented by one of her "favorite things":  ballet for Jamie, horses for Cameron, and photography for Stephanie.

Congratulations, girls!!

Bailey's Cowgirl Hat cake

Great fun making this cake for Margot's good friend, Bailey. Chocolate cake w/ chocolate and Reese's buttercream filling. Hat covered in marshmallow fondant. Texas cut out of fondant and surrounded by silver dragees. Margot made the cupcakes, cupcake covers and fondant hats and boots.

Marcus' Medieval Blacksmith cake

This was a lot of fun. Cameron helped with a lot of the doo-dads. Chocolate cake w/ chocolate almond ganache.

Bouncer Party Cake

WASC w/ vanilla buttercream. Fondant accents.

Natalie's Slumber Party

WASC w/ vanilla buttercream. All decorations, fondant.

Modern Shower Cake

Chocolate with vanilla buttercream and covered in white marshmallow fondant. Embellished with gray fondant decorations.

Elvin Warrior Shield - Featured on CakeCentral!

CakeCentral (www.cakecentral.com) is one of my favorite cake websites. I get so many ideas and inspiration from the cakes posted there. I'm thrilled they chose the Elvin Warrior Shield cake to feature! (See full post on Feb '09). Thanks again to the photographic artistry of Shannon Mucha - she really made it shine! (www.blu-bambu.com)

Will and Kristen marry! - photographer pics

Okay, here are the good pictures from Will and Kristen's wedding done by fabulous photographer, Daniel Colvin http://www.danielcolvinphotography.com. I was going to post only 2 or 3, but these pics were so pretty, I just had to include them all. Details about these cakes are posted on an earlier post in October.

New Year's Cake

This cake was done for the client of a friend of mine. Bottom tier: Chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream. Top tier: Chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream with Reese's Peanut Butter cups chopped and added to the buttercream. Cakes are covered in marshmallow fondant dusted with white pearl dust and the decorations are fondant painted and dusted with color gels and pearl dusts.

Samantha's Smocked Dress Cake

This was a shower for a friend's sweet new baby. Trudy Callan is her mommy and Trudy is an awesome seamstress (see her blog www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com ), so I wanted the cake to reflect her gift as well as celebrate Samantha's arrival. Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and all other decorations, fondant.

It's A Boy Cake

White Almond Sour Cream Cake with vanilla buttercream and fresh strawberries. Decorations were designed to look like the shower invitation and made with fondant and modeling chocolate. (Sorry about the messy kitchen in the background).

Kangaroo Shower Cake

White Almond Sour Cream cake with vanilla buttercream and fresh strawberries. Cameron cut and handpainted the fondant kangaroo. We (the hostess and I) tried to think of a play on words because the mother-to-be was moving to Australia. :)

Baptism cake

White Almond Sour Cream cake with tinted vanilla buttercream. Bow is fondant and monogram disc is gumpaste trimmed in gold dragees.

Baby Bird Shower Cake

This was a fun play on words because this cake was for our next door neighbors, the Birds, and this was a cake for the shower given for her in our neighborhood. Congratulations to the Birds - baby boy Drew was born about two weeks ago!

White Almond Sour Cream Cake with vanilla buttercream and fresh strawberries. All decorations in fondant.

Soccer cake

White Almond Sour Cream Cake with vanilla buttercream. All decorations are fondant.

Christmas Cake 1

Chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream. All decorations in fondant.

Cameron's Christmas Cake

the barn where Cameron is a work-student. Cameron painted the horse and argyle patterns with color gels. I did the cakes (bottom tier:choc/choc buttercream w/Reese's cup chunks mixed in; top tier:mandarin orange cake/raspberry filling) and covered them in marshmallow fondant.


This was a cake done for the Christmas party at

Christmas cake 2

Chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream. Ornaments, ribbons and bows are fondant decorated with stenciled powdered sugar.