This was for our pilot neighbor's bday. Chocolate cake w/ chocolate buttercream. Plane is mostly royal icing and clouds are buttercream.
This was for Lisa's homeschool graduation from high school. Congratulations, Lisa!
Avery had a jungle theme for her birthday. Chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream with pink buttercream decorations.
Congratulations to all of our Grace Community Church graduates! Sheet cake w/ half Chocolate Cake and half Mandarin Orange Yellow Cake. All iced with white buttercream and blue royal icing. The diploma is fondant and small mortar boards are Reese's cups on the bottom and Hershey Bar on the top. Large mortar board is krispie rice treats on the bottom and foam board on the top all covered with fondant and painted blue with food coloring. Tassle is fondant with gold pearl dust.
This cake was for the graduating class of our local homeschool group. This was one of three cakes - Mandarin Orange Yellow, another was the same and the other was chocolate. (This was the only fully decorated one). Large mortar board bottom is krispie rice treats and top is foam board - all covered with blue fondant. Tassel is fondant with silver pearl dust and "HCA" plaque is hand-painted w/ food colorings and pearl dust. Small mortar boards are Reese's cups w/ a small piece of Hershey Chocolate Bar on top, then piped on tassels.
White Almond Sour Cream cake with green Swiss Meringue Buttercream icing and pink SMB for handles and trim.
Mark LOVES Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, so that's what he got! Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. For the filling we added chopped up Reese's cups to the chocolate buttercream. Blue is buttercream as well.
Forgive me for posting so many pictures of this one, but it was hard to show it in one or two. This was for a baby shower and the baby's nursery theme is Peter Rabbit. The plaques tell the story of Peter Rabbit. We had some very special help with this one. Our friends Shannon and Marcus (excellent artists) along with Cameron hand-painted (with food coloring) these gumpaste plaques. Cameron did the large hex on the top with the raised gumpaste Mother and Peter figures. It definitely ranks as one of my favorites. Cake- White Almond Sour Cream and raspberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream filling. Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream covered the hex cake. Vines and flowers SMB as well. Thank you so much Shannon, Marcus and Cameron for your outstanding artistry. We all learned a lot!
This was for our neighbor whose husband is a commercial pilot. They are having a boy and are decorating the nursery w/airplanes. The "flight plan" included: Flight No: (3 for 3rd child), Passenger (baby's name), Destination (our neighborhood name), Arrival (the due date), Pilot (mommy's name), Co-pilot (daddy's name) and Flight Attendants (sisters' names). Cameron again did a fabulous job on the plane. Cake is chocolate w/ chocolate buttercream. Other decorations fondant. (Flight plan printed on the computer!)
This was made for a presentation we had on the Founding Fathers. Chocolate mini-cupcakes topped with chocolate icing and then decorated with red, white and blue buttercream.
Cameron did another outstanding job on this gumpaste Macaw complete with birdseed. Chocolate cake/mocha buttercream and buttercream flowers.
For Marcus' b'day. Lessons learned from this one. Gumpaste needs a lot longer to dry for something this large. Since the shield had some drooping and cracking problems, we just consider it a "relic" shield - Ha! Also, we have a new favorite frosting thanks to Marcus. Chocolate cake (underneath shield) and cupcakes frosted with Mocha buttercream. 
