May
17
Banners on a cloudy sky
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De asked me to make a cake for her son Jacob’s wedding shower/reception. Jacob’s wedding was in Fulton, MO and many friends and family members would not be able to make the journey to attend the wedding. To understand the concept behind this cake, you need to understand how Jacob proposed. He hired a pilot to fly an airplane carrying a banner that said, “Gwendolyn, I love you. Will you marry me?” De’s first idea was to make a plane out of cake and it could have a banner behind it. Read more
Apr
26
Vegas Sign Cake
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My aunt asked me to make this one. One of her coworkers was getting married in Las Vegas and so she and other coworkers threw a party for her before she left. Her idea was to make a cake to look like the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign. Read more
Apr
1
Truck Cake
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This cake was for a 5-year-old’s birthday party. I decided to have it look like it was sitting on the wheels with space beneath the body of the truck. To do this, I used foam board and cut out the shape of the truck and set the cake on the foam board. Then, beneath this board I placed four or five layers of foam board. These layers were cut in a rectangle smaller than the cake base. I taped them together and wrapped them in black construction paper. Read more
Mar
7
Dragon Cake
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This idea came to me after seeing baby dragon cakes. I thought it was something I could probably pull off. The monthly Boys’ Night Out at church was coming up and it seemed like a good enough excuse to make a cake. Read more
Jan
1
Lamade Stadium Cake
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This cake has been calling out to be made for months now. My New Year’s Eve party gave me excuse enough to build it. Howard J. Lamade Stadium is where they hold the Little League World Series every year in August. I made a version of the stadium in cake. Read more
Nov
30
Recruiter Badge Cake
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- Recruiter Badge
Oct
11
Fender Stratocaster Cake
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So my sister called me up on Saturday asking if I would make a guitar cake for her stepson’s birthday. He wanted a guitar cake and he wanted it to be red. I thought about it for a bit and called her back to say I would do it and to get some details. He wanted it to be a Fender Stratocaster and it needed to be done in a week.
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Oct
5
S’mores… on a stick
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- S’more on a stick
So I got this idea from the Gertrude Hawk store at the local mall. They had three marshmallows on a stick. They were dipped in chocolate and rolled in graham cracker crumbs. They were pretty good and so I decided to try to make them myself. My variation was slight: I went with only one marshmallow per stick and I used toothpicks as the sticks. So here’s how I did it: Read more
Sep
11
So I saw this episode of one of Paula Deen’s shows on food network and she made this chocolate layer cake with a cheesecake filling. Well, that just looked too good. So I made one the other day. Read more
Jul
25
Mach 5 Cake
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A few weeks ago, I decided to try some fancy cake decorating like they do on Ace of Cakes. Keep in mind that I’ve never done such a thing. Previously, my cake decorating experience involved slathering some icing over a square or round cake. Sometimes I would write “Happy Birthday” or some such nonsense on the cake. But this is a whole new adventure. I had planned on carving a cake, covering it with fondant, and decorating it up so that it looked like Speed Racer’s car, the Mach 5. On Friday, July 11, was a birthday party for a boy at my church who was turning 9 and he was a fan of Speed Racer. So this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. I spoke with his mom about it the Sunday before and she assured me that there would be a back-up cake just in case. Read more