Good Luck Janine!

So, I recently found out that my hair dresser, Janine, is moving!! I called her today to see if she could fit me in for a bang trim some time this week, and I was informed that her last day is Friday! How terrible is that! She is by far the world's greatest hair dresser and the sweetest person you'll ever meet. Luckily she's only moving less than an hour away, so I'll still be able to get my hair done by her. Yay!

I decided to make her a cake for tomorrow, as she managed to fit me in for my trim and I figured she'll probably have a bunch of desserts and what not on Friday. The cake is fudge marble with chocolate icing covered in white fondant. Everything is edible. The straightener is entirely made of fondant, as well as the round brush. The bristles in the round brush are tiny pieces of dry spaghetti though. I was going to also include a pair of scissors and a comb, but I quickly ran out of space!

Here's a side view of the cake. The border and the message are also fondant. The message reads "GOOD LUCK JANINE!" I'm so excited to give this cake to her tomorrow! I hope she likes it. I absolutely LOVE my Chi straightener! I think it's super cute and probably my favorite fondant creation. Thanks for looking!

Gift Box Cake

This is the fourth fondant cake I have made. It was a treat to myself for studying so hard for my psych final and stressing out over my sociology final assignment.

Ryan chose the colors, since they're my favorite, and I think they look great together. The bow's loops deflated quite a bit and I probably could have added more, but I decided that I was pretty tired and was happy enough with it to just leave it how it was. I also probably could have used gumpaste instead of fondant to ensure the loops would keep their shape but I mainly just wanted to use up the left over fondant that I had and to relieve any left over stress.

Over all, I am pretty happy with this cake's outcome. I think the colors go great together and it was a fairly simple cake to make and I had a lot of fun making it.

Audi Rings Cake

My boyfriend is a huge fan of his 2002 Audi A4 so for my third cake, I decided to do something related to that. I was too nervous to attempt a car at this stage so I figured the logo would be sufficient enough, and Ryan was more than happy when I told him my idea!

This is what the cake looked before we covered it in fondant. The original plan was to cut the middle of each cake out, but luckily I forgot to do that when I started icing the first cake. There are four flavours: (from right to left) french vanilla covered in chocolate icing, white with vanilla icing (Ryan's favorite!), chocolate fudge with chocolate icing and rainbow bit with vanilla icing.

Okay, you caught me! I didn't make those cakes from scratch, or any cake for that matter. I enjoy the decorating part a lot more than baking the cakes and I like the convenience, reliabilty and consistent results of cake mixes.

This is the final outcome of the cake and I think it turned out great! He posted it on an Audi forum and many people commented on how cool his girlfriend was. It was quite a hit with his family members as well.

The rings were made from gray fondant and then to make it silver, I mixed the silver lustre powder with some water (we don't have vodka, lemon juice, or clear vanilla extract in our house) and painted it on wish some paint brushes.

So far this is my favorite cake that I've made and definitely the one that we put the most effort into!

Bee Hive Cake

The Bee Hive cake was my second fondant cake. I absolutely love the little fondant bees! They are super easy and fun to make and not to mention incredibly adorable!

I wish I would have made more tiers that were not as thick and a pan that had a more cone-shaped or round top to make it have more of a bee hive look.

Overall, I was not too satisfied with this cake. I had quite a bit of trouble covering the cake with the fondant (I'm not at the stage where I can do it alone and Ryan was at work!) I ended up creating a fairly large hole near the bottom, and in attempts to hide it, I decided to make an entry for the bees. Unfortunately, the hole was quite large so the doorway turned out to look really unproportional. Plus the cake was pretty lop-sided! But that's okay, I'm still learning, right? The next one will be much better!

I sure did get a lot of compliments on these guys though! The black fondant was a little bit dry so the stripes were starting to crack, but I think they turned out very well regardless!

First Fondant Cake

I have always enjoyed baking and decorating cookies, cupcakes and of course cakes but have never tried decorating with fondant.. until now!

Being a huge fan of Ace of Cakes and The Food Network: Challenge, I was curious to see what one of my cakes would look like if I were to use fondant.

I found a recipe online for marshmallow fondant and it wasn't too hard to make so we decided to try making it from scratch rather than buy it.

I decided to start with an extremely easy design so I wouldn't get discouraged. It's not flawless, obviously, but I was really happy with how it turned out!