Cakes by Jessica

Cloche hat

2010-04-24T17:34:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for a LDS church youth activity. The theme was "Hats Off to You" and the colors were (obviously) pink and brown. I think it's the cleanest cake I've made. I'm pleased at how it turned out.

Birthday/Christmas cake

2009-12-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

I made this cake for my husband's birthday. He specifically wanted Christmas colors. It was a 4 layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting filling. Mmm!

My first wedding cake

2009-11-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

A nice girl at church took a huge risk and let me make her wedding cake. I made absolutely no money on the thing, but it was a great experience. Bottom tier was strawberry, middle tier was marble and the top was vanilla. Homemade fondant, too. Yes, it was a lot of work.

First Washington Cake

2009-10-27T19:47:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I haven't made a cake in months and months! This is the first one I've made in Washington. It was for a baby shower for a girl in my church.

2008-11-05T18:03:00.000-08:00

A sculpted lemon fondant baby shower cake I made with my friend. I thought it turned out pretty cute.

A buttercream and fondant birthday cake. Top tier is french vanilla and the bottom is chocolate.

I made this buttercream cake for a lady at my husband's work who won a pretty prestigious award. (All the words and numbers on the cake are terms that a medical coder would recognize and use on a daily basis.) I made the computer and keyboard out of gumpaste. I should have gotten a close-up of the keyboard, because you could see every little key!
Look at that free-standing monitor!

My first "branch"-y cake

2008-09-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a cake I made for that gorgeous 18 year old's birthday. You'll have to tell me if it looks sort of like the picture of the cake I posted previously.

The cute little vanilla cupcakes I made to accompany the red velvet cake!

Baby Shower cake

2008-09-20T15:37:00.000-07:00

Here is a cake I made for a girl whose mom goes to my church. It's a strawberry cake filled with vanilla buttercream and decorated with homemade vanilla fondant.
Detail of one of 20 gumpaste daisies I made.

Pretty, pretty cakes

2008-09-15T13:28:00.000-07:00

I've got two cakes orders coming up. I'm super excited to do them! I've got a picture of one:

This one is for a gorgeous girl's 18th birthday. I love working with gum paste and the color pink!

My cakes

2008-09-14T13:23:00.000-07:00

I love decorating cakes. Yes, it's an obsession. So I started a little business. I'm doing pretty well so far; not too busy, not too slow.
I'm starting this new blog to document all my cake adventures.

So this was my very first cake that I decorated. These next two cakes are decorated with fondant and fondant bows/ribbons. Love, love, love fondant!

This was my first foray into royal icing decorations. I thought it turned out pretty well, except the buttercream was not as smooth as I'd have liked. I'm practicing and getting better every cake! This is the top of the cake.

I made this fondant cake for a going away party at my husband's work. I love the colors and the retro look of it.

Not a big fan of doll cakes, but my class demanded we do one, and now that I have, I hope I don't have to again. Although I LOVE piping cornelli lace. It's one of my joys in life.

This Bear-coon cake has a long story attached to it, and I'm not going to write it out here. This was my first "novelty" cake. I piped a bazillion buttercream stars all over this sucker. My hand was pretty sore that night.
I made this cake for a Master Gunnery Sergeant in my neighborhood who was celebrating 22 years in the Marine Corps. Oo-Rah! I piped that Eagle, Globe and Anchor all my myself!
I made this cake (which is my favorite so far) for an adorable girl's 13th birthday party.
And so begins my caking adventures. I'll post all my cakes here for public perusal.