weekend cakes...

my weekend of cakes started out with this cupcake cake for Garrett - i've been making Garrett's cakes for years now - his mom always gets him a cupcake cake to share with his class too.....his cupcake cake this year was of the Rainbow Dragon from YuGiOh (another cartoon/card game i'm not familiar with).....his mom gave me the trading card & i was to try & match it.....i have to admit, i'm not thrilled with how this one turned out - my attempt to make it look radiant/glimmering/sparkly like the card, made it look more washed out than anything....but mom was happy when she picked it up on friday - so i was happy too ;0)

(garrett's bday cake is the dino one below)
this is 24 yellow cupcakes, decorated in butter cream icing & edible glitter

first up on saturday, was this Minnie Mouse cake for Riley's 1st birthday.....Riley's mom, Katrina, has been veeeerrrry excited about Riley's birthday & wanted the perfect girly cake to celebrate with.....this is 3 tiers of white cake, iced in butter cream.....i hand made Minnie out of fondant & the swags, flowers, bows & name plaque are made of fondant & gum paste.....the only thing not edible are Minnie's ears ;0)

next up on saturday, was this simple one for my niece, Deandra - i'd been trying to get Deandra to decide on a design for months....i talked with her over the phone, i sat down with her at the computer to look at my website & other cakes online, i'd asked her mom (my sis) to help her figure it out....and this is what she settled on....out of all the designs she could have chosen, she wanted "a flat cake with a picture of a dog on it" ~lol~ seriously, i let my nieces & nephews design their cakes, just like my own kids - the sky is the limit....but i guess she's just a simple girl.....her only specific request (every year) is that it b ALL chocolate! even if there has to be regular icing on it (like the dog picture - cause it needed to be a lighter color), there has to be chocolate icing underneath that ;0) so this is fudge chip cake, with chocolate butter cream icing - and just a tad of regular butter cream for the dog ;0)

on sunday, i first delivered Garrett's 6th birthday cake....he was having dinosaur themed party at the park....his mom requested a prehistoric cake, with a volcano erupting & dinos around....here's what i came up with.....it's 3 tiers of yellow cake, iced in butter cream.....the volcano is rice krispies, covered in fondant & the lava is butter cream.....i made the dinos & rocks from fondant & the leaves & ferns from gum paste
(you know that Jaden LOVED this cake - the only thing was, he said that i didn't make the spinosaurus correctly ~lol~ he said mine looked more like a lizard ~i love that boy!~)

and lastly, was my new fav.....i get really nervous sculpting human faces out of anything bigger than a little fondant figure.....they always end up looking a little deformed ~lol~
but i was proud of how this one turned out! :0)
sheena requested this cake for her hubby's surprise birthday party....chris LOVES Bob Marley (who doesn't, right?!)....he also loves peanut butter & so i made my very first peanut butter cake (after trying out some recipes to find one i liked)....it's PB cake, iced in butter cream & sprayed with edible color....the face is rice krispies, covered in fondant....the dreads are my dark chocolate fondant (that tastes like tootsie rolls)

i also loved that sheena didn't want the writing on the cake to take away from the design (i TOTALLY agree - sometimes the cake alone is enough & it doesn't really need happy birthday... written across it) - she requested i put this somewhere on the cake or board, but not on the top

thx for looking - i hope u all had a fab weekend!
♥sharon