May Cake

My niece wanted a hobbit themed cake.  She was asking for one way before it was time for her birthday.  So, what is an Aunt to do but make her niece what she is asking for.

 The hobbit house is chocolate cake dirty iced in chocolate buttercream.  I then covered it in marshmallow fondant.  I made rocks and a path out of gray fondant, and piped in buttercream grass using the Wilton grass tip.

  Bilbo is made of a wire frame covered in fondant.

 

Gandalf is made of a wire frame and covered in fondant as well.  His staff was a kebob stick cut down and covered in fondant.

April Cakes

April brought another birthday and Easter.

My brother had his birthday this month.  He loves hunting and fishing.  My husband and him went to a gun show, and they saw a poster.  My brother commented that he liked it.  So, a cake idea was born.

 

Here is the poster.

 

Here is the cake.

It is a strawberry cake dirty iced in strawberry buttercream.  I then covered the whole thing in marshmallow fondant.  I created a stencil and I airbrushed it with red.  I took a toothbrush that hadn't been used yet, and flicked the same color on the cake for the splatter.

For Easter, we went to a family reunion.  They were having a cake walk so I whipped up a cake real quick.

 

I used a simple white cake that was dirty iced in buttercream.  I then took marshmallow fondant and covered the cake.  I made grass for the sides and I used Easter cookie cutters for the rabbit and carrots.

 

March Cakes

I made two cakes in March.  One was for my sister-in-law's birthday.  She requested a hobbit cake.  She wants me to do a hobbit house for her daughter's birthday in May so she wanted something different than that.  I decided to make a book.

 The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream.  I thought about using the leftover maroon fondant from my mom's cake in February, but I decided to make green instead.  I put a strip of white fondant around the cake for the pages.  I used a fondant tool to add lines, and I used luster dust and cocoa powder to age the pages.  I added some fondant strips on the binding before I covered the whole cake in the green fondant.  I then etched in the lettering and J. R. R. Tolkien's logo.  After that, I painted the letters and the binding with a paste made from vodka and gold luster dust.  My sister-in-law really liked her cake.

The next cake was for my niece's 2nd birthday.  Her mom asked me to make a 'Melmo' cake.  So, I started by searching for inspiration.  I found the following Elmo Cake and used the same color scheme modifying my final version a little.
 

 The cake was white confetti cake with buttercream frosting then covered in yellow fondant.  I used cookie cutters for the big and little Elmos, stars and two.  The letters for the name were cut by hand. 

February Cakes

I made two cakes in February.  Sorry it's taken me so long to post them.

My daughter turned 8 in February, and has been obsessed with Winx Club.  It's an older cartoon that is on Netflix.  She really wanted a Bloom Cake.  So, I got to work designing it.

 

 

     The inside is a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream.  The outside is marshmallow fondant.  To get Bloom just right I cut out each color section and overlaid it on an image I had downloaded from the internet.  I then transferred them onto my cake and outlined them with black buttercream.

 

My mother also had a birthday in February.  She is a quilter so I ran with that theme.

 

 

     The cake was a white cake with buttercream icing which was then covered in fondant.  I colored the quilt pieces to maroon because that is my mom's favorite color.  I cut out numbers with a cookie cutter and sandwiched a lollipop stick in between.  All the maroon pieces were then detailed with a fondant tool I had. 

 

November Cakes

There were a lot of cakes in November.  Definitely a busy month for us.  We have three birthdays in our family alone.  Only one of the cakes I did was for our birthdays, though.  The rest were for clients.

First up the fun ninjago cake.  My son loves Kai of the Lego Ninjago cartoon series.  So, we just had to have a Kai cake.

 

Kai is a strawberry cake with buttercream icing overlayed with red fondant with yellow and black accent fondant pieces.

 

The next cake is an under the sea cake for a friend from church.

 

This cake is all buttercream.  I used my airbrush to color the whole cake blue.  I then used several colors of buttercream to make the fish and sea live.  The purple plant was done using the petal technique.  I will show you another cake soon where I used this same technique.  The rest was just made with several different wilton tips.

More November cakes to come soon.

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