Mario Kart

Mario Kart Fans,  here's a cake for you. A vanilla star cake and a chocolate square cake make up the course. Big banana (one of the weapons in the game) is being used to support part of the track.  For the players, I simply printed images of the characters and taped them to toothpicks. This was for my gamer, my nerd, my love.

Train Birthday

My son loves him some trains. This is a big cake and if you don't want a lot of left overs I would scale it down a lot. The engine is three-layers of Pillsbury Funfetti cake with an ice cream cone filled with marshmallows, coffee sticks and Hershey bars for windows. The middle car is one square cake the coffee sticks to line the hole that I filled with Swedish Fish (I don't know any kid who doesn't like these gummy treats). The last car is a two-layer chocolate cake with Hersey windows and coffee sticks. The final parts were Oreo for wheels and Kit-Kat candy bars for the track.

Twilight Book

Yes, I'm not afraid to say "I love the Twilight books!" and so does my younger sister, Carrie.  So, when my little sis turned 20, it was a perfect match. This is made from two 13x9 cakes side by side and then shaped to make a book. I then wrote her favorite passage on the left and decorated the other side with chocolate squares, chess pieces, an apple and fruit by the foot as the book mark. It was one tasty read, I tell ya.

Cowboys Grooms

This cake was simple, but so challenging. The body of the jersey was a basic 13x9 and I shaped the sleeves from a 9-inch round. The hardest part of this cake would be the blue frosting. Royal blue is one of the hardest colors to make (right along with black and dark green). This was for the Wilbanks' wedding (I also did the wedding cake, you can see that here!).

Canon Camera

This has to be one of my favorite cakes I've ever made. A good friend of mine is a photographer so I used her Canon camera as a blue print. I made a 13x9 chocolate cake the set it up on its side and cut it to shape  it into a camera. I then went to the bakery inside Kroger, where they have this printer that you can scan an image to make into a frosting image and had them turn her picture into frosting for the photo and display screen on the back. I found a star candle that I used for the pop-up flash.

Motherboard

This was so much fun to make. Cardinal Tracking wanted a birthday cake for their programmers and developers. It is four 13x9 cakes. Two chocolate fudge and two vanilla with classic white frosting. For the chips, processors and other components I used Rollo, Kit-Kats, Wafer cookies and chocolate squares.

Mad Hatter's Hat

This six-layer cake was fun but also a challenge. It's a strawberry cake with milk chocolate frosting. To decorate it I used colored frosting, lollipops and a feather.

Rock Star Mics

These are microphone cupcakes I made for my son's 3rd birthday. They are ice cream cones filled with marshmallows and then topped with a cupcake. For the cord, I used Twizzler Pull-N-Peels, then sprinkled them with colorful sugar.