COOL AND MODERN CAKES

Ninja Cake

2011-08-31T19:47:00.000-07:00

We made this ninja themed cake for a boy that turned 9 years old. It was a mint chocolate chip cake with white mint frosting. On the surface of the cake we spray painted the cake with silver candy spray paint in a graffiti-like pattern. The corners of the cake are decorated with chocolate ninja stars and in the center of the cake is one giant chocolate ninja we made from mint flavored chocolate.

Cake for Twins!

2011-08-31T19:21:00.000-07:00

My sister and I made these cakes for twin boys that were turning 1 year old. We were pretty excited since we are identical twins as well. Both cakes were white cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. We covered one in light green fondant and one in light blue fondant. We also made little safari animals and trees out of colored chocolate to decorate the cakes. To secure the chocolate onto the cake, we piped a little bit of frosting behind them and then we added white clouds to decorate the sides.

Chocolate Leaf Red Velvet Cake

2011-05-15T14:54:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for one of my teachers who is a big fan of red velvet cake. Because I prefer to make red velvet cake without fondant, I wanted to do something a little different for decorations so I made chocolate leaves. We have a tree at our house that has leaves that are smooth and perfect for creating chocolate leaves from. To make chocolate leaves, you melt chocolate and apply a layer on the back on the leaf, thick enough it won't crumble when you peel it off. Once the melted chocolate is on, let the leaves cool in the fridge until the chocolate is completely hard. I arranged the chocolate leaves so that I could put a piped rose in the middle. The outside of the cake is pretty simple, jut covered in a cream cheese frosting with a red shell boarder along the bottom.

A Visit to Carlo's Bakery!

2011-05-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

As big fans of the show Cake Boss on TLC, my sister and I went to visit his bakery in Hoboken, NJ during Thanksgiving break. After waiting a line several blocks long for two hours, we finally got inside. We only got a glimpse of Buddy (the Cake Boss) but we made sure we got some tasty treats to take home with us including lobster tails and cream puffs.

Fairy Garden Cake

2011-05-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for girl named Sarah on her 4th birthday. The theme of her party was fairy garden, so we created this cake after that theme. This is two tiers tall, each covered in green fondant. We used white cake, with chocolate frosting as a filling. By using strips of fondant, we created grass on the side of the cake. Using a flower tip, we piped pink flowers on and set toy tinker bells in the middle. We created red truffle chocolate roses, which we stuck to the side of the cake with icing. When the cake was fully decorated, we sprinkled edible glitter on top.

Baby Shower Cake

2011-05-15T13:40:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for our cousin's baby shower! The cake had to be unisex because the gender of the baby was a surprise. Two of our blocks were red velvet cake and the other two were carrot cake, both with cream cheese frosting. This was a difficult cake to stack so we created a base for each block from plastic, and inserted wooden dowels into the blocks on the bottom. We tried to use neutral colors of fondant and decorations. This cake was designed to look like building blocks a baby would play with. We decorated the blocks with fondant and icing, and pictures made out or fondant or chocolate. On top of the boxes, we made a bear out of fondant. Next to the boxes we created a train of colored chocolate and green truffle booties.

Red Velvet Cake

2010-10-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

This is a birthday cake that we made for our advisor Ms. Kolmer. This is a red velvet cake with a cream cheese frosting as the filling and covering the outside. She is a big fan of shoes, her favorite being cowboy boots, so we put a cowboy boot made of gum paste in the center. We piped red cream cheese frosting onto the cake using stencils we have as a guide. The cow boy boot is made of sugar gum paste and to color it we painted it with diluted gel food coloring.

Lacrosse Cake

2010-10-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for our friend Cooper who is a big lacrosse fan so he wanted a lacrosse themed cake for his birthday. We designed this cake after his helmet. This cake was triple chocolate with chocolate fudge frosting as the filling. It is covered in white fondant and black and red fondant cut outs to make the helmet. On the side of the cake are crossing lacrosse sticks which we piped on with decorating icing.

Graduation Cake

2010-10-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for our friend Liz for her graduation party. This is white cake with chocolate fudge frosting in the middle. We covered this cake in white fondant and then used different flower shaped cookie cutters to put green and blue flowers on it. To make the flower shaped fondant stick, we painted each back of the flower with egg whites. We were inspired to make this cake after looking at one of our favorite cake books called Cakes to Inspire and Desire.

Math Class Cake

2010-06-04T17:15:00.000-07:00

This week in math class we were assigned to bring in some sort of food with an algebraic theme. Of course Ariana and i chose to bake a cake! This cake is moist white cake with chocolate fudge icing. We put bright green fondant on top of that and used bright pink icing to make the large graph on top as well as the ones on the sides. We also decorated the sides with smaller chocolate graphs and made buttercream swirls to add a little more decoration. The bottom border is also done with buttercream icing. Hope you enjoyed this cake!

Happy Birthday Helen!

2010-06-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

We made this birthday cake for one of my lacrosse teammates. She said she wanted a lacrosse themed cake so we made two crossed lacrosse sticks on the top with decorative swirls. This cake is triple chocolate cake with fudge chocolate icing. We covered that with bright blue fondant and i rolled some green fondant into shapes of lacrosse sticks. All of the white is done with buttercream icing including the bottom border and the letters are cut from green fondant. We hope you like this cake!

Rowing Cake!

2010-05-29T15:25:00.000-07:00

This cake was made by Ariana and her crew mates with a little help from me for their end of the year crew party. This cake was bigger than moist that we make, but it had to feed a lot of people. The cake is made from mist white cake and chocolate fudge icing. That was covered in baby blue fondant. The crew shell (boat) was made from gum paste, a sweet, edible, moldable material. Then that was pained emerald green and gold, the colors of Pocock, Ariana's crew club. There is a lot of detail in this boat; seats, runners, foot stretchers and riggers. The oars even have the design that the clubs real oars do. The Pocock club symbol is in each corner and was made from colored buttercream icing. The gold medals are made from caramelized sugar and the waves in the water are buttercream icing. Great job Novice Girls' Rowing!

Congratulations Clay!

2010-05-29T15:13:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for one of our friends when he won ASB president! For this cake we incorporated our school colors (Blue and Green) and our school mascot, the puma. This cake was made with moist white cake and creamy chocolate icing. We covered that with bright green fondant and cut out a blue paw print. We also cut out little blue balloons for the sides with gold ribbons. The letters we cut from white fondant and we bordered the paw print and base with buttercream icing. Congrats Clay!

Happy Mothers' Day!

2010-05-29T15:06:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for our mom on Mothers' Day. This cake was delicious, it had a chewy brownie bottom, then rich chocolate cake with a cookies and cream frosting filling in-between! It was iced with the same cookies and cream frosting and drizzled in milk chocolate. We put chocolate chips all along the sides and drizzled those with even more chocolate. Then we bordered and top and bottom in chocolate fudge icing and put Oreos on the top edge! Happy Mothers' Day Mom!

Happy April and May Birthdays!

2010-05-29T14:59:00.000-07:00

Because of spring break we didn't have time to make both an April and May cake, so combined them! Our theme was rain drops and flowers. This cake was moist white cake and buttercream icing. We then covered it in sky blue fondant and cut out darker blue rain drops. We also added pink and red swirly flowers on the sides. Our border on the base was bright green buttercream icing made to look like grass. The letters were cut from blue fondant and put on a white cloud. We hope you enjoy this cake!

Happy Birthday Dad!

2010-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:00

This cake was a little different from most of the others that we do because it didn't have any fondant. Unfortunately Ariana likes white cake better that chocolate cake, but this time because its my dad favorite, we make a delicious chocolate cake. It was covered in creamy chocolate fudge icing too. We did use some buttercream icing to add a shell border to the bottom of the cake, and add more detail. We also colored some of the buttercream icing blue and green to add little flowers for decoration! I won't tell you how many candles we ended up putting on there, but we had quite a blaze going :)

Happy March Birthdays!

2010-05-29T14:49:00.000-07:00

This month our march birthday cake was St. Patrick's Day themed. This cake was made with moist white cake and creamy chocolate icing. We covered that with bright green fondant and but out the rainbow beams from a variety of fondant colors. The base is bordered in chocolate icing and the letters on the top were written in chocolate icing. Our pot of gold beneath the rainbow was cut from black fondant, with gold fondant pieces. Hope you liked this cake!

Tolo Cake!

2010-05-29T14:42:00.000-07:00

Normal people would just ask, but Ariana had to find a creative way to ask a guy to Tolo :) So of course she decided to make him a cake. This guy is a huge Huskies fan, so she made him a purple and gold cake. She also made it in the shape of a football, similar to a previous cake we made for a teacher. This cake was moist white cake and chocolate icing, then covered with royal purple fondant and gold football laces. She wrote out the words in gold buttercream icing. Thank goodness he said yes, but otherwise i would have eaten it. Hope you liked this cake!

Dany's Birthday Cake!

2010-05-29T14:31:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for our friend Dany who is a huge fan of musicals. We make her a cake with music notes on it to express her love of music. This birthday cake is made with moist white cake and creamy chocolate icing. We covered that with royal blue fondant and cut out bright green music notes. We put those all over the cake with cut out bright green letters too. Happy birthday Dany!

Happy February Birthdays Everyone!

2010-05-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

Every month we make a cake for all of our class mates that have a birthday in the month. Normally our cakes have a theme that has to do with the month, so we chose Valentine's Day. Like the majority of our cakes, this one is made with moist white cake and buttercream icing. We the covered it in vibrant red fondant and cut our pink hearts for decoration. The hearts are bordered in buttercream icing, as is the large heart at the top. Each letter is cut from white fondant, and we bordered the bottom in white icing as well. Hope you enjoyed this cake!

Basketball Cake!

2010-05-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for Ariana's basketball end of the year party! It has two layers of moist white cake and buttercream icing. We carved this cake so that it would be rounded, like a basketball. We then covered it with bright orange fondant and piped black icing in a pattern of a basketball on top of that. Every player's name was written on this cake as well. We hope you like this cake!

Football Cake!

2010-02-01T20:35:00.000-08:00

This is a cake that we made for a teacher at our school named Mr. Creach who really likes football and is an awesome teacher! It is moist white cake with buttercream icing. I cut the cake it a football shape and then I covered it in brown/orange fondant and white fondant stripes, attaching them with egg whites. Because this cake was small instead of using fondant cut-out letters I piped the writing on with white frosting. This cake was small and quick to make and hopefully I will make more like this in the future!

January Cake

2010-01-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

This is the cake we made for all of the January birthdays. We made it from white cake and buttercream frosting and then covered it is blue fondant. On the sides of the cake are white fondant leaves with blue pedal dust and edible silver balls. Written on top of the cake it says Happy January Birthdays that we wrote with our new fondant alphabet cut-outs. Above are some pictures of the process of creating the cake.

Winter/Christmas Cake

2009-12-27T18:00:00.000-08:00

We made this cake on Christmas for our family. It's white cake with buttercream frosting and covered in fondant. We used snowflake cookie cutters that we received for Christmas to make snowflakes, and fondant cut-out letters to write Merry Christmas. To stick the fondant together we use egg whites and painted it on with a small paint brush. Also on this cake are edible silver balls that we stuck to the fondant snowflakes using decorating icing.

Shakespeare Cake!

2009-12-15T21:34:00.000-08:00

This cake we made for our school bake-off! Our school was performing a play called The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) so we made a cake that looked like a Shakespeare book. This cake is white cake with buttercream frosting. What we did to make it look like a book is make two layers of cake and carve it into a book shape and cover it with frosting. We let the frosting cool and put white fondant on top of that. We decorated one page with a picture of Shakespeare (that our school used on the play posters) and piped it on with black icing. On the other page we just wrote the name of the play and then we made a red bookmark drape down the middle. We ended up winning the bake off and getting our grade some class points! This cake was challenging to make but in the end it was worth it.