Alex is 1 - Farm themed first birthday & smash cake!

I've never met Alex, but his mother is a colleague of mine.  Alex isn't quite old enough to decide what kind of fabulous, awesome, fun birthday cake he wants, so his mom decided on a farm theme (similar to my little guy's 2nd bday cake).  She requested a sheep, a pig and a family of ducks with a farm themed cake - my signature chocolate cake with cookie-cream filling and vanilla buttercream.  Of course, she also needed a SMASH cake for little Alex.  I can't wait to see some photos of the little guy tearing into his first cake!

Here is the cake - The red barn is a sugar sheet and the rolling hills are SatinIce fondant, everything else is buttercream.

Gumpaste sheep sitting in the buttercream grass

Gumpaste mommy & baby ducks quacking around a buttercream pond.



Gumpaste piggy rolling in chocolate mud.


And here is Alex's "SMASH cake" - he gets this one all to himself, to smash like a birthday boy should on his first birthday! 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!!

Pocket watch birthday cake

Brendan just turned 9 and apparently really likes cool old things, like pocket watches.  His grandmother lives next door to me and came over a few weeks ago to ask whether I could create a pocket watch cake for Brendan's birthday - which was on Christmas Eve. I knew I had the date open, but I was somewhat stumped when I started of thinking of how to incorporate a pocket watch into a cake design.  Brendan's grandparents had purchased a pocket watch for his birthday gift and gave me photos to work from.  A pocket watch and the number 9 highlighted somewhere on the cake so it stands out - the rest was up to me.

I made Brendan's pocket watch out of gumpaste, using food coloring markers for the details and Styrofoam for the inside structure.  The cake is my signature chocolate with cookie cream filling, topped off with vanilla buttercream. 

   

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENDAN!