Pink Ombre Cake

The very talent Shelly Collins had a garden fairy vision that would make you feel like you were attending a tea party for the Queen of the Fairies. This was the sweetest little girls party I have ever seen, which was only fitting as it was for the sweetest fairy I know, 

the newly 3 year old Gwen Collins. 

Her mom Shelly had everything planned to a T and recruited my help to decorate an ombre cake for the festivities. If you don't know what ombre means, that's ok neither did I, it just means a gradient of color. It took some trail and error to get the perfect colors but it turned out perfect in the end, and even matched the ombre napkins on the table! 

  

Of course the cake was topped with sugar pearls lightly covered in pink pixie dust. You know, all you need is faith and trust, and... 

a little bit of pixie dust!

Happy Birthday Mom!

My mom is a pretty special lady so I wanted to make her a pretty special cake to celebrate the day when one of the most wonderful women in the world was born.

Her birth flower is the daffodil so I knew I wanted to incorporate in into the design. As I thought more about it my thoughts turned to spring, and vibrant colors, and fresh berries! I frosted the cake with a ribbon ruffles in a spring purple and topped the cake with 4 fresh daffodils I bought from the market the day before, so they would have a chance to bloom.



The cake it self was DELICIOUS!!!! I used a yellow cake mix and added a thawed bag of frozen mixed berries. It was such a simple addition to the batter and is probably one of my new favorite cake recipes. We served it with two creamy scoops of raspberry chocolate ice cream. It was the perfect combination.

Happy Birthday Mom, I sure love you!

Luck O' the Irish

What better day to "taste the rainbow" than Saint Patrick's Day! There were three main elements to create the look of this cake, the rainbow, leprechaun and pot o' gold. 

To create the rainbow I bought 3 large bags of skittles and and separated the colors in to bags. It sounds like a tedious job, but I was watching a great movie and it went really quick. When applying to the cake I followed the patter of the rainbow for color blocking. 

The little leprechaun's body and face are made of fondant and his hat and suit are out of butter cream. I rolled up little balls for his hands and just piped a large rod of frosting from his hand to shoulder to create the arms. For the rim of his hat I used a flat tip and then just kept piling up the butter cream to give the top hat it's height. 

The pot o' gold was baked in a coffee mug and cover with black fondant. I piped a big glob of frosting on top and cover it with gold tinted sprinkles. Finally I dusted the pot with gold luster dust to finish it off.

This was a fun colorful cake that I think was perfect to celebrate the luckiest holiday of the year.