50th Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my boyfriend's Mom's 50th birthday.  There were only 6 of us celebrating so I made a small cake.  This was a 2-layer marble cake with chocolate ganache under fondant.  This was the first cake that I've made that I actually got to try.  I was so full from dinner that I only had a bite.  I thought it was too sweet, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it.  All in all, it came out great, and she loved it!! 

Painting Party

Palette Cake with edible paintbrush

Yellow Palette Cupcakes

Blue Palette Cupcakes

Red Palette Cupcakes

Half-sheet Cake: $75
Cupcakes: $25 per dozen 

I made these for a lady at work whose daughter is an aspiring little artist.  Her birthday party had a painting theme and I was asked to make a large cake with matching cupcakes.  I made some green cupcakes too but the picture wouldn't rotate for some reason.

Overall, I was fairly pleased with the outcome.  I have never made such a giant cake before and that was definitely a learning experience.  I had to do one side chocolate and one side white and then carve the shape out of both.  It took a while to get the shape that I wanted, but I think it came out pretty good.  I wanted to do a border that incorporated all of the colors on the cake, but I'm not too pleased with it.  It came out a little messy looking.  The best thing about the cake though was the paintbrush.  It came out exactly how I imagined it and it was actually easier than I thought it would be to make. When I delivered the goods, everyone was pleased, including the birthday girl which is the most important thing!!

Stitch Graduation Cake

1/4 Sheet Cake: $65

This is my first regular shaped cake.  It was half french vanilla, half chocolate with a lemon filling, a chocolate ganache topping, and fondant over that.

My favorite part about this cake is the tassel.  I got a clay extruder gun that does so many awesome things and I can't wait to do more projects with it.

This was also my first time doing ganache.  They claim that it helps the fondant to stay smooth, but I didn't see that, though that may have been due to the different cakes. I think I need to bake the cakes and freeze on one day, ganache the next, and then do fondant the day after that.  I've got another cake to do this weekend, so we'll see if that method works.