Foodie Friday - CAKE MANIA!

I love to bake and have been experimenting with different types of cakes and frostings etc. Here is a sampling of a few cakes I have made for family & friends.

These were Petit Fours for a Baby Shower. If you missed that post you can see the rest of the details here: http://www.thebloomgirls.com/2009/04/baby-shower-simple-but-elegant.html

I used a box white cake for these and baked them on a parchment lined jelly roll pan. Then I used a cookie cutter to cut out circles, covered them in "simple syrup" then iced them with a thin layer of white confectioners icing. Next I iced only the tops in blue/yellow thicker icing. They were wonderful!

A diaper cake! Not edible but it's a cake!
My husband is from North Carolina and a huge Tar Heels fan. This was his birthday cake.

This cake was for a day care center party where one of my older daughter worked. School was about to start and they were "kissing summer vacation goodbye" :)

I used brown sugar for sand, gold fish crackers, teddy grahams, fruit by the foot, Gel icing, gummies, cocoa puffs, hersheys chocolate treasures, etcHere is the back of the cake. Anyone for snorkeling?
This cake was made for a friends birthday. It was a 7 up cake with a lemon filling! To die for!

My good friend's daughter turned sixteen a few weeks ago and asked me for this cake. She said she wanted hot pink with zebra stripe topped with aqua. She wanted fondant. I made homemade marshmallow fondant and used gel colors. It took quite a bit of color to get the black and this shade of hot pink. I had to tie all these colors together somehow so I made some flowers.

My friend bought some tiara's to put on the top.

Here is what it looked like before the toppers.

Every year from the time I was born, my mother made the same cake for my birthday. It was a home made angel food cake with little sprinkles in it. She would frost it with the marshmallow icing from the red and white checked cookbook and top it with pink sprinkles. Since she is gone, I have carried on the tradition and make this for my girls at times.

For Madison's third birthday we did a fairy party. I took cupcakes to her day care the day of her birthday.

We used a fairy theme for her "Big Party" and I made this cake. Everything on the cake was edible except the fairy dolls. If you want to see more details about this cake, please see this post: http://www.thebloomgirls.com/2009/04/fairy-party.html
These are cupcakes I made for a pirate birthday party. I used brown sugar for sand, hershey's treasures to make the chests, a dab of icing and some yellow sprinkles for gold! The kids loved them.

This is a cake I made for an engagement party. It is iced with Buttercream icing and covered in fondant pearls. I rolled fondant in a few different sizes and then coated some with white pearlized lustre dust and some in silver. This cake was three different flavors and filled with bavarian custard, strawberries, banana's and raspberries.

A HUGE thank you to Michael at Designs by Gollum for hosting another delicious foodie Friday!

Have a SWEET weekend!

Karyn