It’s hard to believe that my nephew Brian is already one!  We celebrated on Saturday at a great party held at my brother and sister-in-law’s house. I used the party plates as inspiration for the automobile crazed cake.  I may have gone a little bit overboard for the 20 person party – making enough cake for 50  Not to mention the 6 inch ‘Smash Cake’ I made especially for Brian to dig into fist first!  Here is a little play-by-play of Brian and his Smash cake…

1) Happy Birthday To ME! (Note the face is still clean).

2) Oh yeah….Mom doesn’t normally feed me this! 

3) Nobody is stopping me!  Yippy! 

This Almond Cake with raspberry filling was created for a bridal shower in New Jersey. It used the wedding colors of Pink and Green in its design. Sugarpaste sunglasses, compact and lipstick added some flair!

This monster truck replica is filled with oreos and cream in a white cake. The truck was constructed using rice crispy treats and fondant. The car and cake were both airbrushed.

This 3-tier wedding cake was for the Park Avenue Club and is a chocolate cake filled with raspberry chambord filling. Sugarpaste roses, petals and bands decorate the cake.

This sweet 16 cake was created for an enchanted forest themed party. Its three tiers of white cake are filled with chocolate, raspberry, and oreos & cream filling. The tree was created out of sugar paste and a wire frame. Its face was sculpted out of chocolate fondant.

Sugar paste butterflies were adorned with edible glitter and crystals.

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Hi, you make the most beautiful flowers! As someone new to this, can I ask – what’s the difference between fondant flowers, sugar paste and gum paste? I think you’ve mentioned each when referencing your flowers and I’m very confused. Thanks for any help you can give me, you truly are an artist!

Thanks for your interest! Sorry to have confused you! Gumpaste and Sugarpaste are basically the same thing. It is a edible sugar dough that is made with gum known as Gum Tragacanth which makes it easy to shape like modeling clay. It is stronger than fondant, and also dries more quickly. It is used for sugar flowers and decorations. Fondant is also a sugar dough but remains softer for longer -and is used mostly to cover cakes and for some decoration.

Hope this helps!

Anne

We created this designer bag cake for a bride’s shower. We also did her engagement cake, and will be making her future wedding cake as well!

How do you feel about printing onto a frosting sheet? I think you did it with the cake for your brother. (The 007 cake). Do you use a regular printer, or is your made for use with food? The idea of using a printer that is not made for food use scares me. Should I worry? What do you think?

HI Chris – thanks for your interest. I use a Canon Pixma iP3000 printer which is setup ONLY for food purposes. It uses food coloring instead of ink and frosting sheets instead of paper. It is perfectly safe and eater friendly. So there’s no reason to worry. You can read more about my frosting printer here.

This delicious chocolate cake is filled with mocha and chopped almonds.

The first tier is chocolate cake with peanut butter and the second is white cake with Oreos and Cream.

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