Nitti's 1st Anniversary

Another chocolate and pink cake, but this one was made with dark chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream icing. It actually turned out to be yum! I was not entirely proud of it, but here it is. I do like my gum paste callalilies that I made, not knowing what I was doing! I am getting ready to take my second cake class starting in November! Yay!

Erin's Birthday Cake

So, for my music-industry-loving friend, I made a new cake recipe and a new frosting besides buttercream! I really hated the Wilton chocolate buttercream recipe, so I found this AWESOME marshmallow chocolate frosting. Oh man is it good. It tastes like a melted s'more without the graham crackers. DANG good. Both layers of this cake were also baked into a melted brown sugar bottom which made it very moist. The inside of the two layers is a sweetened cream. YUMMY! Happy Birthday, Erin!

Becca's Bridal Shower Cake!

I got the honor of making a bridal shower cake for my friend Becca. Her wedding colors are lilac and dark purple. So pretty. I copied the shower invitation for the design, and made it shiny, which is why the pics turned out a little strange. It was a beautiful shower. The request I received was to make the same cake that I made for Kristen's wedding cake. So, it is white cake with cream cheese frosting filling and fresh raspberries. Unfortunately, I made twice as much as I needed to! Still working on understanding portions!!

Football Cake

I had a lot of fun/difficulty making this baby. First of all, I was silly and built it by myself, without a cake mold. I wont make that mistake twice! It fell apart and I had to rebuild it. It is four layers. It luckily turned out to be a football-looking cake that my one-and-a-half-year-old son looked at and said, "Ah-some!" (Awesome). I also had a few helpers this time. The above mentioned son of mine, a friend of ours who was staying over, and the cake owner's girlfriend. It was good times! The clean-up was lonely and not so good though... :)

Four-Tiered Wedding Cake

This was my very first wedding cake. Two layers are white cake, while the other two layers are chocolate. The filling on all four layers is a homemade cream cheese frosting with fresh raspberries. This cake fed about 300 people!

Holly's Baby Shower Cake

I got to make my first baby shower cake, and it was a polka dot theme! So, I did a simple funfetti two-layer cake (polka dots) and put pink polka dots all over it. I also made my second creation out of fondant, a little sleeping baby! I wasn't REALLY excited about how the baby's skin turned out, so I hope it's better next time, but I think it still looks cute!

Duncan's Birthday Cake

So, because of the opportunity to make someone's wedding cake, I got SOOOOOOOO much practice. I feel so much more able to make a really nice-looking cake now, and I'm so grateful! This cake was a BALL to make. I specialized it specifically to our dear friend who we call Dunk. He's an avid Florida Gator's fan, loves basketball, and loves running. He loved his cake.