Monday, December 21, 2009

Cakes for boys.

The cakes I decorate tend to have a lot of flowers on them. Which I love. So I've been having a hard making appropriate cakes for men. Below are ones I made specifically for persons of XY chromosomal type.

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This was a six inch yellow cake with vanilla-flavored butter cream frosting I made for my (former) co-worker's teenage son who loves basketball.

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This was an eight inch white cake with almond-flavored butter cream frosting. The stripes are made of one-inch wide strips of fondant.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Tier cake

Here's a recent cake I made that I'm particularly proud of:



This is my first true tier cake which I made for my now-former co-worker Lisa's last day. The bottom tier is 8" inches across, the middle is 6" and the top is 4".