Welcoming Spring Cake and Grass Ruffle Tutorial
April 5, 2013 By 8 Comments
As featured on Half Baked – the Cake Blog ( www.thecakeblog.com), its the “Welcoming Spring Cake”! Maybe you could have guessed but I LOVE color and texture and a chance to combine the two? WOO! I get excited just thinking about it. I don’t often get the chance to play with buttercream textures but when I do, [...]
{Continue reading…}Class with Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet
April 2, 2013 By 6 Comments
I had the incredible honor of attending Jacqueline Butler’s (petalsweet.com) Peony and Sweet Pea class in San Diego this past January and as an added bonus, got to meet another of my favorite cakers, Stevi Auble of Hey There, Cupcake ( https://www.facebook.com/HeyThereCupcakes)! This was the first sugar course that I had ever taken and it [...]
{Continue reading…}Grace
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I was so thrilled to make this ultra girly pink birthday cake for Grace. Grace celebrated her birthday by going to a very special tea party and the family surprised her with this cake that evening. Grace’s Mommy had purchased a pink dress with rosettes for the birthday girl and I designed the figurine’s dress [...]
{Continue reading…}London’s Cake
March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For London I had the honor of making a baby shower cake for my dear friend, Erika. It was only fitting that I designed something very British since her and her husband decided on the name, London for their little girl. I was thrilled when I saw that Anne Heap of [...]
{Continue reading…}Cascading Puzzle Pieces Cake
October 23, 2012 By 4 Comments
This was the first wedding cake that I worked on in which I had no contact with the bride. A bridesmaid took care of all the arrangements. I wish I had gotten the opportunity to meet this bride. Maybe then I’d have an awesome story to share about the meaning behind a wedding cake [...]
{Continue reading…}Blue Poppy Cake
October 19, 2012 By 13 Comments
This is by far my FAVORITE cake. When I started the design process, this EXACT design is what was in my head and I couldn’t have been more excited that it came out exactly as I had hoped. I love designs including textured layers of cake and my hope was that this [...]
{Continue reading…}Painted Pansies Cake
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A friend of mine asked me to make a cake with pansies for their Mother’s birthday. Most of the pansy cakes that I had seen we’re pretty much designed in the same way. I wanted a pansy cake that had some “oomph”, and yet still had some class. I went with a version of [...]
{Continue reading…}Vintage Circus Spectacular!
October 16, 2012 By 5 Comments
You may not know this but I love making cakes. Who’d have guessed it, right? But there’s something you probably didn’t know. Louisiana doesn’t have a cottage law of any sort. Do you know what that means?! I can’t bake and sell cakes from home anymore. Isn’t that devastating?! I mean, seriously, what on earth [...]
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