Movie Reel Cake

Author: Heather  //  Category: 3D Cakes, Birthday Cakes, Fondant

This cake was for a friend of mine who loves movies. It was vanilla cake with coconut buttercream filling and covered in fondant. The “reels” are fondant-covered cardboard, but everything else is edible, including the fondant popcorn.

Action!

Action!

It was quite tasty, although I had forgotten how much black fondant turns your tongue green!

Christmas Igloo Cake

Author: Heather  //  Category: 3D Cakes, Fondant, Party Cakes

Well this is a bit late in getting up, but better late than never, right?

A family of snowpeople celebrate Christmas.

This cake looked much better in person than it does in photos. You can’t see how the snow sparkled, but anyway I still like it. This was vanilla cake with white chocolate buttercream filling and frosting, and would serve around 15-20. Happy (belated) holidays everyone!

Calgary Flames Puck Birthday Cake

Author: Heather  //  Category: 3D Cakes, Birthday Cakes, Fondant

This was a birthday cake for a lad who loves the Calgary Flames. The puck cake is vanilla bean with vanilla bean filling, covered with fondant and with a fonant/royal icing logo on top.

Calgary Flames Puck Cake
Calgary Flames Puck Cake

Scorpion Birthday Cake

Author: Heather  //  Category: 3D Cakes, Birthday Cakes, Fondant

Well, this was my first ‘carved’ cake, though not my first in 3D. It came out beautifully, if a little bit creepy. This was created for a Scorpio who was celebrating a November birthday.

A 3D Scorpion Birthday Cake

A 3D Scorpion Birthday Cake

Side View of Scorpion Cake

The cake in the “base” was vanilla, with a vanilla buttercream filling, and the scorpion himself was also vanilla cake covered with fondant. The tail is made of fondant blocks, and the sand is made from graham crumbs. In retrospect, I didn’t give him the proper number of legs (it’s 8 PLUS claws, not including!) but nobody but me noticed ;)

I love this little cake. In the pictures it’s hard to tell but this would only serve around 10 people. I was able to turn this guy around in one business day, so it was an all-around win for me!

Volcano Birthday Cake

Author: Heather  //  Category: 3D Cakes, Birthday Cakes, Fondant, Party Cakes
This is a volcano cake I made recently for a very cool mad scientist-themed birthday party.
Volcano Cake for a mad scientist themed birthday party!

Volcano Cake for a mad scientist themed birthday party!

The lucky birthday boy has maybe the coolest parents in the world; they put dry ice in the top of the cake to create a smoking effect.

 

The cake inside is vanilla bean, with layers of strawberry filling for good measure, and covered with fondant. I wish I had gotten pictures of the volcano before I covered it with lava; it was really quite awesome. The lava is mainly royal icing, and has some piping gel in it for shine. The book is also made from vanilla cake with strawberry filling, covered with fondant and although it’s hard to tell in this picture, it is titled “Weird Science.” The test tubes are shot glasses I found coincidentally, and the mysterious scientific stuff oozing all over the board is coloured piping gel.
The volcano cake with dry ice smoke.

The volcano cake with dry ice smoke

 Although the lava is a little more day-glo than I had meant it to be, I think the whole thing is quite striking.