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.
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
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 Cake for a mad scientist themed birthday party!
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.
Casey & Heather's Wedding Cake
Well I did it - I made my own wedding cake and lived to tell the tale. This monster is a 3-tiered vanilla cake, but each tier was hiding a different buttercream filling. The bottom tier was filled with lemon, the middle tier with chocolate, and the top tier was filled with (my personal favourite) coconut. The tiers were all covered in ivory or brown fondant, and all the details piped in brown or ivory royal icing. The lilies were all made from gumpaste and although I painted them, I did not make them myself. There just wasn’t enough time.
Cake Being Cut
The marbling on the middle tier was not part of my original design; I was going to cover this tier in solid brown and pipe on ivory dots. When mixing the fondant, however, the effect was too cool to ignore. As usual, there were some issues with the consistency of my royal icing, but I was able to make it work. I only tried a bite of cake on the wedding day, but we took home the top tier and I may have snuck a piece tonight. Delicious, and surprisingly moist. I hope the others fared as well.
I will post some other angles of this cake as I get pictures back, but overall I am really happy with how it turned out, and can say that making your own wedding cake does not make you crazy!
Cake at Home
Lego Birthday Cake
This cake was made for a little boy who quite loves Lego, from what I understand. It is designed to look like three pieces of stacked Lego. The yellow block was chocolate butter cake with chocolate buttercream filling. I tried a new recipe for this cake, from Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes book, and let me tell you it was divine. The other two blocks are vanilla bean butter cake, with vanilla bean buttercream filling. Also delicious, but not quite as good as the chocolate. All the blocks are covered with fondant.
Due to some issues with the bottom of the blocks, I had to put a border on them. Not my favourite part of the cake, but all in all it turned out quite well, and I hope the birthday boy loves it.