Recent Cakes

We went on vacation so I hadn't had a chance to post my Red Fern Cake. It was supposed to be for a cake competition to raise money for the Children's Theatre. However, I had to make the cake 5 days ahead of time because the competition was while we were gone. Each cake was supposed to be the theme from a play the theatre had done in the past. My theme was "Where the Red Fern Grows".

I kept having difficulty with the fondant tearing, so before I finished the cake, I knew it wasn't going to be entered in the competition.

I had never painted on fondant before with a stencil. In my practice run it worked really well. Unfortunately, once I decided not to enter the cake, I needed my husband to deliver it to the Ronald McDonald House. He needed to leave before the paint dried, so I didn't get to see how it looked once dry. I believe the splotchy patches would have disappeared if I waited to take the pictures.

I modeled the puppies using a tutorial from Lorraine at Extra Icing on the Cake and pictures from Bev at Sugar Bloom Cupcakes. They still need some work but overall I was happy with the results. They are supposed to be laying the way that our two dogs used to lay together.

This cake was waiting for me when we got home from vacation. It is a WWE Championship Belt cake, which was a challenge for me. I don't know anything about professional wrestling and only had a couple small pictures to go off of. I ended up making a 9x13 rectangular cake and a 6" round cake and cutting them into the basic shape of the belt. I made the actual belt out of fondant and silver sugar then laid it over the cake. You can't tell from the picture, but the orange is actual gold.

I am learning a lot from all this cake making. I didn't charge enough for the WWE cake, I should have charged $10-$15 more than I did. I had no idea how time consuming the little patches would be. In the end though, it was a young single mom who ordered the cake and she may not have been able to afford a more expensive cake. I hope her son likes it.