Tiffany blue color cake with a pink peony

My client requested a Tiffany blue color cake with a peony. This cake is for her sister's birthday and she loves this shade of blue. I love the combination of blue and pink so I decided on a pink sugar peony.

Double barrel twine cake with magnolia flower

This cake had a lot of firsts for me. It was my first double barrel cake, my first time using twine on a cake and my first sugar flower.

Jiu JItsu cake!

This very special cake is for my oldest brother who now holds a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu. The cake is a surprise and it was a big hit at his surprise birthday party!

I don't have much experience with gumpaste figures but with the help of a Craftsy class, I was able to create something cute.  

I liked everything about this cake, my brother in his favorite color uniform, his dog biting his opponent's leg, but my favorite part of this cake is the gumpaste figure on the mat. His face expression is hilarious while his arm is locked in an arm bar. 

Teal buttercream cake and red sugar peony

This is my first all buttercream cake.. I  exclusively use swiss meringue buttercream for all of my cakes and never american buttercream. It's simply too sweet for my taste.

My customer does not like the taste of fondant so she requested an all buttercream cake. The cake design she wanted could only be achieved with all american buttercream and she was informed of the sweetness of this type of icing.

Roses and Watercolor

Pink is not my favorite color and in fact I rarely make a pink cake. But when requested I use it subtly. 

Watercolor color is one of my favorite techniques. There's really no right or wrong way to do it & gives your cake that extra wow it needs.

Brush Embroidery and Sugar Peony Cake

I absolutely loved making this Peony! This is my first successful wired sugar Peony thanks to the godfather of sugar flowers Nicholas Lodge. Every sugar flower artist knows how valuable it is to use good quality gumpaste. His recipe makes a world of a difference. I'm able to roll the the gumpaste quite thinly without tearing. I used Satin Ice before and was always unsuccessful with wired petals. I'm never going back to commercially made gumpaste. Thanks Nicholas Lodge!

Last time I used brush embroidery technique was over a year ago when I just started cake decorating. So rusty at it and I had to it over a handful of times. I definitely need to practice my piping skills. Overall, this cake turned out beautifully!

Mom's hat box cake with sugar roses

I had originally planned on making my mom a Chanel Classic Flap cake. But I've seen a lot of them lately and wanted to create something else. For my mom's 63rd birthday I made her a hat box cake and boy it was a hit!