Specialty Marzipan Cake

26 Jun

This cake was specially created for a customer’s European taste. It is two layers of white cake with a hazelnut buttercream filling and icing. Then the cake is covered in marzipan – a delicious European almond paste. The miniature blossoms … Read More »

Specialty Water Lily Cake

21 Jun

This specialty water lily cake I made for a class I took about gumpaste. The cake might look a bit crowded but I tried to implement so many of the new techniques I learned. To cover the cake I marbled … Read More »

Specialty Father’s Day Cake

20 Jun

This special cake I made for my dad, but also for a lunch that was served at our church honoring all fathers. It’s a hazelnut cake with hazelnut buttercream, covered in marzipan. The piping decorations are from chocolate buttercream.

Chocolate Fudge Specialty Cake

13 Jun

This Chocolate Fudge Specialty Cake  is a slight variation of my regular chocolate cake. It is a little bit denser in texture and richer in flavor. I torted this cake into four layers and have two layers of raspberry filling … Read More »

A Dream of Chocolate

28 May

This 2-tiered cake I made for a customer whose husband is turning 50. The top tier is marble cake with chocolate buttercream filling and the bottom a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The whole cake is iced in chocolate buttercream … Read More »

Specialty Mother’s Day Cake

10 May

This is a cake I made for my mom for this year’s Mother’s Day. I started experimenting with marzipan. So this white cake with raspberry filling is covered in pale pink marzipan and decorated with dark red marzipan roses and … Read More »

Specialty Gumpaste Flowers

8 May

Finally I get to writing about gumpaste flowers. Gumpaste is a sugar dough to which a type of gum has been added. Karaya gum or gum tragacanth are just an example. The added gum makes the dough more pliable and … Read More »

Elegant Specialty Bow Cake

13 Apr

This specialty cake covered in light blue fondant with a mint green wavy border on the bottom. The elegance of this created by the bow arrangement in matching green on top from which a daisy-patterned veil is flowing down the … Read More »