Ruffled Wedding Cake

20 batches of cake, 4 cont. dye, 20lbs of fondant, and quite a few hours later...
None the less was a fun cake to work on!

Was my white cake each layer of cake was cut into two and filled with raspberry goodness.

I suppose the most challenging thing for me on this cake was to get the roses and rose petals to the "perfect" color! I had dyed the gumpaste and let it sit overnight, four times! Each time at the end it was "perfect" but by the next day was a completely different hue! Hoping to get a closer picture of the flowers eventually:)
Something about being the maid-of-honor and not thinking of getting any shots of the cake.. totally dependent on others. 

Thankful I could do this for my sister and even more thankful it was what she was looking for:)
Can't promise, but I hope there are more pictures for me to share later!

Pumpkin Crunch Cheesecake

So this is what Chris & Jenelle ordered from Rach's Cakes - PUMPKIN CRUNCH CHEESECAKE - for their wedding.

So for 215 ppl there were 22 recipes made... was a lot of fun once I got the system down! However when I was on recipe four the oven censor decided to act up and I lost several cakes... wasn't long before Mr. fix-it showed up and we were on the move again!

This picture doesn't do the cake justice - you can't see the flavor:) There are three layers of a rich pumpkin cake with a thick layer of cream cheese all layered with a brown sugar, walnut, butter, graham cracker mixture... encased in cream cheese and the crunch layer again! 

Thankful for how these turned out - not to pretty looking here in the picture, but they were sliced and plated!

Congratulations to my dear sister and newest brother:)

Soccer Birthday

It seemed that it was during the busiest time of summer I got the most amount of orders for cakes... isn't that life!! So many nights after everything else was done and everyone was in bed I found myself working on cakes! 

This was one of those after midnight cakes - customer was happy. I still see all the imperfections, but like one of my instructor has said - there comes a time were you just have to embrace the imperfections in the cake... they will make the cake unique (taken in the right way of course). Still my aim is for perfection!
This was just my chocolate cake filled with a rich chocolate pudding and fresh raspberries!

Happy Birthday Mikes - hope you had a most enjoyable day! Love you!