Minion Cake with Cupcake

 I've always wanted to make this cake, and I knew that it would be perfect for my best friend Smink's birthday.! Even better- it's a pumpkin cake.! :D First, I mixed up the batter and baked one cupcake. Then, I baked three small 6 in round cakes with the leftover batter to form the minion body. After everything had cooled, I stacked the three small cakes on top of each other with a thin layer of icing between each layer. I chose the cake with the most pronounced dome for the top of his head, and slightly flattened out the two bottom layer cakes.

I iced the cupcake first, topping it with colorful candy coated pieces. Then, I iced the top 2/3 of the cake with yellow frosting, and the bottom 1/3 with blue for the minion's overalls. I rolled out a small amount of fondant flat and cut it out to make the eyeball. I used a small amount of dark brown fondant to form a pupil, to wrap around his head, to form overall buttons, and to cover toothpicks with to make hair. I piped out overall straps, and then formed arms and gloves using fondant. Turned out adorable.! :)

Easy Football Cake

 I made this simple football team themed cake for twins that were having a birthday- one loves the Steelers, and one is into the Panthers.

I iced the entire cake with black tinted frosting, and then used Panthers blue for Jaison's half, and Steelers yellow for Josh's half. I finished everything off by adding on football themed sugar decorations around the sides of the cake.

Juggalo Cake

 I made my friend Keli a Juggalo themed cake for her birthday- something to brighten the long work day.! As you can tell from the photo below, she was happy about it.! For those of you who don't know what a Juggalo is, Urban Dictionary describes a Juggalo as such:

"For the most part, an uneducated, pathetic excuse for a human being who listens to the group ICP who are bold enough to actually consider themselves musicians. People you see wearing "hatchet-man" accesories. They should not be allowed to reproduce, because that is too cruel to future generations. ICP isn't rap, it isn't metal, it isn't rap/metal, and it isn't horrorpop. There is only one way to properly categorize ICP; unnecessarily and unartfully offensive and obnoxious noise.

             used in a sentence: 

That juggalo is stupid enough to think that ICP is music."

Pancake Cake

Pancake Cake...!!!! Yay.!! :D I wanted to make another food themed cake for my good friends' collective birthdays- last year I made them a sweet cheeseburger cake. So I thought, who doesn't love pancakes.?! To make this stack of pancakes, first I baked two 9 in rounds of cake and let them cool. I stacked them on top of each other and covered them with a thin layer of icing. I used a rolling pin to flatten a large circle of cinnamon roll flavored fondant (I don't care for the taste of fondant, and prefer not to use it generally speaking, but this stuff was GOOD), and draped it on the top of the cake. Then, I cut long thin strips of fondant to circle around the cake to create a layered pancake effect. I watered down a small amount of brown food gel with in a cup, and used a paint brush to paint the surface of the pancakes. I also rubbed a paper towel over the surface to create a realistic look. I slightly flattened out three yellow starburst candies to use as pats of butter. I finished the cake up with a squirt of whipped cream, a cinnamon dusting, and a healthy dosing of butterscotch syrup.! Yum.!

Spacey Cake

 I made a space themed M shaped caked for my friend Mikal's birthday.! First I baked a 9 x 13 cake, and then cut the cake into strips to form the M shape. Next, I iced everything with dark blue tinted frosting that I covered with blue sparkles and dotted with silver stars.

To make the planets, I simply used a variety of colors to tint the icing and free handed everything. I used cocoa powder to make Mars appear dusty, and accented the flying saucer and the alien with black food gel. Voila.!