Hot chili peppers cake

This was a quick last minute cake I made today for my mom's friend. She asked for a plain cake. What is a plain cake? Give me an idea and I'm going to immediately over complicate it and come up with several different ideas and concepts to add to it. Chili chocolate cake.?! What colors.?! What can I add to plain? How plain??

 So, while this cake was technically simple, it was a good lesson in reigning myself in when applicable. Simple is not bad. I decorated the cake by piping some chili peppers and flames with icing colored with food gel.

Paisley design airbrushed cake

Ohmygosh.! So my best friend recently gifted me with an airbrush kit (😁😁😁) and being a crazy cake person, decided to take advantage of the freak spring blizzard by christening my airbrush.!

So I decided to make a chocolate Oreo cake with mint icing, because...Why not.?! I didn't have any fondant- I can't wait to use the airbrush on a fondant cake- but had a great time playing with my new decorating tool! I layered purple with pink and blue because I like those colors. 

 

 Looks pretty sweet, right.?!

 Then, I decided to pipe random Paisley designs with black icing because I like them.! I started with a simple flower outline and expanded outwards with swirls and loops and other accent shapes and dots.

 Edible sugar pearls made the cake really pop.! Love it. :)

Mario Cake

 My favorite little muffin just turned 5 years old.!!! Can't believe it. So of course I had to make him a Mario cake. He's been into Mario everything since I gave him my old n64 and games.

 This little goomba is the first figure I made for the cake.! I shaped him out of gumpaste tinted with food gel.

 Mario and Luigi I traced using royal icing. It makes decorations that can be more detailed but are very fragile.

 Here's my little sweet pea! He loved his cake!

 Here we are enjoying his party!

Weight lifting cake

 I made a weight lifting cake.! I first baked the cake in 3 different round pan sizes, then cut the domed top off of each using a serrated knife to ensure a flat stacking surface. I made chocolate icing with a lot of cocoa powder so I would only have to add a small amount of black food gel to achieve a dark black color for the weights.

I used gumpaste tinted with a small amount of black food gel to form a grey weight holder clamp and the edge of a weight lifting bar. Gumpaste is an edible clay-like substance that hardens and is perfect for creating custom decorative figures. I piped on corresponding kg details for each weight, and a happy birthday message on the side of each weight!

UNC basketball cake

My cousin loves basketball and UNC, so I made him a UNC basketball cake! I made two 9 in round cakes and a cake in an oven proof pyrex bowl to form the basketball part. I piped netting around the bottom of the cake and accented the border with blue and white candies.

 Happy 26th birthday Chrissy!!!  🎂😊🍻🎁🎈

Beer Mug Cake

I created this Beer Mug Cake for my friends' birthdays! First, I made a Guinness chocolate cake .! which I baked in four layers of 6 in rounds. In between each layer of cake, I drizzled a liberal amount of caramel topping and added a layer of Guinness buttercream icing as well. I piped vertical lines of dark chocolate Guinness buttercream icing around the mug cake, and used an offset spatula to distress those lines and simulate an oversized mug of beer.
                                                   

I piped large rosettes of creamy foam-like icing over the top of the beer mug cake. I molded a handle out of gumpaste, and used gumpaste as a surface to further decorate the mug and write Prost! (Cheers in German) and Happy Birthday using food-safe markers. I covered a wooden dowel with dark brown tinted gumpaste that I attached to an empty Guinness bottle and let fully dry before inserting into the mug cake in order to create the illusion of pouring a beer into an oversized mug. I accented the finished product with additional caramel drippings and bits of "foam" and "beer".!

Rustic love birds wedding cake

 My sweet friends Olivia & Joey tied the knot today.!! They had a gorgeous rustic wedding with touches of dark purple and burlap, and a love birds theme.

 I made a delicious hummingbird cake and assorted cupcakes.

 First, I applied a thin crumb coat of cream cheese icing and let it set in the refrigerator. Then, I piled on additional icing using a spatula to create a rustic, textured look.

 I added thin ribbons of burlap around the base and middle of the cake to further tie in the rustic theme.

 Olivia bought this adorable love birds topper- it matched perfectly! Too cute.

 I used gumpaste (an edible clay-like substance) mixed with purple food gel to form the roses. I also used pearl accents and covered the flowers with a dusting of glittery disco dust for some extra bling.!

I finished the cake off with sprigs of baby's breath. We used a burlap bird runner and a variety of wooden crates and stands to display all the baked goods. We had a gorgeous, perfect day! I'm glad I could be a special part of my wonderful friend's wedding day 💒💑😘💞💍