Monday, October 31, 2011

Dia de los Muertos: La Novia (The Bride).

Cake created for the Day of the Dead. She is Red Velvet Cake with Vanilla Buttercream and Fondant. Everything from her torso up is hand-sculpted using Fondant and painted with Wilton Color Dyes and Gold Luster Dust.












Monday, October 10, 2011

Eliana.

Birthday Cake. Four-Layer Chocolate Cake filled with Coconut Custard, frosted with Chocolate Buttercream and topped with Chocolate Ganache and Fondant Flowers.









Figs.

"Rustic-Style Cake." Cocoa-Spice Cake filled with Fig Butter, layered with Vanilla Buttercream and Topped with Dulce de Leche and Chocolate-Covered Fresh California Mission Figs.








Strike!

Birthday cake for Kira's Bowling Party. Lemon Cake with Vanilla Buttercream and Fondant Decor.






Friday, September 30, 2011

Capistrano Spring Break.

This cake was created for the Threadcakes Competition. Open to both professional and novice bakers, the rules are to chose a Threadless T-shirt design and then create a cake based on that design. I was too intimadated to enter last year. This year, I did enter and ended up being a finalist. Below is the cake, my inital design and the original artwork by Andy Gonsalves.












Saturday, September 24, 2011

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Cake for The Newtown Road Film Festival, an outdoor Summer film series. This is for their finale screening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Red Velvet Cake with Vanilla Buttercream and Fondant.





Zarkana.

Cake created for the Assistant Company Manager of Cirque Du Soleil's ZARKANA, currently playing at Radio City Music Hall. Red Velvet and Chocolate cakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Fondant.