Irish Castle

Here is a cake from a few weeks ago. The bride and groom were married in a Irish castle in August. They had a reception in Peterborough for friends and family who wern't able to attend the wedding. They really wanted to incorporate the Castle where they were married into the cake. We decided on a four tier cake with grey fondant stamped with a stone look and then brushed with black to get the castle look with draping. The brides colours were apple green with accents of fuschia pink. Bright and fun! I was really happy with how it turned out. You can't really tell in the picture that the fondant has the stone look, but it looked cool in real life.

Prego

I had a fun order for a baby shower cake yesterday. My daughter actually told one of her friends mom's that I did cakes...so she called me to do her sisters baby shower cake. She said that her sister is a little more funky and that the colours were brown and green. I found this cake that I loved on http://www.pinkcakebox.com/ and emailed it to her. I thought it how she described her sister. She loved it, but I wasn't sure if I could manage the "prego" figure on top...I love how she looks on the cake, but I tried modeling a belly dancer once, and it just didn't turn out right. I decided to give it one more try, but this time I thought I should enlist some help. I found some amazing online tutorials on modeling figurines from fondant and voila! I am pretty happy with how she turned out. There is always room for improvement, but this is a huge improvement over my first attempt...poor bellydancer :) I am eagar to hear how the shower went. The cake was chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream and chocolate buttercream on the bottom and vanilla cake with pralines n' cream buttercream on top....This picture was taken at night, so it isn't the greatest, but you get the idea.