Chicago White Sox

Birthday cake for a White Sox fan. 8" chocolate cake, shaped and tapered.
For this one, I decided to go with the new thing in cake... rice-krispy treats. The hat and baseballs are RKT, covered in fondant. Wow, that worked great! no sagging and light weight!
Plus I got to eat the scraps... YUM!
For the cake nerds out there, I cut and shaped a piece of gumpaste to form the brim, then put a piece of chocolate/black fondant over it.

New baby boy - Cupcake tower

I just loved the way this came out - maybe it's because teal-blue and black are some of my favorite colors!

Five inch mini pumpkin spice cake on top of my acrylic cake stand. The shoes are gumpaste, with templates and directions from 'stellastarchild' on CakeCentral.

The cupcakes are similar to several baby cupcakes that I have done previously, but I just love the contrast, especially on the dark chocolate ganache icing!

Since the royal icing pieces have a tendency to melt after siting on the buttercream, I added the fondant circles with gave them a fabulous polka-dot look!

Birthday Slices

These we so fun and bright. For a neighbor's daughter's birthday!

Nonna's Venetian birthday

It was my mother-in-law's birthday, and her kids decided to have an Italian themed birthday party. She is from Treviso - near Venice, Italy. This is what I came up with for her. 6 and 8 inch cakes, buttercream frosting, and fondant details.
She knew that I was making a cake for her, but it was a surprise until after dinner. She loved it and started to cry - remembering her time growing up with her Nonna in Italy.
That is why I make cakes the way that I do :)