Police Officer's Birthday

This was a fun little request for a police officer turning 30! Strawberry cake, vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details. Loved making the handcuffs :)

Superhero Cake for Icing Smiles

This was my latest cake for Icing Smiles - a superhero cake to celebrate a special little hero's last chemo treatment! Brody loves all things superhero, so we made sure his favorites were represented :)

Duck Blind Birthday Cake

Fun little cake for a guy who loves to hunt :) Vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details.

Avengers Birthday Cake

Fun little Avengers themed cake for twin brothers turning 5! Cake was strawberry with vanilla buttercream filling and chocolate with toasted marshmallow buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details.

Duke Basketball Cupcakes

Fun Duke University/Duke Basketball themed cupcakes for a dinner party! Flavors were vanilla bean with whipped vanilla buttercream, chocolate with strawberry swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate with whipped chocolate buttercream. Hand crafted fondant cupcake toppers.

Duke Divinity School Graduate Cake

Loved crafting this all-ivory fondant graduation cake for a Duke Divinity School graduate! I re-created the Divinity School logo using ivory fondant and tried to mimic the look of the gorgeous windows that can be found at the school on the sides of the cake.

Batman & Superman Cupcakes

Fun cupcakes to celebrate two little guys' birthdays! One loves Batman, the other Superman, so we made a mixture of fondant toppers for them. These were chocolate cupcakes with toasted marshmallow filling and fluffy chocolate buttercream, with fondant toppers.

Basketball Shoe Cake

I had the pleasure of making this young man's Birthday cake a couple years' back through Icing Smiles and was so very excited to make his Birthday cake this year! His fellow team mates went together to buy him a new pair of basketball shoes, so we decided to model his cake after his new shoes! It was exciting to see this cake go from sketch, to crumb-coated shape, to final product! Not too bad for my first shoe cake!

Simple UNC Cake

Simple Carolina cake for a huge Tarheel fan :) Chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant/food color marker details.

Chocolate Overload Cake

Wow, chocoholics rejoiced when this cake came about! I was asked to create a birthday cake for a Dad who loves chocolate - well, that's right up my alley! I decided to pair chocolate truffle cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream filling and frosting, dark chocolate ganache drizzle and dark chocolate sprinkles...there, that should do it! :)

Firetruck Cake

Fun cake for the ladder truck crew of a local fire department :) Vanilla buttermilk cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details.

Cheeseburger Cake

I truly had so much fun attempting this little cake! Birthday cake for a fan of, well - cheeseburgers! :) Vanilla buttermilk and chocolate cake with oreo buttercream filling, covered in fondant with all fondant details.

X-Box Controller Cake

Fun carved cake for a gamer's Birthday! Vanilla buttermilk cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details.

Duke Basketball Grooms Cake

Fun grooms cake for a big Duke basketball fan! Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details.

Duke Birthday Cake

So I had to make a Birthday cake for a Blue Devil fan this weekend - if he weren't such a good friend, I might not have had the stomach lol! ;)  Between his wife and I we decided it would be fun to put a twist on an old favorite and try a blue velvet cake, vanilla buttercream filling and cover it all in fondant. You can see a before picture and an after - the cake crumbs in all their blue gore :)

Fireman Cupcakes

Fluffy, vanilla cupcakes with oreo buttercream and custom fondant toppers with a fireman theme :)

New Orleans Cupcakes

These were fun cupcakes to celebrate a friend's upcoming move to New Orleans! Chocolate espresso with vanilla buttercream and red velvet with cream cheese frosting (not pictured). Gum paste fleur de lis symbols were perfect in black and gold :)

Fireman's Helmet Cake

A fun request for the crew at Durham Fire Station 1! Vanilla buttermilk cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered in fondant with all fondant details decorated just like one of their helmets!

R2-D2 Grooms Cake

Wow, what a fun challenge this guy was! I was approached about making a cake for a rehearsal dinner for the groom-to-be who's a huge Star Wars fan - the design was left up to me (how fun is THAT?!) So, I went for something fun - R2 all dressed up for the occasion - notice his bow tie? ;) Chocolate cake with oreo buttercream filling, covered in fondant with fondant details. I formed R2's legs from rice krispie treats, covered in fondant. I think I learned a few things while working on my friend here - one thing being begging your cakes to cooperate does not necessarily work. (Although I'm not above trying again should the need arise!)

Fireman Wedding

Oh, my. I ADORED working on this wedding, but felt like I needed a full days' worth of sleep after finishing it! :) There were just so many cake, filling and frosting flavors going on, combined with the complexity of the figure modeling - wow! The Bride-to-Be picked out a lovely design by Pink Cake Box and this was my attempt at doing it some kind of justice! The top tier of the wedding cake was fresh strawberry cake with chocolate ganache filling, the middle tier was fresh peach cake with vanilla bean cream cheese filling and the bottom tier was brown sugar cake with key lime curd filling, all covered in fondant with fondant ribbons in tangerine and hot pink. The fire truck grooms cake was chocolate cake with cherry buttercream filling, covered in fondant with all fondant details. I hand formed the bride and groom using a fondant/gum paste mixture and was quite pleased with how well they both turned out! There was also a chocolate sheet cake with vanilla buttercream frosting in reserve, but alas - no picture of that! (I'm fortunate I had my iPhone with me, or there would have been no photo of the cake itself!!)