Imagine That

The Big Luau Birthday Cake

2011-08-27T19:38:00.000-07:00

This was a multi multi step project. Took a lot longer then I had first planned. I have several orders like this one coming up still, so hopefully I will plan better for those. I had to con my sister and mother to come help me shape everything, then my sweet husband helped with covering all of them. If i didn't have these helpers, it would not have gotten done. A BIG thank you to you all!!

Sock Monkey Cake & Cup Cakes

2011-08-27T19:34:00.000-07:00

White Chocolate Raspberry Cake

2011-08-27T18:37:00.000-07:00

Pirate Cake 2

2011-08-27T18:30:00.000-07:00

Baby Shower Cake

2011-08-27T18:27:00.000-07:00

Maddy's Birthday Cake!

2011-08-27T18:23:00.000-07:00

The Oops Cake

2011-08-27T18:16:00.000-07:00

Playing with Chocolate

2011-08-27T18:14:00.000-07:00

Rockstar, Baby!!!

2011-08-27T18:10:00.000-07:00

5 Tier Wedding Cake

2011-08-27T18:06:00.000-07:00

Megamind!!

2011-08-27T18:03:00.000-07:00

The "Argggg" Cake

2011-08-27T17:58:00.000-07:00

Fun Girly Girl cake

2011-08-27T17:54:00.000-07:00

Scuba Cake

2011-08-27T17:51:00.000-07:00

Chocolate Lace Wedding Cake

2011-08-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

2011-04-13T15:25:00.000-07:00

Kamryn's iPod cake.

2011-04-13T15:19:00.000-07:00

Kevin's golfing cake

2011-04-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

Steam Engine cake.

This cake was for my son, and there was supposed to be a another boxcar on the back of this. Went with a new supplier and didn't get supplies on time. So for his actual birthday, we had just plan ol' cake. When the supplies came in, I finished this. Working light, and steam. He LOVED it. He didn't want anyone to eat his cake. I was excited myself that everything worked like it should.

2011-04-13T14:53:00.000-07:00

Boy's first year cake

I didn't get a finished picture on this cake. The party was planned to be held here in town, then ended up getting changed to a location only 5 hours away. I didn't plan on having it travel that far, so I didn't dare add on the details. I just gave the deliverer (the grandma of the birthday boy) the plan of where they were all supposed to go. I was glad to hear that the cake made it, still standing, and that the little boy loved it so much that he didn't give his mom a chance to get one of the cars on the cake. He ate it instead. Cute cute family, and I'm just so glad the cake made the delivery.

2011-04-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

Princess Castle Cake

2011-04-13T14:32:00.000-07:00

Pink and black baby shower cake

Cute flower cake for Brynli

2011-01-12T20:29:00.000-08:00

Despicable Me

Mountain Bike Crash

Hearts and more Hearts!!

Phineas and Ferb

Grandma's Garden Cake

Kids at the Theater

Cake ball cake, Boy castle cake

2010-09-20T21:51:00.000-07:00

Birthday cake for one of my biggest cake ball fans.

Cake for one of my good friends' son

The Princess and The Frog cake

2010-09-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

Here is Raymond, or Ray. Who turned out stinkin' cute!!!!

Tiana and the Prince Naveen, in frog form (after my Cher Snow White, I wasn't about to do another "human" character. More practice before that happens!!)

Good ol' Louis playing his music (the trumpet is added later)

Putting everything together.

The finished product. I was going to do more to this cake, but, we live in a small town that only has one store (wal-mart) that carries cake supplies. And well, go figure, they were out of fondant. ) Imagine more swamp details on the edge of the cake, like reeds, or cat tails, other random greenery. Still turned out, but could have been better......

Louis, Tiana, and Prince Naveen floating down the Bayou, with Ray lighting the way.

Princess Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

2010-09-20T20:39:00.000-07:00

First thing I did was shape the faces. They look like nothing more then a row of noses, very nice!!

I did them all in stages, so this is obviously a bit farther along. At this point I was a giddy with joy. They were turning out soooo cute!

The rest of the crew. Still awaiting very important body parts. Arms, hands, beards, eyes...still a ways to go.

Closer...

And it's finished!!! Yea!!!! And it's cute!!!! And the birthday girl (Sadie) LOVES it!!!!! Yea!!!!!

(Have to admit, Snow White looks a little more like Cher then Snow White. I will have to work on the facial details a little bit more!)

The birthday card.

Blue lily wedding cake

2010-04-28T16:12:00.000-07:00

This cake turned out better then I had imagined. The flowers are homemade, and it was my first time making them. I was worried about how they would turn out. However, I surprised myself. They turned out much better then I had expected. I was ready to run to the first Michael's or Robert's store I came across to get fake ones. With how much time I spent making the flowers, I am glad I was able to use them.

Kamryn's cake

2010-04-28T15:58:00.000-07:00

My nephew loves to wake surf. So, I thought it would be appropriate to do a cake with him wake surfing. I used photos of their actual boat, and got it pretty close. I included everyone in the family, which was really fun to do. And Kamryn loved that he had his own "action figure".

Extra's

2010-04-28T15:37:00.000-07:00

Here are some extra things that I can also do. It's not as fun as making a cake, but I can still do them.
Here are some cute cupcakes that I did for a Young Women's activity.

Here are some cake balls, and cheesecake balls. Easy to do, but time consuming, but DELICIOUS!!!! We love these. especially the cheesecake balls. Mmmmmmmmm

Brynli's 6th birthday

2010-04-28T15:23:00.000-07:00

She was pretty excited about this cake. I let her sit with me and pick it out. She loved the style of the number on the cake. But it had the number 16 on it. She was devastated. I told her we could change that, all was good again.
I didn't realize when I was taking the picture, that I had the back side of the cake. Thus, the 6 is backwards.

On a "Roll" now.

2010-04-28T15:08:00.000-07:00

I made this for a friend of mine, who was turning 60. This was a fun cake to make and more fun to deliver. The reaction from the family that was there at the party, was fantastic!! I love making cakes!

Matthew's tractor cake

2010-04-28T14:53:00.000-07:00

I had two cakes to make this particular weekend. I wasn't able to put in as much detail as I wanted. But I think it still looks pretty cute. And my little Matthew LOVED it.
In the second picture you can see that the tractor is pushing another cake. It happened to my birthday that weekend as well. My dear sweet husband, all by himself, made that cake. The bottom layer has a chocolate fondant, made from scratch, made from my husband. What a man!! He did an awesome job.

Ben's cake

2010-04-28T14:25:00.000-07:00

My sister called asking if I could do a cake for one of her awards night for the scouts. It was to go along with the million dollar prize. So, instead of doing a simple dollar sign, we did a pot of gold. They ended up not being able to use the cake, but my nephew's birthday was that same weekend, it then became a cake for Ben. The first time I've been able to decorate a cake for the Rust family. Hope they enjoyed it!

Cakes of 2009

2010-01-25T22:25:00.000-08:00

Chloes' "Snowgirl" cake.

Mike's "Movie Night" cake.

Ellie's "Big Surprise" cake.

Derek and Grandpa's "Fancy Lego" cake.

Cousin Megan's "Sweet Flowers" cake.

Allison's "Tinkerbell" cake.

Megan's "Dew of the Mountain" cake.

Kamryn's "Dino" cake.

Kevin's "Decadent Chocolate" cake.

Matthew's "Lightning McQueen" cake.

Birthday and Theme cakes

2009-05-23T13:27:00.000-07:00

Crabby Patty

Frog on lily pad

Lego Spongebob

Wishing on a star

Lightning McQueen

Rubber ducky

Chocolate cakes

2009-05-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

Fruit and Chocolate

I actually did this for fathers day, but this is more of a wedding cake. I wanted to experiment with the rolled chocolate, and the sugared fruit. I have since found another way to do the chocolate rolls. It's actually called chocolate cigars. They are smaller in width, taller in height, and you make it all from scratch. The style on the cake below is done by shaving chocolate bars.

Close up on the yummy sugared fruit. This way of doing the fruit, you could actually eat it. I read about another way of doing it and it required egg yolks. And stressed very strongly that it was not edible. Who wants a cake that has fruit that looks like that, and not be able to eat it. So, this way you can eat it.

Nothing but Chocolate

This could be a grooms cake, a birthday cake, it could work for just about anything. "Sorry your PMS-ing" cake. Use your imagination. You could find a reason for this cake. Like the title says, Nothing but chocolate. Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, chocolate chunks, it's chocolate! (Obviously, the bow is not chocolate, it is a real bow, not so tasty.)

This is a good way to do a masculine cake. Chocolate is usually a pretty safe way to do masculine. Again, it doesn't have to be a masculine only.

The not so 2-in-1

2009-02-14T10:10:00.000-08:00

Here is Wyatt and Brynli's birthday cake for 2009. Michele called me up asking if I could make a cake for the party again. She told me not to worry about Wyatt, and just make it cute for Brynli. I sat there at the computer trying to get an idea for Brynli's cake, and I found this: a picture of a candy cake. It looked fun, it looked easy and I had no idea what to get Wyatt, so he got a candy cake for his birthday.

It was pretty easy, a little more time consuming then I originally thought. I thought the glue gun would be the best way to keep it together. However, it tended to melt the wrapping, so I had to squeeze a little out, and as it fell off the gun it would be cool enough to not melt the wrapping. That is what took forever!! Someone should invent a glue gun were you can control the temp, like our straight irons.

Here is Brynli's cake. Allison insisted that I do another crown cake like last year. I guess Brynli's crown is broken? So, against Allison's wishes I did this cute flower cake. Allison loved it!! And most important, Brynli loved it!!

I didn't have a lot lof time to work on this cake, I was a little worried I wouldn't have time to do this one and Wyatt's. It went pretty quick and pretty smooth and yea I was able to get both of them done.

This is basically fondant and royal icing (harden's up real nice). I made the flowers in advance, put the fondant on and then time to play. I had at first pictured smaller flowers, but I like the way it looks with the bigger flowers. I also had picked up a couple of toy dolls that I got the color scheme from. When I got to mom's house I put the dolls on but forgot to get pictures of that. You might check out Michele's blog, she might have pictures with the dolls on it. Again, very happy with the way this cake turned out.

2-in-1

2009-02-12T16:57:00.000-08:00

My older brother, Wyatt and his daughter Brynli, usually end up sharing family birthdays. (Their birthdays are only a day apart. So, as the big extended family, we always do them together.) I wanted to try to make a cake for both of them, but as one cake. This is what I came up with...

This portion of the cake is obviously Brynli's. I went to the store and found a cute crown, pretty ribbon and here you go. I don't think this cake could get any girl-ier. I really like how it turned out.

Here is just the close up, but not too close, of the flowers.

Now, this portion is Wyatt's. Just one layer. I have white chocolate chunks on top, and I believe the flavor of cake was also chocolate. The siding is fondant. Another reason why I love to use it, you can do all sorts of things with it. All kind of styles, and usually pretty easy to work with.

Another shot of Wyatt's.

The final shot of the cake. (I promise I will learn how to turn the pictures, after all I am a professional now :) ) Again, I was pretty excited about this cake. Wyatt's part is "masculine" enough, and Brynli's is all girl, and yet they go together pretty good.

This was last year's cake, we just celebrated their birthday for this year. I will post those pictures next.

One of the early cakes

2009-02-05T15:16:00.001-08:00

This is one of my first cakes. My first cake was Allison's first year birthday cake, and I don't think we had our digital yet. I need to check grandma's files and see if she has a copy of that one. You all would laugh!! This is Allison's second year birthday cake. Probably my second cake made, I don't think I really got into it until after this one.

Notice, no fondant. After my first cake I wasn't sure I would like working with fondant. I then found out how to really use it, and that made a difference. I would prefer to use the fondant now. It gives it a better finish if you ask me. For someone who is a perfectionist, I could never get the icing smooth enough. It drove me nuts! Again I have learned a few more tricks, but still prefer the fondant.

This cake is pretty simple and straight forward, but I think it turned out pretty cute. Allison really liked the flowers on it. It also tasted good. There's you upside to icing vs. fondant. The fondant, not one of my favorite tastes. However there are some people who enjoy the taste of the fondant.

Me!!

2009-02-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

I finally did it!! I'm starting a blog for my cakes. This is all for now until I gather all my photos. Just seeing if I could do one on my own.