Richard Scarry Cake

It's been a long time since my last post. Things have been busy in the non-cake part of my world. ;-)

A friend threw a party for her son who turned 4. His favorite books are the Richard Scarry books. So that was the theme of the party. I was asked to do a cake with some kind of Richard Scarry theme. If you don't know about Richard Scarry, then start with his Wikipedia article.

Water Polo Cake

I made this cake for a pair of high school graduates who were both on the school's water polo team. They requested a water polo cake.

Fairy Cake

This cake was for a 5 year old girl's birthday party. The criteria given were: Fairy theme, pastel colors, sparkles, and feed 20 people. Okay.

The Bunny Cake

My older brother called and asked if I could make a cake his girlfriend's birthday party. One of her friends was going to celebrate a birthday around the same time. One of the girls likes bunny rabbits and the other likes butterflies. I don't remember which one likes which. But that's okay. Neither one is my girlfriend.

Snowmen celebrating New Years

For my New Year's Eve party, I came up with an idea for a cake depicting snowmen celebrating the new year. It's a simple cake with the most complex part being a sled that a kid snowman (a snowkid?) was riding.

Winged Running Shoe

This cake was for a 13-year-old's birthday party. He is on his school's cross country team and we decided it would be neat to create a cake to mimic the team's logo, which is a sneaker with wings.

Ambulance Cake

I made this ambulance cake for a 7-year-old's birthday party. His parents volunteer with the local ambulance service. This cake is based on an actual ambulance in the fleet. I took some artistic license with the scale and some of the details.

Baby Carriage Cake

This cake was for a baby shower. It's basically a 3-layer rectangular cake with a basket weave pattern around the sides... with a hood and some wheels.

A1 Steak Sauce Cake

So the birthday kid really likes A1 Steak Sauce. I mentioned I could make that into a cake for his birthday. He said that was a great idea. So I did.

Princess Castle Cake

I made this cake for a friend's 6-year-old daughter's birthday. My instructions were: Pink princess castle cake.

Softball Field Cake

This cake was made for my church's softball team's end of season picnic. I had in mind to do a 14-inch square cake, but I don't have any 14-inch square pans. So I used 16-inch square pans instead. After baking, the tops of the cakes were already pretty flat except for a bit of rounding around the edges. So instead of using a leveler to take the tops off, I stacked the cakes and then carved off about 3/4 inch from each side.

Banners on a cloudy sky

De asked me to make a cake for her son Jacob's wedding shower/reception. Jacob's wedding was in Fulton, MO and many friends and family members would not be able to make the journey to attend the wedding.

Vegas Sign Cake

My aunt asked me to make this one. One of her coworkers was getting married in Las Vegas and so she and other coworkers threw a party for her before she left. Her idea was to make a cake to look like the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign.

Truck Cake

This cake was for a 5-year-old's birthday party. I decided to have it look like it was sitting on the wheels with space beneath the body of the truck. To do this, I used foam board and cut out the shape of the truck and set the cake on the foam board. Then, beneath this board I placed four or five layers of foam board. These layers were cut in a rectangle smaller than the cake base. I taped them together and wrapped them in black construction paper.

Dragon Cake

This idea came to me after seeing baby dragon cakes. I thought it was something I could probably pull off. The monthly Boys' Night Out at church was coming up and it seemed like a good enough excuse to make a cake.

Lamade Stadium Cake

This cake has been calling out to be made for months now. My New Year's Eve party gave me excuse enough to build it. Howard J. Lamade Stadium is where they hold the Little League World Series every year in August. I made a version of the stadium in cake.

Recruiter Badge Cake

I haven't done a cake in a while and I mentioned it to Sue K. at church. She mentioned that her son in law, Adam, recently won an award for top new recruiter for 2008 for his region. Well, that sounds like a good enough reason for a cake. And since Sue K. is a former professional baker, a collaboration was in order. Adam's wife, Erin, sent me a picture of a recruiter badge that he has and I figured I can make a cake out of that.

Fender Stratocaster Cake

So my sister called me up on Saturday asking if I would make a guitar cake for her stepson's birthday. He wanted a guitar cake and he wanted it to be red. I thought about it for a bit and called her back to say I would do it and to get some details. He wanted it to be a Fender Stratocaster and it needed to be done in a week.

Great.

Mach 5 Cake

A few weeks ago, I decided to try some fancy cake decorating like they do on Ace of Cakes. Keep in mind that I've never done such a thing. Previously, my cake decorating experience involved slathering some icing over a square or round cake. Sometimes I would write "Happy Birthday" or some such nonsense on the cake. But this is a whole new adventure. I had planned on carving a cake, covering it with fondant, and decorating it up so that it looked like Speed Racer's car, the Mach 5. On Friday, July 11, was a birthday party for a boy at my church who was turning 9 and he was a fan of Speed Racer. So this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. I spoke with his mom about it the Sunday before and she assured me that there would be a back-up cake just in case.