'Snow White's Cottage' - Birthday Cake

...this cake was a gift for my beautiful niece, Caitlin's first birthday. She was having a disney character fancy dress party. She's a gorgeous little girl who looks just like Snow White and was therefore the inspiration for this cake.

so, the cake...
...it was a huge (five layers) cake made to feed 70 people. The 'garden' was made from vanilla cake with strawberry flavoured buttercream; five layers, 12 inch square. The 'cottage' was vanilla and chocolate marble cake with chocolate buttercream -yum!!



'Snow White's Cottage'

...the topper was a store bought figure that Caitlin kept and still plays with - it's almost as cute as she is.



Cottage Cake



...there were lots of  details to this cake that took a lot of preparation but they definately enhanced the overall look of the cake. I can't wait for my next 'garden' cake! 



The Enchanted Forest

Snow White's Garden

...and the birthday girl  



Gorgeous Caitlin - Our Snow White

...this is the 'sibling' cake that I made to go with the cake - the poisoned apple!!



The Poisoned Apple

'Law Books' - Graduation Cake

..this cake was created to be given as a gift to a student who had just graduated law school.

The specs for this cake were; a mini-cake, a stack of books in a variety of colours, and a girl in cap and gown.

I love any opportunity to do mini-cakes, I love the idea of giving such a personalised gift. My first cakes were mini and I usually make 'sibling' cakes alongside each cake which are more often then not given to my cake-obsessed brother-in-law!! (photos to follow)

so, the cake...

...I decided to make the cake itself into the stack of books so each 'book' is 4"x 3" chocolate fudge cake with milk chocolate ganache frosting.

Law Books Cake

 ...the topper is a large 3" model made from sugarpaste and was kept by one happy graduate!

Graduation Cake Topper

...three books were made but I felt the cake looked better with only two stacked. The third was given to the client as a sibling cake for them to include in the gift if they chose to.

Graduation Cake

'Red Whimsical' - 21st Birthday Cake