Cara Cakes Bakes

So it's been waaaaay too long since I uploaded photos. Here goes nothin'!

2011-09-06T12:43:00.000-07:00

My sister's wedding cake. My brother-in-law painted the awesome zombie topper. This was three flavors, Lemon cake/raspberry filling, french vanilla cake/strawberry cream filling and chocolate cake with vanilla custard filling.Iced in "wedding cake" icing and fondant.

Jessica's baby shower cake. Two flavors, chocolate cake with my mom's famous "wedding cake" icing and chocolate chip cake with the same icing.

Decorated sugar cookies for Clear Star/Finishline (www.flautosalon.com)

Fire truck cake. Vanilla cake with "wedding cake" icing.

Anniversary cake. Carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Carrots were grown in clients own garden!

Vanilla bean cake with strawberry buttercream.

Chocolate cake filled with homemade "fluff" and topped with peanut butter buttercream.

Vanilla bean cake with vanilla buttercream icing and swiss meringue roses.

Chocolate cake with salted caramel center and caramel buttercream. Topped with caramelized peanuts.

Fondant owl cupcake toppers.

Fondant Minion cupcake toppers.

Chocolate cake with "wedding cake" icing and fondant.

Yellow cake with "wedding cake" icing and fondant.

Lemon cake with raspberry filling with "wedding cake" icing and fondant decorations.

Carrot cake and cream cheese icing.

Chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream and fondant.

Red velvet and cream cheese icing with dark chocolate music notes.

Vanilla cake with "wedding cake" icing

Finally uploading some more recent cakes!

2010-05-26T10:56:00.000-07:00

My camera has kicked the bucket and these are all taken with my iPhone so I apologize for the slightly grainy quality! It has taken me awhile to get these posted but the dinosaur I did last weekend just had to be posted so all of these are going up!

Last Cakes of 2009!

2010-01-04T13:08:00.000-08:00

I've been in the process of packing, moving, unpacking, painting, building and installing and now have time to post the last few cakes I made before we rang in 2010! (Please forgive the phone camera quality, my regular camera was packed somewhere unknown.) I had two large cakes to make while staying with two of the greatest people on the planet Jess and Pat and waiting for a closing date on my house. It is hard not having your own kitchen to make a mess but they were good sports and dealt with me cursing cake very well :) I've got my first cake order lined up for this weekend...let the 2010 cake line-up begin!

Fondant covered with three flavors - chocolate, red velvet and marble. Everything was made out of fondant except the cards. I planned to make them out of gum paste but by the time 2:00 am hit, my arms were so tired that the real cards looked much cleaner. The "A" and "C" on the poker chips stand for Chris and Amanda, the happy couple.

Vanilla Buttercream with "funfetti" style cake on top and chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling on bottom. Ducks are made of fondant.

"Mom's" best wedding cake icing with chocolate cake and sculpted fondant details.

Cakes from the last two weeks.

2009-10-11T12:57:00.000-07:00

3rd Birthday. Mickey's Clubhouse. Made using sculpted Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant. The figurines were toys provided by the client.

Christening cake. The flowers are made out of gum paste.

13th Birthday. Hot pink fondant with black accents. The cake inside was dies bright green and purple.

1st birthday. The top is sculpted out of Rice Krispie treats and covered in fondant.

30th Birthday. Talladega Nights theme. For the non-PG version, go here.

Two newest cakes

2009-09-20T17:35:00.001-07:00

Wedding Cake - top tier os raspberry cake with chocolate ganache filling, middle is lemon with lemon curd filling and the bottom is chocolate chip with vanilla custard.

Mickey Mouse - 3rd Birthday

It's been awhile... cakes from the summer

2009-09-20T17:12:00.000-07:00

29th Birthday Cake

Matty T's going away cake

Helene's 30th b-day cake "Hot Slice"

Cake for a couple who adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia - gluten and corn free

Wedding shower

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

2009-06-17T17:52:00.001-07:00

Lemon Cake. Strawberry Buttercream. Fondant Strawberries.

Octopus's Garden

2009-06-15T08:22:00.000-07:00

He is made entirely of cake and fondant. This is my first cake entirely covered in fondant.

Gotta Eat 'Em All

2009-06-15T08:16:00.001-07:00

Fondant sculpted Pokemon on chocolate cupcakes

Mixed Bag

2009-06-15T08:09:00.000-07:00

Chocolate buttercream with white chocolate details

Go Phillies! Fondant top - the rest is icing only

Fondant circles with regular icing on the rest

Random Assortment

2009-06-15T08:05:00.000-07:00

a "bob&m" - he loves m&m's so he got a personalized one

Mini lemon cream cheese cupcakes

Cherry cheesecake

Twilight themed cake (features the items from the covers of all four books)

Older Cakes

2009-06-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

Mini rose cupcakes

Mini werewolf cupcakes

This Navy medallion was hand drawn completely out of white chocolate

Mmmm Watcha Say

2009-06-15T07:54:00.001-07:00

This cake had five layers - all dyed a different color that matched the flowers around the sides.

This was a cake for a friend who loves orange and this SNL skit was the running joke of the day: http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/dear-sister-snl-digital-short

And so it begins....

2009-06-15T07:49:00.000-07:00

Mrs. PacMan and PacMAn Jr. are completely vegan and gluten free.

This was the only picture I got of this wedding cake before my camera died :(

First Post - Old Cakes

2009-06-15T07:38:00.000-07:00

At the request of several people, I have started this blog to show what cakes I have made and continue to make. The most recent is the octopus and they get older from there.