Kathy's Cakes

Our church had a Cana Dinner event and they had a Renaissance theme. I thought a castle would be neat to make.   The first thing I worked on was the tops of the towers. I tinted some white fondant with purple food coloring and rolled it out. Then cut out a shape to place over some cones. There were 12 of them!!! Of course it would be cool to have flags on the tops of them. I made different sizes that corresponded to the different sizes of the cones. I attached them white white fondant. I baked 6" and 10" cakes, and dirty iced them. Then I had my strong handsome husband :) roll out the white fondant for them. Might as well put him to good use. We used powdered sugar in place of the flour. Then I wanted to put some detail on the towers. I outlined the windows in purple icing and sprinkled on some silver sprinkles.  I had gotten molds for a stone look, and wanted to use that on the sidewalk thing in front of the door. I pressed the ...

I had the opportunity to make a cake for my church's 100 Year Anniversary! What an honor! I've been going to this church since I was probably in kindergarten. Also went to the school that is attached. Also got married in the church!  It is so beautiful inside. Take a look.  This picture is from our wedding in 2012. This is the inspiration for the cake here. I studied this photo for quite a while... For the cake, I decided to go big and try something I hadn't before. I wanted to make a cake with a little extra on top of it. I made my own sculpted crisp rice cereal treats! I made sure to do a practice round first, just to make sure it was doable. Can you tell what I was going to make?!! Yep, the steeple can be seen from various points in Delano. Here is a rough draft of the design of the cake, probably my third one or so. I really wanted to incorporate the gold color of the cross on top, and the green of the "onion" as my mom calls ...

  BROWNIES ! I had a request from my husband's work to make some brownies. They wanted mint and also peanut butter. So there you go. Here are the pics :) I figured might as well use the Fall season as an inspiration, so made mint chocolate edible leaves.   Here is a peanut butter drizzle with Reese's topping. 

~~ HAPPY HALLOWEEN ~~ I made a variety of desserts for a Halloween party. Sugar cookie cutouts of pumpkins, bats, and ghosts, along with decorated mini and regular cupcakes.  I'm not really sure what those one eyed creeps are, but they are cute for Halloween I think. Those are edible eyeballs. Yum!? Also I had pumpkin and spider web mini cupcakes. The regular sized cupcakes had ghosts and other creepy things on them made out of marshmellows, and different colored frostings. 

I made a Fall cake. I tried a new technique to make chocolate leaves that are edible. Very neat.  I also had these mini cinnamon chips as a border.  I had been watching Cake Boss lately and now am getting inspired. :)

 Aloha! We recently had a luau at our house and so  I made sugar cookies shaped like Margarita glasses. My sister decorated them so I cannot take that credit. If you look closely you can see the salt rim at the top, but of course we used sugar. I also made cupcakes of course. I put real pineapple juice in the batter. I had blue frosting for water and brown sugar for sane. Then added a couple other beach items.  I added some candy fish as well and toasted coconut on some.

Happy Birthday!!! My husband enjoys baseball so here you go. I tried the grass tip for the first time which worked really well, that is the border. The "dirt" is brown sugar.