I had 4 pretty big cake orders all due yesterday and today.  Phew… I managed to get it all done and without any headaches.

Sharks

For a little boy’s 3rd birthday party, his mom requested 2 dozen cupcakes with a dozen each shark head and shark tail toppers AND a sculpted shark head cake.  Aside from the boobs, I’ve never really sculpted cake before and after the cake-tastrophy that was Star Wars, my confidence was a little shaky.

I’ve thought about this shark cake for weeks.  I’ve drawn diagrams so that I’d know exactly where to cut and what cake to leave.  The part that was worrying me the most was cutting too much around the mouth and making the top of the cake unstable.

That’s how he turned out.  I was going for a more smiley face than mean shark face (the kid is only 3 after all!).  He’s a friendly (vegan) shark taking a bite of his vegan cupcake.

Jungle Fever

For a jungle themed baby shower, I was asked to make 2 dozen cupcakes: 6 chocolate, 6 vanilla, 6 sugar-free vanilla and 6 gluten-free chocolate.  The sugar-free was made with agave (both the cake and the frosting) and was so incredibly delicious.  I thought it tasted a little bit like caramel.  Yum…  No photos of the cakes, unfortunately, but I do have photos of the cute little jungle animals that went on top of the cakes.

Mini Me

2 dozen mini cupcakes: tiramisu, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.  All topped with little flowers.

Summertime

A friend’s end-of-summer work party.  Toppers were ladybugs, butterflies, flowers and bees.