Lemony-snicket

This is a lemon cake with a slight lemon-flavored, buttercream icing made for a bake sale at our church.

Butterfly Cake

This was a last-minute order from a guy at work who wanted a 'larger than sheet-cake' sized, butterfly-shaped cake for his girlfriend. With 2 days notice during the work week. In other words - a major rush job.

He wanted a simple white cake with vanilla frosting. A simple, HUGE white cake.

I made this using 4 sheet cakes and a whole bunch of vanilla buttercream icing. A whole bunch.

The antennae...I know what you are thinking, but these weren't the FINAL antennae for the cake. At least I don't think he used these. My wife fashioned some chocolate antennae while I was at work. They were fragile enough that we decided to give them to the client so he could insert them in the cake once he got home. Hopefully he did, because these are just....sad. Very sad.

I can seeeeee you

These are the eyeball cupcakes I made for the guys at work this Halloween. They are red velvet cupcakes topped with buttercream icing and and either cherry, Whopper or Milk Dud eyeballs.

Choco-licious

I made this cake for my birthday, but was working too many hours at the paying gig to spend much time decorating a cake for myself. The result - it's a little plain and funky shaped, but kinda cool looking all the same.

I experimented with sotas (the drizzled frosting look) on top and think that turned out pretty cool.

Contrary to what you might believe, I actually meant for the cake to be shaped this way. I just planned to do a little more decrating than I was able to get around to doing before the family was ready to light the candles and chow down.

Prize winning cake

I entered a summer-themed cake decorating contest at the local Hobby Lobby and won 1st place in the Wilton 2 category for this little beauty.

Wilton 4 cake

Here is my final cake for the Wilton 4 class. I decided that I wanted to make a more 'manly' cake...which is tough to do when I'm supposed to showcase the handkerchief drape....

...and daisies in a dainty box. The brown fondant makes it look manly, doesn't it?

Pay no attention to the slight view of the family eating taco salad in the background. Take note of the mint chocolate cake in the foreground. Mmmmmm-manly.

Pecans Galore

I sold this cake to the same guy who ordered the carrot cake. He's a single guy who loves cake, but doesn't like to bake. Lucky for me!

This was a pecan cake with vanilla buttercream icing...and lots of pecans. Lots of pecans.

Duuuuuude

This was my second sale cake - made for a friend of a friend's 60th birthday party. It was a white cake with tinted batter and....

covered in a green marbelized fondant. Truth be told, I attempted to make tie-dye frosting but couldn't get it to work. I still do not enjoy working with fondant, but I've learned some new techniques and know I can make a better cake. The customer was very happy with this one though and their friend was pleasantly surprised.

Sold!

This was the first cake I sold. It was a carrot cake with buttercream frosting and made for a co-worker.

These are carrot cupcakes made for my wife's co-op preschoolers to go along with one of the books they were reading in class.

Wilton 3 cake

Here is my final cake for the Wilton 3 class. This was my first time using fondant. I tried to marbleize the pink fondant for the bow. It was harder than you'd think, but turned out fairly well - for a first attempt anyway. This cake wasn't quite finished by the end of class (notice the lack of other decorations), but I managed to add a few more details.

Here is a more finished version of the above cake. The bow deflated in the fridge, but it was still a nice looking cake.

Delaney's Ladybug cake

I made this cake for my daughter's 8th birthday. It was my first shaped cake - made using a Wilton pan. This was also my first cake using the star tip.

Wilton 2 cake

This was my final cake for the Wilton 2 class. This was a cake of firsts:

first rope border....

first basket weave....

and first multi-colored batter.

Two-tone swirl? Nope!

This was my attempt at making two-tone swirled cupcakes. See how well it worked?

 

Not so much.

I could swirl just fine...just couldn't get the color to cooperate with me. It did work for the first 2 or 3, but then the colors mixed together and I got this lovely shade of orange.

Flower Power (part 2)

More flower practice.

This was not a 'decorated' cake. It was made with  batter and frosting I had on hand and served as a display for the practice flowers I had been working on. The cake was not beautiful, but it was gooood.

These are cupcakes made for my wife's preschool co-op class. I was trying to use the frosting I had on hand - thus the funky colors. The bears were a hit with the kids.

Sadey's cake

I attempted to make a castle cake for my youngest daughter's 5th birthday. It was a huge undertaking for one night, especially considering I had worked all day at the shipyard. At this point, I was midway through the Wilton 2 class.

Here is a close-up of some of the border-work.

This is the front view. I had intended to do more detail work to cover the plastic turrets...it just didn't happen before the sun came up. She loved the cake anyway :)

Flower Power

Flower practice after one of my first Wilton 1 classes

The Sweet Spot opens its doors

This blog will serve as a showcase for cakes that I have decorated. Some are simple; some are not. All are tasty and made with great care. Right now I am decorating cakes for friends and family while working full time as a carpenter. My ultimate goal is to work full time with my family as a baker and cake decorator. The name of this blog represents the name of the bakery I one day hope to operate.