Childrens Cakes

Nothing makes your heart melt like a little girl checking out her Barbie doll birthday cake for the first time.  The following photos are a few of the Barbie doll cakes I've made over the years, I used a medium size stainless steel bowl for the skirt and depending on your bowl, and doll, you may need to add another sheet cake on the bottom, as some of the photos show, or you may need to add some extra icing around the waist for proportion.  These are all just various ways you might want to use to decorate the skirt of your cake.  Be creative, the more scrolls, ruffles and fufu stuff you can make, the better.

These are a few more photos of other childrens cakes, all are free-hand and a couple are edible photos.

Cowboy Western Styles and Ideas

When I was asked to do a western style wedding cake, I really didn't know what to put on it, but the first thing that came to mind was the tooled leather designs, that are everywhere here in Oklahoma.  So I did some research, again, I cannot stress enough "Do your research" and I found some designs online.  I was working with Edible Photos at the time, so I used my photo program and made some strips of tooled leathers that I really liked and then printed them off onto the edible paper.  I cut the strips out and after placing them onto the sides of the buttercream cake, I used a plastic tool and just embedded the designs into the buttercream.  It worked like magic and actually looked like the real thing!  So here are some of the different ways I used the strips for different designs and different cakes.

And here are some of the strips I use.

The following cakes are some just for fun cowboys and cowboy stuff.