Djeinam's Sun Cake!

So it's been.. siiix months since I made anything?? How sad. But now that I'm back in school and have many friends with equally many birthdays, I'm sure things will pick up. This is the first of what promises to be many more attempts to decorate cakes despite my complete lack of training haha.

  

It's a sun.. because that's the only thing she really mentioned that she liked besides green, red, and yellow. I really liked the swirl on the edges :)

Here's a close-up.. as well as a close up of the hole that randomly showed up when a lump of sugar decided to fall out of what I thought was nice, smooth fondant. Oh well.. this is why I don't compete I suppose..

That's all for now :)

Enjoy the rest of September.. which incidentally is my least favorite month as it is completely infested with allergens lurking in every corner waiting to pummel the crap out of your respiratory abilities.. but I digress..

Valentines Day!

So I've been making cupcakes for Zpizza in Mammoth Lakes, CA.. these are two of my favorites from today's Valentine's day batch :

Then a friend asked me to make a cake for his girlfriend.. they didn't want fondant.. so I practiced my icing.. which I'm not so good at yet.. but it turned out pretty cute anyway. It's a flourless chocolate cake with cream cheese icing and strawberries.

Hamster Cake

This one was for my roommate's birthday.. it's modeled after her hamster, Charley.

It's actually a dark chocolate brownie with cream cheese icing, covered with crushed waffle cones.  The house and Charley are Ho-hos covered in fondant..