Piano Cake

This 3-tiered cake was for an 80th surprise birthday party. All 3 tiers are yellow cake, with vanilla pudding filling. The piano topper is made of chocolate. The musical notes are "floating" on floral wire. One little guy at the party kept coming over and staring, and finally asked me if the piano was "real". When I told him it was chocolate and it could be eaten later, his eyes got so big! Made my day!

Just Beachy!

This was a birthday cake, but I would never reveal the lady's age! This cake is chocolate, with a layer of cherries, and a layer of devil's food pudding. The trunk of my palm tree is a pretzel rod, with chocolate chip coconuts. Everything on this cake is edible.

Car Cake

This cake was fun to make, and was for a very worthwhile cause. I donated this cake to a fundraiser being held by our bowling alley and a local classic car club, to raise funds for a fellow-bowling league member who has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. The fundraiser was lots of fun, with bowling, face painting, music, raffles, and many cars to take a look at outside. Turnout was great, and everyone had a fun time.

Girl Scouts

I created this cake for my daughter's Girl Scout Troop's moving up ceremony. The girls are bridging from Junior Scouts to Cadettes. So the girls on the cake also went up in size and color rank. The inside, true to GS lore, is s'mores flavored - chocolate cake, marshmallow & graham cracker crumb filling. Lots of pre-teens on sugar highs after this one!

Housewarming

This is the first of my cakes to take an interstate trip! One of my co-workers wanted a carrot cake to celebrate his parents' new house in North Carolina. So this cake travelled with him from NY to NC. But it survived well, and at the end, there were no leftovers. Strangely, my favorite aspect of this cake is the garage door. Maybe cause I knew the cake was travelling??? hmmmm.

Lighthouse

I love the look of this cake. I made the seashells out of dark chocolate, and they decorate the base of the cake too. But I think it's the blue water that draws my eye in the brown of the chocolate cake and the beige of the graham cracker "sand." Makes me want to open my beach chair!

Charlie Brown

Let me tell you, Mariann's family ate a LOT of cake that weekend - celebrating two birthdays. This one was for her husband, Doug, celebrating his fiftieth. This was a red velvet inside. Cream cheese frosting, and sssllllooooowwwww drawing on my part! But fun none the less, because I'm a big fan of ol' Charlie Brown myself. Happy, happy birthday Doug! And no, he didn't get a rock.

Card Cake

This was created for my friend Mariann. She wanted a fun cake with an Atlantic City theme, but small. I knew she wanted it to reflect the gambling aspect of the city, so I thought, what a great hand, to surround a great tasting cake! I made the "poker chips" out of fondant and icing.

Flower Basket

This was a small, oval cake with a basket-weave design. The basket is filled with royal icing flowers. . . a change from the real thing, and way better. These flower taste better than the real ones, for one . . .

Grandpa's Birthday

When you grow up in a Jewish household, spaghetti and meatballs is not on the list of dishes you learn to cook - or at least not the way they should be cooked when your inlaws are of an Italian descent. So I took my own way for my father-in-laws birthday! Chocolate cake, with cannoli cream filling. The meatballs are fondant rolled in cocoa powder, and the "gravy" is strawberry puree. This was fun to make, especially the noodles!

Tony & Jean's 50th Anniversary

My very, very good friend Mariann, besides being one of the folks I love to hang around with best, is lucky enough to have parents who I adore as well. I think it's that they remind me so much of my own, without me having to live with them! AND, they're Mets fans, so I gotta love them.

Anyway, Mariann's family had a small party to celebrate her parent's 50th Anniversary. I was honored when she asked me to do the cake. Mariann's cake was carrot cake, with an apricot filling, and covered with cream cheese frosting. Since it is a golden anniversary, all the vines and leaves, and gold sequins on the sides (edible, of course) completed the theme. Mariann swiped her mom & dad's original wedding cake topper from their china cabinet - thanks, Jean!

NY Rangers Rule!

Charlie is a big Rangers fan, celebrating his 50th birthday. This cake is devil's food and banana pudding. I thought I made a fairly good replica! And I can definitely say, mine tastes better!

Diaper Downpour Baby Shower

Experiments with fondant continue!

I made the umbrellas, babies, and their diapers out of fondant. For the writing, I covered each letter with beads of icing, to continue with the "cloud" theme.

This cake had devil's food cake, and each tier was filled 1/2 with chocolate pudding and 1/2 with strawberries.

Dana & Carlos Bridal Shower

Dana and Carlos are having a tropical wedding. So I decided to incorporate a little "beachy" theme to their shower cake. The roses surrounding their names are made of fondant, which I continued my experimentation with, and I think they came out wonderfully! For the feeling of the beach, I surrounded the cakes with a mix of brown sugar and graham cracker crumbs. Seashells of various sizes were made of pink and white chocolate marbled together.

Best Wishes and Congratulation to the happy couple!

Easter Chicks

I made these Easter chicks with devil's food cake. The wings, hair, beeks and feet were all made of chocolate which I piped onto drawings covered with waxed paper. The eggs they "hatched" out of were made of fondant.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Aaaahhhh, the wearing of the green, I mean eating of the green! This was my attempt at making a leprechaun's hat out of fondant. Couldn't get the ends to stay curled up, though! Even so, the cake was delicious and they had fun at their party!

Rosette and Garland Birthday

This birthday cake is red velvet and cream cheese filling (which seems to have become my "signature" cake, people seem to keep coming back for more). The rosettes are centered between red and blue garlands, which decorate the sides of the cake.

Valentine's Day Birthday Celebration

For a birthday cake ordered that coincided with Valentine's Day, it was decided to incorporate the two into one. Had to be red velvet cake on the inside, to continue the theme. Chocolate covered strawberries and pink chocolate lips complete the decoration.

Rosettes and Vines

One of our NYPD friends was visiting my school and after sampling a red velvet cake we were sharing at lunch, had to have one. No occasion, just wanted cake! And when you want cake . . . ya gotta have it!

Irish Birthday

My Mission? I was asked to create an "Irish Birthday Cake" with lots of green. Well, this definitely has lots of green (on the outside, anyway). Inside was moist and yummy chocolate cake.

Tink's Back

This birthday Tink hides a German Chocolate Cake, with chocolate and cherry filling.

Tinkerbell

For Stephie's Birthday! Fondant flowers and leaves (covered in pixie dust, of course), surround Tink. Inside, Tink is made up of Devil's Food Cake and buttercream filling.

Holiday "Presents"

I created a few of these cakes on order during the holidays. Red Velvet with cream cheese icing was popular, as was Devil's Food with Buttercream (in either Chocolate or Vanilla.

This particular cake was covered in cream cheese icing with a fondant bow. Others were covered completely in fondant, giving them a "boxier" look.

50th Birthday Party

In December 2007, I was asked to create this cake, which fed over 150 people, for a 50th Birthday Party. The birthday girl(!) picked out her cake topper, and I designed the cake from there. This was an almond/butter cake with chocolate butter cream filling/icing. The cake is covered in black and shimmery gold fondant, and gold edible beading.

This was my biggest cake to date, and it was a great hit.

And, oh yeah, it's theVFW table that's slanted, not the cake!