Cake Decorator Part-Time (there isn't a word for less than part-time right?)

After watching close to a hundred youtube videos on decorating cakes and using fondant I decided one day - about three years ago - that I would drive my butt to the closest Joann's and Michael's and buy all necessary materials to make myself a fondant cake. (I warned you all in my first blog post that I do this on a regular basis)

After spending all of my money for the week on materials, I went home and possibly spent more than a few hours on this little beauty:

Simple, polka dot two layer vanilla butter cream cake. I am personally not a big fan on the taste of fondant, so I usually end up peeling it away before stuffing it into my mouth.

Warning: what you are about to see next was a sad sad attempt at a 3-tiered cake. At the time, and with my lack of expertise, I had no idea that you had to use supports in order for the cake to stand straight.

Up close, I'd think it was a winner...

Next up, I was asked by a family member to make a small anniversary cake for their 50th.

This next cake is preeeetty original. I was asked to make a Halloween cake for party and this is what I came up with. I'm sure you will be shakin' in your boots.

The next 10 cakes were all completely handmade, no mixes, no premade frostings - nothing. So you can imagine how time consuming they were. These cakes were for my mom's wedding reception.
Flavors consisted of:

• dark chocolate with chocolate ganache frosting
• cinnamon apple with apple butter frosting,
• vanilla vanilla
•  yellow cake with dark chocolate frosting
•  chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream frosting
•  toasted coconut
• banana cake - think banana bread, with homemade caramel drizzle
•  peanut butter cup cake with chocolate ganache on the inside layers and cream cheese frosting for the outside - it also had butterfinger and reeses crumbled on the top
• strawberry cake - made with an entire box of real strawberries
• finally - my favorite white cake with an entire package of oreos blended and stirred into the batter



This next photo is a close-up of the Banana Caramel cake

Last, but not least, is the mecca of all requests. A friend of mine asked me to make her wedding cake - now please keep in mind that the cakes shown above are the only cakes I had ever made. This was the end result:

Voila!
I can supply any/all recipes used for these cakes if anyone would like.