I recently had a client approach me asking if I could replicate this robot for her son's first birthday cake. Of course from my perspective, having a photo to work from makes things much easier.

She wanted a round cake with the robot featured on the cake, but she didn't anticipate that I would make the robot 3D. Using rice crispy treat, I molded the robot and then covered it in fondant and used silver Duff™ Cake Graffiti to spray the gray fondant to give it a robotic sheen.

Lesson learned from this cake - Graffiti spray does not colour royal icing. I was having issues with the robots arms staying attached. I used dowels to add support, but they were secure enough to ensure the car ride to the party. So I whipped up a batch of royal icing and glued the arms on, thinking that I would then spray the exposed icing to blend in. In hindsight, I should have dyed the royal icing first.

I'll know for next time!

The whole time I was making this cake, I kept thinking about the monkey brain scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My monkey's brains were made of rice crispy treats, but wouldn't it have been fun to make some jell0 brains? I know some of the party goers would have appreciated my weird sense of humour!

I've always felt the December birthday should be celebrated with a little more zest. So often holiday plans interfer withbirthday celebrations. I might be a bit bias since I'm a December baby, as is my son and Mom, who's birthday is today. 

So I thought I would make my mom a cake disguises as a present. It's a lemon cake with strawberry buttercream, covered with marshmallow fondant.

My cakes always start out with a basic idea. I knew I wanted to make a monkey for Ian's first birthday, but I didn't know the colours, pose, or features. 

Once I had made the head out of rice crispy treats and covered it with chocolate fondant, the monkey began to take shape. I did make an early revision, since my first monkey face looked rather evil. Once the head was done, I thought it would be cute to add a birthday hat, so I covered a mini ice cream cone with fondant.

Of course I needed a smash cake for my soon to be one year old. Instead of using a separate board, I decided to use a bigger board for the monkey, so he could hold the smash cake. When it was time to serve the cake, I simply pulled the smash cake and put it on Ian's high chair tray.

The cake was banana with chocolate buttercream. I used marshmallow chocolate fondant to cover the entire cake and make the arms, hands, and legs. The feet were rice crispy treats covered in fondant.

This one is for my baby boy's first birthday!

I love it when clients request creative cakes! This shark cake was especially fun to make. It was for a special little boy's first birthday who was nicknamed a fish while in mommy's tummy, but developed a habit of biting once he started crawling around - hence a shark cake.

The cake itself is a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate buttercream, but I made the shark from rice crispie treats that I sculpted. I used fondant to cover the cake and shark. The shark's fins and teeth were made from gumpaste to make sure they dried hard.

This cake was by far one of my favourites!

It's a bouncing baby boy or is it? These swaddled baby cupcakes are perfect for a baby shower. Using fondant, I cut out a circle to cover then top of the iced cupcake. I then shaped the head and body and covered them with a blanket (another fondant circle). Using a food writer marker, I drew the month and then added a nose and mouth. These little cupcakes are almost to cute to eat.....almost!

With Halloween quickly approaching, I wanted to make some ghoulishly delicious cupcakes and since it was pouring rain, it was the perfect day to bake.

The ghost cupcake is made by covering a marshmallow with fondant. The green tentacle monster is made with fondant. The fingers, ears and toes adorning the dirt cupcakes are made with marzipan and the googly eyed monster is made with fondant. 

So here is the finished firetruck cake. The cake itself was half chocolate and half lemon with strawberry buttercream. The tires were made from rice cereal treats and everything was then covered in fondant. The accompanying smash cake was embellished a small hose to douse the flames.

I admit I had nightmares about dropping this one! It had to travel for 45 minutes to reach it's party destination, but all worked out in the end and it was a bit hit with party goers.