Two weeks ago I baked a Christening cake for my friends and their little angle Ryan Alexander. I had to deliver this cake rather quickly since it was about 90°F outside and a 30 minutes drive seemed like several hours. If you ever attempt to transport a cake in such a heat, make sure to run your car’s air conditioner for at least 20 minutes before setting out on the road. The cake was a carrot cake (my friends’ favorite) and the decoration was done in cream cheese icing. If you have pictures of the cakes you baked in the past, please share it with me. Just go to contact page and drop me a line or two.

So without any further ado, here is how the cake came out:

And here are few other closer shots of the decoration details. As I mentioned above the decoration was done in cheese icing.
The flowers (roses) are made royal icing. You can probably find these in your local baking supplies store. The gum paste flowers can be used as well. One time I have even attempted making flowers out of fondant. The fondant flowers when dried are hard, however I would not recommend using fondant flowers along with any icing as the flowers will absorb the moisture from the icing rather quickly and may loose the shape and leak the colors.

The little baby angle was decorative (non eatable). But it can be a nice reminder of the baptism for the family to keep.

As strange as it may be, chances are that if you want to order an Elmo Cake from your bakery, you will be told that they can’t do it. Elmo, the character, is copyright protected. That was the case with a friend of my who wanted the Elmo cake for her 3 years old. So to help her out I decided to bake the cake myself (see the picture below). It was a breeze to make this cake with a Wilton’s Elmo Pan cake, you should be able to get this pan at your local baking supply store, or you can order it from Amazon. And as of matter of fact, most of the decorating was done with the tip #32.

When coloring the icing, you should be very careful not to put to much color. It is always better to add more, because it is hard to fix if you add to much color. Just use the tooth pick dipping one end into the coloring and adding one little drop of die at a time.

The inside of the cake is only limited by your imagination. If my memory serves me well, the cake in the picture was a chocolate cake. All the decorating was done in icing.

I made this cake for my nephew for his 7th birthday. As you can tell my nephew is into race cars, so this year we have not only decorated his bedroom accordingly, I have decided to surprise him for his birthday with a special cake. The cake is not hard to make at all, if you have the right tools (see below). If you were to bake the cake using the Wilton’s Race Cake Pan along it will serve about 12-16 people. Since we had over 20 kids attending his birthday, I placed the car cake over the half a sheet cake. While I generally prefer decorating with whipped cream, the cake in the picture below was done with icing.