Shoshana's Wedding Cakes

I finally got to make a cheesecake for a wedding! I also got my "floating tiers" cake stand that I had wanted to buy. Shoshana wanted a cheesecake topped with fresh fruit, it was delicious. I also made a chocolate groomscake topped with truffles (very similar to the one at my own wedding, but smaller). These were so much fun to make, pretty to look at, and yummy to eat. The chocolate one went quickly, next time I should make a larger groomscake!

Christmas Wedding Cake

I made this small wedding cake and two matching sheetcakes for a winter wedding reception. The tiered cake was made from 10-inch and 6-inch stacking tiers, both buttermilk cake (my favorite cake recipe!). They were filled with delicious pastry cream and frosted with buttercream. The snowflakes and poinsettias gave a nice effect, I really liked this one. We also had two sheetcakes (one chocolate and one buttermilk). The sheetcakes were also filled with pastry cream (chocolate pastry cream in the chocolate cake). Aunt Joy taught me how to decorate the sheetcakes with little squares so each piece has a little decoration on it when cut.

Tiffany's Wedding Cake

This was the cake I made for Tiffany's wedding down in Boise. It was the same size and shape as Aubrey's, but Tiffany did not want fondant. She wanted everything on her cake to be delicious (my sentiments exactly). It was a simple design that turned out really pretty. The flavors were: buttermilk w/ raspberry filling on the bottom layer, then chocolate w/ chocolate filling, spice with cream cheese filling, and then almond poppyseed on the very top. It was frosted with yummy buttercream.

Maya's Birthday Cake

When Maya turned one, I made her this cute little snowflake cake. It was frosted with pale pink icing and decorated with a large snowflake on the top and smaller ones around the edge. The cake was a gingerbread cake with apple pie filling between the layers. It was a perfect little cake for a winter birthday.

4th of July Cheesecake

I had been wanting to try out this recipe for a wedding cheesecake, so I cut the recipe in half and cooked it in my sheetcake pan. It was really yummy, but I'd say that the best part was the amazing frosting. It was made with cream cheese and candymelts, and it tasted just like cheesecake. It was so smooth and creamy. I put frosting on the sides of the cake and covered the top with blueberry and strawberry pie filling (from a can, quick and easy). The I piped the stars and stripes on the top with the white frosting. The cheesecake had a wonderful, smooth texture, but was a little light for my taste. The recipe had more sour cream than cream cheese. I think I prefer a cheesecake that is more firm and has a stronger flavor. This recipe is a good one to keep on hand for someone who likes more fluffy cheesecake.

Sarah's Birthday Cake

I made this with help from Missy Mathews. The design of the cake was Missy's idea. I made the cake, another buttermilk cake with strawberry filling. It was a tall cake with each tier being made of three layers of cake. The top tier was a 6-inch round and the bottom was a 10-inch. I frosted it with my own buttercream. Missy did the rest, she made the blossoms out of royal icing and the branch out of colored fondant. We decided that next time we could make a branch out of tootsie rolls, it would taste much better! Please ignore the big bulge on the side of the cake where the strawberry filling is trying to push it's way out (whoops!).

Aubrey's Wedding Cake

I made this wedding cake for a friend in Boise. The best part about it was the delicious flavors. The top layer (6-inch) was almond cake with cherry pie filling. The second layer (10-inch) was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The third layer (14-inch) was buttermilk cake with strawberry pie filling. And the largest layer (18-inch) was chocolate buttermilk with chocolate cream filling. It was frosted with yummy buttercream (except the carrot cake) and then covered with fondant that I made from scratch. I'm not a big fan of using fondant because I think it's yucky, but that's what Aubrey wanted. I think my own fondant tasted much better than the store-bought. I added vanilla and butter flavorings, that helped a lot. It wasn't really that hard to make, the hardest part was finding the weird ingredients (glucose and glycerin). The orange flowers were piped ahead of time and made from buttercream frosting. The pearl border at the base of each layer was also made with buttercream. Yummy!

September 2003 - My Own Wedding Cakes

My first wedding cake I made was for my own wedding. I admit that it is a little crazy to make your own wedding cake, let alone two of them! My husband wanted a chocolate grooms cake, I wanted a green one with daisies. The chocolate cake had hand-made truffles on the top (kind of hard to see in the photo). The truffles and the daisies were made ahead of time so on the morning of the wedding all I had to do was stick them on. I also had some serious help from some of my aunts, thank you! We had a lot of cake!