I decided to make these cake pops to hand out as Valentine grams. Chocolate cake center, candy outer layer.
Just wanted to add some lessons learned from this batch:

Wait for cake to cool before adding icing.
Don’t …

Once in a while I’ll test my skills and push my limits beyond something I know nothing about. This round was cake pops. Cake pops seem to be the new trend instead of cupcakes. …

Here’s a cake we made for my aunt’s new dog…I never knew my dog bone cookie cutter would ever come in handy.

Here’s a cake Tamina made for Ocean View’s Sock Hop 2011.

Here are a set of Puffle cakes from Club Penguin. Real simple – circle cake, carve, and cover with fondant.

Here’s the Angry Bird Tamina and I made for Ocean View’s Sock Hop.

Here’s a cake I made for a friend. She’s plays keyboard in my church, loves coffee, and stars. Oh, she’s into art too.
The keys are made from gum paste. The bottom tier is two 2″ …

Here’s a snare drum cake. This was the first time I used a marbling technique to color the fondant. The color turned out great. I think in the future I’ll throw in some white. The …

I made a cake for my sons’ school the other day. The cake is based from Eric Carle’s book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
I was thinking about doing the butterfly but it didn’t work out.
Here I …

I was commissioned to make a cake that resembled 8-bit Mario. Maybe I should say someone ordered a cake from me but I like commissioned because I pretend that my cakes are more of a …

One of my sons needed to do a presentation to his class about Native American culture. Being my kid, he chose food. Since other kids in the class were interested in food, she thought of …

I’m still looking for the ultimate dessert to enter into a contest this year.  I came across this recipe for Coca-Cola frosting and there’s a recipe for Coca-Cola cake.  Right not I’m concerned with the …

A special request came to me a week ago.  One of my friends wanted me to bake her daughter a cake.  But not just any cake.  A cake with Chococat on it.  I was honored.  …

Can one really have too much chocolate?  Here’s a picture I dug up from my archives of a cake I did back in December ’08 for my company’s holiday party dessert contest.
I remember lightly sleeping …