Balloon & Gift Birthday Cake: Made for a celebration of our December birthdays at the office. Design idea came from what I did with the Garden Girl cake. I didn’t have a lot of time for this one but didn’t want it to be just a two-layer yellow cake with a boring birthday design on the top. So I to cut around a design on the side to give it a little extra dimension. I did a quick Google search and found a clipart image that matched what I was thinking (balloon attached to a gift box) and blew it up in Photoshop so I could print it and use it as a guide while cutting. Once I had it cut, it all came together nicely.
Bob Marley iPod Nano Cake: Made for the 16th birthday of a co-worker’s sister-in-law’s daughter. I used my 11x15 inch cake pan, cutting the sides off and adding those pieces to the bottom of the cake to mock the dimensions of an iPod Nano. She had requested I have Bob Marley on the screen so I re-created an iPod screen in Photoshop using an image I found online and using the “Happy Birthday” message as the song title and had that printed as an edible image. (I also mocked up what the entire iPod would look like and used that as a guide.) Since she wanted it to be a red iPod, I actually made red velvet cake so that it’d still be red once they cut into it. I wasn’t completely happy with the dial but the cake itself was a big hit!
Pink Rock Star Cake: Made for a co-worker’s little girl’s birthday. Used 11x15 cake pan and cut out the guitar shape based on this actual Daisy Rock guitar, using the left over pieces to make the long neck. They were expecting a lot of kids for the party so we added in some cupcakes to ensure they had enough cake to feed everyone. The silver nobs are actually silver gumballs cut in half and I used Duff’s new Cake Graffiti from Michaels to add silver touches to parts of the cake and cupcakes.
Jungle Boy’s 1st Birthday Cake - 3-D Lion: Made for a friend’s son’s first birthday, this cake was based off the decorations she had purchased for the party. This would be his “destroy it” cake. So I made a small 3-D replica of the lion on the party decorations. Made with 10-inch and 6-inch round pans and the round edges of the lion’s mane cut with using a circle cookie cutter cut in half. The party hat is an ice cream cone coated with green chocolate with the pom-pom at the top made from a marshmallow covered with orange chocolate. (This part had to be removed for transportation but sat easily in the corner of the cake box.)
Jungle Boy’s 1st Birthday Cake: Also made for a friend’s son’s first birthday, this was the cake for the rest of the party-goers. Again it was based on the decorations. I mimicked the design on both the plates and napkins, including different stripes of color around the outside. This one was a 2-layer 9x13 marble cake.
©2010. Postage by Greg Cooper. Icons by P.J. Onori. Thanks to Jamie Cassidy & Panic.
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