Lego Cake 2

Here is another Lego cake that I did last week.

Lego Birthday Cake

Here are a few photos of my most recent cake. Fondant and I still don't get along well. However, practice makes perfect! In time I know I'll have the art of fondant down. 

The finished cake. My goal was to have more figures but everywhere I went they were out!

The cake assembled. The blocks are all cake and the board is just covered with fondant.

Camera Cake! (My first 3D cake)

So here is a quick post on my first 3D cake. It was a tricky one to do. It didn't turn out perfect but I don't think it's horrible. And the Birthday Boy was happy with it so that's all that really matters. 


I had planned on posting a tutorial to go along with this camera cake because there really aren't many online. However, I had so much trouble trying to get it done. There was no way I could take photos along the way. I still have a lot to learn about fondant. I love the way fondant looks but man is it difficult to deal with sometimes. I really think it was the thickness that was my problem. And I really shouldn't have tried to use one piece to cover the whole cake. DUH!


All that aside, I managed to get a decent cake out of the adventure. Here are a few photos...

I used sugar to make the lens and flash.

The picture was just printed off the computer and then laminated. I attached it with royal icing.

Fondant Baby Blocks - A Tutorial!

I'm back! It's been far to long since I've done an update here on the blog. I've been VERY busy lately. I went right from Thanksgiving to a Baby Shower cake. Between the getting the baby figurine made, the fondant blocks, and work I've had very little free time. 


(Going back to Thanksgiving for a second, I have to say that I had a GREAT one. I was off of work for the first time in 6 years! It was wonderful to spend the time with my family and friends. I couldn't have asked for a better Thanksgiving.)


I decided to make my first blog post about the Fondant Baby Blocks I made. At first I decided I could just buy some blocks and put them on the cake. I, for some reason, thought I would be able to find pastel baby blocks...WRONG! It was even next to impossible to find baby blocks in general. Now, it doesn't help that I had a certain look in mind. After running from this store to that one I decided I should just make them. When I was looking around online I had the hardest time finding a tutorial on how to make baby blocks from fondant. Most of the things I found were about using cake and making larger blocks than I wanted. I started to feel a little lost and was going back to my original plan of using plan ole blocks. However, I did find a few pictures that sparked some ideas. I took what I needed from those and I came up with this...

Baby Shower Cake!

So here's my most recent cake. This one was quite a bit of work! I hand sculpted the baby figurine out of clay and I also handmade the baby blocks from fondant. I'll have a post up in the next couple of days on how I made the blocks. There seems to be a short list of tutorials on fondant baby blocks, at least ones like these. 


This cake was for my cousins baby shower this past weekend. She's having a little girl named Payton. The cake went over well and everyone loved it. I'm quite happy with how it turned out as well. The blocks weren't exactly what I wanted them to be but everything works and looks great.


And so, here it is!! Welcome Baby Payton!!

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Nice and simple

My best friend Stephanie's wedding cake from 2007. I think this was my first wedding cake with fondant. Love it. Nice and simple.