Garden Flowers, Button, Bow, and Brooch Cupcake Toppers

I am so excited and ready to share these adorable little cupcake toppers with you! I had so much fun making them and know they will look wonderful at the Vintage Tea Party Bridal Shower that they're headed too.

I was asked to make bow, button, and flower toppers in pinks, purples, and cream. I am beyond pleased with the final result :)

My very favorite thing is the edible chocolate/candy melt cameo brooches! Look! They're actually tasty and beyond adorable! I am so obsessed with them...I cannot wait to use this candy mold to make a million different colored brooches! :)

I made a tutorial that shows step by step instructions on how to make them as well. Here: http://sherilynncakes.blogspot.com/2014/06/edible-cameo-brooches.html?m=1

I added some small fondant flowers to the bottoms of these brooches, to add a little color and also to help them tie into the other decorations - which were all fondant.

I also used the Wilton Silicone Button Mold to make these ADORABLE little buttons!!! They came out well, but they looked even better after I covered them in a little shimmery pearl dust.

I made a variety of little bows as well, and covered them in a shimmery pearl dust.

Since this was a vintage garden tea party, we thought a few little roses and flowers would help tie that theme in. I added a few leaves to make it look a little more realistic. They are a little longer than I would normally make them, but that was so you could really poke them down into the frosting. They also got a light dusting of pearl dust.

This is what it looked like all ready to go to the bridal shower, wrapped up in the box (just needs the next layer, with the roses and leaves).
They looked great together, despite being very different items. Very aclectic and lovely. Perfect for a Vintage Garden Tea Party Bridal Shower :)

Purple Lace Cupcakes

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few months working with a wonderful bride on a fun alternative to a wedding cake - a beautiful cupcake tower with a small cake for their cutting ceremony. 

She wanted purple frosting with silver dragees of various sizes on her cupcakes, with silver papers and a delicate, white, shimmery cupcake wrapper around each one.

The cake on the top was covered with marshmallow fondant and sprayed with food coloring until it was a nice shimmery silver (to match the cupcake papers). I used royal icing on top of the fondant in a technique called "Brush Embroidery" to create the flower pattern on top.

She also wanted peonies and small purple flowers in place of a topper. I created the flowers out of gum paste and floral wire over a week before to make sure they had enough time to dry.

Overall it was a stunning display and it really had some major impact when placed in such a gorgeous venue. 

I had such a wonderful time working with this bride and feel so privileged to be part of her special day! <3 Congratulations to the newlyweds!

White Wedding Cake with Royal Blue Ribbon

This week I had the wonderful privilege of making my life long friend's wedding cake <3

She was having a 4th of July, beach wedding. She had picked a very simple color palette, of just navy and white, and explained the the overall theme/style as "simple" as well. So I didn't want a lot of embellishments, details, etc on the cake (which I found surprisingly hard to  edit myself for this one, I wanted to add shimmer/glitter, flowers...then more flowers, edible diamonds, etc)

I went with this very basic/rustic white butter cream cake, with two layers of a strawberry orange cake and one layer of chocolate (6in, 8in, 10in). I added a simple fondant ribbon along the bottom - in the same color as the ribbon on her wedding dress. And finished it with a little butter cream pearl border.  

Once it was all set up and ready to go I added the finishing touch - a custom made wedding topper to celebrate the new couple <3

We were very happy that it did not melt and made it to the beach in one piece (with the 3hr drive and 80deg temperatures). I feel so honored to have be part of such a special day! <3

Groovy Funfetti Mini Cupcakes

When asked to make GROOVY cupcakes, peace signs and big hippy flowers immediately came to mind! ✌️

So I started with some lovely flowers. Hot pink "daisies" and tiny little purple flowers this time. (Please excuse the horrible picture. I had some Crisco on my lens and wasn't aware of how this picture came out until after the flowers were on the cupcakes. Sorry!) 

For the flavor of our groovy cupcakes, I chose a funfetti recipe with a lot of bright sprinkles in it. I also used papers that were brightly colored, with flowers and peace signs on them. 

I was actually really impressed with this recipe because even after 4 batches (scraping the bowl, stiring, scooping) the color on the sprinkles had not started to bleed into my batter yet. A feat that should impress anyone who has ever tried to blend anything into a vanilla batter. Lol! 

After I had them all baked an cooled, I added a very simple, fluffy vanilla buttercream to the tops and finished them off with groovy fondant flowers and sugar peace signs. 

They were amazingly delicious! And wonderfully colorful as well!

I recently discovered the amazing ness of these little cupcake containers for transport! Highly recommended for cupcakes over the traditional cake boxes!

Pokemon Pokeball Cake

My son normally wants a cheesecake for his birthday but this year, after seeing all the cakes I have made, he decided to have me make his cake. Being extremely obsessed with Pokemon right now, he suggested a Pokeball. Perfect! So we started planning...

We didn't want to carve a sphere shaped cake (because that takes time, and can go wrong really easily) so we chose to make it out of a 10in round cake and just have the "illusion" of a sphere. :) 

I had my son help out a lot, since this is a pretty simple cake. We dyed half of our vanilla buttercream a dark red and covered half of the cake. Then covered the other half with white; the very messy line where those two colors meet was covered up with the black fondant stripe. 

My son cut 3 fondant circles (one black, two white) and placed them in the center.  

To finish it up I added a red pearl border on the bottom. 

My son was so happy and pleased with the final product, and that's all the approval I needed! :) It was a fun project and I loved it! 

Lotus Flower Cake

I recently made a cake that I am pretty obsessed with! It was for my niece's college graduation party. She is very interested in anything henna/mendi inspired so I took hints from that for my main inspiration. 

I decided that using my hexagon pans would help achieve that look the best. I am using the 6in hexagon pan and the 9in hexagon pan, to fit their servings needs. I wanted to use a sophisticated, yet bold, color pallet so I went with a dark turquoise frosting, with gold and white accents. 

For my topper, I chose to make a white lotus (I am slightly lotus obsessed, to the degree that I have a lotus tattoo on my inner wrist! Lol). I searched through a few different online "paper lotus" patterns and instructions until I had a good grasp of what was involved and then kind of "winged it". 

I used a small bowl and allowed the bottom layer of petals dry, creating the softly curved shape of the lotus petals. I also pinched the end of each petal to help give the petals the "cupped" look most lotus petals have. I used smaller bowls and cups to help the inside petals hold their shape while they dried. I also created a small center of the lotus by folding petals over it until a 'bud' form started to emerge. I should also mention that I used a petal veiner on each of the petals to help give it a more realistic effect.

After carefully placing the (partially dried) petals onto the "base" petals, and adding the bud into the center to make it look like the flower was blooming, I brushed the entire flower with pearl dust to help make the petals more realistic and pop a little more. 

For the cake decor/decorations, I opted to go with a henna inspired patterns. After I piped them in royal icing and let them dry sufficiently, I brushed them all with an antique gold powder. In retrospect, I should've colored my royal icing gold and then brushed it with the gold powder to achieve a deeper/richer color. The white royal icing needed a lot of dust to make an impact and even then, it was not as bold as I wanted. But they were still pretty gorgeously antique. 

I made yellow/butter cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. 

I colored the frosting a beautiful, dark turquoise color and frosted both cakes before adding on all the gold henna accents. I also made a bunch of gold dots to add color and add detail to the little henna decals. 

The top of the cake all boxed up. I added a gold pearl border to the bottom of both layers. This time I did color the fondant gold, and then brushed it with gold dust. It did help make the color so much deeper. I really loved it! 

Once I made it to her house I stacked the cake. It was much easier to stack it on site than it is to try to travel without messing it up. Haha :)

Everyone loved the cake and it was absolutely delicious! 

Like I said I am VERY obsessed with this cake! I think it is gorgeous, bold, elegant, and fun! And it has a beautiful white lotus topper, can't get any better than that! Hahaha! Hope you all enjoy it just as much as I do! 😃

Ivory Cake with Pink Bows

A few weeks ago I had the wonderful priveledge of making a dear friend's wedding cake ❤❤❤❤❤

She needed a 4 tiered cake, which was the largest I have made to date (over 16in tall!). She wanted round and hexagon layers to alternate (the round layers were red velvet flavored, and the hexagon were a strawberry flavor). 

I accentuated the round layers with simple scroll work and soft blush pink gum paste ribbons and bows. 

The hexagon layers were decorated with a quilted pattern and buttercream pearl details on the bottom and where the quilting pattern intersects. 

This cake was made with the 6in round, 9in hexagon, 12in round, and 16in hexagon Wilton cake pans. 

Congratulations to Brittiany and Brent! ❤❤❤ wishing you many years of happiness! 

2014 Graduation Cake

It's June...which means lots of Graduations! Yay! Congratulations Grads on all the hard work!

I had the privilege of making a cake for a recent high school grad, named Cory. 

We wanted something unique and special for this wonderful Grad. They found a cake style they were interested in and then I customized it for them. 

I made a red velvet with a cream cheese frosting since the colors were white, black, and red. He was also heavily involved in basketball and football, so we highlighted that by making a simple outline with his jersey number inside. 

I used a star tip for the red border to help tie in the fondant stars on the top of each square. I also covered the middle star in black shimmer dust to help it stand out from the others. 

I was very happy with the final product. It was a very bold cake that looked very original. Such a fun project!!! Loved working with this wonderful family! <3 Congratulations on all your hard work Cory! 

Edible Cameo Brooches

Hello Everyone! <3 I am really excited to bring you this tutorial today. I looked everywhere online for a tutorial for chocolate cameos when I was making these and couldn't find anything. I hope this tutorial helps you, or inspires some new ideas for you, while working on your projects :) 

I found this wonderfully beautiful cameo brooch chocolate mold at my local decorating store. I am sure you can find them online as well if you do not have a cake/candy supply store near you. 

I melted some white chocolate and, using a small paint brush, applied it to the "face" of the cameo brooch. I let that set up in the freezer for a minute or two before I added the colored portion to the back. 

For this project I used pink candy melts and white chocolate to make a very soft pink color for the background of the cameos. 

I filled them up with a small amount of the

Pink chocolate mixture, tapped it down to help fill in all the gaps, bring all the bubbles to the surface, and smooth out the top. 

After returning them to the freezer for another minute or two so they could set up, I simply tapped the mold on the table and they popped out. IF you're having problems getting the chocolates out of the mold, pop it back in the freezer for a while longer...it might now be solidified enough to come out nicely. Chocolate that has been tempered properly will also have a nice shine when it comes out of the mold as well. 

Since the brooches were missing something, I decided to paint the rope border gold. I used a little shimmer dust and vodka to make a paint and simply brushed it on. I did have to do two layers to make sure it would stick. Next time, however, I am going to paint the rope border on with a corresponding chocolate color so I don't have to spend so much time painting the gold on. 

BUT with all that being said...THESE ARE MY FAVORITE TOPPERS EVER!!! Oh my! I am in love with these and want to make some in every color now! Obsessed doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about these. Lol! I know, I know...I am gushing! But like I said, with no tutorial I was really crossing my fingers and hoping they would turn out okay. And obviously I am beyond pleased with how they turned out!

Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! And yummy! Can't beat it!

And since these were going to a vintage tea party themed bridal shower, I wanted to make these blend in with the other fondant decorations so I added purple flowers to help frame the bottoms.

ADORABLE!!! Haha! I know I keep saying that but these are my new favorite thing! 

 

Just so pretty :) 

And these are all the other fondant details that will be on the cupcake toppers : 

Perfect for a summer vintage tea party bridal shower <3 <3 <3 

Rose Bridal Shower Cake

Summer has begun! Hooray for flip-flops, farmers markets, fresh berry lemonaid, and...the beginning of wedding season! :)

My first "summer" project was a simple/small bridal shower cake. I received a call the night before it was needed and was asked to make something "girly and fun" for a friends' surprise bridal shower.

I quickly baked up a simple 6in vanilla cake with a creme bokay frosting. 

I decided to tint the frosting a soft pink and do a simple rosette cake. I began piping buttercream roses along the side in two rows. There were small areas where the cake was showing through, so  I piped a little star shaped flower in the holes and added 3 pearls to the center of those star flowers. 

    (Ignore my ugly background. Lol!)

After the sides were completed I moved into the top. I didn't have enough frosting to make a bunch of little rosettes on the top so I made one large rose that covered the entire top of the cake. 

When I finished the rose on top I added marshmallow fondant pearls as a border to the top....

...as well as the bottom. 

I absolutely LOVE this cake!!! It was simple and since I didn't spend too much time planning it I didn't over think it and it was wonderful in its simplicity! 

Such a perfect little bridal shower cake! I love this so much! Can't wait to experiment with this rosette technique on other cakes/projects. The visual impact is really stunning! 

15th Anniversary Cake

This was a simple cake that I put together quickly for a 15th anniversary. I used cream cheese frosting as a base and added fondant details to the top of that. I used simple stripes and pearls, but added a '15' to the top. 

It turned out well for a last minute cake :) simple but elegant

Silver 25th Anniversary Cake

A dear friend of mine is throwing her 25th wedding anniversary and asked me to make her a small cake with a cupcake tower. Her theme was the roaring 20s, flappers, feathers and jewels. And everything needed to be colored in silver, black, or white. 

I designed a small cake that would be silver with white flowers and white pearls frappe over every part of the cake. 

Once I knew what my cake would look like it was onto cupcake toppers. I found this really great chocolate mold that has '25' written in the middle of a circular medallion. I gathered up all my supplies a and started working. 

I made 200 little white chocolate discs

I used the Wilton Color Mist in Silver to spray the chocolate toppers and make them appear totally silver

The next step was to make the '25' stand out. I used the black Pearl Dust mixed with a little vodka to create a 'paint' which filled in the little number indents very well.

Though it was EXTREMELY time consuming!!! 

(14hrs total for these toppers start to finish!!!) 

ALMOST DONE!!! Lol! 

The next and last step is the bling :) we have to make these look ornate and like a brooch, so I need to use silver dragees. I added a little edible adhesive glue to the center of each little flower (around the edge) and added a small silver dragee. And as you can see the impact is worth the little extra time. 

 

And here is a close up of the finished product

I am completely in love with these! They're super cute and will even taste yummy! 

Now that those are done its time for me to start working on all the bits and pieces that I will need for my cake. 

The first thing to make are the gum paste flowers. I am only using white since she will be having a silver cake. I made a few roses and some small filler flowers for the topper

 

I also made up some gum paste numbers. '25' for this cake and '15' for a cake I was making the same day. The '15' was done in white gumpaste but later painted with the same black pearl dust as the inside of the '25' on the chocolate toppers, and the '25' was finished with some silver disco dust for a huge impact! 

I made a small little 6in round cake. Frosted it with cream cheese frosting, and piped Corneille lace all over. I then sprayed it with Wilton's Food Spray in Silver. It gave it a wonderful antiqued look. Then I placed the gum paste flowers and the feather topper on top. They looked amazing!!! I also draped some fondant pearls around the top to enhance the "roaring 20s" theme. 

I also frosted and topped all of my cupcakes.

They looked wonderful. I love the little toppers! And they're edible...even better! :) 

Once I arrived at the venue I was able to add the glittery '25' topper...and it looked FABULOUS!!!! Absolutely amazing and perfect for the party! 

And once it was stacked on the top of the cupcake stand it looked even better. I added some feather boas to the edges of the cupcake stand to make it look fancier and to help "carry" the feathers down the stand. 

It looked truly wonderful when finished! One of my favorite projects to date <3 <3 <3