Cakes/Pies

I have been creating cakes for myself and others in my spare time.  I love to bake, whether its cake or pies or just something new.  These are some of my creations and my experiments.

This was a birthday cake for my sister-in-law's 40th birthday.


This is a lattice crust apple pie.


This was a 3 tier cake for a baby shower.
This is a double crust beehive cherry pie.

This was my husband's birthday cake.  Devil's chocolate cake with fudge filling and chocolate ganache topping.


Cupcakes I made at Christmas.
Michael Jackson birthday cake.


I decided to try out some jar baking.  This was an apple pie baked in a mason jar.

Banana chocolate chip bread baked in a mason jar.

Chocolate cake baked in a mason jar with vanilla icing and chocolate sprinkles.
Cherry pie baked in a mason jar.
I figured out that mason jars were also great just for storing cookies.  These are chocolate chip.

I baked the mason jars inside a pan so they wouldn't slide around and fall over.
I experimented with all different sizes of mason jars.  The hardest ones were the large ones.
Sugar cookies with blue crystalized sugar.
This was the ladybug cake that I made for my own babyshower.  Its all made out of fondant.



This was the cake for my daughter's first birthday. Everything is made out of fondant except the water.
I wasn't super happy with the way the surfboards and the towel turned out.  And the palm trees were heavy and kept falling over.


These are mini cheesecakes I made for my sister-in-law's bridal shower.
This was a nursing cake I made for someone's birthday/nursing graduation.


This is an open book cake I made for someone's retirement party.



Pumpkin pie.

Raspberry bavarian cake.  My husband showed me a picture and told me I wouldn't be able to make it, so I proved him wrong.
The outside is a wall of chocolate.

This is the cake I made for my sister-in-law's bridal shower.  First attempt with fondant.  Took a lot longer than I thought it would but I think it turned out really good.

This was the finished cake at the shower. I used brown sugar to look like sand.
This is a stacked book cake for a retirement party.  This one was actually pretty difficult to make.