Learning to make punch flowers

Here are the photos from the first fondant class held at Party Cakes on Saturday, January 8, 2011.  Eight 12-year-old girls learned that it’s not as easy as it looks.  Cable shows like The Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes only show the highlights of decorating their cakes.  These girls got dirty and had fun learning how to cut out fondant flowers, cover a little cake with a sheet of fondant, trim it and finish it with butter cream icing.  Then they applied their freshly formed flowers and designs to what they wanted and each walked out with their own 4″ cake…2 1/2 hours later.

Welcome students!

Cutting out the designs

Watching and learning

More designs

Adding to the garden!

All hands helping!

Full sheet tray of flowers and shapes

Next step: Base ice the cake with butter cream icing

Dad gets into the fun!

Roll out the fondant and cover that cake

Finish the bottom edge with a butter cream border

Shirley Weichel, Party Cakes head decorator, helps Isabel with her cake

Adding design and color with a touch of butter cream icing

Teacher demonstrates fondant snowflakes and airbrushing techniques

Isabel's completed masterpiece!

The class was a huge success and I would definitely do it again.  Everyone learned something, including the teacher.

If you want more information on how to arrange a class of your own, please call Party Cakes at 248-541-2253 and speak with Valerie Jackett.

Baby Camo in Blue

This cake shows a camouflage design in blue topped with a “package” cake on top finished with a fondant bow.  The baby blocks that spell out the name are made from cereal treats covered in fondant.  Hours of work with spectacular results.

Clothesline Tiered cake

The baby clothesline is a fun design that incorporates all the colors for baby and not just pink and blue.  What is truly unique about this cake is the baby on top: created with fondant, hand painted and wrapped in a blanket!  Here is a close-up photo:

Fondant Baby 3-D

Party Cakes in Berkley, MI can design a cake just for your event.  Bring us a photo of an idea and we’ll design a cake with your budget in mind.

Just give me daisies...no leaves please

Multi level decorating and themes

Ribbon and flowers

Fondant and chocolate shamrocks

Iroquois Room Wedding Cake Display

Square turned with flowers

Small cakes can be elegant!

Silk flowers

TALL is the fashionable cake this year!

Fresh as a rose in bloom

Fanned out roses make a difference

Silver ribbon and butterflies

Pink ribbon with Monogram topper

Black and white theme

Rain on a wedding day, but the cake was GREAT!

Blue dots with ivory butter cream

Anniversary Brown theme

Red Run Beauty

Most of these cakes were created during the month of September, 2010.

White Chocolate on white butter cream icing with navy roping

From anchors to palm trees, the brides want it all and with their own personal touches.  Sometimes I even get a say in the design!

On the beach

Elegance was the final word for this next design with 100′s of tiny fondant flowers all over the three tiers.  Here is a close-up view:

Fondant flowers on tiers

Of course this would look entirely different if I would have based iced the cake in a pastel color OR the flowers were created in a BOLD color.  Maybe in the fall….

It's Dad's Car in cake form!

Stacked four layers high and constructed like a wedding cake with dowels and support boards, this popcorn box will serve 30-40 hungry children easily. Yes, that’s real popcorn overflowing from the top! Party Cakes likes to use real food items whenever possible.

Pass the Popcorn

This cake can stand on it’s own–literally! The wheels are oreos covered with fondant icing but everything else is sculpted butter cream. You CAN eat every bit of this car!

Flowers to arrive later!

Fit for a Greek Goddess

Close up view 1

Close up view 2

Zebra Print Wedding

Weddings can happen any weekend of the year and a holiday weekend is no exception.  Here are the three wedding cakes that I created on Sunday, May 30, 2010 for three very special couples.  Each cake was different and created to their specifications–as always.

The first delivery went to Troy, MI and I arrived before the florist so the cake is “naked” it’s topper and extra floral decorations.  Each tier had a different design but all worked well together.

The second delivery took me out to Shelby, MI to Cherry Creek Country Club.  The bride decided at the last minute (5 days before the wedding!) that she did not like the “display” cake the venue was going to provide for her wedding.  That’s when the mother of the bride called Party Cakes.  We arranged to create a four tiered wedding cake display and the decorations included crystals, pearls, and gold leaf vines, all of which had to cascade down the front of the cake.

There was no topper so I had to create something that would use the decorations that were given to me.  Oh yes, the cake had to “shimmer” so I applied many layers of pearl dust with the airbrush machine.  The next photos show the detail of the decorations on two tiers.  If you look closely, you will see the “shimmer” affect created by the airbrush machine.  It looks “wet.”

The final wedding cake delivery went to Southfield at the Silver Gardens.  The theme of this wedding was “zebra” print, which was quite appropriate since the couple were married at the Zoo.  For decorating purposes, this cake took the most amount of time to create.  Each stripe is cut from black fondant icing and then pieced onto each tier of the cake.  There is NO pattern to follow and everything is done freehand.  Note:  I am not responsible for the selection of the cake topper.  That was solely the responsibility of the wedding couple.

Beginning at 8:45am on Sunday morning, all three deliveries were completed by 1pm.