Cakes by Melissa

Wall-E

2009-01-06T22:24:00.000-08:00

This was done for Solomon's 5th birthday, he wanted Wall-E, a bunch of wall-e's..he came up with the idea so that each of his friends could take one home!

This is a white almond cake, raspberry filling, buttercream frosting.

Dean and Germaine

2008-09-27T12:00:00.001-07:00

I did this cake for my uncle Dean and his new wife, for our family gathering to welcome Germaine into the family.

French vanilla cake, with raspberry filling and buttercream.

Krista's Wedding Cake

2008-09-07T22:39:00.000-07:00

6 Tiers....

Top is white with buttercream

8" white with raspberry

10" banana with PB buttercream ( that was a hit!)

12" Strawberry with buttercream

14" white with apricot jam

16" chocolate with crushed up oreos in the buttercream filling

Baby boy cake

2008-07-10T14:07:00.000-07:00

This is a cake I did for the little man who I doulaed for a few weeks back! He was being blessed and my aunt asked if I would make a cake. So here it is! I think I saw the idea of it on cakecentral.com ....but I can't remember for sure!

It is a white cake with apricot filling, covered in buttercream.

pink wedding cake

2008-04-26T16:55:00.000-07:00

I did this "wedding cake" for a youth activity on standards and preparing to some day be married. It was white cake, with strawberry filling, covered in buttercream.

Sweet 16

2008-04-15T18:55:00.001-07:00

This I did for a girl in YW who wanted one of my cakes for her birthday! How sweet is that!

It is a white cake, with buttercream filling and covered in buttercream, decorated with buttercream roses.....is that enough buttercream for ya? LOL!

Yellow fondant with gum paste flowers

2008-04-14T22:25:00.001-07:00

As I said on my family site, the actual color for this was a pale yellow, but for the life of me I couldn't get it to photograph nicely!!

I did this cake for a Relief Socity Birthday party. It is a white cake, with a raspberry cream cheese filling, buttercream, and then covered in a marshmallow fondant. Piped with buttercream and gum paste flowers.

Missionary Cake

2008-03-22T22:55:00.001-07:00

I did this for Blake who is leaving on his mission this week to Argentina. I know its an awful picture, but whenever I had the flash on it would make a HUGE glare in the fondant.

This is a white cake with lemon and raspberry filling, covered in buttercream and then fondant.

Happy Easter

2008-03-22T22:52:00.000-07:00

This is a white pound cake with buttercream frosting with fondant decorations.

SpongeBob

2008-03-14T11:56:00.000-07:00

This is a cake I did for my friends son who is turning 2. It is a buttercream transfer of Spongebob, though his foot caused some issue coming off...dang foot, I'll be trying to fix that up later! It is a white cake, with lemon curd filling, covered with buttercream! And boy, I learned its not fun trying to write on wavey icing...so I just went with it, heck it looks like it was written underwater right!LOL!

Cinderella Cake

2008-03-01T22:52:00.000-08:00

This was done for Mara's 2nd Birthday. I am so glad I got a picture of it before I took it to my mom's house because on the ride over the box smashed all the flowers down into a pink mess!

The Cinderella is done in a buttercream transfer. Cake is frosted in buttercream, cake is white with a vanilla cream filling.

This is what Mara had to say when she saw it! LOL, just seeing her so excited made my sugar crusted kitchen worth it!

100th Day of School

2008-02-06T08:22:00.000-08:00

My oldest sons 1st grade teacher called this week and asked if I would make a cake in the shape of "100" for their 100th Day party on Wednesday. He wanted a white cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles, so thats what it is!

Sorry the picture isn't great, I have a new camera and it doesn't have a flip screen, and well, this baker isn't very tall! I guess I should have used a chair! LOL!

Frog Prince

2008-01-28T21:25:00.000-08:00

This is a 3D white pound cake ( bear cake turned into a frog), with a 14" round chocolate pound cake. Covered in buttercream. This was for Jill's 23rd Birthday.

Ben 10

2008-01-15T11:26:00.000-08:00

I am certainly not an artist, and free handed this, but he was thrilled! LOL!

Baby Shower-Pregnant Belly

2008-01-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

This was a cake I did for a contest at church, ( the "not" in the picture is telling all the kids there to not touch the cakes on the tables! LOL)

Pretty in Pink

2008-01-15T10:43:00.000-08:00

This I made for the actual day of my daughters 1st Birhday, we had another big party later but I didn't want "the day" to pass without cake!!

Over The Hedge

2008-01-15T10:42:00.000-08:00

This was done for my middle son's third birthday.

Transformers

2008-01-15T10:37:00.000-08:00

Jessica's wedding

2008-01-15T10:33:00.000-08:00

This is a cake I did for another cousins wdding. It is a sourcream almond cake with boston cream and strawberry filling, a layer of chocolate with white frosting filling, and another sourcream cake with lemon filling covered in buttercream.

Juliannes wedding

2008-01-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

This was the largest thing I have even done with fondant. It is a Sourcream Almond cake, with Boston cream and fresh strawberry filling, covered first with a coat of buttercream and then covered in marshmallow fondant. Brushed with luster dust.

Superman

2008-01-15T10:06:00.000-08:00

He's hot even in cake form wouldn't you say? White shape cake, buttercream.

Hamburger

2008-01-15T10:05:00.000-08:00

This was done for my sons 6th birthday. Originally he wanted a cake that looked like Spongebob, but last minute he decided in tears he needed a Crabby patty cake instead, and this is what I came up with! This was a 9" double layer cake, white cake with buttercream filling.

Blueberry and Cream cheese

2008-01-15T10:02:00.000-08:00

Double 9" cake, It is a blueberry cake with a cream cheese/buttercream frosting. Delicious!!

Jill

2008-01-15T10:01:00.000-08:00

This one was done for my sisters birthday, it was a last minute thing that I just played around with!

Spring/Easter Cake

2008-01-15T09:59:00.000-08:00

The flowers on this are painted gumpaste. I did this cake for a family gathering at Easter time last year.

Princess Party

2008-01-15T09:55:00.000-08:00

1/2 sheet, white cake, raspberry filling and covered with white buttercream frosting. I did this for my daughters first Birthday.

Dinner party

2008-01-15T09:52:00.000-08:00

I took this one to a dinner party at a friends. It is chocolate cake with buttercream, caramel sauce and a chocolate peanut butter sauce filling. Covered with buttercream and then drizzled with a chocolate peanut butter icing.

Brian and Kelly's Wedding

2008-01-15T09:49:00.000-08:00

This was my first wedding cake. My cousins and his wife asked me if I would do theirs and this is what she picked out! She was so nice to make it hard for me for my first one! LOL!

This was a Sourcream Almond cake with Boston cream and fresh strawberries for the largest and smallest layers. The middle sized layer was a chocolate with chocolate mousse filling. All covered in buttercream.

Basket w/ Purple flowers

2008-01-15T09:47:00.000-08:00

This was a basketweave cake that I did during one of my classes. It was a chocolate cake with buttercream.

Spring Flowers

2008-01-15T09:44:00.001-08:00

1/2 sheet sheetcake. White cake with buttercream.

Spiderman

2008-01-15T09:41:00.000-08:00

This one I did for a friends son. I had done one similar for my son a few years before, but this one turned out better since I had already had a "trial run".