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March 2016 cake for my nephew & godson Griffin. I had never heard of Jake and the Neverland Pirates before this... Still haven't seen the show, but he was excited for this cake!

Party was on a Sunday, so started on that Friday night - baked a chocolate 9x13 cake and a vanilla 9x13 cake. Even though the toothpick test came back clean, the vanilla cake caved in while cooling and was mush. Had to dump that in the garbage and baked a new cake the next morning.

The ship took a bit of carving - channeling the Cake Boss here... Wasn't too hard but some of the cake started crumbling at the corners, so I was grateful for some flexibility with the structure.

The brown frosting for the ship was a fluke - the brown food dye made the frosting a light brown... then I added black which turned the color an ugly camo green. Lots of red dye and the rest of the ounce of brown dye and it somehow turned out perfect. Do not add black when trying to make a dark brown frosting!

The "sand" is made from Nilla Wafer crumbs. I crumbled way more crumbs than needed.

Black frosting requires a lot of dye. Like the entire 1 ounce container. And that was on top of the brown chocolate buttercream.

The "water" was another fluke... I intended to have more defined waves and watched a tutorial on youtube where they slapped on white for the white caps... I think since the area I was working in was so small, I was afraid I'd end up with blue on the ship. It was easier just to mix in some white frosting with a toothpick.

The sails I created in photoshop and printed out. A wooden dowel from Home Depot made the perfect for the mast - if I had more time, I would have painted that but the natural wood looked fine.

After struggling with tinting the fondant red for the side strips and X, I was not looking forward to mixing up some black fondant. Back to Michaels to buy pre-made black fondant. With a project this size, that was one of the smartest moves I made. Those porthole windows were stuck to the side with edible adhesive... which was not thick enough for vertical work but did hold up - bumpy ride and all.

Griffin said his favorite part of the party was blowing out his candles and eating his "ship" cake! I love you Choops!

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By far, the coolest cake when you cut into it. 6 layers, lots of dye, and that cake leveler tool saved me. Turned out so cute!!

Happy 3rd birthday Annie!

 

Debbie & Dustin's housewarming cake... one of my first. That wasn't planned, but for some reason it felt weird bringing an undecorated cake. Insert some gel, sprinkles, and Mike & Ikes.

Cake circa 2012... one of my first cakes. Obviously, a cake for Bobby for his 32nd birthday. He LOVES Sour Patch Kids!

Inspired by similar cakes on Pinterest, this was a vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. The "Sour Patch" logo was made from edible paper colored with edible markers... first and last time I'll use those 2 things as the markers dried out fast and the paper was flimsy to work with. The black and red frostings are the gel stuff in the tubes. Looking back, I'm impressed with my writing, although it is easier to write with the gel tubes than with a piping bag full of frosting.