Amber's Cake

This beautiful lady is one of my dearest friends Amber. Amber is not only beautiful on the outside, but she is beautiful on the inside and has the heart of an angel. When we (Jana another wonderful lady that I am blessed to have in my life) found out Amber was pregnant we immediately started planning her baby shower.

This is the cake I made for her.

It's an animated version of her nursery. The bedding has stripes & circles with this color combination. Except I'm pretty sure I made the green a little too "Kelly green". I was working off a web page, give me a break sista!

Little elephants graced the cake.  Here is a small tutorial on how to make this lil guy. You can see some spare parts in the back ground.

Make a ball (size depends on how big you need your elephant to be), then elongate one end of the ball by rolling your finger over it until your ball now looks like this.

 make some linear creases on this piece. As you can tell this is now the elephants head and trunk.

turn the head on its end and poke 2 holes in the end of the trunk. Now this lil guy can breath!

Make another ball slightly larger than the one you made for the head and poke a broken tooth pick into it. This is now his body, and the tooth pick will support his head. Make sure your tooth pick is not long enough to poke all the way through the head.

Place the head on top of the tooth pick. I like to brush every body part that is being attached with a little water. It helps glue the pieces together.

Now roll out 4 pieces of fondant for arms and legs. Make the legs just a tad bit longer. Using a butter knife crimp the ends to make feet and hands then use the back of a tooth pick and indent little toes & fingers.

I like to make a hole where each arm and leg will attach to the body. Slightly roll the appendage end so that it fits into the hole. Brush the inside of the hole with a little water, and attach the appendage.

Now poke a hole on each side of his head in preparation for his ears

I use the end of a decorating tube but any small circle will do. If you want the inside of the ears to have a different color, repeat this step with the desired color and place it on top of the grey part. Just off set it slightly. Pinch the end of the circle to make an ear.

Attach to the hole in the head with a small amount of water. Attach his tail, cut 2 very small white dots for his eyes. Using a tooth pick dip it into black food coloring (I use Wilton paste found easily at Hobby Lobby or Micheal's) and dot him some eyes.

He's done!

Next I made a little baby boy who feel asleep in his elephant PJ's

 (that I am sure someone like his Aunt Nancy bought for him!)

I love his butt! So cute!

This was the first time I made one of these babies and I didn't take pictures of the whole process because I really expected it would take me several tries, but It came out my first time! So I didn't tempt fate by trying to remake him.

If enough people twist my arms, I will make a tutorial on it.

Here he is sleeping with his pacifier in his mouth on his blanket with toy elephant and his slippers on the side.

Don't you just want to eat him up? Literally !

The cake was white but I tinted it blue with chocolate chips so it looked like brown polka dots.

I didn't get a picture of that! Sorry :(

My Big Fat Greek Auction!

Our church had a themed auction "My Big Fat Greek Auction" which of course was a spoof on the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. My niece Angela asked me if I still had all of my "old" styled wedding supplies. I laughed because I knew I was going to be involved in her project. Angela is getting into the cake business, and I must admit it is flattering for me to help her. This is a picture of us and the cake we made for the auction.

We made a cake that was very popular back in the 80's & early 90's.

Do you remember the stairways with bridesmaids & groomsmen?

Or the colored water fountain?

We decorated in blue because that was the color of her bridesmaid dresses in the movie.

Just for fun we made the center cake a bundt! You know a cake with a hole! How funny! We even made the flowerpot a cake too.


                                   
And who can forget the lacy poofy thingy's we use to put on the serving utensil!

I feel like struttin"

Remember when John Travolta said in Saturday Night Fever "I feel like strutting!" Well if I had an ass rear end like John Travolta's (back in the day) I would have put a video of me walk'n! But instead I'll show off some of my cakes and a few other items I've done. Sorry nieces &/or nephews if your cake is not here. I haven't scanned in the whole collection.
1st up was my niece RoseMarie's 1st birthday cake. She is now 14. It was a baby Disney cake.

Next up was my nephew Dominick. He had Winnie the Pooh. He is now 14 too!

This was his personal cake.

My Mother-in-Law's 80th birthday. God Bless her with many more! This doesn't look it but it was huge!

A fruit basket. I have since purchased the wavy cutter so my fruit looks even prettier now!

An old Sicilian tradition in our family. Pubaqulovo (dolls with an egg). A yummy lemon, orange, vanilla flavored cookie with a lemon-vanilla-rum frosting! Yummy! We make these at Easter.

My New York Cheesecake (see previous blog) with chocolate ganache, green colored coconut, & peeps. Can you guess which Holiday this was for?

My niece and God baby Gena Marie's 1st birthday cake (notice how the cakes are getting bigger!)

A Cinderella cake complete with carriage, horses, mice, slipper & lights! It was very cute. That's me holding Gena. A rare find, me in a pic!

A close up of the lights

My nephew Geno's 1st birthday cakes. His theme was fire Department! His daddy is a fireman. Geno loves his dog Rocco, so I made Rocco!

No dog or fire theme is complete without a fire hydrant! This was really big too!

Pumper #1, Pumper #1, where are you?

His little cake had dog bones all around it (made out of brownies).

My niece Jackie's baby shower

My friend Jana's baby shower.

How cute are these happy little bee's!

My nephew Joe-Joe's 1st Birthday, This cake was really cute! It was on a rotating base. It had lights, and all of the clowns had Joe-Joe's face.

How cute is that!

Close up of the lights

My niece Josie's first birthday. A Castle cake of course! All things Josie are Princess!!

Josie's personal cake

My nephew Sal's 1st birthday. This cake was made to look like a bunch of birthday gifts all opened.

The whole Disney gang showed up too!

Sal's personal cake

The twins my niece & nephew Sammy & Rosetta.Named after my brother & sister Sam & Rosetta. They are twins too! My brother Sam is their Grand Father. How cool is that!

This cake was on a rotating base too.

A close up of Sammy's personal cake. Rosetta's is shown in the pic above.

The twins Sammy & Rosetta's 2nd birthday (it's not fair if they only got one cake! so they got two!)
One side was Micky Mouse

The other was Minnie!

Now that's putting my conogin to work!

My niece Sarina & new nephew Ponch's wedding surprise cake. They thought they could just sneak off to Vegas and get married! Bahhahahahahah. Just in case your confused, all the cakes for the 1 year olds are my Great-nieces & nephews.

Sarina loves herself some roulette!

This is my niece Savina's 1st birthday cake. The bottom was 4 layers high. I made it Spumoni flavored.
Chocolate, Strawberry, Pistachio & chocolate again (always worth repeating). It was yummy.

Savina's personal cake

This cake actually has it's own feature on this blog. This is my nephew Tommy's 1st birthday cake

complete with lion, elephant, seal, & Ring Master!

This was the twins (Sammy & Rosetta's) baby shower cake "Two Peas in a Pod"

I made the babies out of modeling chocolate. Don't you just want to bite Sammy's tush!