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Custom cakes for all occasions. Contact Monica at monicavinson@aol.com or 901-605-7065.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Butterfly Cake with matching smash cake

Butterfly/Flower cake made for a one year old. Main cake covered in MM fondant, smash cake is all buttercream. Cake was inspired by the party invitations and party favors.





Sunday, May 30, 2010

Medieval Castle & Viking Ship Cake






Viking ship made out of rice krispies, covered in fondant. Dragon head and tail made out of gum paste and painted with gold duster. Water is melted sugar, tinted with blue food coloring.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

80's Theme Cake






This was such a fun cake to make, brought back many memories. Boom box is made out of Rice Krispies, covered in MM fondant and painted with silver luster for a metallic finish.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010

University Of Memphis Track & Field Jersey

I hand carved the University of Memphis logo on sugar paste, which was very time consuming, but I think it turned out really nice. The Jersey cake a butter cake with buttercream icing and is covered in MM fondant. Made for two students on the Track & Field team.



Monday, April 19, 2010

Ball & Chain Grooms Cake











This is a Prisoner Shirt and Ball & Chain cake make for a grooms cake. The ball is rice krispies, covered in mm fondant and painted with edible luster dust. The chain is sugar paste also covered in luster paint. The prisoner number is the wedding date 04172010.




Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Star Wars Death Star Cake




This cake was fairly easy to make. I used the Wilton Sports ball for the Death Star, instead of cake, I use rice krispies. All MM fondant and airbrushed in black to give a "starry" feel.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

My first attempt at making sugar paste flowers



This is my very first sugar paste rose. It was a pretty simple, but time consuming process. Overall, I think for being my first one EVER....I give myself a pat on the back:-)