Emily's Cake Design

Disney Cars!

2011-08-01T16:07:00.001-07:00

Are you a Disney Cars Fan? Well you'll love these two cakes!

Tow Mater!

And Lightning McQueen!

1st birthday cake & Smash Cake

Back In Business!

2011-07-11T20:09:00.000-07:00

Now that the twins have arrived, I've been taking on some cakes! Stay tuned for some upcoming wedding cakes and more! Here are some of the recent ones:

Hibiscus flower cake

Happy 4th of July!

Catch Up!

2010-12-27T15:38:00.001-08:00

November 27th

So You Think You Can Dance!

October 14th

My dad's Surprise 50th birthday!

U of U cake!

2010-10-09T15:42:00.000-07:00

I did this one for all the U of U fans out there!

Jokes on you!

Blue for BYU baby!

That's much better (can you tell i'm a BYU fan?)

A friend at work had her birthday last week. We decided to make her a U of U cake since she is a die hard fan. We had to trick her tho! Her reaction was priceless!

8th Birthday Cupcakes

2010-10-09T15:36:00.000-07:00

Black and White Wedding Cake

2010-10-09T15:31:00.000-07:00

Missionary Cookies

2010-10-09T15:20:00.000-07:00

My brother is serving in Van Nuys, California. We sent him some sugar cookies!

Cowboy Cookies!

2010-10-09T15:12:00.000-07:00

BBQ Cookies

2010-10-09T15:05:00.000-07:00

T-bone Steak sugar cookies for a BBQ!!

BBQ Grills

YUM!

Friendship Cupcakes

2010-10-09T15:00:00.001-07:00

Baby Girl Cupcakes

2010-10-09T14:49:00.000-07:00

I love the little bottles! :)

Chicago Bears

2010-08-15T19:22:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary Travis & Quinci!

Golf

2010-08-15T19:17:00.000-07:00

Chishlom / Downs Wedding

2010-08-11T20:04:00.000-07:00

Baby Girl Cupcakes

2010-08-11T20:02:00.000-07:00

Oreo & Chocolate Cupcakes

2010-08-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

Birthday Present

2010-08-11T20:00:00.000-07:00

U.S.A

2010-07-05T18:52:00.001-07:00

I love the 4th of July! It's my favorite Holiday!!

We were invited to a BBQ at my Aunts House in Draper. Of course I offered to bring dessert.

The outside doesn't look as good as I anticipated

Cream Cheese frosting and an hour ride to draper dont go well together :)

But It still tasted the same! And it's the inside that counts!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July. I'm definitely grateful to live in the USA where we have freedom and rights!

A wedding in Hawaii

2010-06-29T20:50:00.001-07:00

I have a great friend, Kara. I love her.

Her and her husband were married on the beach in Kauai this month! Isn't that romantic?

I'm jealous!

They came back from bliss to celebrate and she asked me to make her wedding cake!

With a Hawaiian theme, I thought her design was perfect!!

Birthday Cuppies!

2010-06-29T20:31:00.000-07:00

I LOVE Cupcakes!

These are for some friends that had birthday's in June!

Leaves & Twigs Wedding cake

2010-06-06T18:41:00.000-07:00

I did this wedding cake for a very close friend of ours who got married on Saturday. They are SUCH a cute couple and we are very excited that they have started their life together!! Many happy wishes to them!

This cake was funfetti cake on top and bottom, and the middle tier was white cake with raspberry filling. The design was from the bride. It matched very well with her decorations.

The grooms cake. This was a special request from the groom. He told me "I dont really care about the cake, I just want chocolate covered strawberries!" So we made them tuxedos!

It was chocolate cake with strawberry cream filling. Chocolate buttercream, covered in chocolate ganache. A couple of the strawberries went missing during the reception too! Haha

I really enjoyed doing these cakes. I loved the challenge, since it was a different design, I thought it was fun!

Baby Shower Cupcakes!

2010-06-06T18:30:00.000-07:00

This week we had a baby shower for a friend at work who is having a little girl in July. We did a Hawaiian theme, So I made these cute Cupcakes!

Cupcake Tower!

These ones with the little baby faces were my FAVORITE!

I had a ton of fun making these!

Seashell Wedding Cake

2010-06-05T20:14:00.000-07:00

Here's number three!!

This one is Chocolate with Bavarian Cream filling.

The bride requested bright pink fondant, and seashells.

A fun cake!

Home made Eclairs!

2010-06-05T20:12:00.003-07:00

I made these for a baby shower for a friend at work!

Nothing's better than home made eclairs!

They were so good!

Scroll Work Wedding Cake!

2010-06-05T19:43:00.000-07:00

Here's the second wedding cake I did!

It's a rice krispie treat cake because the customer was Gluten Intolerant. It was tough work, but I think it turned out nicely!

All hand-piped scroll work

My First Wedding Cake

2010-05-09T18:59:00.000-07:00

I successfully completed my first wedding cake last night. I was thrilled with the way it turned out. The bride wanted spice cake with raspberry fruit filling, vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache drizzle.

It was a huge accomplishment for me to complete my first wedding cake.In the fridge before delivery

Stacked before I placed the flowers

The finished product!

I'm glad I had this opportunity! Now lets just hope the others I'm doing this summer turn out as good as this one did!

Missionary Shirt Cake

2010-05-08T18:12:00.000-07:00

My brother turned 19! He's been called to the San Fernando, California spanish speaking mission. I made this cake for his birthday :)

Giant Cinnamon Rolls

2010-05-08T18:09:00.000-07:00

At work every Friday we have staff meeting and one person is assigned a week to take treats. Well it was my turn a couple weeks ago and I made these giant cinnabon Cinnamon rolls. They were at least 3-4 inches around! But MMM, they were so good!

With cream cheese frosting!

I'll definitely be making these again!

Really Far Behind

2010-04-18T20:02:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been so long. Here are the cakes I've done in the last month:

We had 4 of our friends who had birthday's in March. So I made one cake for all of them. I did individual items to represent each person.

My Brother in Law's birthday was in March also. He LOVES hockey!

Two Birthdays

2010-03-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

These are birthday cakes for my Mom and Brother in Law

My mom LOVES making jewelry. So I did the jewelry theme, put a strand of pearls and some extra "gems" on it. It turned out very pretty. I love the marbleized fondant. (It looks blue, but it was a deep purple) Purple and pink pearls around the base

My brother in laws:

Cody loves sports. One of them is golf! So I did this cake for him. I really liked how this one turned out!

The first cake is White cake with Strawberry cream filling, the second cake is Yellow cake with Chocolate cream filling.

Happy Birthday!

Bunco Night!

2010-03-15T20:12:00.000-07:00

Let the Good Times Roll!

This cake was for a valentines day themed BUNCO night!

Red Velvet cake with cream cheese filling

Cute Valentine Cookies!

2010-02-12T10:07:00.001-08:00

Dang

Cute

Cookies!

My favorite one of them all!

Me and My friend Jen made these Valentine cookies last night. We had SO much fun making messes, flooding the cookies in with royal icing and decorating them with all sorts of fun designs! I love them!

Muah!

He shoots! He Scores!

2010-02-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

Basketball.

This was a HUGE sheet cake. Made for an 8 year old who loves basketball!

And the crowd goes wild!!!

Buttercream Burgers

2010-01-25T15:05:00.001-08:00

So Easy! So Fun! So yummy!

You can't have burgers without FRIES!

I made these cakes for my brother in laws birthday. They are chocolate cake, Reese's filling and all buttercream! I made the french fries out of yellow cake and put them in a parchment triangle as the bag. I love this cake!! It is soo cool! :)

Buns were made out of a glass bowl for the top and a round for the bottom, then the meat is just chocolate cake, then lettuce, ketchup, mustard and the filling played as the mayo!

I'll definitely be doing these ones again!

Little Mermaid & Cupcakes!

2010-01-21T10:18:00.000-08:00

These cupcakes were delicious! So moist, so cute, so simple.

Little Mermaid

Requested by 4 year old Kayla for her birthday party on Monday. She wanted chocolate cake, then I filled it with Oreo. That seems to be pretty popular. But hey, it's SO good!

She wanted all buttercream.

What a fun cake, The techniques were simple, but it came together so cute!

Bridal Shower Cake

2010-01-06T10:39:00.000-08:00

The end of the year is always the busiest time for me. Family, friends, Christmas ect...

I made this cake for my cousin who got married on December 30th, which is my husband and my anniversary! We've been married for 3 years now. Where does all the time go? But it's been a great 3 years!

I took these photos on my cell phone. They are not the best quality, I wish you could see this one in person. I really loved this cake. The pictures just don't cut it. Good thing I got a new camera for Christmas!!

Strawberry Buttercream -- MMM!

For my first 'vine' cake I think it turned out cute!! I love the daisy's. They were so pretty!

Here's to 2010!

Where I will learn MANY more tips & tricks for cake decorating! I can't wait!!

P.S. I already have my first wedding cake booked!

Congratulations Kara!

June 2010!!

The Latest...

2009-11-27T13:56:00.000-08:00

My husband had a birthday this month! He kept telling me that he didn't want cake for his birthday. But I had this cake in mind since the day I saw it on kevinandamanda.com so i just had to make it for him. He LOVES Reese's. So I did it for him anyway. He actually LOVED it! I just covered the whole cake in Reese's, made a the best chocolate cake ever recipe from Kevin and Amanda's site then make her buttercream recipe with a 1/4 of a cup of smooth peanut butter mixed in. Yummy!

Then on Wednesday my friend Leeann turned 19. She asked me to make her birthday cake. She said she wanted purple and yellow and the design was up to me.

This is a white cake with cream cheese filling. Buttercream frosting and the dots, bow, '19' & banner are fondant.

Leeann!

Me & Leeann!

Cake Wrecks.com

2009-11-25T07:57:00.000-08:00

I am a huge fan of this site. I watch it every day on my following list so I can see the latest wrecks! They CRACK ME UP!! It is so hilarious to look through the many cakes people can actually wreck. And I've noticed most of them are made at your local grocery store.

I admit, maybe I have had a few of those when I first started learning to decorate. I just cannot forgive myself for this one:
The colors don't really flow, the buttercream roses were my first attempt ever, and THAT LINE... The HIDEOUS purple squiggle I just had to do under the poorly written yellow words! But hey, at least I spelled it correctly, right? It's a shame, I know.

The other day as some friends and I were walking through Albertsons I just had to make a stop by the cake section. I laughed as I looked at their 'pine cone' buttercream roses, I laughed even more when I saw their 'pregnant' barbie cake that in reality was way too tall to look normal, but I almost died laughter when I saw this:

Luckily one of my friends had their camera on them, the phone photos just weren't cutting it.

First of all, What kind of turkey is that??? It looks oddly shaped, moldy, over cooked and has a lace up bodice on!

Second, why are there paper tassels coming out of the moldy legs?!?

wouldn't know what to expect when biting into a piece of this cake. I think it would be interesting.

Now, for those of you who have some time on your hands go here to Cake Wrecks and I guarantee you will laugh your butts off!

Have a nice day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cuppy Cakes + My new best friend

2009-11-15T20:32:00.001-08:00

These are some cute cupcakes I made for some friends birthdays last weekend:

Party Hats

Cute cupcake boxes

This is my new best friend. My mom and dad bought me this for my birthday! It sure beats the heck out of using a hand mixer :o)

Baby Shower Cake

2009-11-04T12:18:00.000-08:00

I attended my cousins baby shower this weekend. I made this cake for it:Isn't he cute?!?

I really loved the creativity with this cake. I made the buttons and just fell in love with them. I just cut them out with a small cookie cutter, took the end of my paint brush and made the holes, then shook about some in blue pearl dust, some in green pearl dust and some in just white pearl dust. They turned out adorable. The baby has my heart. He's the cutest little thing I've ever made! I really wish I had done fondant lettering on this. I smeared the BOY letters as I was walking out of my house to go to the shower. I was pretty upset. But Oh well, what can you do. I just fixed it the best I could!

Also, I need to experiment with the wire more that I used to put the moon and stars on. I made more stars than this but a lot of the broke and wouldn't stay on the wire. So I'll have to practice that.

As for the food, I did not make that, but it was AMAZING!

Over all, I was very pleased with this cake.

Busy Busy Busy!

2009-10-23T08:38:00.000-07:00

Here are my 2nd and 3rd cakes that I did last week. What a long week, but it was fun creating these cakes!

This is a cake for a friends daughter. She turned 3 on Tuesday!

And this cake is for my husbands mom. She LOVES horses. They own two of their own, so i thought i would incorporate her favorite hobby into her birthday cake!

All of the figures are fondant. Handmade.

MMM, Pizza!

2009-10-15T09:38:00.001-07:00

My dad's birthday was yesterday. He requested that he either had a pizza cake or a guitar cake. So I decided to go with the pizza. I had SO much fun with this one! All of the toppings are candy!

Then I came up with the idea to make some bread sticks and a cup of dipping sauce.

So I baked my dads favorite cake, Lemon with lemon fruit filling and then I made a cupcake for the cup of sauce and then put some cake batter into a loaf pan so it helped with the long shape of the bread sticks.

My brother works at Papa Murphy's so he brought home a pizza box to top it all off :)The toppings are:

Grated White Chocolate = Cheese

Flattened white gumdrops = onion rings

Yellow gumdrops = pineapple

Fruit Leather cut into circles = pepperoni

Ferrero Rocher Chocolate = Meatballs

Raisinettes = Sausage / Onions

Green swedish fish = anchovies/green onions

For the bread sticks I shaped them a little and then sprinkled some chocolate cake crumbs on top for the look of the seasonings.

My Dad!

I have to admit, I loved this cake! It was so fun to be creative and put it together!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Fondant & Gum Paste

2009-10-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

On Saturday I went to the first half of my fondant & gum paste class. We learned a whole bunch of new techniques like how to make carnations, daises and fantasy flowers out of fondant. We also got a new embosser tool in out kit, and a new rolling cutter. They are so nice to have! Then we also learned draping. I LOVE draping, I have seen some gorgeously draped wedding cakes that I love! Draping fondant can be tricky, but I think I did alright for my first time. I'll definitely have to practice. For some reason I can't get this picture to turn, but i put some white pearl dust on my drape to give it a sparkle.

ric-rac boarder

This cake is simple, but I think it is elegant. I had fun doing it :)

This week I have 3 birthday cakes to make! My dad's birthday is tomorrow (His cake will be delicious-in more than one way!) My Mother-in-laws birthday is on Friday (Her cake will be her favorite hobby!) and My sister's best friends daughter, Emma's birthday is on Saturday (Hers is going to be adorable!)

It may take me until the first of next week to get pictures posted, because I'll be so busy, but stay tuned and check them out!

Final Course 3 Cake

2009-10-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

Another Course Down! Only one more to go!

I did my final Course 3 cake last night.

I struggled with this one a little bit. On Sunday I made the cakes, I did a yellow and devils food cake mix swirled together with a chocolate cream filling. I think this was one of the best tasting ones yet.

Then on Monday night I had to frost it with buttercream and cover it with fondant. First I had to color the fondant and I was trying to get it dark brown but it wasn't coloring right. I was adding cocoa powder to it to get the brown, and also brown food paste, but still it was Carmel looking. So after adding, red, blue, green and more brown, i finally got something that would work.

I think me and my friend Jen spent an hour or more trying to get the color I wanted. So i rolled out my fondant and went to cover my 9 inch cake, and I got it all on fine, and I was at the last 2 inches of placing the fondant and IT RIPPED! I panicked, i didn't know what to do. I couldn't just take it off because it was already stuck to the buttercream. So I just left it for a minute so i could decide what to do then moved onto my small 6 inch cake. That one turned out well. It was a lot easier, although i did get a small tear in towards the top, but that's what flowers are for :)

So after debating what to do about my tear I found some lime green ribbon, that worked perfectly! I thought the colors matched really well!

Before assembling the cake

52 roses - these took me 9 hours!

During assembly at class

After assembly

My certificate

I think this one is my favorite cake. I think it turned out well for it being my first time covering a round cake. The bottoms around the cake weren't perfect. But I know practice makes perfect :)

New & Old Creations

2009-10-02T10:59:00.001-07:00

Now that I have a new cake blog, I wanted to post all the creations I have done in the past. So here they are in order of when I made them (first cake I made, to the most recent cake)

My first practice cake! Not bad for my first

4th of July cupcakes!

The middle

My nephew loved the cupcakes!

My final course 2 cake. It turned out ok... but not my favorite. The horrible squiggly under the words :S

This was my nephew's birthday cake. My first tiered cake

I made this one for a bridal shower. The colors of the wedding were green and teal

This was my final cake for course 2! Also a birthday cake for my brother-in-law who loves BYU!

I made this cake for a friends birthday. I ended up cutting one of my left fingers & had to get 5 stitches. So the cake was partially unfinished.

Chocolate Cake & Vanilla Pudding Trifle

This is my most recent cake that I made in my Course 3 fondant & tiered cakes class.

Cupcakes!

2009-10-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

Today is a one of my good friends birthday celebration here at work.

I made her some cupcakes!

They are Strawberry Swirl with Strawberry Buttercream!

Even some mini bite-sized cupcakes!